Now don't be to hard for the dealer this time. I know him as an honest man. Keep in mind that, besides making money, they also have the difficult task to know everything about the things they sell. An that in fact is impossible. When pickers stop with the cars and open doors they sometimes have to make quick buys in a few minutes or the items are gone to the one who snapped them just that second earlier.
Of course there are many people here who can see which HJ award is good and which is wrong but are not capable to buy something from the combat award series simply because they cant tell what's original and what's wrong. But from dealers we expect they now it all in details.
Like I know the man he takes items back when they turned out as being fake.
Regards, Wim :closedeyes:
I agree Wim, And it is this way of dealing, and then re-selling, that the HJ forum is trying to combat.
It proves one thing only, that Dealers (no matter if its your friend, or a friend of mine or others) are still prepared to blindly copy and paste any old description ointo their items, WITHOUT lifting a finger to see if its actually what it claims to be. This Bluse, is the same as listing a SA dagger, and writing that it was a HJ honor dagger.... Bad! Many do it, in fact probably all... Sure they need to live from the sales, it is their JOB, but surely it would be great to just Google an item to see:
[*=2]What is it?
[*=2]Do i have a fake?
[*=2]Are there even fakes of this item?
[*=2]Is the item even a fantasy?
[*=2]What do collectors say about these items?
[*=2] Are there forum threads about it?
[*=2]Is it, what i am saying it is?
Research a small bit, only 10 minutes, and that would be enough.
It does not mean the dealers are crooks, or not honest, it is just the Old, LAZY way of selling that many collectors of the 21st century are getting pissed off with, so even though the dealer may just have made a silly, mistake, and be 100% the best guy around, it is still going to attract negative attention to him today.
It is CUSTOMER SATISFACTION in the end, so stupid mistakes like this seems to be, should not be accepted from a guy with 40 years exp. But they have been, from all dealers, from 1946 to now... but something must change in order for us to progress!