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
is this for real
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Re: is this for real
I've reported both of those listing as they are obvious scams.
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Re: is this for real
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.
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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.

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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.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.

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Re: is this for real
Symphonies expect you to have them as needed, which isn't impossible. Lugging around that quad case, though, IS!bort wrote:Otherwise, we'd all have 5 or 6 tubas, and take them everywhere like trumpet players do.
Instead of talking to your plants, if you yelled at them would they still grow, but only to be troubled and insecure?
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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.windshieldbug wrote:Symphonies expect you to have them as needed, which isn't impossible. Lugging around that quad case, though, IS!bort wrote:Otherwise, we'd all have 5 or 6 tubas, and take them everywhere like trumpet players do.
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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.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...![]()
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Dan Schultz
"The Village Tinker"
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Current 'stable'... Rudolf Meinl 5/4, Marzan (by Willson) euph, King 2341, Alphorn, and other strange stuff.
"The Village Tinker"
http://www.thevillagetinker.com" target="_blank
Current 'stable'... Rudolf Meinl 5/4, Marzan (by Willson) euph, King 2341, Alphorn, and other strange stuff.