Lol did you happen to notice how the rest of his place looks in the pics? Disgusting
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eBay horror guitar
- Thread starter ryan morris
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The peanut butter, the pipe and the unopened car insurance bills
He saved 100% on his car insurance, by not opening his GEICO statement.
Oh, they'll stoop even lower than that. Just glad it's getting resolved for him.
read this as "I don't know what these smell like normally"
Spit out a little coffee
That negative review wasn't there before I bought the guitar.. (its from June 6th). Also, I had good communication with the seller before the purchase, and thought the person sounded legit, and they've had their account for a while.
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Yeah, all those background pics should have told me way more.. the clues are so much clearer in retrospect. I don't know what I was thinking. BUT, I really never thought a person would just straight up try something this crazy. Like what were they expecting?
Not a new scam. I got burned on an R/C race car engine. It was listed on eBay as still needing break in time and the photos looked like a new engine, so I bought it. When it arrived it was a worn out POS that looked like it had seen combat. I figured the guy accidentally sent the wrong engine so I sent photos and since it was worn out I asked if he wanted it back. He said send it back and he’d refund me once he had it back. It was before paypal so no recourse except eBay and even back then they favored the seller. LSS he was not obligated to refund until I provided proof the item was shipped and if he refused to refund once it shipped the most eBay would do was suspend his account, so I kept the doorstop he sent me to save some other sucker from getting burned.
Sorry to see not much has changed.
Sorry to see not much has changed.
yea, there could have been some better pics in the listing, but actually the first pic on ebay shows enough of it to prove its either not the same guitar or something very bizarre happened in shipping.
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The guitar pics were pretty clear. It WAS nice. I can't even begin to imagine what could have happened to do THAT to a finish. Fingerpaint project with mineral spirits and primer?
If I had to make a story up, it would probably follow something like this:
Dude is sitting around, depressed that he lives in a putrid sty, looks for something to release him from the terrible reality, finds some old airplane stripper and starts huffing it. He accidentally spills some stripper on the guitar, panics and starts trying to scrape it off but it only makes the situation worse pushing the extra finish all into the f holes. He takes all the knobs off, thinking he can refinish it but only succeeds at rubbing the smell of the place deeper into the guitar. He debates whether anyone will notice but is too high to realize the guitar is now completely F'd. He then finds the nearest pos thin box and cuts it to the size of the guitar, thinks maybe it needs some padding in there, or something to soak up the rank cigarette smell, throws in a rolled up newspaper, thinks, OK, that's good, let me ship this beauty out, it's fine.
Looks like you need the Ghostbusters
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