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Location: East Wenatchee, WA | This seller of 2080 is the one who had a 2080 for sale a month or two back. He is also the one who bid up the 2080 I was bidding on with another seller (despite his selling his own 2080).
I asked him why he would do that when the auction was complete.
His response was "I would be interested to know how you like your 2080". I decided it wasn't worth pressing it, but it did cost me about $100-150 more if my memory is correct.
Also interesting to note no pictures this time around and there was last time. |
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Location: Hiram, Georgia | Saw that, plus his 100% guitar selling feedback! :confused:
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Location: South of most, North of few | It seems rather funny to me that someone selling a high end guitar like this one would not include a picture of it. First one is free, isn't it??? (or maybe his camera is broken) :rolleyes: |
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| He bid the other guitar to help establish a going price. I have watched a few great Adamas guitars go fairly cheap. I am sure he did not want anyone to see a Guitar like his go for under his reserve or BIN price. Ebay has months that are good or bad depending upon your buying or selling status.
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Location: East Wenatchee, WA | So....is this an acceptable practice? I kind of thought it was not much different than using phoney accounts to bid up your own item. Still seems to negatively impact the system.
Of course ebay is getting more and more like that. Hard to get a real deal on some things, and you can quite often pay more than retail if you are not careful. |
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| Yeah This is standard practice for a lot of sellers especially when there is a reserve and they have a good idea what it would be. No risk to bid a guitar like this up to $1,200 right?? If you won it this would be a good thing and it gets the auction going to have a few bidders poushing it along. My worry about this guy is the lack of concern on his part about the negative feedbacks he is racking up! THe resons seem foolish he either does not pay sellers for something he mo longer wants or he does not include items he has in the photo. And instead of making someone happy he fights them about it! This is not the kind of guy you want to buy a $1,500 guitar from trust me! Where is his photo's anyway?? this is alarming! Check and see if Al has one of these before you bid you'll be much happier. He has a lot of stuff that might not be in his photo's?? Do yourself a service and Email him, that's my call for what it's worth.
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | Yeah, I just saw that one myself, and that's the same reaction I had. Too much risky stuff for a large-ticket item like that.
Last (and only) time I bit on something like that my wife actually bought a toddler bed for our daughter from a seller with good overall feedback, not checking that he had several hundred "mutually withdrawn" - basically a seller blackmailing people into rescinding negatives to save their own feedback scores. One of the many downsides to ebay.
Great guitar, but the auction just looks a little fishy to me. BTW, if someone is looking for one and isn't comfortable with this guy, I actually have a 2080 demo (still new) coming my way in a couple weeks that I probably won't be keeping...just in case. |
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2080 on ebay...CAUTION
