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Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest

Gilgamark

A-List Customer
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306
Location
Nashville, TN
DoctorJ said:
Gilgamark, The Knox I won from that same seller arrived a few days ago. I'm still fussing with the bash, and then I'll take a picture. If that one is of equal quality, you should be pretty happy!

Good to hear. I bid on the Knox you won, I believe.

BTW, I agree about the eBay sellers that write novels for item descriptions. :eek: Just give me the basics about the hat and its condition.
 

Belegnole

One of the Regulars
Messages
289
Location
Wisconsin
DoctorJ said:
Now I have to disagree with that!

There is nothing I enjoy more than an item description that begins with: "It's a dark and stormy night...and you, Detective Jake Steele are on the case"....

Two and a half paragraphs later.......
"and you emerge from the darkness wearing your trusty 7 1/4" Stetson, its ample 2 1/2" brim casting a mysterious shadow over your eyes from the streetlight overhead."

Well, what can I say? Just finding that pertinent information has made me feel like I really am a detective... so then I HAVE to have the hat! I don't even need to see any pictures!

If only ALL sellers would take such literary initiative!

(I've been waiting a long time for the right moment to gripe about that one) ;)

Here's where sellers either grab someone or not. I find myself time after time reading detective novels...they are great!. However when I read the description of a used piece of whatever the last thing I want is some romantic BS clouding the facts. That seller has a nice setup but I now skip everything said except the facts. That seller also often has out of focus pictures as well. The big difference in the "romantic seller" and the seller of the Borsalino is one is a pro and it shows and the other is a regular guy with high expectations.
 

Bob Smalser

One of the Regulars
Messages
139
Location
Hood Canal, Washington
DoctorJ said:
Now I have to disagree with that!

There is nothing I enjoy more than an item description that begins with: "It's a dark and stormy night...and you, Detective Jake Steele are on the case"....

Enjoy.

But if you lose me, you also lose dozens like me.

I like good stories too. But I prefer to read them at a time of my choosing. All I'm suggesting is size and condition be exceptionally clear, well detailed, and up front, not hidden somewhere in the story line.

Moreover, when it's obvious the pertinent details are being buried, the ad begins to ring of bait-and-switch gamesmanship to bidders who waste several minutes discovering the hat is an unwearable Size 6 1/2. If such sellers think these methods are successful, they are badly mistaken in my case.
 

billyspew

One Too Many
Messages
1,746
Location
London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Rick Blaine said:
Twenty five Champ pugarees NOS in original box. Oh BOY! I am gonna snazz up my straws! Ring-a-ding-ding!

Champpugs.jpg


Champpugsbox.jpg

The same seller was also offering these size tags and price tags...
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carouselvic

I'll Lock Up
Messages
4,984
Location
Kansas
I'm with Bob S. on this one. A good hat will all but sell itself. I avoid a seller who sends all his time blowin' on the fur and never getin' to the hide. I look at far to many hats in a days time, if I want to read a novel I'll go down to the library.
 

Ande1964

Practically Family
Messages
556
Location
Kansas
Wow

That looks like a stunner. I did not see it... thank god.

EDIT- Never mind... it's a 7 1/4. I thought it was a 7 1/2. That's a little steep for the size.

Anj

jimmy the lid said:
Hard to imagine that a Borsalino in this condition yielded no bids whatsoever:

Alessandria

Note the use of "Alessandria" as a model name on this Borso thin-ribbon. ;)

Cheers,
JtL
 

Belegnole

One of the Regulars
Messages
289
Location
Wisconsin
DoctorJ said:
Just to be clear, I hope you guys know I was being sarcastic.


AH HA!....no I didn't because I found the seller to be a touch amusing and could see someone finding it more so. Thanks for the clarification..;)
 

Brad Bowers

I'll Lock Up
Messages
4,187
Lefty said:

I watched that Dobbs, but it went higher than I can afford right now. It's a pre-1928 hat. I'm not convinced it's a man's hat, but it sure is interesting, and very different. Looks like they use Top Hat construction methods and materials on it.

Did anyone here win it?

Brad
 

Tango Yankee

Call Me a Cab
Messages
2,433
Location
Lucasville, OH
Brad Bowers said:
Did anyone here win it?

Brad


I was the winner on that one, Brad. I'm not convinced it's a man's hat, either, nor do I have any idea as to whether or not I'd actually wear it, but it sure piqued my curiosity! :p

Cheers,
Tom
 

Brad Bowers

I'll Lock Up
Messages
4,187
Tango Yankee said:
I was the winner on that one, Brad. I'm not convinced it's a man's hat, either, nor do I have any idea as to whether or not I'd actually wear it, but it sure piqued my curiosity! :p

Cheers,
Tom

Glad you won it.:eusa_clap

Maybe you can provide some answers once you have it in person, then. It sure doesn't quite fit any style of men's hat from that time that I've run across, unless it has some unique purpose that we don't know.

Let us know!

Brad
 

Wasz

New in Town
Messages
17
Location
SW Pennsylvania
Man FRUSTRATION I've been in a few auctions now and I can't come out ahead without bidding up to like 50 bucks. I don't really know what things are worth, but apparently I have good tastes because people are willing to outbid me something awful.

Missed out on a Dobbs that was unbashed and looked very very clean in 7 1/8 LO. Thought I would get this one and really get a chance to mess with a hat and see what it was all about.

Sorry for whining I feel better now though.
 

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