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Title: Excel 5 and Rogue 4 on allegro.pl
Post by: basstard on October 13, 2008, 06:10:03 AM

Herea are the links to 2 beauties offered on allegro.pl (sort of ebay competition):
 
http://www.allegro.pl/item454966783_gitara_alembic_model_excel_5.html (http://www.allegro.pl/item454966783_gitara_alembic_model_excel_5.html)
http://www.allegro.pl/item454963948_gitara_alembic_model_rogue_4.html
 
The problem is, the seller doesn't seem to have much of an idea about them (he listed them under electric guitars!) and won't provide serial numbers. There are also no papers. He says they were imported from Scandinavia. Therefore I would like to ask if there were Alembics like those 2 reported stolen in Northern Europe. I'm not considering buying any of them now but there seems to be something fishy about these auctions and I wouldn't want anyone to get into any trouble because of that...
 
Thanks in advance for your help!

Title: Excel 5 and Rogue 4 on allegro.pl
Post by: adriaan on October 13, 2008, 06:16:46 AM

Definitely looks like the same instruments - Rogue 4 with wenge top and Excel 5 with canarywood.
 
It also says SPROWADZONE ZE SKANDYNAWI which apparently translates as fetched from Scandinavia - cheeky!

Title: Excel 5 and Rogue 4 on allegro.pl
Post by: basstard on October 13, 2008, 06:19:38 AM

It means imported from Scandinavia (btw, there's a spelling error - it should be Skandynawii, with two i's - but that's a marginal remark).

Title: Excel 5 and Rogue 4 on allegro.pl
Post by: adriaan on October 13, 2008, 06:27:48 AM

I sent an e-mail to Mica with the details, let's hope this gets sorted.
 
Best of luck with your own missing Alembic situation - your karma is in good standing.

Title: Excel 5 and Rogue 4 on allegro.pl
Post by: basstard on October 13, 2008, 06:31:19 AM

Thank you Adriaan! :-)

Title: Excel 5 and Rogue 4 on allegro.pl
Post by: mica on October 13, 2008, 08:02:52 AM

I've alerted my distributor in Norway. I'd appreciate it nobody contacted the sellers directly.   Thanks for letting us know about this - this is exactly the kind of thing that will assist in recovery.

Title: Excel 5 and Rogue 4 on allegro.pl
Post by: 3rd_ray on October 13, 2008, 10:26:08 AM

Good catch Jarek!
 
http://club.alembic.com/Images/403/56870.html?1222890350 (http://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=342)

Title: Excel 5 and Rogue 4 on allegro.pl
Post by: basstard on October 15, 2008, 04:47:32 AM

I've alerted the Polish police about it.