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Location: Upper Left USA | Like ol' Larry?
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Larry shot himself in the chest with a shotgun about a decade later... |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | Okay, got an email from the seller with a hi-res up close picture of the cracks on the rosette:
THIS IS THE ONE!!!
It has four hairline cracks on the upper right-hand side of the rosette, just above the waistline, three grouped together, and one a bit higher up towards the neck. EXACTLY THE SAME!
I'm going to try to contact the police and see what they can do, but I'm not figuring on much. I'll just have to buy this from the guy and work backwards.
Mike, STOP BIDDING! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Your insurance company has the right to your property now, since it paid for the stolen items. Talk to your agent or adjuster and tell him or her what is going on. You do not want the insurance company to find out you have a guitar that was reported stolen somewhere down the line. Also they can help in the theft recovery. Don't just buy it back and not do anything to catch the theif. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | I am glad you have ID'd the evidence!
My high bid is the one you see. I'm deflating as you speak.
If this post had theme music it should speed up! Since he's in Tennesee I suggest something out of Smoky and the Bandit!
Unless you have a picture of the cracks when it was in your possesion it is still undocumented.
Now I can go back to Trawling... |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | What Mark says. |
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Location: Midland, MI | East bound and down, loaded up and truckin'
We gonna do what they say cain't be done
We got a long way to go and a short time to get there
I'm east bound, just watch old Bandit run |
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| Well the seller is honest enough to call the fret buzzing. SO this poor guy must have bought it. I'll bet he purchased this from someone who is only "once" removed from the crime itself. Going to be very hard to motivate any police agency for this. I sure wish you luck. And yeah I wrote my serial numbers down in my lyrics pad that I keep in the music room back when you first posted about this.... The sad truth is the case is a nice leather case so it will probably get stolen right along with my guitars! Going to make a second copy to place elsewhere.
All the best. IN upstate NY I can help ya!
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | Makes a lot of sense. I'm contacting the detective assigned to our case in the morning to see if he has any revelations. If not, I'll buy this one and then decide what to do.
Thanks to you all for the advise and support. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | If the detective (actually he should be called a "useless") won't do anything at least contact the seller and tell him what happened, and ask him to help you. If he doesn't, ask him to tell the people on down the line that they should do the right thing and contact the police. Tell him that on the wheel of karma it will get back to him and this is his chance to set things right. |
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Location: SoCal | It's entirely possible that the guy selling the guitar paid good money for it and is honest. I posted 3-4 months ago about a buddy who had an Ovation Patriot stolen almost 30 years ago and it showed up on ebay (he knew because he had it converted to a lefty and recognized the conversion). He told the seller about it and the seller reduced the price so my friend could buy it. But we were pretty certain that the guitar had changed hands a number of times and the seller didn't know the guitar's history. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | I'm thinking the Seller is being forthright and has nothing to hide.
I think the game plan should be aquire the instrument, contact all involved with what you did and let each follow up as they deem necessary with your full disclosure.
Salesman, Law Enforcement and Insurance Agency should be OK with that. |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | Won the auction - $667.00 total. I'll report back when I get it in hand and make sure that it's the one, then I'll be filing a report with the police, insurance, etc.
Thanks again, all! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Congrats, I guess. Don't know quite what to say when you are successful in buying back your own guitar. Look forward to your report, especially it's the same guitar and you find out any history since it left your house. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Keep us posted. I hope you catch the punks. |
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Location: CT | I have a friend who bought a Carvin on eBay. Put it back up for auction 2 years later, and got a reply from a previous owner it was stolen from him. Obviously he thought it was a scam, but after many days of back and forth calls and emails, the guy produced police reports with serial nubers etc. Long and short of it, my friend sent it to the guy, no cost, even paid the shipping and lost a lot of money, because he felt it was the right thing to do. If only everyone was this honest. . . . |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Hate to be cynical but I hope the original owner at least sent your friend the insurance money he likely received after it was stolen. Otherwise the original owner would have successfully pulled a fast one as well - cash plus his guitar back! |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | Seriously! It never fails to amaze me how many potential scams are out there. Makes me almost (I said ALMOST) sympathize with the insurance companies. Given that mine just finally is cutting checks after five months and $400 in attorney's fees may cloud my perception slightly...
I did just hear about a car dealership who had a corvette for sale back east last year, and when the dealer checked the VIN number, he found out that the car had been stolen. He contacted the police, and they were astounded that it had turned up. They contacted the owner, and he too was amazed. Seems it had been stolen from him in California right after he bought it new...in 1967.
You never know when something will turn up!
Back on topic, the guitar is supposed to ship tomorrow, which means I should have it in hand before the weekend. (I hope, I hope, I hope...) |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | Well, I posted this in another topic, but for anyone who was looking, I got the guitar on Saturday, and it's not the same one I lost.
It's close - freakishly close I might add, but the wood grain is different, the case is not exactly identical (and doesn't fit my key) and its little marks and dings are in different places.
Consequently, I am going to list this up for sale again, and keep trawling every place I can for mine. Thanks for all your input and assistance on this. |
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