I'll play the game, i have been bidding regular amounts on the silver overlay 452 pens, and they've been going more than what i remember them at. I dont know, im wrong your right. Tell you the truth, when im buying i take a gamble, so really when i check out the feedback and everything is all good (doesn't matter if he has 5 feedback, or 5,000) if he's a frequent user on the bay and has over a 95% he's good. I mean i remember buying a lot of pens (blurry photo) but i could make out a Waterman, so that's why i bought it. It's like storage lockers, you cant just take a risk, you have to take a risk.
No game.
Rather an attempt at education.
Buying storage lockers blindly might be a poor model to hold up in contrast to the way collectors educated in their chosen collectibe hunt for items of interest.
Too "you can't just take a risk, you have to take a risk" is a more than bit bromide-ish.
Most of us who buy well do little in the way of gambling.
This contrast is one of the educational merits I see in this thread... there for those who are receptive...
-d