Don'cha just love ads like these.

[3'scompany]

Re: Don'cha just love ads like these.

Thanks very much man. I was actually going to offer him a fair price too.

You were going to offer the market price for a tele of its vintage? Saying, "I may just win the e-lottery at the expense of this guy." doesn't really make that seem to be the case.

Say what you will about Pretzel emailing him, and who knows if it actually is a vintage tele, but preying on the uninformed isn't exactly taking the moral high ground...

 

[firebirdV]

Re: Don'cha just love ads like these.

I don't think that taking advantage of a person's ignorance is anything to be proud of. Would you let a blind person buy a candy bar from you for a hundred dollar bill because they thought it was a one dollar bill?

 

[Guest]

Re: Don'cha just love ads like these.

Right, because any of you wouldn't jump on it.

Now we have one more collector's instrument.

 

[Arpanet]

Re: Don'cha just love ads like these.

You were going to offer the market price for a tele of its vintage? Saying, "I may just win the e-lottery at the expense of this guy." doesn't really make that seem to be the case.

Say what you will about Pretzel emailing him, and who knows if it actually is a vintage tele, but preying on the uninformed isn't exactly taking the moral high ground...

True, saying I was going to take advantage of him was somewhat d!ckish of me, though I said that partly out of excitement at the prospect and partly as a joke.

However, it's still not cool for him to ruin my chances of getting what could be a fine vintage instrument. The seller obviously has no use for it, and I'd probably be giving him a better offer than your average pawn shop would. If he was willing to sell it for what I'd offered him, all parties would have been happy.

 

[firebirdV]

Re: Don'cha just love ads like these.

I don't think I would. My aunt accidentally passed up an amazing deal on a few vintage pieces last year and I have been thinking about it. I don't think I would be able to take advantage of the situation.

 

[StalePretzel]

Re: Don'cha just love ads like these.

Actually i was just mad i couldn't afford it so i crippled all of your chances. I'm sorry guys. I know it was wrong now...

 

[Arpanet]

Re: Don'cha just love ads like these.

Actually i was just mad i couldn't afford it so i crippled all of your chances. I'm sorry guys. I know it was wrong now...

Was that really the reason you did it?

That's low dude...

 

[3'scompany]

Re: Don'cha just love ads like these.

This thread has dumb written all over it.

 

[LobsterSausage]

Re: Don'cha just love ads like these.

*facepalm*

 

[cmatthes]

Re: Don'cha just love ads like these.

Guys - I'm pretty sure this is one of those attention-seeking ads I see on CL all the time and not at all legit.

Somebody is starved for attention and never has the guitar in the first place. The feigned ignorance thing has been done to death over the last 20 years - even before there was a CL, this was done in the VG classifieds and plenty of other places. The bogus seller gets some sort of perverse thrill out of fielding calls and getting people's hopes up for the deal of the Century, and then they wait for the lowball offer and then say they've got somebody else looking at it (or they just sold it for $100). Heard and seen this all before - multiple times!

Some people just like stringing others along, and I'll bet you that ice cream that this is exactly what this is.

 

[Arpanet]

Re: Don'cha just love ads like these.

Well, the posting just got deleted, so we'll never know for sure.

 

[idsnowdog]

Re: Don'cha just love ads like these.

There's a critical assumption being made here that's wrong. The father has played in a country band for the last 40 years, does that mean his guitar is that old?

 

[Edgecrusher]

Re: Don'cha just love ads like these.

but preying on the uninformed isn't exactly taking the moral high ground...

The guy is on craigs list so really would it be so hard for him to be informed? Even just google searching for 1960's Telecaster would have given the seller an idea or a quick search of Ebay.

Just saying theres alot of assumptions going on around here. But deliberately trying to torpedo another forum member just for spite isnt so cool.

 

[75lespaul]

Re: Don'cha just love ads like these.

Guys - I'm pretty sure this is one of those attention-seeking ads I see on CL all the time and not at all legit.

Somebody is starved for attention and never has the guitar in the first place. The feigned ignorance thing has been done to death over the last 20 years - even before there was a CL, this was done in the VG classifieds and plenty of other places. The bogus seller gets some sort of perverse thrill out of fielding calls and getting people's hopes up for the deal of the Century, and then they wait for the lowball offer and then say they've got somebody else looking at it (or they just sold it for $100). Heard and seen this all before - multiple times!

Some people just like stringing others along, and I'll bet you that ice cream that this is exactly what this is.

Yep, that's why I posted. This thread went SO where I didn't think it would.

There's a critical assumption being made here that's wrong. The father has played in a country band for the last 40 years, does that mean his guitar is that old?

I caught that immediately and emailed him asking "did your father play in the fifties but this is a MIM or something new, or is the GUITAR from the 50s or 60s?" and I never got an answer, lol. I just wanted to zing the poster a little. I even sent that email before I started this thread.

The guy is on craigs list so really would it be so hard for him to be informed? Even just google searching for 1960's Telecaster would have given the seller an idea or a quick search of Ebay.

Yep, just what I said in my original post. While I don't get all bent outta shape at stuff like this, I still wonder what kind of kick people get out of doing it if you're over eleven years old. Maybe it's me? I just don't see how it is fun. Or maybe the guy who ran the ad is eleven years old :naughty:.