Oil can seems a bit high?

[Leon]

I don't recall seeing an oil can like this, but $3500? Anyone else ever seen one of these? (I don't know the seller)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1920s-BASEBA...item5af306497a



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[byrone]

Originally Posted by Leon

I don't recall seeing an oil can like this, but $3500? Anyone else ever seen one of these? (I don't know the seller)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1920s-BASEBA...item5af306497a



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Saw the thread title and thought you were writing about "Oil Can Boyd".

If you followed his career, yes, he did seem a bit high.

[khkco4bls]

How about 50, 000 for the 58 yankee photo. Where do these people come off. Yeesh!

[thecatspajamas]

Never mind the prices, isn't that Leon's quarter they have in like half of their photos?! The brazen thieves...

[39special]

I saw one of those at the Carlisle fall swap meet about 2 years ago.It was in better shape and I think the asking price was $150

[slidekellyslide]

Ridiculous...I wouldn't pay more than $100 for that.

[Mark]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

Ridiculous...I wouldn't pay more than $100 for that.

But they're salivating over this over at the antique oil can board.

[murphusa]

Originally Posted by Mark

But they're salivating over this over at the antique oil can board.

Frank Fritz wants one

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by Mark

But they're salivating over this over at the antique oil can board.

Got a link? I'd like to see what the hubbub is on this can.

[khkco4bls]

2 bad no graphics.

[perezfan]

One of these days, we should do a thread on "ebay greed". It could include a Poll featuring 10 - 12 ridiculously priced ebay items. Might be fun to vote on the biggest rip-off. If I had more time, I'd post it.

This is a disturbing trend... and I don't know if it's comical or sad that these sellers are wasting everyone's time (including their own).

As an example, here's a funny one I saw today... the cheapest and perhaps ugliest kids' toy helmet ever made. A cheap piece of beaten-up cardboard (not leather) with most of the inner lining worn away. This lid probably cost around .99 cents when it was new.... and is worth no more than that now...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-1930...ht_3627wt_1178

[Leon]

Originally Posted by perezfan

One of these days, we should do a thread on "ebay greed". It could include a Poll featuring 10 - 12 ridiculously priced ebay items. Might be fun to vote on the biggest rip-off. If I had more time, I'd post it.

This is a disturbing trend... and I don't know if it's comical or sad that these sellers are wasting everyone's time (including their own).

As an example, here's a funny one I saw today... the cheapest and perhaps ugliest kids' toy helmet ever made. A cheap piece of beaten-up cardboard (not leather) with most of the inner lining worn away. This lid probably cost around .99 cents when it was new.... and is worth no more than that now...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-1930...ht_3627wt_1178

That could be fun Mark, the poll of worst priced item. That being said, if you are correct and this is NOT a leather helmet, this guy is setting himself up for a return. He says it's leather several times. It actually looks like leather too? Are you sure it's not?

[perezfan]

Originally Posted by Leon

That could be fun Mark, the poll of worst priced item. That being said, if you are correct and this is NOT a leather helmet, this guy is setting himself up for a return. He says it's leather several times. It actually looks like leather too? Are you sure it's not?

It is definitely thick cardboard with a faux leather outer coating of some kind. No way it is real leather. If you could see/feel/touch it in person, you'd see...

Doesn't matter much though, as it will never sell... unless he accepts an offer at about 1/12 of his asking price.

[william_9]

It's vegetable tanned pigskin with a painted surface, dry as a bone. Definitely not a top line model, but not cardboard either.

[perezfan]

Well, perhaps not technically cardboard... But I had an identical example that could be torn apart like paper (with very little effort).

Not like any type of leather I have ever seen, felt, touched, smelled, etc. Much thinner, and no softness, suppleness or pliability whatsoever. He needs to divide his BIN price by 10, for any legimate shot at selling it.