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Talking about painted repro's...Are you kidding me?

Jonesy86

Active Member
It is still hard for me as a newbie to see what is what in those small photos 0n the bay. Thanks for the insight1
 

Roughwear

Well-Known Member
Hahaha! All the jackets sold from this dealer, original or repro like this one, are overpriced by several hundred percent!
 
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Tenfifteen

Member
"Japanese Anthique trading" -- What else -- :D :D
The only place in the world where you can find mid 70's G1 up to 1500$ !!!!!!!!!!
 

B-Man2

Well-Known Member
simply ridiculous ...

or maybe the seller means jap-yen rather then USD?????

Well.... I thought you might be right, so I clicked on the 'Buy it now ' which then changes to a "confirm" your purchase page and it was in US dollars.:eek:
 

Smithy

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Saying that there's one born every minute and the seller is no doubt banking on one of said saps with too much money and bugger all sense turning up and buying it!

I've mentioned the following on here before but it's so good it deserves repeating...

I remember quite a few years back trawling through FleaBay and finding advertised a Sopwith Camel joystick only to discover that the photos showed a rather handsome wooden chair leg, yes you heard right, a wooden chair leg, antique perhaps but about as likely to be found in a Sopwith Camel as a giraffe. Worryingly some silly sod had put a bid on it, but then perhaps he was after an antique chair leg.
 
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Jonesy86

Active Member
These jackets at that price are indeed quite amusing. They say that some things are only worth what someone will pay for them. Maybe someone will buy these.

The Real McCoy's are out of my price range, painted or not.

:)
 

Thomas Koehle

Well-Known Member
Yep rather amusing but i think you hit the nail with that comment "there is one born every minute..." - at least if i would be about to spend some thousand bucks i'd do some quick market research before on eBay or Google

Well finally also for me RMC stuff is outta what i'd pay for some garment
 

Jonesy86

Active Member
I bet normal RMC (unpainted $45k) jackets are really cool. Just can't do it. I think that $3k+ is amusing as well.
 

CBI

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some of the jackets look quite good but yes, $$$$$$$$

as someone who has painted many jackets, the typical price to have something painted never seems high enough for the amount of work (from the "artist" perspective of time).
 

unclegrumpy

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Same player... JAT did it again.. not a WWII G1, not even korean era, not even a collectible painted jacket... OK original patches have some value but the price is omg !

Some nice original mid 1950's to early 1960's patches, but the mix of units...subs...surface ships...air...is very hard to believe. Also missing is a name tag. Not a requirement, but you would expect to see one...especially on a jacket from someone either in aviation or subs. I just don't believe it was worn by anyone while they were still serving...more of a patch collection on a jacket...which the guy essentially says.
 
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