Rishi
Well-Known Member
NOS parts often have a premium price tag. If you’re a seller of parts, being able to sell the part as NOS affords you a higher selling price.
But just because someone claims a part is NOS, or the new-looking part comes with a vintage box/container, doesn’t make it an NOS part.
Sadly, on more than one occasion, have I witnessed someone selling a used part as NOS. One repeating scenario is the owner of a show-quality car: Nearly every part of the car looks new. When they run into a component failure, and they’re able to find a genuine NOS part to replace it, they do just that. Maybe paying big $$$ for the part. But then, to recover some of those costs, they take their “very nice condition” used but broken part, place it into the vintage NOS box, and resell it as NOS but at an unbelievably lower price than typical.
When the part changes hands at the swap meet, the buyer is unaware it’s not genuine NOS. They may even flip it, reselling it at a higher value. This may occur more than once, each time, the seller is unaware they are selling a counterfeit NOS part.
Other times, when the buyer discovers they’ve been swindled, they may resell the NOS part at a lower cost to regain their losses. Again, the part changes hands and the cycle continues.
This clock was sold on another forum. I even examined the clock at the Spring Fling swap meet in Southern California. I believe I saw evidence it was NOT NOS. Or rather, it had been installed in a dash cluster for some time, as evident by the circular rust pattern on the flange. In this example, not even the box was an NOS issue. But it bothered me the seller was so adamant it was indeed an NOS part and carried a hefty price tag.
So a word of warning, a vintage NOS parts box (or claim) does not an NOS part make.
But just because someone claims a part is NOS, or the new-looking part comes with a vintage box/container, doesn’t make it an NOS part.
Sadly, on more than one occasion, have I witnessed someone selling a used part as NOS. One repeating scenario is the owner of a show-quality car: Nearly every part of the car looks new. When they run into a component failure, and they’re able to find a genuine NOS part to replace it, they do just that. Maybe paying big $$$ for the part. But then, to recover some of those costs, they take their “very nice condition” used but broken part, place it into the vintage NOS box, and resell it as NOS but at an unbelievably lower price than typical.
When the part changes hands at the swap meet, the buyer is unaware it’s not genuine NOS. They may even flip it, reselling it at a higher value. This may occur more than once, each time, the seller is unaware they are selling a counterfeit NOS part.
Other times, when the buyer discovers they’ve been swindled, they may resell the NOS part at a lower cost to regain their losses. Again, the part changes hands and the cycle continues.
This clock was sold on another forum. I even examined the clock at the Spring Fling swap meet in Southern California. I believe I saw evidence it was NOT NOS. Or rather, it had been installed in a dash cluster for some time, as evident by the circular rust pattern on the flange. In this example, not even the box was an NOS issue. But it bothered me the seller was so adamant it was indeed an NOS part and carried a hefty price tag.
So a word of warning, a vintage NOS parts box (or claim) does not an NOS part make.
