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MikeEdgerton
Mar-20-2009, 10:24pm
This one from eastcountypawn in El Cajon, CA (http://cgi.ebay.com/GIBSON-A-9-MANDOLIN_W0QQitemZ330316140345QQcmdZViewItemQQptZL H_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item330316140345&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2|65%3A10|39%3A1|240%3A1318). Looks like a Rover. Either someone is pawning a ton of these fakes and getting money for them or these guys are buying them from a distributor.

MikeEdgerton
Mar-21-2009, 3:24pm
I got the following e-mail from the seller:

"Contrary to the comment on your message board, we are not "buying them from a distrutor". We purchased only one with the belief it was geniune. The only thing we're guilty of is not being smart enough to recognize it as a fake; but last I checked that's not a crime. Contrary to what some people still seem to think, there are pawn many shops who are honest and who value their customers. We are one of them. The auction was ended as soon as we discovered the mandolin was not genuine."

He read half the message but it's great that he took down the auction. I'd say somebody has a scam going up and down the west coast.

f5loar
Mar-21-2009, 4:22pm
To give credit to the buyer this fake was slightly different then other fake A's we've seen. Still a fake is a fake and if you try to pass it along as the real thing you might be in liable for fraud.

jim simpson
Mar-21-2009, 10:16pm
I wonder how many folks end up believing that they bought a real Gibson. It makes me think of all the folks who think they got a fantastic deal on speakers when they buy their Olin Ross speakers from a guy in some parking lot.

JeffD
Mar-21-2009, 10:54pm
He has some other mandolins listed, another A9, an A-Jr from 1924 and an A-2 from 1919.

I don't have the best of eyes to catch this stuff - a cursory glance at the A-2 did not reveal anything.

MikeEdgerton
Mar-21-2009, 11:10pm
This (http://cgi.ebay.com/Gibson-A-9-Mandolin-Great-shape-better-price_W0QQitemZ140309272276QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_D efaultDomain_0?hash=item140309272276&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A13 18|301%3A0|293%3A1|294%3A50) one looks like the ones that were in Texas and in Oregon. It's in West Virginia. Same wrong orange label and all on the cheap pacrim mandolin.

MikeEdgerton
Mar-21-2009, 11:19pm
He has some other mandolins listed, another A9, an A-Jr from 1924 and an A-2 from 1919.

I don't have the best of eyes to catch this stuff - a cursory glance at the A-2 did not reveal anything.

Those other mandolins aren't his, those are eBay's advertisements for other similar auctions. The A Jr. is being sold by railroadguitars in Cornelia, GA. It looks like a new name for Mitch Simpson.

By the way, there are two Snakehead 1924 A Jr.'s on eBay right now, both with make Offer buttons.