Could be some big, cheap fun for the intrepid...

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Re: Could be some big, cheap fun for the intrepid...

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ValveSlide wrote:
bloke wrote:I SERIOUSLY need to pull some instruments out of the attic and give them the attention they obviously deserve...
I have a beautiful 1959 340 sitting in the room I'm in right now. It even came in the original hard case. My wife has commandeered it as "decor." It replaced a "Donatelli" CC that I sold out from under her. This one may go missing soon, too... :oops:

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Wow. Four grand even with missing parts and advertised red rot?

Must be election season.
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bigtubby wrote:Must be election season.
Time to recount the bids! :P
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roweenie wrote:I don't think anything sketchy was going on - I just question the veracity of a bidder who has a zero feedback score, especially when it reaches into thousands of dollars.

I'd be curious to know if the sale actually went through....
lost wrote: My guess is someone made an ebay account for the auction with a "if i can't have it, nobody will" mentallity and paying for it might have been a possibility until they realized they didn't have that kind of money for a gamble.
As I had suspected.....
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Suspected which? "Paying for it might have been a possibility", or not?

I remember talking to someone about a relative who had a mental problem that made her prone to occasional house buying sprees. I bet he would have been thrilled if she'd switched to online auctions of old tubas. She had veracity, just very faulty judgement.
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The thing that I found striking about that whole auction was not that that there was someone with a zero feedback score that posted silly bids and then won, but that there was someone else who was willing to meet and exceed his silly bids... (until the end, that is).

I don't get it, but then again, I'll be the first to admit that people and what they do can sometimes be a mystery....

(As a side note, I've occasionally seen auctions where the seller requires a minimum bid history to be eligible to participate...likely to avoid incidents just like this)
Donn wrote: Suspected which? "Paying for it might have been a possibility", or not?
I suspected that the "winner" never had any intention to pay for the item, from the get-go, and that the sale would never be completed.

In the words of Penny McGill, "he ain't bonafide!"
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Sold again to a bidder with a zero feedback score.

Any wagers on what will happen this time?
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The price was a bit more reasonable this time. Too rich for my blood for a non-working horn, but certainly more reasonable than the first time around.
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Yes, and for the third time, a bidder with zero feedback as the high bidder..... :roll:
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