View Full Version : April 12, '23 LOAR asking $1650 . . .
scgc.om
Oct-14-2005, 1:23pm
Just came across this listing - check it out
http://www.intoko.ca/index.p....132 (http://www.intoko.ca/index.php?url=http%3A//www.intoko.ca/markt/128/132/)
Shucks and Gorsh . . . seems like a good deal to me . . .
Ya right!
[Sure looks a lot like an entry at Darryl's F5 Archive - do you think it's more than a coincidence??]
Does anyone really get fooled by this kind of scam?
glauber
Oct-14-2005, 1:25pm
That's 1650 Canadian... i.e.: about US$1390
Darryl Wolfe
Oct-14-2005, 1:45pm
saw that....the mandolin isn't even owned by a Canadian
Celtic Saguaro
Oct-14-2005, 1:53pm
Probably wants to sell quick so he can afford the shipping on that cool no-name he saw on ebay. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
Doug Edwards
Oct-14-2005, 2:24pm
Looks like he has a friend, Robert, with several vintage guitars. That '65 Brazilian D28 for $1000 is tempting.
JEStanek
Oct-14-2005, 2:25pm
For $1600 US he could get a swell Eastman. Not the 900 series mind you but a very nice 800 like my 814. Maybe I'll offer to trade him... not.
Jamie
jmkatcher
Oct-14-2005, 2:45pm
Maybe he has a $750 '59 Les Paul too?
I emailed to tell the site it was a scam. No reply.
Keith Erickson
Oct-14-2005, 2:58pm
I emailed to tell the site it was a scam. No reply.
danb,
When I saw the price, I figured it to be a misprint or a scam.
Heck I can talk my better half into letting me by a Loar for US$1,600 buckeroos. She's been very well educated on the value of a mandolin. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif
glauber
Oct-14-2005, 2:59pm
I emailed to tell the site it was a scam. No reply.
And now you are in their blacklist... be afraid...
Keith Erickson
Oct-14-2005, 3:01pm
Hey there Folks,
Step right up and take a look at this one of a kind bridge that can be only found here in Brooklyn. It's your lucky day because I'm selling it at a discount price just for you.
Why?
Because I can see that you are a person who knows their bridges and not only that, I like you and consider you a friend........
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glauber
Oct-14-2005, 3:05pm
Is that an adjustable bridge, Keith?
Keith Erickson
Oct-14-2005, 3:09pm
Is that an adjustable bridge, Keith?
glauber,
That's a great question. Well I got this bridge from a little old lady in Pasedena who would only use it on the weekends.
As you can clearly see, she took great care of it.
What was your question again? http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
glauber
Oct-14-2005, 3:17pm
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Rroyd
Oct-14-2005, 10:55pm
Gee, do you suppose the real owner should contact the authorities? #It sounds just like the description at the mandolin archives, along with the photo. #The last I heard, #the owner wasn't planning to part with it, but maybe that $700 profit was too much to resist.
ohohman
Oct-17-2005, 9:23am
I emailed and simply asked the seller if he could guarantee authenticity. He replied, saying yes, it is for real. He is in Milan, Italy but asking $1650 Canadian. He offered to send more pictures. He gave me his name and offered to ship DHL.
I know this all sounds crazy. I'm just wondering if Darryl can tell us if the real mando with this number would be in Italy. Go ahead and laugh. I'm just asking.
No, it's not in Italy, and it's definitely a scam
Yes, he can send more pictures, taken from the mandolinarchives site, just like the one he had posted, along with the description. I guess he wasn't lying when he said it was real; it just isn't his, and the owner says it isn't for sale. The owner said it felt a bit like finding your home broken into when he read the ad for its sale on the net.
Hmm. I've toyed with the idea of some kind of verification page for these things. I trust in this kind of case it's pretty obvious what is going on though.
Peter Hackman
Oct-17-2005, 11:02am
Looks like he has a friend, Robert, with several vintage guitars. That '65 Brazilian D28 for $1000 is tempting.
It should be very
easy to resist a Martin dread from 1965.
f5loar
Oct-17-2005, 11:06am
Best way to handle these type scams is just say "We got a deal if you ship it COD"
Steven Stone
Oct-17-2005, 8:03pm
[It should be very
easy to resist a Martin dread from 1965.]
And that would be what? http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif
I've played and owned some '65 D-28's that will kick most other instrument's butts, including earlier vintage D-28's.
Judging an instrument sight unseen by the year it was made strikes me as a futile attempt to simplify the complex problem of quantifying quality.
Only fools need apply http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif