I'd intended to write this up earlier, but a couple of things caused me to delay slightly: firstly the seller was evidently having problems with eBay photo hosting (of more anon), then the new forum went live soon afterwards, changing my priorities. This stainless 7A38-6080 SAA089J, in lightly worn well cared for condition, was listed by a US eBay seller on Tuesday this week, with a frankly ridiculous Buy-it-Now asking price of $899.99 (call it $900) !

Their description is fanciful at best and includes veiled references to Gerald Genta and 'Royal Oak', which is nothing short of deliberate keyword spamming. To make matters worse, they're tantalizingly offering it to potential buyers outside USA, through eBay's dysfunctional GSP programme. If that actually worked (it doesn't because of the covert embargo agreement between eBay and Seiko), that would potentially add another $255 in charges on top !!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/EXTREME-RARE ... 3347143334

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When their listing first went live on Tuesday, only 8 of the 12 photos they'd uploaded were displaying properly. Even the primary image was blank at the time, so I didn't bother taking a screenshot. They appear to eventually have fixed that one, but even today 3 of their photos still aren't working.
The eBay revision history shows they've made a number of attempts to rectify this:

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On Tuesday evening, I thought I'd drop them a message, pointing this out, in case they weren't aware of the problem. But when I clicked on the listing, I was extremely annoyed to find that they'd 'borrowed' my old wrist shot (or a very grainy reproduction of it), watermarked it as 'EXAMPLE' and used that to replace one of their previous blank images !

With so many of my photos regularly being reposted (usually without permission, nor credit), particularly on sites like Pinterest, I saw red and told them to remove it in no uncertain terms !

From memory (timings are approximate) the last two changes they made on the 13th were when they added my wrist shot and subsequently promptly removed it.
