matchbox magirus

[Pierkemimi]

Is this model sold a real one ? (missed it due other work)

https://www.benl.ebay.be/itm/Matchbox-R ... SwBmpbOhM3

[nearlymint]

Looks ok but the pictures seem a little blurred, worth a go at that price as someone has said send back for a refund.
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[Idris]

I really don't know. Looking at the seller's past sales, I don't see any obvious fakes. He says in the description that it's rare, but then puts up indifferent non-zoomable photographs. I also wonder how it slipped under so many collectors' radars. (I certainly don't recall seeing it listed.) Could it be that it wasn't available for shipping to the UK and US? (I think Eric Jonkers manipulates his listings so that they don't appear on Dutch Ebay.) If so, I smell a rat.

[johnboy]

I've bought from this seller before and not had any issues. This listing was a BIN with UK postage and so it was probably bought just after it went live and so it largely went unnoticed. A quick look through his completed listings and 99% of them were also BIN's and the ones that I looked at all had non-zoomable photos. He does sell large-ish volumes of diecast and generally seems to know his stuff, so the cheap price is anomalous if genuine.

[Idris]

If it went on as a BiN, that would explain a lot, and I think there's a good chance that someone got themselves an absolute bargain.