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Total piece of junk .Originally posted by okkultist View Post -
From what I've read ALL M1/129's are Fake. One of the very 1st German WW2 items I bought back in 2001 was a M1/129 Badge, and I thought it was real for years until I started looking into it more. The shop I bought it from got me for $50
, live & learn..
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I hear you , but at least it was a Militaria shop scenario where you got screwed . Took a couple of seconds to search M1/129 with the search function here . Who buys off the estand but doesn't care to do a simple search on the forum for the item they are buying ?Comment
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I would say a chinese high-copy badge was sold for a little money
Hope the buyer hasn't lost too much on this deal
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If it is too good to be true then it probably isn't. $35 for a party is a very good price. The buyer probably thought he was getting a great deal.
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M/129 ---> mark of the Devil!!Comment
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I contacted this guy the morning that he posted it for sale and told him it was no good. He thanked me for the info and then proceeded to sell it anyway. I was very polite with the guy and told him I wasn't trying to be a busy body, eve told him that I COULD start a thread about it and call him out publicly, instead I contacted him privately to let him know. Obviously has no scruples or conscience at all. Oh well.Comment
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Originally posted by Eric Broome View Post
All you can do is try and educate others ! Even if it was taken down it probably would end up at a gun show or market and be shifted back into circulation.
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For a lousey $35, "Wartime Collectables" has killed his reputation on the WAF.
How dumb!
Who would ever buy, let alone seriously deal with him again?Comment
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You're 100% correct on this. They always seem to make their way back into the stream. I had a similar situation happen to me with a rhom honor dagger I bought and subsequently tried to sell here later. I fully thought it was the real thing and then when I was called out in a very public manner, I felt like a heel. The folks who called me out were very vocal and very "not nice" we'll just say. I didn't even see the thread until it was pointed out to me by the buyer who I had already shipped the dagger to. Once I was made aware of it, I quickly responded to the thread to try and salvage some of my reputation before it was completely obliterated....and believe me it was starting to gain momentum quickly. I refunded the buyer before it ever got to his door and thankfully, he also came to my defense. Then, an amazing thing happened, the guy I bought it from (a stand up guy of the highest order) also responded to the thread and explained that we were all victims of our own ignorance. He then refunded me and gave me two other SA daggers free of charge as an apology. The only thing he asked of me was to destroy the dagger so that it never made it's way into anyone else's collections ever again. I am an amateur blacksmith/ knife maker and so I put it into the forge and melted it down and used the steel to try and make something useful out of it.Originally posted by jimmy72 View Post All you can do is try and educate others ! Even if it was taken down it probably would end up at a gun show or market and be shifted back into circulation.
The point of my rambling here is that I wish someone would have contacted me privately and gave me the chance to correct this matter out of the public eye. I believe I was vindicated in the end, but I also realize that people usually remember the bad things they hear/read/know about people and it worries me that there are still folks who think I am a scammer. Or that may see me posting another item for sale and immediately think "oh, don't trust that guy....". I hope this isn't the case. But I cannot control that. I see that this fella did not respond to this thread to try and defend himself....he did thank me though..
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