Another possibly fishy ebay deal

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whoops, i'm sorry, i broke your new purchase.

turn him in

 

BS
It's a Fender, the neck isn't going to get messed up from a little fall.
A Les Paul, maybe.
I would ask for photos & report him.

 

Do it! Since you didn't get a guitar, at least have some fun messing with him!

 

Up to you, Jim.

Personally, I've learned in the last couple of years that life's too short to waste what will inevitably be a huge amount of time & effort on something like this where your chances of eventually getting the guitar at the price you paid are extremely low.

Sucks, but now you can blacklist this seller and remember not to bid on his stuff from this point on.

If you absolutely want to report him, keep an eye out for the exact same guitar popping up again and use that as key evidence against him.

 

while I basically agree with SM & MJ, there is this... if you do that that, you encourage that kind of behavior.

if he gets away with it here, he will only be emboldened to pull it again on the next guy who doesn't pay what he wanted. just as buyers are warned not to bid more than they are willing to pay, sellers have the option of putting a reserve price on an item.

if you do walk away, I understand. if, on the other hand, you go the 9 yards to punish him with ebay, more power to you.

 

No point in messing with it. You have a refund, go on with life and don't worry about it.

You don't know anything, you can't prove anything - so let it drop. No sense in fussing about what you THINK other people are doing.

 

I had the exact same scenario happen to me, but it was with a beautiful MIJ 50s Precision, tele headstock, in the rare trans white. You could see the ash grain, it was killer. The seller told me he dropped it and it broke. I asked for pictures, he never supplied them. Very disappointing.

Seller's remorse, obviously. I concur with others above; don't waste any more time playing head games with this guy, unless your life really is that void of activity.

 

You could likley be right, but plenty of people have put new strings on a guitar before selling it to someone.

Since youre not out anything, though, Id just let it go.

That makes the presumption that the guy is lying. While he certainly good be, without knowing for sure, its best to just leave it as is.

 

Seems to be a lot of these threads on here and a lot of foolery on eBay. Glad I try not to resort to eBay anymore for gear purchases. I too would request photos. Heck I have dropped my Fender's numerous times and the neck has never just broke. At least you got your money refunded, but yeah I would watch for a relist.

 

Yeah, re-listed with a miracle repair. So good you'd never be able to see the repair in pictures or even in person. So good it looks like it never broke at all.

 

Let us know what his seller name is, so we can start a feverish bidding war, and then have a family emergency come up unfortunately and not be able to pay....SHUCKS.

Edit:
Nevermind. Found him.

 

I won a Peavey G Bass neck on the Bay. The seller told me he was standing on the neck (to simulate a demonstration he had once seen) when it broke. He refunded my money but it popped up back on Ebay a couple of months later with part of the headstock cut off...to simulate a repair I guess. The auction ended for less than what I had bid on it.

If you're reading this AC Basses, you're an *******!