Seiko 7A38 - by the numbers

And so it goes on. :roll: The first example of this clumsy incompetence that I've spotted in 2025 appeared overnight, listed by a US eBay seller. It's an otherwise cosmetically tidy example of the two-tone 7A38-7280 , of which the seller states: New ENERGIZER battery installed JANUARY 2025 .... rsz_...

Robert has continued to post photos of his 7A38-7180 on Instagram, most recently here on the 7th and again yesterday , where he hinted that he was selling it. https://i.ibb.co/4pS9Hsd/7-A38-7180-Black-Gold-Wrong-Bracelet-Instagram-For-Sale-Jan2025-Robert-Lambert-Post.png So it wasn't exactly a big s...

I guess I may have let a few slip by, without passing comment, in the latter part of last year. But this 7A38-7070, fitted with a non-original replacement Seiko bracelet, listed by dishonest UK eBay seller surrymaw1981 yesterday evening, with a ludicrous Buy-it-Now asking price of £750, gave me good...

As I wrote, his first listing for a 7A38-6030 in the early hours of this morning had me scratching my head - momentarily. Once again, it's a 7-day auction listing, this time with a slightly lower (by his standards) opening bid price of $739.95: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/256769525286 7A38-6030-(Dive...

Greedy profiteering US eBay re-seller rtm127 (a.k.a. Watch and Jewelry Exchange), Ryan Marucheau continues to scour Yahoo Japan for JDM 7Axx's to sell on at inflated mark-ups. It had been fairly quiet on the 7A38 front on YJ in the fourth quarter of last year, so when he listed not one but two 7A38-...

Profiteering US eBay re-seller Flobaca is getting off to an early start in the New Year. Yesterday evening, he listed a poor example of a gold-tone 7A38-7190 as a 7-day auction, with an opening bid price of $170: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/356438886999 7A38-7190-Gold-GoldFace-WrongBracelet-eBay-Jan2...

That 7A38-7069 (from early September) still remains unsold at the time of writing, now on it's eighth 7-day re-listing . I must admit I'd lost count of the number of times Flobaca had re-listed that 7A38-7069. It must have been at least 15 or maybe 16 times by the end of December. But it looks like...

That almost NOS condition stainless 7A38-6080 SAA089J reappeared this morning - listed on Chrono24 by a would-be profiteering Austrian re-seller with a typically greedy marked-up asking price of €435 Euros (£370 GBP equivalent). https://www.chrono24.co.uk/seiko/vintage-chronograph-7a38---6080--seiko...

By my reckoning, deluded Italian eBay seller le24ore ended and re-listed that rare but over-priced Puma Y19904-50 a total of 84 times during 2024. Were it not for the fact that they were sometimes very erratic (see, for example, their re-listings for May, September and December in my previous post) ...

Despite his much-re-listed 7A38-7069 and previous 7A38-702A still remaining unsold (@ $250 and $375 respectively) profiteering US eBay re-seller Flobaca is chancing his luck by increasing prices. His latest 7-day auction listing for a well-worn two-tone 7A38-7020 has a laughably over-optimistic open...

I must admit, I did briefly consider buying it (because of the unusual case-back serial number), but the seller's typically greedy asking price of $180 CDN (approx. £100 Quid), especially in the light of its incomplete state, deterred me. :| Where might I have used it ? The first 7A38-7270 which spr...

I thought I'd briefly mention this supposedly 'New old stock' 7A38-7270 stainless watch case, which was listed on eBay on Christmas Eve, by a relatively new Canadian seller Timely Parts , for a couple of reasons. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186856006557 7A38-7270-Stainless-EmptyWatchCase-eBay-Dec2024...

From my observations of his past eBay activities, generally speaking, profiteering US re-seller Flobaca seems unwilling to spend more than $250 on a 7A38. That fact, given the current healthy buoyant prices is what is limiting his market share. So this example makes for amusing reading, particulary ...

Evidently I'm not keeping a close enough watch on Flobaca 's spurious activities. He appears to have pulled a couple of fast ones with those two recent listings, for a two-tone 7A38-7270 and gold-tone 7A38-7289. What were supposed to be 7-day auctions (without any option to make offer) were both end...

It continues to amaze me how some watch dealers still appear to be blissfully unaware of this self-inflicted c*ck-up. :roll: Latest to shoot himself in the foot is profiteering Australian eBay seller watchadoption . Overnight, he listed a well worn two-tone 7A38-7289 as 'For Repair' . In the descrip...

The above re-listed re-finished 7A38-7070, fitted with the wrong Seiko bracelet (which, incidentally the Italian seller was originally asking a risible €635 Euros for) eventually sold on October 20th for €375 Euros. Fabio listed another re-finished 7A38-7070 last night, this time without the 'ticks'...

Confirming my earlier suspicion, all three were re-listed, yet again, earlier this morning, within a period of 30 minutes: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/316015874624 Puma Y19904-50 le24ore https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186818648586 Seiko 7A38-7180 carm_en https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186818678806 Orient J39...

In the early hours of this morning, greedy profiteering US eBay re-seller rtm127 (a.k.a. Ryan Marucheau) listed another thousand dollar JDM 7A38, which naturally came from his usual source, Yahoo Japan. This time it's another 7A38-6040. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/256725652340 7A38-6040-(Divers)-Stai...

Keeping an eye open for unusual 77xxxx prefix case-back serial numbers can sometimes turn up an amusing instance of what can only be described as incompetence. I had an inkling that two-tone 7A38-7270 might have been snatched up by one of the many profiteering eBay re-sellers, because the listing wa...

Evidently profiteering US eBay re-seller Ryan Marucheau (a.k.a. rtm127 ) is monitoring this thread. He recently sent me this message bragging about his profitability: eBay-Message-rtm127.png His second paragraph (if true) demonstrates that there are still gullible mug punters out there, with more mo...