The Mandolin Store / Ebay

[knockwood]

Anyone familiar with this ebay store? I've just about settled on purchasing a Blueridge BR-183 for my next guitar. Have been thinking I'd buy through Elderly mainly because of their great rep & I know they'll examine the instrument before sending it to me. But their price is $975 not including HSC. The Mandolin Store on Ebay, however, has the same model priced at $799 including HSC... I'm strongly considering these folks, but I'm a little hesitant. Why is their price so good? They have a 100% positive feedback rating, but seem to have executed ultimately less than 300 sales over several years. So I'm wondering if perhaps this particular store is a guy in his basement... Even so, should I be very concerned? Has anyone ever purchased from these folks before?

[JasmineTea]

I'm the guy in the basement, yeah i only sold 300 lousy guitars, but i got a lotta other stuff for sale, watch's, key-chains, bubblegum machines, heck, I gotta '67 VW microbus I'll sell ya, original tires, can't beat that!..oop, phone's ringin' gotta go by..

[mist]

knockwood, send Dennis a email.. He is very friendly and Censible Sounds is very good source too.. for Blueridges.. ken.. Check out Blueridge forum on Ezboard..

[mist]

knockwood, send Dennis a email.. He is very friendly and Censible Sounds is very good source too.. for Blueridges.. ken.. Check out Blueridge forum on Ezboard..

[Macartie]

It's very simple.The wholesale price is probably half of the

$1400 list price. The eBay store is willing

to make less than $100 profit on the

sale of the guitar. Elderly -- a

huge brick and mortar operation as well as

an online presence -- would rather make

$275 profit for the same guitar