Tenegre Nose Job

[werecow]

Since Tenegres and their noses came up, I'll share this one, which a Spanish seller recently first sold to me and then sneakily sold again at a higher price through another platform (where I strongly suspect he engaged in shill bidding) while repeatedly assuring me that he was not doing so over several weeks.
He could've just not accepted my bid or canceled the sale immediately, but I suspect he was stringing me along because he won his own lot through shill bidding and then offered it to the second highest bidder and was waiting for that deal to go through while keeping me as a backup. He then canceled the sale without explanation and stopped communicating with me. When the platform asked him for the reason he claimed it was "broken".
Luckily I saw the other auction and smelled a rat and opened a dispute in time to get my money back. #notbitteratall

Still like the sword though.

[ClemFandango]

Ah woah!! Thanks for sharing these pieces guys

Detlef, do you have closeups of the pommel by any chance? I love seeing the carved details on the hilts of these swords

And dang I'm sorry werecow. You were cheated out of a fine piece :c reminds me of the silver sapot talibongs from Aklan.

[Ian]

Very nice sword. Lousy seller. Glad you got your money back. That often does not happen.

[werecow]

Originally Posted by Ian

Very nice sword. Lousy seller. Glad you got your money back. That often does not happen.

Yeah, that has also happened to me before. Thankfully in this case I had pay insurance through todocoleccion. It just took another week or two of them trying to pressure him to follow through with the sale (which was obviously not going to happen since he presumably no longer had the sword in his possession), but in the end they refunded me in full.

I wouldn't have been so pissed off with him if he had just been honest and canceled the sale once he got a better offer, but he chose to lie repeatedly, and given that he had a new account on both platforms and it looks a lot like he was shill bidding on catawiki (which frankly enables this by allowing sellers to offer their lots to the next highest bidder) I suspect this is a habit for him. Buyer beware.

[Sajen]

Originally Posted by werecow

Yeah, that has also happened to me before. Thankfully in this case I had pay insurance through todocoleccion. It just took another week or two of them trying to pressure him to follow through with the sale (which was obviously not going to happen since he presumably no longer had the sword in his possession), but in the end they refunded me in full.

I wouldn't have been so pissed off with him if he had just been honest and canceled the sale once he got a better offer, but he chose to lie repeatedly, and given that he had a new account on both platforms and it looks a lot like he was shill bidding on catawiki (which frankly enables this by allowing sellers to offer their lots to the next highest bidder) I suspect this is a habit for him. Buyer beware.

I can understand your anger very well! BTW, beautiful tenegre.