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·I didn’t know that the drop-ship scam had extended to liveauctioneers.com, but I’m not entirely surprised. It’s been prevalent on eBay for a while now, usually with Japanese sellers who scrape pictures and descriptions from Yahoo Japan and post an eBay listing a Buy It Now price that’s a healthy markup over the YJ price.
The other thing I’ve noticed — unsurprisingly — is that auctioneers don’t necessarily have any idea what they’re selling. Here’s a link to a past auction (which is allowed, I hope) for what looked to me like a decent 145.022 Speedmaster from the ‘80’s:
https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/_2D148B391E
The auction house had described it as cal 3861, and assigned an estimate of $7,000 to $10,000. IIRC, bidding stalled at around $3k — $3,750 with the premium — which was certainly as far as I was willing to go.
The other thing I’ve noticed — unsurprisingly — is that auctioneers don’t necessarily have any idea what they’re selling. Here’s a link to a past auction (which is allowed, I hope) for what looked to me like a decent 145.022 Speedmaster from the ‘80’s:
https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/_2D148B391E
The auction house had described it as cal 3861, and assigned an estimate of $7,000 to $10,000. IIRC, bidding stalled at around $3k — $3,750 with the premium — which was certainly as far as I was willing to go.
