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Lowest Priced New Basses Ever??
- Thread starter FlaCharlie
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Ordered two different guitars and a bass from daco last night. Today I got info from daco acknowledging the orders. The site was still up this morning, but all but guitars and basses were not on it. Then ebay sent me an email saying "You may have gotten messages from a compromised seller." I got three of those. Then daco's site disappeared. I'll know if anything gets here in the next two weeks, and if nothing shows, I'll get my money back.
And that was fast too because those eBay listings went up just a day ago.
Well, no such messages about the seller robhe8875. Either eBay hasn't caught on yet or it's legit.
As much fun as it is to get an interesting bass to play and experiment (for CHEAP), the behind the scenes story is even more intriguing to me.
It's the mixture of contemporary global commerce and capitalism, literacy (how to tell if it's real or not, the deal, the item, the reviews), how world events influence all of this (coronavirus). I'm just so curious what is going on. Anyone else feel this way? The comments from @Mike Whitfield are really appreciated. I've learned a lot. Thanks.
robhe has not answered the two messages I've sent him so far. All 4 orders are marked as shipped, but the one supposedly shipping from NJ is missing tracking info. Not too concerned.
On the other hand, I ordered one of them acoustic basses for CAD 17.99. Not marked as shipped, seller not responding, and his items for sale is a strange mix. Massage table. Hydroponic growth tent. Floor fan. I'm expecting a message from ebay soon.
On the other hand, I ordered one of them acoustic basses for CAD 17.99. Not marked as shipped, seller not responding, and his items for sale is a strange mix. Massage table. Hydroponic growth tent. Floor fan. I'm expecting a message from ebay soon.
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Robhe answered my message, took a day but that's normal. As far as I can tell, the basses shipping from NJ are not getting tracking numbers....at least no one has said they have one yet.
Neither do I but, I did get an email alert yesterday that it shipped from NJ
From Daco...sorry can't find it now on ebay.even looking at my bought items.no longer available
That's all we needed. That's the guy that folks got the scam alert from eBay about today.
But i can't find the other guy's acount anymore on ebay.i'm posting from Spain
Th other guy's account is still there, just with nothing for sale. Items for sale by robhe8875 | eBay I haven't gotten any ebay messages. My order was through robhe8875, the guy who actually delivered basses before when they were $40 or whatever. Things aren't looking good, though.
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Mine was just delivered today! To someone in Delaware, when I live in North Carolina. and the tracking says it originated from Amazon in Connecticut, not in California where Daco was listed as. and eBay has already disabled their (Daco) account & sent messages saying it was a compromised account. But surely it must be legit, right?
So, I just got a message on the China shipments:
did you order from robhe8875? i have ordered 2 basses from him and received no ebay email...
maybe, but this is the last thing reported.
Processed Through Facility
GUANGZHOU EMS
i would imagine poor reporting from china post - i've experienced reporting from USPS twice in the last six months where they didn't track any movement on packages till after i literally received my stuff, when suddenly cays of info appeared.
since it often takes me over a month to receive packags from china, i was just commenting - i'm not worried about it.
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Daco and one other account that was selling the cheap instruments, eBay has disabled.
Robhe8875 is still a valid registered eBay account. The only suspicious thing right now, is they have no items selling in their store, where yesterday they had a number of things besides the cheap instruments.
