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Bing
Lokahi
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Bing
Lokahi
USA
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 Posted - 05/07/2007 : 08:43:36 AM
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Mainkaukau
Lokahi
USA
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Posted - 05/07/2007 : 11:01:06 AM
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Hi Bing, I was just telling Fran how I never saw one on auction on ebay all these past years and there it was. Steve was lucky I didn't see the auction. He would have ended up paying a little more. |
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Reid
Ha`aha`a
Andorra
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Posted - 05/07/2007 : 2:25:06 PM
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Bing, actually that is weird that Steve had put in what sounds like an auto-bid. I have guitar-maven friends that really know how to manipulate eBay (mostly for serious vintage instruments), and that is actually not a way to do it. Going for below $3k is very strange for a Grimes Beamer nylon string,and it it quite damaging for a luthier's rep. I am not an eBay expert and I rely on others who are, but this is something that should be thought out - unless Steve thinks he is unassailable. But I have seen very hot luthiers go from hot to not. I can name names in private :-). The instrument market is very fickle.
Besides, the pix were really ugly. You can't sell if you can't display your wares properly. Shoot, you were in a niche business, you know what it takes.
...Reid
PS. Eric, garanz that was a setup. Steve lost nothing, no matter what you would have bid - within human reason.
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Mark
Ha`aha`a
USA
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Posted - 05/08/2007 : 07:32:16 AM
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I e-mailed Grimes yesterday to razz him about this. He told me that this particular guitar was one he'd been using as a demo for a couple of years and that he'd regretted selling it in the first place. He said he was thrilled that it was back "home."
He also told me he'd put in a high auto bid because he wasn't going to be around for the weekend to watch the auction, and that he really wanted it back.
With a two-year waiting list for guitars that cost more than my van, I don't think our boy has to resort to e-Bay subtrifuge. B'sides, I happen to know this particular guitar, cuz I'd had my eye on it for a couple of years....
I offered to trade him for some time installing his home studio, but he declined. Now I'll have to settle for beer...
yours for truth and beauty,
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