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Newbie question: "...XX" serial #'s?
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 10:45 pm
by eli
Why are tubas for sale so often listed with serial #'s with the last digit or two shown as X's?
Re: Newbie question: "...XX" serial #'s?
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 10:55 pm
by Rick Denney
eli wrote:Why are tubas for sale so often listed with serial #'s with the last digit or two shown as X's?
So that you have enough of the number to date the instrument without being able to identify a specific instrument.
Rick "who thinks some folks are a little paranoid" Denney
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 11:35 pm
by eli
Well, sure; but what's wrong with being able to identify a specific instrument?
Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 1:47 am
by WilliamVance
I've always been paranoid of that happening to me! You never know where a horn from ebay has been before...or a pawn shop.
Re: Newbie question: "...XX" serial #'s?
Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 3:18 am
by tofu
eli wrote:Why are tubas for sale so often listed with serial #'s with the last digit or two shown as X's?
I guess you could say they are X-RATED!;-)
The real good ones are triple XXX - but you have to be over 18 to use them.
Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 11:38 am
by windshieldbug
Could be
they don't know, either... they're waiting to see how well they sell before they go "liberate" them, or just add them on to the existing number!
(sorry, but I couldn't resist...
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