Author Topic: Oh so bogus!  (Read 300 times)

David Houck

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Oh so bogus!
« Reply #15 on: October 28, 2007, 09:15:06 AM »
Hi Sergio, welcome to the board.  Many of the members of this club watch Ebay Alembic listings on a daily basis.  We've seen hundreds of fraudulent listings.  Two of the common tells of a fraudulent listings are pictures that have been lifted of another listing or another site, and pictures that do not match the description in the listing.  Your listing has both of these features.  Thus, it is quite understandable that our members would be concerned about the veracity of your listing.  In fact, one of the members posting to this thread has had pictures of his bass lifted and used in fraudulent listings.  Unfortunately, there are many people trying to steal money from honest musicians by selling nonexistent instruments on Ebay.  We see fraudulent listings all the time; that's why we're concerned.  No one here is out to disparage you personally for no good reason.  In the instant case, you chose to use pictures of basses that you don't own instead of pictures of the bass that you are trying to sell.  That's why everyone is so concerned.  You may have good reasons for that decision, but the reasons are not shown on the listing.  So, I do hope you will understand that our concerns are reasonable based on our past experiences.

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« Reply #16 on: October 28, 2007, 09:21:44 AM »
Sergio, as the original poster, I guess I should say something.. but many have jumped in and let you know what the intentions were.  They are speaking correctly.  Granted, I have a strange personality, so that was the source of the amused quip.. there are many out there who have posted fake sales using photos like this.
 
Anyways.. glad I was wrong.
 
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« Reply #17 on: October 28, 2007, 10:47:34 AM »
thank you all