Yet another greedy profiteering Italian eBay re-seller !
Posted: Sat May 23, 2026 11:23 am
From memory, I think I first started studiously complaining about increasingly exorbitant prices being asked for Seiko 7A38's in a thread on the old archived forum in January 2012: THE CRAZIEST eBay / Yahoo Japan 7Axx prices to date ?
From that thread, and others in which I later documented the loathsome practice of buying and immediately re-selling for profit, it soon became apparent that the worst offenders, by far, were Italian eBay sellers.
Names which immediately spring to mind, as being the most prolific, include:
Giovanni Stregapede - angeli_65 and strega_68
Alberto Ulmi - goffre78; valentinasex, oldantiquestyle and vintagedesign78
Simone Pratassoli - simone00simone (and others)
Giuseppi Macri - oysterdelarge727 and russell_06
They're all still active - to a lesser extent, or in Giuseppe's case appear to have moved on to other things (Zenith). There have been plenty of others too. Another Italian eBay username that I remember from the past decade is onmiller_07. I'm not sure whether I wrote about them on the old forum or not. For literally years they re-listed (ad nauseam) four stupidly over-priced Seiko 7A38's, which IIRC included a two-tone 7A38-7020 and a titanium 7A38-7130. They re-listed them over and over again, so many times in fact, that they managed to get the titles screwed up. I guess they must have sold them eventually, because they dropped off my radar.
From that thread, and others in which I later documented the loathsome practice of buying and immediately re-selling for profit, it soon became apparent that the worst offenders, by far, were Italian eBay sellers.
Names which immediately spring to mind, as being the most prolific, include:
Giovanni Stregapede - angeli_65 and strega_68
Alberto Ulmi - goffre78; valentinasex, oldantiquestyle and vintagedesign78
Simone Pratassoli - simone00simone (and others)
Giuseppi Macri - oysterdelarge727 and russell_06
They're all still active - to a lesser extent, or in Giuseppe's case appear to have moved on to other things (Zenith). There have been plenty of others too. Another Italian eBay username that I remember from the past decade is onmiller_07. I'm not sure whether I wrote about them on the old forum or not. For literally years they re-listed (ad nauseam) four stupidly over-priced Seiko 7A38's, which IIRC included a two-tone 7A38-7020 and a titanium 7A38-7130. They re-listed them over and over again, so many times in fact, that they managed to get the titles screwed up. I guess they must have sold them eventually, because they dropped off my radar.
