the burned ratchet is back
- Thread starter thesilverone
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928'er
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I love it:
"some gold peeled off."
"some gold peeled off."
ChevyEFI
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Whattya say, some Wright's brass polish and elbow grease?
bushmechanic
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He should know better than that **** after that many sales.
What a jerk.
What a jerk.
Swingpress
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Ok clue me wtf is wrong with that thing? Other than it musta have gone down with the titanic
^+1 What is going on, are these fakes? Spray paint?
slip knot
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is this the Fort Knox ratchet clown? I don't remember the round head ratchet?
Renchi
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“Some gold pealed off”
Some CM tools when exposed to high heat suffer chrome failure.
The nickel plate goes away leaving a brass like finish. Which of course to certain Ebay sellers has to be the ultra rare gold plated version or possibly a brass sparkproof version.
One joker went head to head with reason and proof claiming as his had been found near Ft Knox it was most certianly a special edition made for the military and got rather confused in his story as it went on.
Then the listing got pulled, at least twice and it never sold. The BIN price reflected his amazing stories.
You too can have special gold plated tools by just exposing them to the heat of welding. I did it myself making a few oddball wrenches using old sockets.
The joke is if you challenge these guys with stuff like facts they take a stance to try to support the story (and ultimately price) but they will NEVER back down and accept anything else.
Its like those faked CM long handle flex head ratchets that bear a breaker bar part number on the handle and other makes part numbers on the head.
Sure, its a long flex head ratchet but it is NOT anything Sears sold in the stores.
Sell it as a frankenstien thats cool, pass it off as a CM rarity is fraud.
The nickel plate goes away leaving a brass like finish. Which of course to certain Ebay sellers has to be the ultra rare gold plated version or possibly a brass sparkproof version.
One joker went head to head with reason and proof claiming as his had been found near Ft Knox it was most certianly a special edition made for the military and got rather confused in his story as it went on.
Then the listing got pulled, at least twice and it never sold. The BIN price reflected his amazing stories.
You too can have special gold plated tools by just exposing them to the heat of welding. I did it myself making a few oddball wrenches using old sockets.
The joke is if you challenge these guys with stuff like facts they take a stance to try to support the story (and ultimately price) but they will NEVER back down and accept anything else.
Its like those faked CM long handle flex head ratchets that bear a breaker bar part number on the handle and other makes part numbers on the head.
Sure, its a long flex head ratchet but it is NOT anything Sears sold in the stores.
Sell it as a frankenstien thats cool, pass it off as a CM rarity is fraud.
OP
thesilverone
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lol what an idiot
OP
thesilverone
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haha
PugetDude
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I sent him a question on eBay...
"How do I know this really is 22K gold and not 14K gold?
"How do I know this really is 22K gold and not 14K gold?
BIG BACCHUS
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Just report it.JRC3
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Man, that tool is in need of some polishing.
pescados666
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Has anyone asked him to see the markings that are on it, just like the other 75th anniversary tools? 
RedVise
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Seller believes we are stupid, on our "fourm" !!!
New message from: doher_qviepfv6n (664Purple Star)
it was not a catalog item it was a special edition and it can be found because I found it and all your buddies on that fourm are stupid!
Brian
New message from: doher_qviepfv6n (664Purple Star)
it was not a catalog item it was a special edition and it can be found because I found it and all your buddies on that fourm are stupid!
Brian
ganymede
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I sent him a question on eBay...
"How do I know this really is 22K gold and not 14K gold?
Maybe Drink can troll him instead of this board...
" but are the gear teeth machined instead of cast? Armstrong machines the teeth in their ratchets."
JRC3
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Looks like that seller sells a lot of junk, probably leftover **** from estate sales. Probably an honest mistake, but a stupid mistake for anyone who isn't legally blind. Als0 some people beleive what they want to believe. Some people are just stupid, we all see them in every day life at the stores and on the roadways...And some of those people sell **** on ebay and CL.
Best we can do is laugh at them from our high perch. LOL
Best we can do is laugh at them from our high perch. LOL
3baygarage
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I think that ratchet's been relisted dozens of times.
ritestuff
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Looks like you guys wore him out and he took it down. He probably figured that someone was gonna end up buying it, then leave him a feedback like the warning label on a pesticide can.
If you tried to sell a VW bug abandoned on a Louisiana flood plain for forty years and did not have the title someone on a VW forum will see it.
If you tried to get BJ auction prices for it they would most certainly post about it.
If you claimed it had belonged to Janis Joplin by pure hearsay you guaranteed a idiot roast.
Its a rusted out pile of tin worth only the salvagable parts. And without a title hard to legally move in some areas.
This dude loves these games. There are specialists for anything today and on the WWW things get seen fast. Can he fool them all?
Or just insult them into silence?
He plays tools and uses this and other forums to get info without doubt. Nobody here knows it all but the borg certainly has someone who knows and will spot the scam.
I am all for small enterprise and getting a boost any legal way a person can. An honest method is honorable.
Fishing for dummies and telling tall tales of untold treasures like gold low end consumer goods is silly.
He didn't even take any hard hits this round and gave up. Does he know it won't work?
If you tried to get BJ auction prices for it they would most certainly post about it.
If you claimed it had belonged to Janis Joplin by pure hearsay you guaranteed a idiot roast.
Its a rusted out pile of tin worth only the salvagable parts. And without a title hard to legally move in some areas.
This dude loves these games. There are specialists for anything today and on the WWW things get seen fast. Can he fool them all?
Or just insult them into silence?
He plays tools and uses this and other forums to get info without doubt. Nobody here knows it all but the borg certainly has someone who knows and will spot the scam.
I am all for small enterprise and getting a boost any legal way a person can. An honest method is honorable.
Fishing for dummies and telling tall tales of untold treasures like gold low end consumer goods is silly.
He didn't even take any hard hits this round and gave up. Does he know it won't work?
A different seller, but same type of story....just state its custom made.....
common man!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-CRAFTSM...801007?hash=item33ccb5d62f:g:xs0AAOSwkShY8~Xz
common man!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-CRAFTSM...801007?hash=item33ccb5d62f:g:xs0AAOSwkShY8~Xz
3baygarage
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Yeah seriously.
This reminds me of a yard sale I went to. Among other things, the guy had wrestling action figures for sale.He had an action figure that he made himself by gluing the head of one guy on a different body and repainting it. He called it a "fantasy piece", because the toy company never made that wrestler.
Kind of neat but he destroyed two figures to make one, and was asking some absurd price. Yeah, the buyer is paying for the time and craftsmanship put into it, but it's still debatable whether it's worth the price for what they're actually getting.
