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    Default Absolute steals from eBay

    I thought I would start a topic where people can share the bargains they sourced from eBay. This isn't your $2 pen deal but one you got for a steal.

    Think a $400 pen you won for $50
    Person didn't know what they were selling.

    I'll start with my first in the fountain pen world. From experience with another hobby I occasionally misspell brands to see if I get hits. Occasionally it works. I just picked up an unwanted gift with receipt from the boutique. The pen a Mont Blanc 146 in platinum trim. The price 260 US dollars


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    Default Re: Absolute steals from eBay

    I wrote in another thread in another forum about a woman that found a pair of Omas pens--a Paragon and a Milord
    in Arco Brown(in the original Paragon box)--at a Sally Army thrift store for the pricey sum of....$5. She put her find on a youtube video.

    While the find wasn't on fleabay,the amount warranted a look.


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    Default Re: Absolute steals from eBay

    Pen finds:
    Montblanc 100th Anniversary FP new in box- $36/shipped (eBay)
    Montblanc 164 Ballpoint used- $18/shipped (eBay; mislabeled)
    Montblanc 144 Sterling Silver Solitaire & Montblanc 161 Le Grand BP- $25/pair (craigslist)
    Parker 51 Demi- 25 cents (estate sale)
    Two Montblanc 149 pens and two Montblanc 146 pens- $475/shipped (ebay)
    Montblanc 163 Sterling Silver Solitaire new in box- $125/shipped (eBay)
    ST Dupont Lighter- $9 (antique store)
    2 troy ounce gold coins, 10-12 Silver Eagle coins, and 10-12 coin proof sets- $20/all (garage sale)


    I have plenty of others, but these are a few that came to mind. Obviously, the authenticity of everything mentioned was/is confirmed.

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    Default Re: Absolute steals from eBay

    Quote Originally Posted by mmahany View Post
    2 troy ounce gold coins, 10-12 Silver Eagle coins, and 10-12 coin proof sets- $20/all (garage sale)
    Interesting.
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    Default Re: Absolute steals from eBay

    Found and bought a Cross Townsend Medallist for 1$ on eBay last month.

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    Default Re: Absolute steals from eBay

    So many good deals on eBay..

    $30 gold-filled wahl pen with wet noodle nib, $50 Waterman 12 with xf superflex nib, $25 Waterman 32v with superflex nib, etc. Most vintage flex pens I've bought have been complete steals from eBay.

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    Default Re: Absolute steals from eBay

    On ebay, a Waterman Ink Vue and a Lady Agathe (admittedly minus its box) for 18 euros each. I think those were steals.

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    Default Re: Absolute steals from eBay

    I'm buying a Waterman Phileas for £37. I don't consider it a 'steal' and some may not even consider it a bargain. However, I have been looking for this particular colour for a while, and they seem to be going up in price rather than coming down.

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    Default Re: Absolute steals from eBay

    To the OP: I did get a "steal", now that I think of it.

    It was a vintage inkwell that had been offered as a "Buy It Now" which had been up for an hour or so. Since I patrol for them regularly, I knew the price was a quarter of what it could reasonably go for on auction. I did indeed buy it on the spot.

    Caveat emptor, caveat venditor!
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    Default Re: Absolute steals from eBay

    I wouldnt call it an absolute steal but tonight I picked up a Pelikan M800 red for $236. I VERY happy with it

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    This was listed as a vintage parker fountain pen on ebay for a Buy it Now of 9.99 or best offer. I didn't want to pay more than $10 shipped, so I offered $6, it was accepted. I cleaned it up (ultrasonic cleaner mostly, especially for the section which even soaking/rinsing didn't initially get all out).

    Parker 45 GT in Dark Grey with a 14K Fine Nib.


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    I have a steal from ebay. I gambled on a bad photo. I thought I was paying $15 for a $15 dollar pen, but when it arrived it turned out to be an almost mint wet noodle #3 worth perhaps 20 times what I paid. It is a truly exceptional pen, requiring very low pressure and has very fast return.

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    This sold for a song. Rare and off-catalogue Happy David




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    Default Re: Absolute steals from eBay

    And, during about the same month, rare and off-catalogue. Again happy David.



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    Default Re: Absolute steals from eBay

    Much more modest deal here, but there was a little dumped pile of pen things on ebay for a small sum, and I got it. It included an Esterbrook dip-less base, an Esterbrook 8-ball, a pen with no name but a 14 K nib in what looks like decent condition and a Parker 45 in useable condition. There was also a very nice Wearever shell, a useable but faded Esterbrook shell (Dollar pen, I think) , some things only good for parts or practice, and a few mechanical pencils.

    I paid less than 25 for the whole deal, including postage. A lot of what was in there was really just garbage - and it takes a lot to make me call anything garbage - but for the price of sifting the better stuff out I got a decent bargain, I felt.

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    Default Re: Absolute steals from eBay

    $10 ($5 price, $5 shipping)


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    Default Re: Absolute steals from eBay

    I bought a Pelikan M150 early in the year for a good price - $46 shipped. It was advertised as only inked once. It arrived in great shape, did have some fairly recent fill of ink left in it. I don't know I would call it a sumgai deal though.

    Closest I have gotten to that was my Parker 45 Flighter. Listing had it as a gold plated nib. Turned out it was a 14k nib - $15.50 - shipping brought it to about $21-22. Have developed a pen pal relationship with the seller. Late 1960's model is what was represented.
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    Default Re: Absolute steals from eBay

    I got reasonable prices on all my eBay pen buys but one was significantly lower than what I have heard it's value to be. I received a barely used pristine burgundy Snorkel Clipper with the hard to find X4 nib. I paid a mere $30 for it which included shipping.

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    It wasn't something I did through Ebay but to a friend who wanted me to repair a couple pens. In return for my repair work I was given a Waterman 512 1/2 PSF and a Doric with a #6 adjustable nib. Ironically just a few days before I had been admiring Doric's for the first time through photos online. She gave them to me anyway. She actually saved them from her mother in laws trash.

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    Default Re: Absolute steals from eBay

    I moved the discussion started by Jon
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jon Szanto View Post
    Here's a tougher question: any of you find a deal so good, so obviously because of a clueless seller, that you told them, and either offered to pay more, or alerted them ahead of time so they could not get taken by others?

    I can think of two times I msg'd sellers with BIN items that were way, way too low, and I've sent an additional payment to a person when I realized the true valuation of a pen that I wasn't all that familiar with.

    to its own thread for further discussion: The Philosophy of the "Steal"

    Let's try to keep this thread on topic, which is:

    Quote Originally Posted by Rusty888 View Post
    I thought I would start a topic where people can share the bargains they sourced from eBay. This isn't your $2 pen deal but one you got for a steal.

    Think a $400 pen you won for $50
    Person didn't know what they were selling.

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