Sometimes the buyers just ask for it

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Sometimes the buyers just ask for it

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Sometimes the buyers just ask for it:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 784wt_1139

There have been complaints about Chinese made instruments. I tend to think that some of the Indian made ones are worse.

The sellers try to give the instruments some credibility by calling them used or Dachbodenfund (found in a attic).

This one is in tenor Bb and hence useless as a bass. If the price is right I would want one for the fun of it, so I set my bidding agent to 2Euro. After a nap I got an alert mail and watched the last seconds of the auction: it was won for 481Euros.

That buyer must be kind of silly, hopefully so silly he never understands what happened.

Klaus
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That thing is just painful to look at. I've seen one in person once, in a window display here in New York.

I shook my head and thought "what a waste of metal."
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Hmmm.... 24 bids, huh? I thought 'shill' bidding was against eBay policy.
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I kind of want one... but not that bad. It would be a very fun parade horn with my tuba - euphonium quartet!
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Carroll wrote:I kind of want one... but not that bad. It would be a very fun parade horn with my tuba - euphonium quartet!
Don Harry has a real one, Buescher I think.

Klaus
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