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is this for real
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 9:38 am
by brasshospital
hey has anyone had dealings with this seller before. seems to good to be true. so i would guess it must be. they have a few tubas for sale and they are all listed this way "buy it now no bidding". seems to be very good with the audio stuff they have sold.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Walter-Nirschl-Hand ... 45f1240fc2" target="_blank" target="_blank
http://cgi.ebay.com/Meinl-Weston-CC-Tub ... 45f1242c7b" target="_blank" target="_blank
Re: is this for real
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 9:45 am
by Dan Schultz
I've reported both of those listing as they are obvious scams.
Re: is this for real
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 10:52 am
by Mike-ICR
This exact ad has been up several times for several items. Every horn is a high-end instrument, every auction starts at $88 with a no-bids allowed policy and the $1700 Buy-It-Now. They get pulled every time I've seen them. You figure they'd be smart enough to change the description style once in a while.
Re: is this for real
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 11:50 am
by brasshospital
i had a feeling something was up. thanks for comfirming my thoughts. to bad we couldn't actually get those horns for that kinda price.
long gone. ebay pulled it.
Re: is this for real
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 12:35 pm
by bort
brasshospital wrote:i had a feeling something was up. thanks for comfirming my thoughts. to bad we couldn't actually get those horns for that kinda price.
long gone. ebay pulled it.
Actually, I'm really glad tubas are expensive. Otherwise, we'd all have 5 or 6 tubas, and take them everywhere like trumpet players do.
Re: is this for real
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 12:42 pm
by windshieldbug
bort wrote:Otherwise, we'd all have 5 or 6 tubas, and take them everywhere like trumpet players do.
Symphonies expect you to have them as needed, which isn't impossible. Lugging around that quad case, though,
IS!
Re: is this for real
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 12:58 pm
by bort
windshieldbug wrote:bort wrote:Otherwise, we'd all have 5 or 6 tubas, and take them everywhere like trumpet players do.
Symphonies expect you to have them as needed, which isn't impossible. Lugging around that quad case, though,
IS!
Right, and I've got no beef with professionals or high-level players having the right equipment. Just talking about amateurs or (worse yet) HS students with GAS playing the horn/mouthpiece game instead of practicing.
Re: is this for real
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 4:53 pm
by Dan Schultz
LANShark wrote:The $88.88 Besson and Getzen are bogus as well, Brasshospital.
Hmmm.... Sure would be nice to have a sticky warning about these scams...
Those ads are incredibly easy to spot. All you have to do is report it to eBay... as I did. See.... it's already been pulled.