Strange Listings On Ebay For Bexley Cutting Edge

[Parker51]

The same Bexley Cutting Edge pen is currently being listed by two different sellers on EBay. It is number 36 of a limited edition of 100. The pictures are identical in both listings, but the sellers are different. Also in both listings the matching knife is missing. It is impossible for there to be two identical pens, with identical pictures to be sold by two different sellers.

I placed this here as something likely is very wrong with this situation. One seller is listed as tomironn13 and the other is listed as Hoku-84. Both sellers have many more listings than there history would suggest they should have by a factor of 10 and both have pictures which appear to have been taken from someone else's listings as the pictures vary significantly from listing to listing and do not present as a single seller. One seller even has multiple identical listings of the same exact pen with the same pictures. Both indicate they are from Japan.

If this warning should not be in Market Watch, please move it and let me know where warnings of dangers in the Market Place should be placed.

Edited May 3, 2020 by Parker51

[amberleadavis]

Did you report it to Ebay?

[Parker51]

Not yet, I do not regularly bid on EBay so I don't have the information to log on to it immediately available and the machine I am currently using does not have the information to do so.

[Seiryuu]

Some Japanese ebay sellers relist items from japanese selling sites at a significant markup. For example, this happened recently with a Pelikan Fantasia recently that was listed on mercari.

[Theroc]

One of them is probably a scam. Best case scenario, if one is priced significantly higher than the other, they are drop-shipping. In the unlikely event that someone buys the higher-priced pen, the seller buys the original and has it shipped straight to the buyer's address, netting the difference.

[Storch]

If I am not mistaken, the same thing is happening with a black guilloche omas. I saw multiple listing with exactly the same pictures and got suspicious.

It might be as @Seiryuu said, and they are just reselling, but buyer beware.

[inkstainedruth]

I'm in agreement with Amberlea Davis. Something sounds hinky and eBay should be notified. You may have to tell them about both listings because it isn't clear from your description which (or both) are fraudulent listings.

I haven't looked at the listings. Do the listings say where the sellers(s) are located/shipping from? If it's the same address, it could be that it's the same seller under two different names (not sure if that's allowed on eBay or not).

Also wondering if you should contact Bexley directly; they may know who purchased it originally (especially if it's a numbered LE).a

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Parker51]

I have reported the listings, currently three, for the same pen, a limited edition Bexley Cutting Edge Fountain Pen. There are three listings for pen #36. All three listings use identical photographs. Also, all three sellers have numerous pens listed for sale which clearly are copies of others photographs as there is no constancy of background, positioning in style of photography from pen listing to pen listing. People do not change their light boxes, shooting positions, angles, distances and backgrounds for each photograph and every photograph set. Each of the three sellers do this. Also, they have multiple identical listings of the same exact pen. The stupidity of copying a numbered limited edition pen suggests to me that someone is using a computer program to copy listings and then like so many cards, later dealing them out, without actually looking at the listings, possibly using legitimate, but hacked accounts for the listings.

Edited May 5, 2020 by Parker51