eBay - Not Just Fake Guitars

[cytania]

Just come across this angry article on a coin collecting site.

http://www.goldsovereigns.co.uk/bewarebuyingsovereignonebay.html

Same problems, eBay don't care about all the fakes.

[discreet]

Nothing is real. Except for eBay's bulging coffers.

[Mr. Foxen]

Coins and stamps and simlar things took a massive hit with the internet making it suddenly very apparent just how common certain things actually are, and took a lot of the price control out of the hands of the dealers, who run sites like that. They don't like it.

[BetaFunk]

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Coins and stamps and simlar things took a massive hit with the internet making it suddenly very apparent just how common certain things actually are, and took a lot of the price control out of the hands of the dealers, who run sites like that. They don't like it.
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The same thing happened with vinyl. Record dealers used to jump with joy when the new Record Collectors Guide came out every year and they could see how much their stock was worth as the prices seemed to rise every year. Then ebay came along and we found that a lot of those 'rare' records weren't actually that rare at all.

[cytania]

What saddens me is that coins were created to be verifiable with hard to copy designs. Fender made his guitars to be easily produced and any markings are simply left over from the manufacturing process. McPherson acoustic guitars have a tiny reverse inlay [u]inside the body[/u] under the bridge which shows their logo to an inserted mirror, now that's fake-proofing.

Off topic note: McPherson guitars are one of the few high-end acoustics I could immeidately hear the difference with just playing one in Sheehan's, prices around £5000!