SteyrAUG
06-26-18, 23:29
From Gunbroker to Ebay I run into it constantly.
People selling WWII H&R M1 Garands so you send them a message telling them H&R didn't make rifles during WWII so they won't look like a complete tard and they will either insist that their rifle was in fact one of the ones made during WWII or they will come back with some half assed shit about how theirs is set up to look like a WWII production rifle (which would be retarded because if you were going for "period correct" you wouldn't use an H&R).
Don't even get me started with vintage commercial Lugers being sold as military WWI or WWII Lugers. It's like people can't understand that their 1920s production Luger couldn't possibly have actually seen service in WWI and it was extremely unlikely that it was imported to the US and then made it's way back to Germany for military service in WWII and was then reimported into the US. But they will absolutely tell you to F Off since they know "for a fact" that it belonged to their Grandfather who of course brought it back from the war, typically in association with D-Day, The Battle of the Bulge or some other equally famous event.
I've stopped trying to buy Japanese swords on egay because of the blatantly fake China Forgeries, they should actually stamp them "China Forge" as an ironic factory name. But if I message somebody about their Genuine 16th Century Samurai Sword and point out the engravings should be "engraved" and not machine stamped they get pissy. In one case somebody had a genuine WWII vintage Gunto (military sword) that they believed was an "ancient samurai sword" from the 17th century and I pointed us that pre Meiji (made prior to 1868) swords typically weren't serial numbered he actually canceled my bid because I was wrong and he was right and his sword was easily worth $10,000 (which means I should have been easily outbid anyway) because he had it checked out by experts.
Even more fun is the vintage martial arts stuff I collect. Seems every single pair of nunchaku or sai I run across is 1930s vintage. Never mind that the first company in Japan to make such things as a production factory item didn't start making them until 1968 and before that everything was custom or hand made items. But don't tell that to the seller because otherwise you are calling them, or their father, or their grandfather a liar because he brought them back from Japan after the war so they had to be made in the 1930s.
I think I'm going to put a tree branch on a lathe and list it as "antique karate bo staff, hundreds of years old and hand made by a famous karate master" cause that tree has been in the back yard for a long damn time. Might even break out my 70s vintage wood burner and put some kanji on it because that will prove it's an antique.
People selling WWII H&R M1 Garands so you send them a message telling them H&R didn't make rifles during WWII so they won't look like a complete tard and they will either insist that their rifle was in fact one of the ones made during WWII or they will come back with some half assed shit about how theirs is set up to look like a WWII production rifle (which would be retarded because if you were going for "period correct" you wouldn't use an H&R).
Don't even get me started with vintage commercial Lugers being sold as military WWI or WWII Lugers. It's like people can't understand that their 1920s production Luger couldn't possibly have actually seen service in WWI and it was extremely unlikely that it was imported to the US and then made it's way back to Germany for military service in WWII and was then reimported into the US. But they will absolutely tell you to F Off since they know "for a fact" that it belonged to their Grandfather who of course brought it back from the war, typically in association with D-Day, The Battle of the Bulge or some other equally famous event.
I've stopped trying to buy Japanese swords on egay because of the blatantly fake China Forgeries, they should actually stamp them "China Forge" as an ironic factory name. But if I message somebody about their Genuine 16th Century Samurai Sword and point out the engravings should be "engraved" and not machine stamped they get pissy. In one case somebody had a genuine WWII vintage Gunto (military sword) that they believed was an "ancient samurai sword" from the 17th century and I pointed us that pre Meiji (made prior to 1868) swords typically weren't serial numbered he actually canceled my bid because I was wrong and he was right and his sword was easily worth $10,000 (which means I should have been easily outbid anyway) because he had it checked out by experts.
Even more fun is the vintage martial arts stuff I collect. Seems every single pair of nunchaku or sai I run across is 1930s vintage. Never mind that the first company in Japan to make such things as a production factory item didn't start making them until 1968 and before that everything was custom or hand made items. But don't tell that to the seller because otherwise you are calling them, or their father, or their grandfather a liar because he brought them back from Japan after the war so they had to be made in the 1930s.
I think I'm going to put a tree branch on a lathe and list it as "antique karate bo staff, hundreds of years old and hand made by a famous karate master" cause that tree has been in the back yard for a long damn time. Might even break out my 70s vintage wood burner and put some kanji on it because that will prove it's an antique.