Members Cougar Hunter Posted May 2, 2005 Members Share Posted May 2, 2005 I've seen 2 pickups now that I had sold, and now they are being resold. It makes one wonder how many people have owned the stuff you buy on ebay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members El Glom-o Posted May 2, 2005 Members Share Posted May 2, 2005 No. But one day I was throwing some stuff away at the city dump and a guy asked me if he could have the cymbal case I was discarding. He gave me a story about picking up things for his nephew's band and that their drummer could use the case. Since I was getting rid of it anyway, I let him have it. The very next day, I saw the guy at a flea market with the cymbal case among the items he was selling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BowerR64 Posted May 2, 2005 Members Share Posted May 2, 2005 Originally posted by El Glom-o No.But one day I was throwing some stuff away at the city dump and a guy asked me if he could have the cymbal case I was discarding. He gave me a story about picking up things for his nephew's band and that their drummer could use the case. Since I was getting rid of it anyway, I let him have it. The very next day, I saw the guy at a flea market with the cymbal case among the items he was selling. Did you question him about it? reminds me of the Arnold movie, Total Recal "i got 9 kids to feed man" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members batotman Posted May 2, 2005 Members Share Posted May 2, 2005 Yeah I've seen probably 5 guitars I've sold being resold on ebay. However....every single time they sold it at a loss, some at a big loss! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Buerk Posted May 2, 2005 Members Share Posted May 2, 2005 Yep. The ES-Jr. was auctioned off at a charity auction, and the guy later sold it on eBay for a healthy profit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jjpistols Posted May 2, 2005 Members Share Posted May 2, 2005 Originally posted by Paul Buerk Yep. The ES-Jr. was auctioned off at a charity auction, and the guy later sold it on eBay for a healthy profit. Is that the one you built? That was sweet, what did it go for? Was the guy a fool or what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DaveF Posted May 2, 2005 Members Share Posted May 2, 2005 Yeah, I saw a guy sell a guitar he had bought from me off of ebay.He saved all the pictures I'd taken and reused them in his auction.And it went for $100 more then it did when I sold it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BowerR64 Posted May 3, 2005 Members Share Posted May 3, 2005 Thats whats fun about e-bay, you can play em a while and resell em for about what you gave, sometimes you lose a little and sometimes you gain a little. Its alot of fun, ive had so many guitars the past few years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members XXX Posted May 3, 2005 Members Share Posted May 3, 2005 I bought a goth V from musiciansfriend that was supposed to be a "blemish" . When I got it it had a 12 inch long cut to to wood down one wing , chips out of the bottom of the wings , dents in the back and chip in the headstock. I raised hell about this "blemish" at MF but they did good by giving me a brand new one at the same price and overnighted the shipping. Ok so a few months later , I see this V on Ebay minus all the hardware . So they either sold it again , or they do ebay for some stuff ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jjpistols Posted May 3, 2005 Members Share Posted May 3, 2005 Originally posted by GuitarPorter I bought a goth V from musiciansfriend that was supposed to be a "blemish" . When I got it it had a 12 inch long cut to to wood down one wing , chips out of the bottom of the wings , dents in the back and chip in the headstock. I raised hell about this "blemish" at MF but they did good by giving me a brand new one at the same price and overnighted the shipping.Ok so a few months later , I see this V on Ebay minus all the hardware . So they either sold it again , or they do ebay for some stuff ? Probably went to their clearance center in KCMO. What was the location of the seller? Probably a local who bought it, stripped it, and tried to get money back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Buerk Posted May 3, 2005 Members Share Posted May 3, 2005 Originally posted by jjpistols Is that the one you built? That was sweet, what did it go for? Was the guy a fool or what? Yes, it's that one, and Thank you. I appreciate the comments, and yes I am an attention junkie. At the auction, it went for $375 but not without some controversy. Other people were trying to bid on it, but the auctioneer service guys just blew it. The guy who won was just trying to help bid up the price (after all, it was for charity), and since the auctioneers couldn't see or hear he got stuck with it. On eBay, he got $610 for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jjpistols Posted May 3, 2005 Members Share Posted May 3, 2005 Originally posted by Paul Buerk Yes, it's that one, and Thank you. I appreciate the comments, and yes I am an attention junkie. At the auction, it went for $375 but not without some controversy. Other people were