Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
Jim, this one - https://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-UNM...cAAOSwR4hbhC0v
It appears the there is an issue with the neck as well if you look at the back pictures. Unbelievable!!! You can say what your want when you sell on ebay , "sold as is how is with no returns or complaints", gut she has been on there long enough to surely know that the buyer is all ways right in eBay's eyes.
Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
Wow! You can get a used Collings for that price!
Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
Ah, maybe so, but this one is vintage!Originally Posted by LadysSolo
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Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
So are coprolites, begging the question "vintage what?" Maybe the seller needs some slack. She is in a small village in the middle of nowhere in North Carolina. Maybe she just doesn have the requisite sophistication needed to asses such an instrument for resale. Going by some of the dreck on eBay, such errors can be understood. At very worst, she simply isn't going to sell that, err, item.
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Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
Floating a trial balloon, just in case the item has unexpected value.
Alas, no.
Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
I have to laugh to myself when I read this.
I got my first guitar (acoustic) when I was 15. It was a hand-me-down that my uncle found left behind in his garage when he bought a new house. The guitar had a bridge that was badly lifted off the top, the area over the top of the the sound hole was sunken, the top and back were both separating from the body, the neck was badly bowed, and one of the string tuners was substantially bent. I was so proud of my new guitar . . . until a family friend, who was a top-notch classical guitarist, looked it over and very nicely tried to tell me it was a piece of junk.
We all have to learn . . . somehow.
Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
You don't learn by being right.
When I was 20 I acquired a Gibson SG from an acquaintance who owed me $35 (1978). Knowing what a Gibson was, I still traded it for a pair of rubbish car speakers later that summer. Now I did many foolish things in my youth, but that one is right up there.
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Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
My favorite (but pretty sad) SG story:
Back in the 1970's a former co-worker had a BEAUTIFUL SG. He was playing in his living room one night when the phone rang. Instead of putting the guitar on a stand, or back in the case - he leaned it against the sofa and stepped over it. As you can guess, he tripped while stepping over the guitar and snapped the neck in half. The REAL kicker in this story is that when he answered the phone, it was a bill collector!
Ouch!
Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Kentucky-KM...YAAOSwmBdbhfkX
Kentucky KM-150 Standard A-model Mandolin - Sunburst
$795.19
"It doesn't matter how much you invest in your instrument until you invest in you and your ability..."
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Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
That's $200 higher than the MSRP
Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
saw this listing mentioned in this forum about a year and a half ago- originally $50,000.00 still there though slightly lower price
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vol-1-No-1-...d=262739880206
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Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
With the bonus of free shipping but you have to go to Pittsburgh to get it.
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Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
Well...
Yeah, no.
To be fair he doesn’t say free shipping, he says free pick up.
Potato, potahto
He’s still nuts
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Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
Kentucky KM-150 Standard A-model Mandolin - Sunburst
$795.19
I just bought a new 150 for less than half that . Do you think they charge extra for setup?
Kentucky KM-150s
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Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
Discounted from the prior price: $655.56 (10% off)
Let's see... in about 20 years or so it might be at about the correct price. Amazing even if it were in mint and perfect condition it would not be worth that money. Calling it in poor condition would be over estimating. But wait, there is more!
I know we discussed this one out the wazoo but it is incredible. Even a fully mint Gibson catalog would not see for that much. Oh, well. Entertainment.This magazine continues to page fourteen and then it jumps to a portion of page twenty three and twenty four. It continues with page twenty five to page thirty two. This magazine is missing pages thirty three and thirty four. It continues with thirty five and the thirty six, which is the back. This magazine is missing pages as stated above. Pages fifteen to pages twenty three are missing and twenty three and twenty four have a portion missing. Pages thirty three and thirty four are missing.
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Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
You only have to sell one.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
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"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
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Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
I am waiting for that one to sell and then I can put all ten of mine on eBay and clean up.You only have to sell one.
Jim
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Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
Sorry but someone had to do it........
https://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-UNUSUA...PHB:rk:29:pf:0
Charley
A bunch of stuff with four strings
Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
Please warn me next time before you do that.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
yeah but it does say bid with confidence ... confident of what?
Kentucky KM-150s
Eastman MD315F
The Loar LM520vs
Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
Doh, I hope it is not a problem.
Charley
A bunch of stuff with four strings
Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
I see the seller is from Canada. That was not revealed in the previous discussion of this instrument. So, how about a "Gibson" that was made in Italy for the Canadian market?.............I didn't think so, either.
I still think the label looks phony......it would take a coupla minutes to create one like it on the computer. Paper looks intentionally aged, IMHO.
Back is rosewood, which doesn't scream Gibson to me.....
He was very careful not to call it a Gibson, but managed to get both Gibson and Virzi in the title to show up in searches....
Lotsa disclaimers.....
Instrument has cracks and previous repairs....
Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
This is the same guy that posted here recently asking about this instrument correct?... I have a memory of this instrument in another thread...
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Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
Maybe something like this was involved...
http://siminoff.net/virzi-tone-background/
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Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
The price is high given the condition and unknowns but otherwise it would be an interesting instrument for the collection. I would have gone the route of listing at $0.99 with a high reserve to get a better idea of what the market would pay.
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