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Author: Bill WolfeBill Wolfe Date: Oct 31, 2006 07:51
Does anyone have experience buying teapots from the ebay store
http://stores.ebay.com/5000friend ?
They have a large selection of yixing listed as pre-1960 at what look
like reasonable prices, even allowing for ~$30 shipping. They also
seem to have decent feedback and several repeat customers. Everything
I read about buying Yixin --old or new--screams caveat emptor, but some
of those pots look pretty neat to me.
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Author: AlexAlex Date: Oct 31, 2006 08:14
Bill Wolfe wrote:
> Does anyone have experience buying teapots from the ebay store
> http://stores.ebay.com/5000friend ?
> They have a large selection of yixing listed as pre-1960 at what look
> like reasonable prices, even allowing for ~$30 shipping. They also
> seem to have decent feedback and several repeat customers. Everything
> I read about buying Yixing--old or new--screams caveat emptor, but some
> of those pots look pretty neat to me.
I was looking at his history to figure out if he partook of the common
Chinese practice of setting up fake ebay accounts to give himself high
ratings, and it's not totally clear. He's either doing that or
constantly selling pots to the same people. I would be careful, this
could be a scam.
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Author: MarshalNMarshalN Date: Oct 31, 2006 10:33
Bill Wolfe wrote:
> Does anyone have experience buying teapots from the ebay store
> http://stores.ebay.com/5000friend ?
> They have a large selection of yixing listed as pre-1960 at what look
> like reasonable prices, even allowing for ~$30 shipping. They also
> seem to have decent feedback and several repeat customers. Everything
> I read about buying Yixing--old or new--screams caveat emptor, but some
> of those pots look pretty neat to me.
I personally won't buy any pot sight unseen, unless it's a vendor who
will definitely take it back with no questions asked. Given the high
costs, shipping and otherwise.... don't do it, especially if the pot is
expensive. If it's cheap and you don't mind if it turns out to be
crap, then it's not that big a deal, but given the age range you're
quoting... that doesn't seem likely.
MarshalN
http://www.xanga.com/MarshalN
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Author: Cameron LewisCameron Lewis Date: Oct 31, 2006 14:11
If you look at one pot after another you quickly notice that the
griminess (which is despicably bad) is very uniform and black. I
suspect that these are (badly) antiqued. Even if they were real, I
can't think of any way they'd get that black without totally neglecting
hygiene. Would you really want to brew tea in those? Nasty.
Cameron
Bill Wolfe wrote:
> Does anyone have experience buying teapots from the ebay store
> http://stores.ebay.com/5000friend ?
> They have a large selection of yixing listed as pre-1960 at what look
> like reasonable prices, even allowing for ~$30 shipping. They also
> seem to have decent feedback and several repeat customers. Everything
> I read about buying Yixing--old or new--screams caveat emptor, but some
> of those pots look pretty neat to me.
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Author: Cameron LewisCameron Lewis Date: Oct 31, 2006 14:17
Also, I'm pretty sure that the pu'erh he's got listed is fake. I don't
think Menghai was using the dayi wrapper in '99 and the cake itself
looks no older than an '04.
Cameron
Bill Wolfe wrote:
> Does anyone have experience buying teapots from the ebay store
> http://stores.ebay.com/5000friend ?
> They have a large selection of yixing listed as pre-1960 at what look
> like reasonable prices, even allowing for ~$30 shipping. They also
> seem to have decent feedback and several repeat customers. Everything
> I read about buying Yixing--old or new--screams caveat emptor, but some
> of those pots look pretty neat to me.
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Author: AlexAlex Date: Oct 31, 2006 16:09
Cameron Lewis wrote:
> Also, I'm pretty sure that the pu'erh he's got listed is fake. I don't
> think Menghai was using the dayi wrapper in '99 and the cake itself
> looks no older than an '04.
>
> Cameron
>
>
>
> Bill Wolfe wrote:
>> Does anyone have experience buying teapots from the ebay store
>> http://stores.ebay.com/5000friend ?
>> They have a large selection of yixing listed as pre-1960 at what look
>> like reasonable prices, even allowing for ~$30 shipping. They also
>> seem to have decent feedback and several repeat customers. Everything
>> I read about buying Yixing--old or new--screams caveat emptor, but some
>> of those pots look pretty neat to me.
Is there a way to report such things on eBay without already having
been ripped off?
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Author: MarshalNMarshalN Date: Oct 31, 2006 19:19
Cameron Lewis wrote:
> Also, I'm pretty sure that the pu'erh he's got listed is fake. I don't
> think Menghai was using the dayi wrapper in '99 and the cake itself
> looks no older than an '04.
>
> Cameron
>
Menghai was definitely starting to use the Dayi wrapper by 99. Now,
whether it's real or not is another question, and I'm not an expert
wrapperologist.
MarshalN
http://www.xanga.com/MarshalN
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Author: HobbesOxonHobbesOxon Date: Nov 1, 2006 01:39
Just as Marshal said, buying yixing over the Internet is like gambling:
you should only pay what you can comfortably afford to lose. I would
advise that you keep your expectations low and be pleasantly surprised
if the item turns out to be good.
I've ordered from maybe four or five Mainland eBay vendors now, and the
majority of them provide substandard goods (note, Scott @ Yunnan
Sourcing is, as most people on here already know, very decent).
About your vendor in particular: I've had a quick look at some of the
"1900-1960s" pots and I'm not convinced. A forty year old pot is going
to cost you much more than that, and, well, they just don't look forty
years old. :)
Toodlepip,
Hobbes
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Author: Lewis PerinLewis Perin Date: Nov 1, 2006 06:52
"HobbesOxon" googlemail.com> writes:
> Just as Marshal said, buying yixing over the Internet is like gambling:
> you should only pay what you can comfortably afford to lose. I would
> advise that you keep your expectations low and be pleasantly surprised
> if the item turns out to be good.
>
> I've ordered from maybe four or five Mainland eBay vendors now, and the
> majority of them provide substandard goods (note, Scott @ Yunnan
> Sourcing is, as most people on here already know, very decent).
>
> About your vendor in particular: I've had a quick look at some of the
> "1900-1960s" pots and I'm not convinced. A forty year old pot is going
> to cost you much more than that, and, well, they just don't look forty
> years old. :)
Sooner or later, we're going to see an eBay vendor flogging thick,
40-year-old Pu'er bricks, each with a fine contemporaneous Yixing pot
inside it.
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Author: Bill WolfeBill Wolfe Date: Nov 1, 2006 07:32
HobbesOxon wrote:
> Just as Marshal said, buying yixing over the Internet is like gambling:
> you should only pay what you can comfortably afford to lose. I would
> advise that you keep your expectations low and be pleasantly surprised
> if the item turns out to be good.
>
> I've ordered from maybe four or five Mainland eBay vendors now, and the
> majority of them provide substandard goods (note, Scott @ Yunnan
> Sourcing is, as most people on here already know, very decent).
>
> About your vendor in particular: I've had a quick look at some of the
> "1900-1960s" pots and I'm not convinced. A forty year old pot is going
> to cost you much more than that, and, well, they just don't look forty
> years old. :)
>
>
> Toodlepip,
>
> Hobbes
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