Suspicious Contax

[santino]

It would be ok if he pointed out that its a copy but he didn't.
Its neither german nor kriegsmarine - at least he didn't grind off the kmz logo 🙂

 

[Roger Hicks]

It would be ok if he pointed out that its a copy but he didn't.
Its neither german nor kriegsmarine - at least he didn't grind off the kmz logo 🙂

Surely the KMZ logo is merely a mis-engraving for KriegZMarine

Cheers,

R.

 

[wolves3012]

I have mixed feelings on these fake things. On the one hand, it's (often) plain dishonesty, although in some cases it may be down to cluelessness. On the other hand, caveat emptor. If you don't do your research before buying, it serves you right if you get caught out.

For the one-off items, I can see it's a bit much for auction sites to police (which doesn't excuse them not trying) but where it's persistent they really should act. Trouble is, it's too easy to turn a blind eye and take the fees.

 

[JPD]

I have mixed feelings on these fake things. On the one hand, it's (often) plain dishonesty, although in some cases it may be down to cluelessness. On the other hand, caveat emptor. If you don't do your research before buying, it serves you right if you get caught out.

It is plain dishonesty in this case. The seller buys worthless stuff and use his laser engraving machine to add fake brand names or names of famous people or events to personal items. They sell like hotcakes and surprisingly he has 100% positive feedback on most of his accounts.

For the one-off items, I can see it's a bit much for auction sites to police (which doesn't excuse them not trying) but where it's persistent they really should act. Trouble is, it's too easy to turn a blind eye and take the fees.

This is a multi billion Dollar company, so they can afford to hire experts to police the auctions. But it's perhaps the lack of said experts that they are a multi billion Dollar company.



"Maybe a 1960's Soviet made camera could have been used by the german navy during WWII. To tell for sure we would have to be experts in physics and know if time travel is possible or not. Since we aren't, we are going to allow this auction".

 

[Sumarongi]

Now the criminal is selling a Zorki-6 as a Kriegsmarine Leica.



https://www.ebay.com/itm/323412816310


Let us report it and see if eBay does anything. I doubt it.

Wait, the Kriegsmarine Leica is a different account:

eBay Member User ID History


The box below contains the User IDs that this member has used on eBay.


User ID Effective Date End Date
necesito15 17-Apr-18 Present
brexit2019 09-Jul-17 17-Apr-18
v************0 28-Apr-16 09-Jul-17

Brexit2019? That's telling ^^

 

[JPD]

Wait, the Kriegsmarine Leica is a different account:

Brexit2019? That's telling ^^

Yes, he has several accounts. Google them and you will find people warning for this seller, so it's no wonder that he changes his account names often. 😉

 

[xayraa33]

All I know is that this crook has ruined a nice Kiev IIIa camera and now a Zorki 6 with his laser engraver and lens beauty ring gouge-out chisel that must be as sharp as a butter knife.