SS 427 Emblems

[bbdon]

As I look closer at some of his auctions, they look more and more deceptive. It looks like he was previously describing the same parts as NOS. Example And in his current auctions he strongly implies that the parts are NOS. "Collected over the years?" Example And everything he sells seems to be "rare" but then he seems to have more a week later.

[SuperCars]

Definitely, a difference between ads, as in the bbdon clickable example above, the eBay ad for the SS 427 emblems says "NOS", in addition to stating they are "not a copy or reproduction". Then the more recent eBay ad for these SS 427 emblems by the same seller (clickable in 2nd post of this thread), is re-typed as only being "new", no claim to being "NOS", and the statement of "not being a reproduction/copy" was removed. Appears as if they could be reproductions, and therefore the seller has changed his ad.

[Stefano]

The Parts Place has both "New Reproductions" and "Vintage NOS" SS 427 emblems available, they are not the same items.

[bbdon]

OK, my mistake, my example was not valid. It would be easier to avoid a mistake like that if he would jut tell his buyers that the emblems are repros, instead of leaving that information out. I still think that he's hoping that his buyers will think that the new repro emblems are NOS, and pay NOS prices.

[hvychev]

Stefano I have told you in the past that I think that this guy is a crook. I know that he is your buddy and all but you have to admit that some of his "practices" are not ethical.

Supercars brought up an interesting thing. This guy was once running a pair of his bogus valve covers that he was trying to pass off as real and their was only his and one other set on at the same time and guess what? His had I think 5 times the amount of bids as the other set. Of course his auctions are private so you couldn't see what was going on behind the scenes.

[Stefano]

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The Parts Place has both "New Reproductions" and "Vintage NOS" SS 427 emblems available, they are not the same items.



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Frank,
The point I was making is that they have both parts available. If you don't approve of his/their business practices then I wouldn't expect that you would be purchasing anything from him. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif[/img]

[hvychev]

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[KLONECO]

SO EBAY NAME DOESN'T COUNT!!!!! OR PRIVATE AUCTIONS? [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif[/img]????????

[ssl78]

I was at Joes a couple of days ago. I asked him about the emblems. He brought me in the back and showed me a box of ss427 emblems that said NOS, then we went down the isle and on the shelf there were the repops. He explained he had repops made and after that he ran across a guy who sold nothing but Impala parts and was going out of business and he bought a bunch of parts including the nos emblems. Now a days you have to question anything you buy so you know what you are buying. I have bought parts from Joe and always been happy with his parts and service.