The overarching problem with eBay is that it is pretty easy to be entirely dishonest. Not that long ago a guy with a Hammond X to sell made up the 'going rate' for it by staging four other 'auctions' for a similar product and having the price go through the ceiling, thereby setting what appeared to be the market price. People don't really research what they see on eBay - they tend to pay what they can afford and never consider the possibility that the seller is really a con man. I know eBay have some forms of protection and detection against this thing happening (as well as ghost bidding, etc) but they cannot really hope to be effective over all possibilities.
We've seen several cases of Mellotrons for sale over the last few years where it is pretty obvious to anyone that it's a fake sale. Maybe there are people out there who are bonkers over Chamberlins, but really - if this sale is genuine then it's
way over the odds for the article, let alone an article you are effectively buying sight unseen from someone you are perhaps unlikely to meet.
On 26/04/2011 10:36, Dieter wrote: