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Going back a few years, when we tried (and failed) to set up the Gentlemen's Agreement (see this other thread), which was intended to help prevent forum members tripping over / out-bidding / sniping each other on eBay, I started to compile a list of all known eBay ID's (and their encrypted forms) against forum member's names / other known 7Axx collectors. I must admit I've let that slip (a long time ago) - eBay's encryption of bidder ID's doesn't make it a particularly easy task. That said, an eBay ID which shows in encryted form as n***e, with a current feedback rating of 1671 has recently caught my eye. They tend not to bid until the final seconds (i.e. as a sniper) and as you can see from below, have a pretty good success rate.
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Although they have a high feedback number (it's grown from 1667 to 1671 in the last couple of days), unless I'd completely missed noticing their previous activity, they appear to be a relative newcomer to collecting Seiko 7Axx's. They seem to have fairly eclectic tastes, including what I'd class as 'low end' stuff. Here's a couple of recent eBay auctions they've won. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/121969214428
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/262415724607
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/172179472708
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If you're a forum member, I'd like to know who you are. No need to 'fess up by replying to this thread (unless you feel the need) .... Please just drop me a PM. Thanks. | |
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I already had a pretty good idea who this mystery eBay bidder might be (and that they were a comparatively new forum member). My suspicions were confirmed in an exchange of emails over the weekend. Regarding my earlier: Although they have a high feedback number (it's grown from 1667 to 1671 in the last couple of days), .... Make that now 1678 (at the time of writing), just 6 days later ! | |
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Update one year on. Although he seems to have slowed down somewhat of late, 'mystery bidder's n***e feedback now up to 1761.
He's still occasionally sniping (and winning) what I'd class as distinctly poorer condition examples of 7Axx's, for example this badly stripped 7A38-7080 'head only', which was mis-represented as a 7A38-7070. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/142447538507
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Copy and paste of my recent post from the 7A38-6020 SAA043J model thread: And so another little long overdue mystery solved - see above linked thread. The full eBay ID of our 'old friend' n***e is uneedanotes1144 (Feedback now 1812) - same as the current Australian eBay (re)seller of this brown coated 7A38-6020. | |
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 Member Posts: 2 | Thanks seiko38 A whole page about my buying habits and display sheets following my buying habits, amazing. You are a better record keeper than I am. Again thanks... But to fill in your mystery of my slowed buying habits, buying habits of mine that you could not possibly follow. I did not slow down at all but followed your forums advise - I brought the next 45-50 different models of Seiko 7A's off the Buyee and Jauce Jap auction sites, which as you know uses a proxy bidder to bid for international buyers, with no way for you to know who was buying what.. But buying in Japan I managed to buy many rare 7A's in what they class as Dead Stock -. Models that have not been seen on eBay for years but it enable me to collect all up nearly 180 7A models to date. But I have not yet complete my collection of 7A's - with one of each model number, including what I class as hard to find, Seiko models made in their Brazil factory Now you say I buy "what I'd class as distinctly poorer condition examples of 7Axx's" but beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. I started collecting 7A's many years after you did and after you brought or hold 95% of all the NOS or Dead Stock models in your burgeoning collection there is lesser available for the rest of us collectors. So others like me have to settle and buy what you left or is available. I use as an example here - if I had brought a 1967-73 Holden Monaro back in the early 1980's for less than $1500 and left it in my shed to increase in value, when other thought them ugly and followed the masses buying Jap rice burners. That poorer condition example would be worth $100,000.00 to $200,000.00 today. So if I find a model that I don't have in even a poor condition I will buy it, till a better becomes available as most collectors do and going by our in born human conditioning - that of the 95% that have owned Seiko 7A models they are not collectors and have long ago binned them for shinning new watches. The burgeoning collection of mine in "what you would class as distinctly poorer condition examples of 7Axx's" maybe worth in 10 years time what the beaten up Seiko 6100-xxxx divers watches are worth today. Your 2016 thread does show a sense of frustration of not being able to identify me yet, but if I had know you had a page about me and that you sent out this SOS I would have replied. May 10, 2016 at 4:03 AM Seiko7A38 Site Owner Posts: 10319 If you're a forum member, I'd like to know who you are. No need to 'fess up by replying to this thread (unless you feel the need) .... Please just drop me a PM. Thanks. As always I will follow your forum and posts regards . | |
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Well thanks for ‘fessing up at last, Glenn. As I wrote in my post dated May 16, 2016, I had already figured out who you were by then (from our exchange of emails) and that you were a forum member. I was also 99% certain that you were the mystery snipe bidder n***e. All I hadn’t managed to figure out was the full eBay ID, which n***e was an encrypted abbreviation for. As soon as I saw your eBay listing for the brown coated 7A38-6020 (which was previously won by the mystery bidder eBay ID n***e) your little secret was up. I gotta tell you that for about 18 months, you were an absolute right royal f*****g pain in the backside, with your almost constant sniping. Much worse than your compatriot Stuart Lennard (a.k.a. ‘rubyginny’) ever was. Off the top of my head, I can’t actually think of any 7A38 that you outbid me for, that I grieved over losing. But one thing’s for certain. Your sniping tactics have cost us both a lot of money, quite needlessly. You think you’ve got nearly all the 7A variants ? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/121969218730
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Their 75%+ success (sniping) hit rate continues unabated: 
I don’t think so. 
In fact here’s a very rare 7A38 I’m sure you haven’t got yet: the two-tone 7A38-706A SAA034J. You tried to snipe me when I was already the high bidder, but thankfully didn’t bid anywhere near high enough. Ironically, it came from the Land of Oz - and a seller you'd bought from only 10 minutes earlier. 
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