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Market Place Scam

Hello All,

I just wanted to let ya'll know about a scam I got caught on the Atlanta Market Place. Christopher Ryan Cundari (Owner of Arithmetikatl) now in Miami had a KYDD bass listed for sale.

I contacted him to buy and we made the deal. He told me as soon as I paid him he would ship the bass and send me a tracking number. Then next day he contacted me and said he did not get it out the day before but would today. After that he would not answer my phone calls, texts or email.

So after almost a week - I made a complaint thru Pay Pal and started the process. He then contacted Pay pal with a tracking number and said it was shipped. Well that tracking number was almost a month old for something he had delivered to him from New York.

He then contacted me and said it was on the way - it never arrived. I had a friend contact him to see if the bass was still available. He told them yes and he would ship it right out after payment. But it is supposed to be on the way to me?

He knew I was in Atlanta and then he contacted me to meet him for delivery in Florida, I told him I was no longer interested in the bass and please send my money back. I never heard from him again.

He was not honest with me and I have since received my payment back from Pay Pal. Nice and easy working with Pay Pal and I am glad they helped me.
Truly a bad story but ended reasonably well. Glad you got your money back.

That said, it’s stories like yours that keeps me for internet sales. Unless the deal is backed PayPal, eBay, or using a credit card that has 100% fraud reimbursement or I have money to throw a way ( a very rare occurrence). And that is for buying only. Selling over the internet? I will never under any circumstance ship gear.

Keep in mind, I’m not a trader or collector. When I buy gear, it’s for the long haul. It’s a useful piece of gear, and when I’m done with it (which could be decades), 99% of the time I got way more than my money’s worth out of it. Any residual value I get from a sale is a bonus. Over the years I’ve found that Guitar Center is very good for this purpose.
 
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Funny story about that bass.

In October of 2020 I wanted a passive American Fender PJ without the greasebucket tone circuit and with hum cancelling pups. So I bought a Satin Lake Placid Blue American Performer Precision P/J (sitting next to the P bass in my profile pic) and ordered new CTS pots, etc... as well as Aguilar's hum cancelling P/J set and replaced all the electronics down to the output jack. I had no intentions of acquiring two basses two weeks apart but...

In order to recoup some of the money I spent on that bass, I put up a 2000 American made Peavey Foundation fretless for sale here on TB. The ad was only up for a few days when @LennyJ msgd me and wanted to know if I was willing to trade bass for bass for a P Bass, a 2019 MIM that had been upgraded with a real brushed aluminum pickguard, a FCS 62 P Pup and hip shot drop tuner. The original pup and pickguard were included in the deal as well. Matter of fact the stock pickguard to this day still has the protective film on it and is stored in the case sandwiched in cardboard.

Anyway I thought I could probably sell that bass faster than the fretless, could even bump the price up so I could be talked down to the price I originally wanted for the Peavey. So I agreed to the trade. And since I only lived a couple of hours away, I grabbed my mom and took her on a road trip to get the bass in person. Plus she got dinner at one of my fav local Greek restaurants that just happened to be in the town we met up in to make the trade 😁

I got back home, plugged the bass in, and never put it up for sale. It's one of the growliest P basses I've ever heard. It's a lot of fun to dig in hard on that bass. There's just nothing not to like about the bass. I've had offers for it here on TB, but no one has managed to talk me into selling it.

Hard to believe it's been 4 and half years since that trade. It doesn't get played often, but when it does it still puts a smile on my face.
Don't remind me. LOL - I wish I still have that Peavey and not sold it. Again glad you enjoy your part of the deal. Lenny
 
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