ValveSlide wrote: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...bloke wrote:I SERIOUSLY need to pull some instruments out of the attic and give them the attention they obviously deserve...![]()
Could be some big, cheap fun for the intrepid...
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Wow. Four grand even with missing parts and advertised red rot?
Must be election season.
Must be election season.
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Time to recount the bids!bigtubby wrote:Must be election season.
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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....
As I had suspected.....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.
"Even a broken clock is right twice a day".
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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.
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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Re: Could be some big, cheap fun for the intrepid...
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)
In the words of Penny McGill, "he ain't bonafide!"
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)
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.Donn wrote: Suspected which? "Paying for it might have been a possibility", or not?
In the words of Penny McGill, "he ain't bonafide!"
"Even a broken clock is right twice a day".
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Re: Could be some big, cheap fun for the intrepid...
Sold again to a bidder with a zero feedback score.
Any wagers on what will happen this time?
Any wagers on what will happen this time?
"Even a broken clock is right twice a day".
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Re: Could be some big, cheap fun for the intrepid...
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..... 
"Even a broken clock is right twice a day".