Something fishy

TheFishman said:
The seller uses the same display for the majority of his knife photos. He has sold over 32,000 items on ebay with a 100% positive feedback. I don't think this is a photo of your knife. It looks exactly like you knife, but I don't think it is your knife. What does the other side of you knife look like?
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Absolutely identical.
the stag is absolutely identical, there's no way every detail of the stag could be identical on a different knife.
Fishy picture

My picture


Who knows, maybe they had and sold this knife before ?
 
Would you guys agree that the pictures in the listing are in fact pictures of my very knife and not just another that happens to look very similar?


The seller hasn't responded to me yet and I felt like I just had to report the listing, at the very least Ebay will get their attention if this is just an honest mistake.
It's hard to imagine a 20 year seller with good feedback trying to pull a scam like this, but I'm 305% sure that these are pictures of my knife and intentional or not people are bidding on something they will not receive.
 
Hickory n steel said:
Would you guys agree that the pictures in the listing are in fact pictures of my very knife and not just another that happens to look very similar?


The seller hasn't responded to me yet and I felt like I just had to report the listing, at the very least Ebay will get their attention if this is just an honest mistake.
It's hard to imagine a 20 year seller with good feedback trying to pull a scam like this, but I'm 305% sure that these are pictures of my knife and intentional or not people are bidding on something they will not receive.
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it's got to be your knife in those pics Hickory. I don't see any variance at all.
 
Hickory n steel said:
Yet they somehow have their own pictures of it which is very puzzling, I'm starting to think that they may have once possessed and sold it because the pictures match all their other knife listings.
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^yep that. I think they had it and just reusing pics or mixed them up with the knife their selling now.

only other thing is maybe sellers account got hacked and taken over and person using it is using pics they found on the internet to sell it. I lean towards first thing though not this......
 
SoDak81 said:
I got put outbid. Keeping my eye on it. I might get froggy and throw in another bid. I'm curious.
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I'm curious too.
If I hadn't contacted the seller which would seem suspicious, and if I hadn't just won that other one I'd probably go for it as well.

my current theory is that they once sold my knife and accidentally used those pictures for this listing of a different stag 305 they have.
 
jbmonkey said:
^yep that. I think they had it and just reusing pics or mixed them up with the knife their selling now.

only other thing is maybe sellers account got hacked and taken over and person using it is using pics they found on the internet to sell it. I lean towards first thing though not this......
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I'm going to search sold listings and see if I can turn anything up.
 
jbmonkey said:
or maybe look at sellers other older auctions and see if pic style is the same or similar to those pics being used now.....
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The pictures are the same , white background and clear plastic stand.

I tried to search their sold listings but Ebay only keeps them going back to July and I've had this knife longer than that.
 
BigMoney said:
I’m assuming the stag on your knife is real?
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Yes it is real, Sambar stag I believe
Even if it were say bonestag that could be jigged the same, it still couldn't be identical nor would the knife have a spec on the main blade in the exact same spot.
 
You guys are a lot nicer than I am.

The seller posts pictures of a knife they don't have.

They don't double check their pics after uploading them (who doesn't check their pics?)

And then, when someone contacts them and points out the problem, they STILL don't change the pics.

So unless someone reading this thread ends up being the buyer, it means the buyer isn't getting the knife they think they're getting, and I think that really sucks.

I could give someone a pass for initially uploading the wrong pics, we're all human, we all make mistakes, but to leave them up after the mistake has been pointed out to them, knowing that buyers are bidding on a knife the seller doesn't have, I'm not so forgiving of that.

Stag handles aren't like micarta or G10, people who like stag are often particular about how it looks. If I were ordering a stag handle knife, and I was shown a picture of a knife and told that's the knife for sale, I might make my decision based on the look of the stag. And I might be very disappointed if I got a different knife.

But that's me :).
 
killgar said:
You guys are a lot nicer than I am.

The seller posts pictures of a knife they don't have.

They don't double check their pics after uploading them (who doesn't check their pics?)

And then, when someone contacts them and points out the problem, they STILL don't change the pics.

So unless someone reading this thread ends up being the buyer, it means the buyer isn't getting the knife they think they're getting, and I think that really sucks.

I could give someone a pass for initially uploading the wrong pics, we're all human, we all make mistakes, but to leave them up after the mistake has been pointed out to them, knowing that buyers are bidding on a knife the seller doesn't have, I'm not so forgiving of that.

Stag handles aren't like micarta or G10, people who like stag are often particular about how it looks. If I were ordering a stag handle knife, and I was shown a picture of a knife and told that's the knife for sale, I might make my decision based on the look of the stag. And I might be very disappointed if I got a different knife.

But that's me :).
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I completely agree.

I just don't know if the seller has read my message yet, it's not excusable for an Ebay seller but plenty of people don't check their emails as often as they should.
 
Hickory n steel said:
I completely agree.

I just don't know if the seller has read my message yet, it's not excusable for an Ebay seller but plenty of people don't check their emails as often as they should.
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Yeah I could see that. But like you say, they should check their emails (I assume you sent the email on Sunday).

Don't get me wrong, I'm not calling for the seller to be tarred and feathered, I just have a thing about people posting things for sale that don't match what you get (been there), so I guess I have a bit of an emotional reaction to it.

The seller says they provide refunds, including shipping costs, so hopefully if the buyer isn't happy with the knife it won't be a problem.

And by the way, there's nothing wrong with people being nice :) .
 
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