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Location: Orlando, Florida | Check out the shipping costs...
http://cgi.ebay.com/Autographed-Oak-Ridge-Boys-Ovation-Guitar_W0QQi...
Is he shipping a guitar or a Hummer?
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | Shipping Costs!! what about the price?? and it's a Celebrity Korean model at that. I just don't think even the most die-hard Fan would pay that.
But what do I know? I'm just a guy who works in radio for a living. |
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Location: Orlando, Florida | You better hurry and bid! He only has two of these listed for that price. The Korean ones are rare. Look how far they have to come to get here. :)
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | 7500.00+675.00shipping
that guitar better have the imagine of the Virgin Mary in the epualets..... |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | The Image??? she better actually be inside the guitar for That price!! |
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Location: closely held secret | Let's see... oh, good! He takes paypal! Hmmm, click on bid... wait a minute! This worthless thing has a thinline pickup? !!! It's a Celebrity??? And the seller has zero feedback?
Maybe I better rethink this... |
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Location: south of munich, Germany | you forget to mention shipping insurance...
another 65 $
maybe I should ask the seller, if he would be willing to send it to Europe?
Probably it would be cheaper to pick up the guitar in the US than paying his shipping costs.... |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | It would probably be cheaper to hire the 'Boys, fly them to Germany for a concert, then have them sign your own Celebrity Ovation that you pick up for $300 over there!
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | Oh, c'mon, y'all......this is a COLLECTIBLE!!!! That's the way this seller is treating it...he's out to make maximum moo-lah off of this. The audience he's targeting could care less about the guitar, they just want the autographs......and that highly valuable "Certificate of Authenticity".
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | He probably forgot to add that the 4 Oak Ridge Boys come with it. (Flying First Class, of course)
If you just want the guitar, it's only 200 bucks. |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | Don't know if you caught it....the newbie seller accidentally inserted the auction TWICE(!!!!) He's gonna love paying the double insertion fee on $7500!!!!!! He'll never get eBay to let him off on that.....
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Location: closely held secret | So he did. 1/2 hour apart. I think jyam caught it earlier:
"You better hurry and bid! He only has two of these listed for that price." |
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Location: Tampa, FL | His price point selection might explain his zero feedback rating. All of his buyers are wealthy recluses that don't want the glare of publicity assocatied with feedback. Where's Howie when you need him to make a bid? |
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Location: Midland, MI | I just read in Vintage Guitar that guitars autographed by people who are still alive have no significant value beyond the market value of the underlying instrument. The idea being that the artist in question, as they're still alive, have an unlimited amount of signatures left in them.
So, is that really a $7500 guitar? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | So, if I were an enterprising collector, and wanted the value of my OakRidge Boys signature guitar to increase in value...
Hmmm...what options do I have.... |
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Location: Midland, MI | The only option(s) that spring to mind are illegal. :) |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | unless, as Al's tag line claims, we're in New Jersey.... |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | I dunno, you think the Oak Ridge Boys ever play New Jersey?????
Actually, I think they either broke up or retired, I forget which.
This auction just shows how a newbie seller on eBay can go off the deep end thinking that "there's a sucker born every minute".....
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Location: Orlando, Florida | You know...
The seller might be secretly holding the Oak Ridge Boys hostage, and this could be their sick idea of a ransom note. Someone quick, call the authorities!!!
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Maybe it's the Statler Bros. |
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Location: Midland, MI | Or maybe the Smothers Brothers. |
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Another great buy on eBay...