Hummer your plant resembles one I grow here called 'Black on Black' Those Ebay pictures dont show alot of detail.

Yes a good friend of mine who has also purchased this plant from Olive as Black Opal seems to think it is Black on Black.

There is another hybrid aechmea, which is commonly grown in Australia, known as Aechmea Pica. It has the same parentage as Black on Black, and looks the same to me. The only difference is the reference to recurvata red form as a parent of Black on Black, versus (just) recurvata for Pica. I suspect that Black on Black, Black Opal, Black Flamingo, and Pica are all the same plant. They are possibly created by different hybridists who all got the same results? There is another on that suspect list called Oh My, which I bought by that name from the Buchanan's nursery. It looks very similar, if not identical, to my (supposed) Pica.

Sorry to add to the confusion, Hummer!

Cheers,
Kerry

Oh My indeed yes more names and more confusion.