trying to bid on it, but the auctioneer service guys just blew it. The guy who won was just trying to help bid up the price (after all, it was for charity), and since the auctioneers couldn't see or hear he got stuck with it. On eBay, he got $610 for it. I never played it, of course, but just from the pics I'm thinking the ebay buyer got a steal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members El Glom-o Posted May 3, 2005 Members Share Posted May 3, 2005 Originally posted by BowerR64 Did you question him about it? No. I didn't give a damn since it was broken and I was getting rid of it anyway. And who knows, maybe he actually did offer it to his nephew's drummer, the drummer already had a case, this one was broken and missing the strap, so he was selling it at the flea market. But it was funny a couple of weeks later when I bought something from him and called him by name. That surprised the hell out of him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Crunchtime Posted May 3, 2005 Members Share Posted May 3, 2005 I sold a guy a superstrat I pieced together. It had a homemade body. It did not look homemade. It was really nice. But, when the guy resold it he claimed to believe it was a warmoth. I never gave him any reason to believe it was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dot-dot-dot Posted May 3, 2005 Members Share Posted May 3, 2005 I made a loop switching box for someone once; he immediately put it up on a Swedish auction site for more than he'd paid. I got a lot of emails and business from that; no idea if he ever sold it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jerry_picker Posted May 3, 2005 Members Share Posted May 3, 2005 What's sick is when you buy something that you once sold on Ebay, a couple owners down the line. What's even worse is when you don't realize it's the exact item you had before until you actually receive it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jeffcoop Posted May 3, 2005 Members Share Posted May 3, 2005 Last fall, I sold a guitar to a fellow forumite, then saw it on eBay about two weeks later, with the pictures I had sent to him. Apparently, his wife discovered that another guitar had arrived and objected. Vigorously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cougar Hunter Posted May 3, 2005 Author Members Share Posted May 3, 2005 Originally posted by jeffcoop Last fall, I sold a guitar to a fellow forumite, then saw it on eBay about two weeks later, with the pictures I had sent to him. Apparently, his wife discovered that another guitar had arrived and objected. Vigorously. You didn't play @ guitarmageddon did you?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Aaron Cheney Posted May 3, 2005 Members Share Posted May 3, 2005 If you watch Ebay carefully you'll see a few guitars that turn up over and over again. I while back I got a Don Grosh off the 'bay. Turned out to be the worst Grosh I've ever played. Man.... it was truly terrible. Quickly resold it on Ebay for just about what I paid for it. Since then I've seen it up for bids three more times. I feel better knowing that I'm not the only one that feels like it was a dud. A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members crazyeddie Posted May 3, 2005 Members Share Posted May 3, 2005 I sold a Marshall Silver Jubilee on Ebay that had a problem with the presence control. The guy I sold it to put it up for auction about two weeks later and did not mention the problem to the prospective buyers. That's pretty low if you ask me. He got about two hundred more for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Edward Posted May 3, 2005 Members Share Posted May 3, 2005 Interesting thread... I've never seen anything that was *mine* as such up for resale on ebay, nearest I've come was i happened one day to chance across an ex's auctions, selling a bunch of stuff that was all presents I'd bought her. That was a bit weird at the time, cause i wasn't fully over her then. That aside, nah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jeffcoop Posted May 3, 2005 Members Share Posted May 3, 2005 Originally posted by guitarslinger213 You didn't play @ guitarmageddon did you?? Nope. Sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sufidancer Posted May 3, 2005 Members Share Posted May 3, 2005 Originally posted by jerry_picker What's sick is when you buy something that you once sold on Ebay, a couple owners down the line. What's even worse is when you don't realize it's the exact item you had before until you actually receive it. You take the cake!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members unichord Posted May 3, 2005 Members Share Posted May 3, 2005 there's a guitar on ebay now - that is sitting in my house.......The seller is from France, the guitar is sitting in chicago.And it's not for sale????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Skybone Posted May 4, 2005 Members Share Posted May 4, 2005 I managed to buy back the stock pickups from my Tokai Love Rock that I'd sold to the seller a couple of months previous, for less than he paid for them. I was quite happy about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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