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Originally Posted by adamb
Hi all, it turns out I made a rookie error by allowing an item (antique keris) I purchased on eBay … the "Item [was] liquidated".
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I definitely feel your pain, not only for losing the keris but not knowing what happened to it. Several years ago, I lost three valuable and rare swords shipped to me by a reputable dealer in Europe. They were recorded as going into US customs. They never came out. That is where the story ends. Tracing from both Europe and the US, pleas for information from customs gathered no more info. Gone. I don’t know if they were sold or destroyed (maybe some questionable materials?). I think I bought one more item from another collector in Germany afterwards, but since then I have not taken any more chances with buying outside the US. It is a sad situation.
Dave A.