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Long time lurker…short time hobbyist bassist. I could go on about how much of a novice I am…picking up electric bass to try and stay relevant to my teen daughter who also recently picked up electric guitar…1 guess who is vastly superior 🤦🏻‍♂️…. Anywho, I digress. The site in my heading. Anyone...

Just saw a post on here regarding a Ken smith listing on reverb going for about 2-3k from a new "european" seller, and just wanted to get my reply to that out there to more eyes here on TB. Scammers are getting smarter, and they know what we like. I'll just paste my reply to that Post here. I...

So I put my Eden TN501 up on Reverb (also posted here in the classifieds). I've already gotten 2 suspicious interactions and I've not had them before on Reverb and I've sold a few things on there prior. 1st. " I’m making an inquiry for my Dad and i have sent him the pictures, his interested...

I don't know if I am the only one but I've always suspected that some outrageously expensive items on Ebay were just part of a money laundry schemes. Let's say I have $6,000 cash to launder. I list 3 Squiers that I don't have for $2000. No one will buy them obviously. I give the cash to one or...

This has happened twice… “I saw your ad. I want to buy it. Are you the first owner of it ? I don't check cl mail , so email me” …then there’s a name attached to a Gmail account with an unusual, unrelated name. I have a couple of things listed, but there’s no reference in that response as to what...

Received this email; while I’m in the Palm Springs region, the stuff I usually sell is so weird/esoteric/niche that often I don’t bother with here or the IE, and just put my ads in the LA edition. I wonder if this is going to be a trend, if it’s some sort of scam/phishing, or what. I don’t do...

MUSSIONS ARE YOU READY TO CHANGE YOUR BUSINESS MODEL? (Global) hide this posting [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] Hi; am known as Saw Man Chuck and I have talked and watched many of you after you have finished on stage and moved to the fan merchandising table, for years. This is a lot of hard...

Your phone owns you; but that shouldn't be too much of a surprise if you've been paying attention. Ever escalating, the robocall wars will never be over. Like the old joke goes, if you're talking to yourself, no problem, just don't answer yourself. Me getting a call from me has already...