The Mellotron Group

Good point Mike. Years ago, when I bought the Blue Mellotron on eBay, one  
guy kept pushing the bid. Although I prevailed, when I got to Connecticut 
and  saw the machine I found that the seller had totally misrepresented the 
machine.  I ended up getting him to lower the price substantially. Then I 
found out that  the other bidder was a friend of his and had been running the 
bid up. When I was  done with him I ended up getting the Tron for $400.00. It 
wasn't worth any more  than that. I ended up learning a valuable lesson. I 
won't buy Mellotrons on eBay  anymore and I do far more homework on any high 
ticket item I buy there. I  no longer will list Mellotrons for sale on eBay 
either.
 
Frank
 
 
In a message dated 4/27/2011 2:57:32 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
mike.dickson@gmail.com writes:

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.