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Location: Burbank | What kind of custom standard balladeer could this possibly be? The one that fell off the truck?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2372065222&category=33029 |
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Location: On the beach in Southwest Florida | No, that's who is supposed to bid on it. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Hey, you never know. I've seen a lot less get sold for a lot more. Dave |
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Location: SoCal | re: "The one that fell off the truck?"
Scio, Oregon...I guess that would be a logging truck. |
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Location: Minden, Nebraska | Darn.... I'm sorry I missed this one. I could have had a $3500 Balladeer for only $900 INCLUDING a football shaped label with a building on it!!
With all due respect to the seller, where does this kind of information come from? The seller either thinks the eBay Ovation market fell off trucks, as Peter observed, OR some dealer took him to the cleaners.
I have heard comparable spiels in the state to the east of me (Iowa) these last weeks. |
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Location: Burbank | Hey, if you think his discription is good, his email response was classic. I have pasted it below for your enjoyment!
I sent him an email questioning his 12 string being "custom" and why was it so expensive. I touched a VERY sensative nerve as you will read, have fun!
AND THE WORLD IS MADE OF CHEESE AND YOU BUYING A 12 STRING GUITAR MADE CUSTOM FOR ME AND SINCE YOU CANT HAVE ONE I HAVE THE SMALL LIST OF THE CUSTOM 12 BALLADEER DONT YOU HAVE ANY THINK ELSE TO DO OTHER THAN TELL AND SHARE YOUR FANTASY WITH A PROFESSIONAL MUSICIAN WE JUST RECEIVED A BUY KNOW OFFER FOR 1450.00 LATER SAD SAD SADD LITTLE PERSON YOU A CLOSE FRIEND OF MINE NAMED STEVIE BEFORE HE DIED WHY SAY ANYTHING IF ITS NOT TRUE AND MORE NICE PUT YOURS UP ON THE SERVICE FOR SIX ILL BID ILL BUY AND YOU WONT DELIVER CAUSE YOU DONT HAVE ONE LATER YOUR NOT JUST CURIOUS YOUR SADD OR ANOTHER FOUR LETTER WORD THAT ENDS WITH R LATER PLEASE DONT E-MAIL I GIG 42 WEEKS A YEAR ON STAGE NOT MY MIND PUT YOUR NAME ON YOUR E-MAIL AS THE CUSTOM BALLADEER ARE FEW AND AFTER THE DISTRIBUTER WITH ACOPY OF YOUR MESSAGE HE WONDERS IF IF ALL ARE ACCOUNTED EXEPT FOR ONE THAT WAS STOLEN IF YOUD BE SO KIND AS TO GIVE YOUR NAME THAT WAY HE WOULD GIVE IT TO THE PROPER FOLKS I HOPE YOU FIND SOMETHING BETTER TO DO WITH YOUR TIME THAN TO SPIN WISH YOU WELL REALITY IS A GREAT CONCEPT TRY IT ''' |
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Location: Burbank | Notice he said he had a buy it now for $1450! His auction didn't have a buy it now nor did he sell it at all! Got to love people like this! |
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Location: On the beach in Southwest Florida | Pretty Amazing amid all the great deals. Just got a new (as in never sold but not the most newly manufactured) 12 string Balladeer for $375 plus $29 shipping. |
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Location: Minden, Nebraska | Mario,
That was a rather amazing response he sent you. Now I even better understand the title you gave the original thread.
If the guy gigs as much as he says, he must be more musically articulate than he is literary.
I suspect he still has the guitar...
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Peter,
Congrats on your score. Anytime you can get even a fairly recent USA made Ovation 12 in great condition is an excellent deal. |
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Location: NJ | TEN.
(The number of times this guy used the word "custom" in his somewhat brief but nonsensical description:-) |
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Location: SoCal | I wonder if English is this guy's first language? Maybe "custom" was the first word he learned in English and he likes it. |
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Location: Minden, Nebraska | Amendment to my prior post:
"Anytime you can get even a fairly recent USA made Ovation 12 in great condition is an excellent deal."
That should include "for under $400"!
If you pay more, it should be Custom. :p |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | Go look under this guy's feedback and look at the "vintage junk" he's buying.........then you'll understand why he thinks his Ovation 12 is "custom" and should be worth what he's asking......look what he's compairing it to!! :eek:
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Mike :rolleyes: |
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Location: NJ | Not that it matters . . . but I think this being offered by a woman. |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | Ooohh.............................. :rolleyes:
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Gender & erudition, notwithstanding, the value assessed by the seller versus the concensus of The Membership is entertaining. I find no indications or evidence to support the inflated value placed on this instrument, either. Probably explains for the comparatively caustic, and defensive, posturing of the seller of this "vintage" instrument.
Caveat emptor,
Chris |
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Location: Warren, OH | I believe PT Barnum said that there's a sucker born every minute. Must be who the seller is looking for. |
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Location: On the beach in Southwest Florida | Could also be what the seller was (a sucker) when he was the buyer. |
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Location: Baltimore, MD. | It's a shame what crack does to a person's brain. That and THIS (Traumatic Head Injury Syndrome).
I wonder if the dead Stevie reference is supposed to be SRV? Because Jimi was a close personal friend of mine and he told not to buy from people like this.
I don't know about you folks, but I'm certainly impressed. |
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| I have a 1978 Ovation 1619 Custom that will be for sell on ebay this week. I will post a new thread when it starts and give everyone the link.
I'm don't smoke, so this will be a no reserve auction where the buyers set the price.
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Location: SoCal | John,
We'll be watching...thanks for giving us the advance notice. |
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What is this guy smoking?
