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Topic: WOW !! Great price on Ebay !! |
James Quackenbush
From:
Pomona, New York, USA
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Alan Kirk
From:
Paso Robles, CA, USA
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Posted 19 Feb 2005 6:22 am |
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James,
This is one of the items being sold by gcrep810, an employee of Guitar Center's Vintage Department. See the other post in No Peddlars regarding "Instrument Exchange."
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Russ Young
From:
Seattle, Washington, USA
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Posted 19 Feb 2005 6:23 am
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I always get a chuckle out of someone who sets an absurdly high minimum bid but then tells us it's "No Reserve!"  |
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George Keoki Lake
From:
Edmonton, AB., Canada
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Posted 19 Feb 2005 8:43 am
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"This Vintage National 1930s lap steel...."
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I don't think so. More likely in the mid-late forties. |
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Paul Arntson
From:
Washington, USA
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Posted 19 Feb 2005 9:23 am
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| "all original hardware" but one knob is round and the other is chickenhead?!? |
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Steinar Gregertsen
From:
Arendal, Norway, R.I.P.
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Posted 19 Feb 2005 10:26 am
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That's actually quite normal, here's my '48 model (which I paid less than $300 for on eBay...).
Steinar
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Todd Weger
From:
Safety Harbor, FLAUSA
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Posted 19 Feb 2005 11:40 am
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They definitely need to put down the crack pipe before they start pricing stuff.
Un-be-FREAKING-lievable...
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Russ Young
From:
Seattle, Washington, USA
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Geoff Brown
From:
Nashvegas
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Posted 19 Feb 2005 11:54 am
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| I would avoid GC auctions. |
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Rick Alexander
From:
Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 24 Feb 2005 12:58 am
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All those GCREP absurdly overpriced lapsteels at the top of one of my favorite searches were p!$$!ng me off, so in an uncharacteristic moment (I'm usually not so outspoken) I clicked on Ask Seller A Question and dashed off this little missive -
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| You are crapping up eBay with your ridiculously overpriced "auctions" that nobody even bids on. If you read the threads on Steel Guitar Forum you will see that you are giving Guitar Center an even worse "rep" than it already has. Everybody knows about your dual auctions - you're not fooling anyone. If this is a ploy to drive prices of old lap steels up - forget it. A biscuit board is just a biscuit board by any other name. Prices of the good ones like Stringmasters are going up all by themselves - but you don't have any of those . . For several years now, I have spent a large amount of money every year at Guitar Center (50 - 60K annually) - this makes me inclined to discontinue that. Many others feel the same way. |
And a little while later I received this equally curt, predictibly disingenuous response:
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| Sorry I didn't know that there was an ebay limit, and I'm sorry to have "crapped" it up. If you don't like something, then don't bid on it. I've checked SEVERAL sources before pricing, and they ALL lead to that price. If you don't like the price, then don't bid. It's pretty simple. |
Well it is pretty simple, because nobody does.
I suspect his "sources" all do double duty and are always within easy reach . . |
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 24 Feb 2005 2:09 am
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those guys are nuts !
they sure got $$$ to blow on ebay fees
i sent them a little appreciation mail as well[This message was edited by CrowBear Schmitt on 24 February 2005 at 02:10 AM.] |
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Rick Alexander
From:
Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 24 Feb 2005 3:51 am
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Crow, that's good. It probably won't do any good, but at least if they're getting multiple messages it should carry more weight.
Do you think the reason they do it is to try to create the illusion that lapsteel prices are going way up?
I can't think why else they're doing it - no one bids on those auctions. They must have a stockpile of them . . |
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Russ Young
From:
Seattle, Washington, USA
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Posted 24 Feb 2005 4:46 am
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| I'm wondering if it has something to do with being able to write off the value of some of the instruments they can't sell. |
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 24 Feb 2005 5:15 am
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| or just plain trawlin' for a sucker |
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Fred Layman
From:
Springfield, Missouri USA
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Posted 26 Feb 2005 6:53 pm
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| My first lap steel guitar was this model, which I bought at a hock shop in Wichita for the grand sum of $20 and sold at a yard sale about ten years later for the same amount. |
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