Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 00:01:19 +0200
Subject: [CB] Potententially fraudulent sale of a Selmer 40 EEb
Contra Alto
From: Klaus Bjerre
Dear fellows in contra-diction (some may call it contra speak)
One of the horn lists warned about the eBay sale of a rare
Yamaha custom descant horn by a seller with a short eBay record of only
being a buyer.
Among the other objects auctioned off by this seller is an
instrument most relevant to our list
I know, that some of you are extremely strong in legal aspects
like warning off eBay authorities. I am not.
Anyway I find it suspicious that an aunt having only owned two
expensive musical instruments for only a short wants a nephew selling
them with the paying channels being hard to trace.
Klaus
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Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 00:29:08 +0200
Subject: [CB] FW: Potententially fraudulent sale of a Selmer 40
EEb Contra Alto
From: Klaus Bjerre
Of course it is bad taste to reply to ones own posting, but when
I get mad the polish goes!
You have the auction link in the quote below here. Please try to
compare photo and wording to
This is not an attempt to bash music123 for a blunder in their
marketing, but an attempt to reveal how non-knowledgeable attempts of
fraudulence reveal themselves by using the less than optimal sources of
information.
In our comparatively little niche world of dealing with musical
instruments we are extremely dependent on trustworthiness. So the
scumbags shall be exposed with no mercy.
And no, I am not into clarinets at all. I do this for the mere
principle of honesty.
Klaus
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