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BrianShaw · May 16, 2020

I understood. For about 15 years I kept seeing a vintage Lotus Cortina offered locally at a ridiculous price. Once a year it was listed. If it was a good priced Ii would have bought. But no negotiation possible. The story: wife...

when it stopped being listed for sale I called and enquired if he’s ready to deal or decided to keep. The guy “sold the wife” instead.

Jmatteson · May 16, 2020

The number of items I've purchased by putting a bug in the spouses ear that I'm interested in buying is comedic.

"I don't want to sell" turns into "How much would you offer?" after the "big talk" happens.

grat · May 16, 2020

itsdoable said:
I did not see any misspelled "certificate" in the listing, nor in the ones from Hong Kong that you associated this listing with. It is possible that they read this forum and corrected the listings though.

When i searched, the top ~15 listings for over priced collectable Rollei parafanalia, they came from 2 sources, The Leica Store in Lisse (the OP's click bait), and Breguet Camera in Hong Kong ... both of which are.. um... unique, worth a visit if you are a camera nut in the area. And I did not see any obvious misspelled atrocities in their listings... except maybe the price.

As I said-- doing a bit more research, they're probably legitimate.

But what I was referring to is this:

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/bh8AAOSw1KRb2D3e/s-l1600.jpg

I'm not uploading the image, because it's not worth it. But every one of these listings has a "Certificate" among the images, and everyone of them uses 3 i's in the word "Certificate". Someone obviously made a typo in the template. And yes, I'm familiar with the old excuse "Not everyone speaks English as a first language", and on a forum, it's excusable. But if I'm advertising a $40 thousand dollar camera in an English market, you'd better believe I will find SOMEONE who speaks English flawlessly and get them to do a spell check.

Uncle Chichi · May 16, 2020

I was contemplating placing a bid, but not if I have to pay extra for shipping. That's just crazy talk.

pentaxuser · May 16, 2020

Andrew O'Neill said:
Hey! I have two of those!

Two! So it doesn't matter now if the spread misere call goes wrong

pentaxuser

BradS · May 16, 2020

BrianShaw said:
I understood. For about 15 years I kept seeing a vintage Lotus Cortina offered locally at a ridiculous price. Once a year it was listed. If it was a good priced Ii would have bought. But no negotiation possible. The story: wife...

when it stopped being listed for sale I called and enquired if he’s ready to deal or decided to keep. The guy “sold the wife” instead.

Had a similar experience. My son found an old truck that had an interesting engine & transmission combination. We went to look at it and realized it was wildly over priced for the condition that it was in. The guy had several other very interesting vehicles in his garage so, I kinda suspected that he was aware of the actual value of this thing. My son was undeterred...so, while he's crawling around under, in and above this old truck, I pulled the seller aside and asked him what the deal was...he just said, that his wife told him that he had to sell one before he could buy another.

Sirius Glass · May 16, 2020

Andrew O'Neill said:
Hey! I have two of those!

Yes Shoot stereo!

cowanw · May 16, 2020

grat said:
As I said-- doing a bit more research, they're probably legitimate.

But what I was referring to is this:

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/bh8AAOSw1KRb2D3e/s-l1600.jpg

I'm not uploading the image, because it's not worth it. But every one of these listings has a "Certificate" among the images, and everyone of them uses 3 i's in the word "Certificate". Someone obviously made a typo in the template. And yes, I'm familiar with the old excuse "Not everyone speaks English as a first language", and on a forum, it's excusable. But if I'm advertising a $40 thousand dollar camera in an English market, you'd better believe I will find SOMEONE who speaks English flawlessly and get them to do a spell check.

Maybe it is the certificate that is the prototype, not the camera!

itsdoable · May 16, 2020

grat said:
...But what I was referring to is this:

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/bh8AAOSw1KRb2D3e/s-l1600.jpg
...

Ah yes, that is pretty funny. Definitely looks photo-shopped. (No spell check in Photo Shop?)

Jmatteson · May 16, 2020

itsdoable said:
I did not see any misspelled "certificate" in the listing, nor in the ones from Hong Kong that you associated this listing with. It is possible that they read this forum and corrected the listings though.

When i searched, the top ~15 listings for over priced collectable Rollei parafanalia, they came from 2 sources, The Leica Store in Lisse (the OP's click bait), and Breguet Camera in Hong Kong ... both of which are.. um... unique, worth a visit if you are a camera nut in the area. And I did not see any obvious misspelled atrocities in their listings... except maybe the price.

Maybe he needed a book that had correct spellings of words like "paraPHERnalia"?

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