Mellotronists

"I have the exact (VINTAGE MELLOTRON M 400 MOOG ARP AN) that you are
bidding on in my private stock, but for a better price."


-------YIKES! That is so wrong in so many ways it's amazing. I
wouldn't bid five cents for that poor thing unless it was delivered
to my door, COD, and I had the chance to inspect and test it before
paying for it. What problems could possibly arise from ordering
through some schmuck with an already evident lack of scruples, having
no way of verifying said schmuck's real identity and particulars, or
the legality of provenance of the instrument, huh?
JS

On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, jonesalley wrote:

> "I have the exact (VINTAGE MELLOTRON M 400 MOOG ARP AN) that you are
> bidding on in my private stock, but for a better price."
>
> -------YIKES! That is so wrong in so many ways it's amazing. I
> wouldn't bid five cents for that poor thing unless it was delivered
> to my door, COD, and I had the chance to inspect and test it before
> paying for it. What problems could possibly arise from ordering
> through some schmuck with an already evident lack of scruples, having
> no way of verifying said schmuck's real identity and particulars, or
> the legality of provenance of the instrument, huh?
> JS

has(ve) the serial number(s) been divulged to anyone yet?
[not that he may not indeed lie about it regardless]

none of the pics revealed it that i could make out.

...jeff

----- Original Message -----

From: David Jacques

To: 'jonesalley' ; Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 2:46 PM

Subject: RE: [Mellotronists] eBay

And where was this “private stock” warehoused? In some shack in Afghanistan? Yeah, that’s the first place I would store a group of Mellotrons. As far as I am concerned, I hope that the idiots fall for this. As like other EBay scams, it’s all a part of Darwin’s theory…

 

-----Original Message-----
From: jonesalley [mailto:jonesalley@...]
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 12:08 PM
To: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Mellotronists] eBay

 

"I have the exact (VINTAGE MELLOTRON M 400 MOOG ARP AN) that you are
bidding on in my private stock, but for a better price."


-------YIKES!  That is so wrong in so many ways it's amazing.  I
wouldn't bid five cents for that poor thing unless it was delivered
to my door, COD, and I had the chance to inspect and test it before
paying for it. What problems could possibly arise from ordering
through some schmuck with an already evident lack of scruples, having
no way of verifying said schmuck's real identity and particulars, or
the legality of provenance of the instrument, huh?
JS

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At 14:51 06/11/03 -0600, JS wrote:

>Actually, I'm probably going to bid on it as I am going to have a BUNCH of
>spare cash quite soon.

Hey, now that just ain't fair - I'M expecting a bit of a windfall
too..................

>I just got a private and confidential email from the wife of a high
>government official in a country in Africa (which I'm not going to divulge
>here)

I think she might sleep, I meam schmuk, around 'cos I've had a confidential
mail too. Probably a different African
country though. That would explain it.

>asking for my help, for which I will be very well compensated, in
>transferring a large amount of money from their account in Africa to the
>United States so it doesn't fall into the hands of terrorists.

Ah well, that proves my email is true because I will be getting a large
compensation for looking after money that would otherwise fall into the
hands of unscrupulous opposition politicians.

Aren't these people so wonderfully socialist and philanthropic in their
outlook?

> Ha, ha, suckers, I'll be driving a Bentley soon!

What? Bentley? You're the sucker, I've just bid and got a Rolls Royce
Silver Gross on ebay.
OK, it's LHD and has to be shipped in parts by DHL, but what the hell? I'm
getting a Roller -
Stroll on all of y'use................

Nicx