ottomanmedal

Your friends Imtiyaz Medal looks OK to me...as we know Imtiyaz Medal was established in 1882,and came in two classes, gold and silver.

I would recommend your friend to make sure that this piece is silver,also the weight should be 21-22 grams and 37.5mm in dimension.

Hello Neo,

That is 3.class Osmani in poor condition!! Way overpriced!!

I do have Imtiyaz replacement ribbon.How many do you need?

Does anyone know where I can purchase replacement ribbon for the Turkish Imtiyaz Medal (half red half green). Thanks Captain Albert

Hi,

Here are new fakes by hattersteaclub (previously: abilge99,zolotka, hattersteaclub ) on sale for your inspection:

and " All items come from a family member who worked for NATO in Turkey when Turkey first became a member." Lovely !!

1st class Ottoman Mejidie Order medal German Turkish (160493230687)

2nd class Mejidie Order medal Ottoman German Turkey (160493243376)

Turkish Ottoman Osmanie Nishani Order medal Germany (160493618209)

Turkish Ottoman Osmanie Nishani Order medal Germany 2 (160494029068)

Turkish Ottoman Charity Nishani Order medal Germany red (160494090249)

4th class Ottoman Mejidie Order medal German Turkish (160494137063)

2nd class Mejidie Order medal Ottoman German Turkey 2L (160494546256)

These are very good examples of what we are discussing !

I can not believe people are buying this stuff!!!! I just don't get how people wasting their money without any knowledge!! If you are spending 1000+ dollars on something, you should have at least some knowledge or I am sorry, but you are just STUPID enough to deserve this!!!!!

Hello Everyone,

You learn something new every day. I was not aware that you could sell on eBay as a private seller, but then I have not sold on eBay for two or more years and when I did it was usually antique tools. I would have to disagree that no one wants to know what you have purchased (or, as they say "won") on eBay. The fellow I mentioned in post #6 used to do this all the time and I could not purchase anything without him knowing. The only problem that came of this would be a nasty and threatening phone call to me when I would out bid him on an item. It got to the point where the family would not pick up the pohone if his number appeared on the call display.

I am starting to agree with one of our members, who does not visit here any more, when he refers to eBay as e$cam. I've started to purchase from a trusted local dealer here in Ontario more and more rather than using online auctions. There are not the "deals" that can be seen with auctions but there are no worries about the item as to grade and authenticity.

Now that a seller's identification can be kept private it opens up eBay to every bandit and highwayman to ply his, or her, nefarious trade.

Thanks for listening to my early morning, coffee-induced rant.

Regards

Brian

Hello Brian,

I am % 100 sure that you can NOT sell on eBay as a private seller!!!

You can make purchases as a private member,but you can not sell.

You can make the sale as a private auction, so nobody can see the bidders,but to sell on eBay you have to show your feedbacks and your transaction history.

Best wishes,

M.Akdeniz

Hello,

I won't answer for Demir here, as you addressed his comment directly.

However, I would point out that some ebay members use proxy bidders and have "friends" that appear to come in and either save the day when an item of a certain value doesn't get enough bids and "save" the piece from selling for a low value, saving the seller to relist it later on; or as in this case, someone that artificially bids up the price with the seemingly intent of never paying for the item, thus jerking all the other bidders around, or simply helping the seller out by raising the price paid in the end.

I suspect that is happening again in the relisted auction and all you have to do is look at the bidders.

By having the ability to check everyone's transactions, you can usually see patterns between buyers & sellers and figure it out pretty quick if there is something going on. Happens a lot in the coin end of eBay.

In this particular case, the seller has never left the buyer negative feedback on this cancelled purchase. Now, if you were the seller, would you be upset that your high bidder doesn't honor his bid--which is grounds for suspension from eBay btw!! Would you leave him negative feedback and report him to eBay for this?? I would and know most sellers do exactly that. In this case, not only does he not leave negative feedback, the entire transaction is now not listed in the sellers past auctions at all. Does that make you a bit curious here??

Oh, and in the interest of full disclosure here, that bidder that backed out of this initial ebay auction is also reading and posting in this thread and a few of us now know who he is.

Tim

Hello Tim

I do see your point,but please try to see the picture from my side.As a buyer why do i have to share every single item that i purchase with some people who is sitting there and just trying to find out what i buy or sell?What is the purpose of doing that?Personally i do not care what other people buy on ebay,that is their business.

No matter what,new eBay policy would not let Sellers leave a negative feedback anymore.

I suggest that we should name the person here, who backed out of this initial ebay auction.

I am also very suspicious about the sellers who are "private". One can not see what they sold or buy. Why PRIVATE? Why not open to evrybody? Suspicious.

But the company is getting better and accepted my argument in two cases and refunded the money paid.(Although the seller did not accept).

I suggest everybody be cautious about the Private sellers.

demir

As far as I know you can not sell on eBay as a private seller.You have to show your detailed feedback score,but as a buyer of corse you can hide your transactions.I think this is normal.Why would anybody need to see my purchase history??That is my business and completely irrelevant.

Even though I am a private buyer,people still manage to figure out what I buy.why would people need to know that?

Hello Sergio,

Your Stars are not repro.Original Stars were given to the private soldiers.

Since I'm going to Istanbul in about a week and I would really love to pick up one of these stars, how much does a completely average one (no rare variation or anything special about it) sell for these days? This is way outside my field of expertise, so I have not a clue.

Alex

Well Alex,i am pretty sure that our collector friend Demir will find you a very nice star for a resonable price since he lives in Turkey and thinks that we are bidding very high.

Never seen that before. BSW, no less. Thank you for showing this. I know these are just photos but it looks good. Have you also posted this in the Imperial German section?

PK

No havent posted there yet.

Hello Everyone,

I would like to share with you an interesting Gallipoli Star.

Reverse

Hello Everyone,

I would like to share with you an interesting Gallipoli Star.