Just wondering, why all the secrets with serial numbers?
Even license plates these days....everyone can see them driving down the street!
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Two Basses With the Same Serial Number! Uncanny!
- Thread starter M Sterling
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Even license plates these days....everyone can see them driving down the street!
Even more inexplicable is the currently rampant paranoia that bad guys are gonna kidnap the kids out of the front yard.
You should be so lucky, people!
Do a google search. Include the term 'fraud'.
There are plenty of explanations out there.
Serial numbers and photos of instruments with them online invites dishonesty and unscrupulous behavior from thieves. I've seen it happen.
Go ahead and post photos of your instruments with the serial numbers clearly showing. Nothing's a problem until it's a problem, right?
Go ahead and post photos of your instruments with the serial numbers clearly showing. Nothing's a problem until it's a problem, right?
My cereal has the same number on every box.
Low production numbers = higher odds of this happening.
Do the numbers spell anything significant or cryptic if you use their positions in the alphabet? For example, you say the numbers are in the 6000s, so the first letter would be F, obviously. I'm in complete agreeance about not posting the serial numbers out here, so don't tell us what they spell, unless it's even more mind-blowing than the odds of having those two numbers of 90,000 possibilities come up exactly the same (90,000= the possible combinations of five digits, since 6 is given as the first number and only the other five can be the variables)
Yes it means Coincidence. Its probably not worth you time trying to contact Ripley's Believe It Or Not.
Since we're talking coincidences -- my first band was looking for a keyboard player. We found one guy who toured with us for a while. For some reason we needed our Social Security numbers for something, and every number of his SS # matched mine, except the last number was off by 2. We figure we must have been in the SS office at the same time, ten years earlier.
That's awesome. Did it turn out later that it was like heaven or something and we were just supposed to forget about all those story lines from seasons 2-5 ?
Be glad they're not these numbers.
...or you'd have to play the riff from the "Car Wash" theme once every 108 minutes to avoid global catastrophe.
Gaolee
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I don't believe it at all. I require verification. Please send both of 'em to me for further examination and testing. Thanks.
Haha great responses guys! I'm definitely not gonna post the numbers, but would have no interest in making this up!
For clarification I bought them about 8 months apart. I got the sadowsky from a guy in Hong Kong (sorry eyeballkid!).
It looks like the lakland is sold now so the anomaly will be negated.
For clarification I bought them about 8 months apart. I got the sadowsky from a guy in Hong Kong (sorry eyeballkid!).
It looks like the lakland is sold now so the anomaly will be negated.
All joking aside, I'm pretty sure it's possible for a very tech savvy person to find out your IP address and then street address... Not likely, I know, but I wouldn't post my serial numbers.
My buddy and I bought two Hana Mod clones (copies of variable wattage ecig devices) from different stores a few weeks apart. A few months later mine - serial number 7916 - failed, and my buddy gave me his as a replacement.
I got on with using it quite happily, even after I saw the serial - 7912
.
I got on with using it quite happily, even after I saw the serial - 7912
.
