Interesting repro A2

[Wz1999]

The label is very creative indeed.

VTG 80's ARMY AIR FORCES USAF TYPE A-2 MILITARY PILOT FLIGHT LEATHER JACKET 42 | eBay

THE ITEM IS USED BUT STILL IN GOOD CONDITION AND IS A SIZE: 42. NOTE: THIS NOT AN ORIGINAL BUT AN 80's REPRODUCTION THROWBACK ARMY AIR FORCE FLIGHT JACKET.

www.ebay.com

 

[Chandler]

The label isn't as creative as the price tag.

@B-Man2 -- competition for that sale you linked.

Can't wait to hear the seller's replies to folks trying to explain that this piece isn't worth anywhere near what he's dreaming.

 

[Silver Surfer]

hahahahahahahahaahahaha my amusement before I hit the sack.

 

[B-Man2]

You should check out some of the prices he’s asking for some of the other items he’s listed on EBay. This guys just rollin the dice and hoping they come up a seven .

 

[ausreenactor]

Inflation! Has to get ahead of the market..

 

[MauldinFan]

It probably is a silly grab for money, but imagine what a normal non-collector would think if they saw this? I never assume a seller knows it's a repro. Heck, I remember a eBay seller who had an original (beat up) A2 in a tiny size several years ago that they only wanted about 150 for, and a (probably Avirex, with no lobal) repro in great shape they wanted thousands for by the same seller!

 

[Chandler]

"Not sure of the year, but seems to be original."

Wonder how many people have contacted him -- that he's ignored?

 

[MauldinFan]

"Not sure of the year, but seems to be original."

Wonder how many people have contacted him -- that he's ignored?

A few, I'd bet. That said, people DO PM you to say your original item is repro, so you'll likely re-list it for less. I don't have an issue when a seller ignores what some random people write them about; how's he supposed to know the advice is correct?
I'll never forget the original WW2 airborne GI helmet shell I put on eBay and two potential bidders kept PM'ing me that it's a NATO postwar one, when it was EXACTLY what I'd wrote it was (and went for several hundred bucks to a bidder willing to pay for what it was worth)

 

[FlakMagnet]

But it it's "authentic!" The label says so.

 

[Smithy]

Everyone loves a trier!

The best one of these "yes it's the real thing! (when actually no it's bloody not)" I ever saw, and I mean the absolute BEST ever/should go down in FleaBay history was a listing for a genuine, real deal, yup you guessed it this is the actual thing...a joystick from a Sopwith Camel. The price was understandably through the roof and rightly so for such a seldom seen object. Only problem was that the photos of this illustrious and rare object in the listing were of...

A wooden chair leg. It still makes me chuckle no end even now

 

[JonnyCrow]

The talon engraving on the zipper looks nasty lol like a amateur job, I posted somebody the other day from the bay selling a 90's USAAF cooper for over a 1000 bucks, game of roulette eh

 

[Enigma1938]

There's a famous saying here in germany:
"Jeden Tag steht ein Dummer auf!"
Means:
"Every day a fool gets (wakes) up"

 

[JonnyCrow]

There's a famous saying here in germany:
"Jeden Tag steht ein Dummer auf!"
Means:
"Every day a fool gets (weaks) up"

My wife said once there's a interesting Spanish expression that goes, at least kiss me before you fk me haha it means the same

 

[Micawber]

There is an old and very wise saying, so old in fact that it is Latin...

"Caveat emptor"

 

[JonnyCrow]

There is an old and very wise saying, so old in fact that it is Latin...

"Caveat emptor"

Amen

 

[Pilot]

There's a famous saying here in germany:
"Jeden Tag steht ein Dummer auf!"
Means:
"Every day a fool gets (weaks) up"

… agree… not only climate change… but a calendar year gets more and more days every day…

 

[ausreenactor]

My wife said once there's a interesting Spanish expression that goes, at least kiss me before you fk me haha it means the same

I have no idea how that works..

 

[JonnyCrow]

I have no idea how that works..