Pentel PN305 QX for sale. Warning! Price might make you choke. https://jp.mercari.com/item/m32018931899
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It is true that the seller can ask for whatever price he wants, but it is too high. I believe the last auction I saw of it was around 80000 yen.
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Itās a plastic bodied mechanical pencil that sold for Ā„3000 brand new. Sure, it has a remarkable lead auto-feed mechanismā¦ but worth roughly $3,000 USD? I think not. There are so many lottery asks going on these days for collectibles. Not just vintage mechanical pencils. Even the tin toy market has collectors desperately trying to goad loaded buyers into get snagged.
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when I see such absurd prices, I make a mental note of that scalper and I wonāt buy anything from them at all, their name becomes a āskip this listingā alert.
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One more to add to your list: āThis_Is_Distributed_At_Randomā on Yahoo Japan.
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he was first to make the list. easy to spot most of his auctions as he in usually holding the pencil in his hand
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Consistently poor photos. Lousy descriptions. Sometimes prices that seem reasonable, until you nitpick on photo details to spot the flaws. And those examples that are nice, his prices are obscenely high. No surprise that feedback percent has declined over time. In fact, ZenMarket banned them.
I wish there was some way to add a seller exclusion to search parameters.
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with this ārandomā guy, I always wondered if it should be a joke or if they are somewhat disabled or so ā¦ blurry photos of random pencils at random prices just doesnāt make any sense at all.
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The day this person is banned from Yahoo, I will rejoice. They flood the writing instrument categories with so much useless junk, making it difficult when just casually browsing through listings.
This_Is_Distributed_At_Random becomes This_Is_Banned_On_Purpose
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Another thing that some sellers do is put too much brightness on the photo, making it difficult to see the quality of the metal parts.
Is there a way to get the name of the seller from YA using buyee? Sellers from mercari we can now the name, but the ones from YA are obfuscated. I think it would be nice to share or compile a list a of good sellers.
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On ZenMarket I know there is and on that first part, itās even more common for them to use pictures that show just a minimum part of scratches and such, just so that they canāt be held accountable, and then proceed to sell the pencil as new. or barely used
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There was a time, not long ago, when most sellers were very cautious. Even a very tiny flaw or sign of use, and they put ājunkā in the title. But now, that doesnāt happen much. Iāve also seen more sellers who take chances of misconstruing things. But then there are a few sellers out there who seem to put āGrade Cā on everything used, no matter how lightly used.
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