Mikecheck123
Omono
The first pic looks like high quality material. The second pic looks like it's from Dollar General.
LumiDude
I feel I should set the record straight. I have made several purchases from Mirai and am quite pleased with them.
LumiDude
I do not want to drag them through the mud. I just thought their stuff looks nice and wanted to make sure before I spend a large amount of money there again that won't be kicking myself 10 years from now for not doing the research.
Ryan Neil is to professional to make a negative publicity stunt.
Either or...poster contradictory posts is red flags that something is off.Perhaps.
Maybe , "too successful to not have" is also true?
Not sure but I still don't think it's negative.
Far as Antiques, the one on the right looks old to me, I'm not an antiquer.
Usually, something so shiny, if antique, has been ruined with new varnish or what have you.
I'm not educated enough on the subject to call any BS.
Knowing so, I .
I believe someone can have an excellent reputation, heaven bound with no question, and still get duped on an antique. Which still could have happened to Ryan.
I'm taking it as a subquestion, "how is Mirai's Antiques Reputation?"
Sorce
This I really do not understand. The whole concept op the ignore list I mean.So off to the ignore list.
This one is new...and is contradictory. And ignore list means...I just don't see any of their posts. They disappear like they never came. I quite frankly have little use for one who says they have specifically made several purchases. (Ryan's stuff isn't cheap) to then the next post he doesn't wish to spend a lot of money there until he knows this ones rep. I would have been fine with that not being added. That was like...giving someone enough rope to hang themselves...he just did. I find this post then to be contradictory at best...and when one tries to put ones reputation on the line...and I can't make heads or tails of something. They are on ignore. So I don't forget who they are and waist my time. Ones who are new and aren't tossing mud right out the gate...I wouldn't put on ignore. Why not just send Ryan a message asking him to clarify...then to toss mud in his general direction on a forum...where does he even visit? I don't do that sort of game.This I really do not understand. The whole concept op the ignore list I mean.
To me it feels there are certain members on this forum who only see half of the posts on here. And all over one or two posts by individuals they do not like. Some threads get really odd with people missing half of the posts.
And don't know half of what they should about bonsai for all of their time here.To me it feels there are certain members on this forum who only see half of the posts on here
I typed "Cha Tansu" in google and found the piece in less than 10 minutes. And I wasnt even searching for it. I was scrolling through google images and making sketches.Hours searching one specific piece of furniture for what sole purpose to discredit Ryan Neil?
I typed "Cha Tansu" in google and found the piece in less than 10 minutes. And I wasnt even searching for it. I was scrolling through google images and making sketches.
Maybe people here go from the assumption there is no reason to be concerned. I have an antique dutch cupboard in my house. Inherited from my granma. Always thought this was very special. untill I saw another one at my friends place. Not they seem to be everywhere.was interesting that no one asked to why I even thought the second listing could be legit
Same. My mum was born in Singapore in a navy family and they brought back a camphor wood chest which I always thought was so unique until I realised that everyone had the same idea and brought their own back too. It’s just variations on a theme. As they say in Thailand, same same, but different.Based on your first post, this is exactly what I did and I also found the image in seconds.
Maybe people here go from the assumption there is no reason to be concerned. I have an antique dutch cupboard in my house. Inherited from my granma. Always thought this was very special. untill I saw another one at my friends place. Not they seem to be everywhere.
Same with a telescope made in the late 1700-eds that was passed onto me. Thought it would be rare and valuable. Yet I find them on auction sites all the time, and often in much better state than what my grandfather bought.
General message: Even if we think something should be rare, more often than not there are dozens if not hundreds of them around. And these two pieves are not remotely the same. You say the difference is in the details.. I say.. only the general layout of the piece is similar..
they brought back a camphor wood chest
It is a towel chest nowI bet it would smell amazing as it burns though. I love opening it up just to smell the wood.