If you're going to sell your boxed escher for $1000 and are trying to.

[SliceOfLife]

pass a China nat slurry stone off as the original... probably shouldn't pick one with a yellow line through it that is one of the most obvious indicators of a CNAT.

Just saying.

eBayers will know what I'm talking about.

 

[jpcwon]

LOL Yup!!

 

[Gamma]

Hah - I didn't think anyone else noticed that.
At least he's down to 850 USD now.

In all fairness - the seller doesn't say the slurry stone is the original - the copy just says it's a slurry stone.
But - his omission of that fact is quite suspect.

 

[SliceOfLife]

Yeah, I'd say not mentioning that it isn't original implies that it is. If you blew up a ferrari engine and stuck a 3 cylinder VW engine in its place and sold it without mentioning that, I'm pretty sure the buyer's gonna be upset.

I'd think that for that price he'd at least pick up a thuringian for the slurry. Thuri slurries come up anytime someone breaks one and usually don't go for too much. Or hell, for a stone he's trying to get almost a G for, buy a 5x1 and cut 2" off it, cut the other three into 1" slurries and sell em for $10 each. He's out like $30-50 and he's got a nice preen box to keep dice in. (I forget what I sold my last Y/G 5x1 for, but it was under $100 for sure.)

I still think his price is a bit much, but if he did that, he'd pull $500+ at auction most likely.... Hell, take the slurry out of the picture completely and he could probably get at least $350-400. Seems silly to expect someone is gonna drop $850 on a Thuringian without knowing them well enough to recognize that his slurry isn't one.