I don't bother regularly monitoring prices for Seiko 7A28's. I know they've become just as crazy as 7A38's over the last couple of years, particularly thanks to greedy profiteering re-sellers like Italians oysterdelarge727, simone00simone and their despicable ilk. In fact since I switched off my automated eBay searches on the 7A28-7120 RAF Gen. 1, I rarely search on 7A28's at all. Something else caught my eye this morning, which prompted me to run a worldwide search on 'Seiko 7A28' for the first time in a long while. This 7A28-7020 SPR007J listed by profiteering UK re-seller hollizaak007 came up in the first page of results. He's asking a typically greedy Buy-it-Now price of £1250, probably at least DOUBLE the current market value - particularly now as the 'James Bond' connection is in question.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SEIKO-7A28-7 ... 5846658344
It was listed last week, but I'm not sure if it's a new listing, because he ended and re-listed all his listings on 8th April.
Yet another profiteering (UK) eBay seller to avoid !!
Re: Yet another profiteering (UK) eBay seller to avoid !!
Profiteering UK eBay re-seller hollizaak007 had re-listed that 7A28-7020 'James Bond' a few times and at some point he increased the already extortionate Buy-it-Now price from £1250 to £1400. It appears to have sold yesterday afternoon for an undisclosed best offer.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185964954420
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185964954420
Re: Yet another profiteering (UK) eBay seller to avoid !!
The full sorry saga of this watch can be found on the previous page, in a series of posts. Checking my eBay watching page, it appears that greedy unscrupulous profiteering UK eBay re-seller hollizaak007 (a.k.a. Gary Turner) finally managed to find another mug punter buyer for the two-tone 7A38-727A yesterday morning. Yes, he re-sold it twice !Seiko7A38 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 13, 2023 2:01 pmBrazen profiteering UK eBay re-seller hollizaak007 proved my prediction correct, when earlier this afternoon, he listed the ex-henzz1337 / goosefeather1 two-tone 7A38-727A on eBay again, with a typical greedy Buy-it-Now price of £395. There's no mention in the description of his having fitted a new battery, which is presumably all it needed. His action in having purchased it back from his previous buyer for 40% of what they paid him shows he is truly unscrupulous.Seiko7A38 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 01, 2023 9:36 amAnd this is where the travesty comes in. According to the eBay Purchase History it was bought by someone with an encrypted ID of z***0 - very likely hollizaak007.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Stunning-Sei ... 5775388725
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186090805886
Re: Yet another profiteering (UK) eBay seller to avoid !!
I'd never purposely criticise an eBay seller for letting a watch go too cheaply. Let's face it, it doesn't happen very often nowadays. However, it does appear you need to be careful whom you sell it to, sometimes. This two-tone 7A38-728A was listed on Monday evening this week, by a UK eBay seller, with a Buy-it-Now price of £130. Not particularly cheap, in view of the condition. The watch was clearly suffering from a badly tarnished gold-plated bezel and was fitted with a non-original 7-hole adjustment clasp, presumably to compensate for a shortage of bracelet adjustment links. It sold on Tuesday morning for the £130 asking price. I didn't think any more about it at the time.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/196046632529
I didn't recogise it immediately, but the same 7A38-728A was listed on eBay yesterday afternoon, by profiteering UK eBay re-seller hollizaaak007 (a.k.a. Gary Turner), with a typically greedily marked-up Buy-it-Now price of £375 !!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Seik ... 6138075974
He may have given the tarnished bezel a quick polish, but the non-standard 7-hole adjustment clasp and the case-back serial number 845561 are visible in his photos, so it's definitely the same watch.
That dear readers, is a prime example of why it's so difficult to find a reasonably priced (heaven forbid cheap) Seiko 7A38 - of just about any model on eBay nowadays. I'm glad I bought mine years ago, before the profiteering re-sellers started ruining it for everybody. Here's a fairly recent wrist shot of my two-tone 7A38-728A, owned since July 2009:
Cost me all of £30.50. Ah those were the days.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/196046632529
I didn't recogise it immediately, but the same 7A38-728A was listed on eBay yesterday afternoon, by profiteering UK eBay re-seller hollizaaak007 (a.k.a. Gary Turner), with a typically greedily marked-up Buy-it-Now price of £375 !!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Seik ... 6138075974
He may have given the tarnished bezel a quick polish, but the non-standard 7-hole adjustment clasp and the case-back serial number 845561 are visible in his photos, so it's definitely the same watch.
That dear readers, is a prime example of why it's so difficult to find a reasonably priced (heaven forbid cheap) Seiko 7A38 - of just about any model on eBay nowadays. I'm glad I bought mine years ago, before the profiteering re-sellers started ruining it for everybody. Here's a fairly recent wrist shot of my two-tone 7A38-728A, owned since July 2009:
Cost me all of £30.50. Ah those were the days.
Re: Yet another profiteering (UK) eBay seller to avoid !!
Checking my eBay watching page, it looks like greedy profiteering UK eBay re-seller hollizaak007 (a.k.a. Gary Turner) finally found a mug punter buyer for the two-tone 7A38-7280, which he purchased from German eBay seller henzz1337 in January 2022 for less than €175 Euros. It sold yesterday afternoon for £369.95Seiko7A38 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 26, 2022 7:51 am Yesterday evening, profiteering UK eBay re-seller hollizaak007 listed two more two-tone 7A38's with typically greedily marked-up Buy-it-Now prices. Both come supplied with rather secondhand looking Seiko presentation boxes. Unless I've failed to spot any over the last 4 months, I believe these are the last two of a large number of 7A's he's purchased from German eBay seller henzz1337 during that period, though not in the order he acquired them.
Indeed, the 7A38-7280 which he's asking a risible £385 for is one of the first batch of three 7A38-728x's he purchased at the beginning of January, which for reasons best known to himself, he has held back until now.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Seik ... 5400184102
.... and mentioned it in this post on the previous page. Note that he paid seller henzz1337 less than €175 Euros for it.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/265483985605
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186210791589
Re: Yet another profiteering (UK) eBay seller to avoid !!
Checking my eBay watching page, it would appear that greedy profiteering UK eBay re-seller hollizaak007 (a.k.a. Gary Turner) has finally found a mug punter buyer for his 7A38-7069. It sold earlier this morning for a slightly reduced £400.Seiko7A38 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 14, 2023 9:46 am Yesterday evening, profiteering UK eBay re-seller hollizaak007 listed a two-tone 7A38-7069 in better than average used condition. Typically, his Buy-it-Now asking price is a laughably optimistic £425, which is more than double what you should realistically expect to pay for such an example of this relatively common US market model.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Seik ... 5813020365
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186249944556
Re: Yet another profiteering (UK) eBay seller to avoid !!
Was it really August 2021 when I wrote that about the gold-tone 7A38-7289 he'd just listed ? It seems that Gary Turner (a.k.a. profiteering UK eBay re-seller hollizaak007) hasn't learned anything in over 2½ years, because not only does that 7A38-7289 still remain unsold, but he's trying it on again with another common-or-garden gold-tone. At lunchtime today, he listed a well-worn gold-tone 7A38-7190 with a typically greedy, almost risible Buy-it-Now price of £325.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Seik ... 6353995994
Here's where he bought the exact same watch, complete with chipped crystal, less than a week ago from UK eBay seller vintagehoneypots, winning their 7-day auction with a last second snipe bid for a mere £102.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/176276192632
Not only does the feedback number of the winning bidder match his (2454) ....
But of course, so does the case-back serial number, 790224: