I've seen a lot of crap from this German seller, but this is above all...

[SurroundedByManatees]

Anyone who's checking ebay for used bass or guitar gear must be well known with this German seller that seems to be specialized in offering a lot of crap.... I think this is even crappy for his standards:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FENDER-MUSTANG-USA-CHARCOAL-EDITION-a-la-JIMI-HENDRIX/173693280838?hash=item2870ed2246:g:VWYAAOSwQf9bjURb

Really, where the f does he source this...?! 

[warwickhunt]

Is it April 1st?  

[Reggaebass]

That’s perfect for my woodburner 🙂

[lowregisterhead]

Who'd want to hang that on their wall? Besides anything else, I expect it smells awful.

[Happy Jack]

I dunno ... the English are very fond of saying that Germans have no sense of humour, and then get all po-faced about a very obvious joke. 

[prowla]

1 hour ago, Happy Jack said:

I dunno ... the English are very fond of saying that Germans have no sense of humour, and then get all po-faced about a very obvious joke. 

Yep - I like his "VERY HOT REAL RELIC".

[TheGreek]

It is a bit chilly today..expensive, but I'm sure it would make excellent firewood.

[prowla]

There's someone on one of the FB groups who did incinerate a Hondo II; he posted a pic of it in his woodburner...

[Dad3353]

9 hours ago, SurroundedByManatees said:

...Really, where the f does he source this...?! 

From an insurance company..? 

[Roger2611]

I have often wondered about this seller, pretty much everything I have ever seen him list is, in my opinion, overpriced rubbish, yet he has nearly 13000 feedback scores with the bulk of them being positive, who is buying this stuff and being happy with what they got and the price paid? It's a strange one!!

[Happy Jack]

That's because he's not advertising the rubbish he puts in his adverts; he's actually advertising his shop.

His adverts are so outrageous that they attract the curious, looking to scoff. When they see his actual site they realise he's a shrewd businessman with some pretty decent stuff at decent prices. Then they buy something and leave 100% Feedback.

Simples.

 

[binky_bass]

"Tuners in Melted condition"  ....is 'Melted' a condition? This guy clearly has a condition, it's call twatitis.

[Newfoundfreedom]

WTF?!!!

[binky_bass]

Santa needs a good list, a bad list and a people that need to be pulled apart by horses then tossed into the sun list. This guy would be on the latter list...

[TheGreek]

31 minutes ago, binky_bass said:

Santa needs a good list, a bad list and a people that need to be pulled apart by horses then tossed into the sun list. This guy would be on the latter list...

Glad to see you're getting into "the season of good will to all men" theme...😆😆

[yorks5stringer]

I love the 'broken E string, can easily be replaced'.

Edited December 17, 2018 by yorks5stringer

[GisserD]

it looks like its been buried underneath a house for 10 years. then the house burned down, and hey found it whilst digging the foundations for the new house 10 years later!!

[dyerseve]

2 hours ago, yorks5stringer said:

I love the 'broken E string, can easily be replaced'.

Quite, that would clearly be my only concern when buying this...

[prowla]

11 hours ago, Happy Jack said:

That's because he's not advertising the rubbish he puts in his adverts; he's actually advertising his shop.

His adverts are so outrageous that they attract the curious, looking to scoff. When they see his actual site they realise he's a shrewd businessman with some pretty decent stuff at decent prices. Then they buy something and leave 100% Feedback.

Simples.

 

Flaming heck, his prices are high!

[Happy Jack]

They probably looked a little less intimidating before Brexit wrecked the Pound ...

 

[SurroundedByManatees]

8 hours ago, Happy Jack said:

They probably looked a little less intimidating before Brexit wrecked the Pound ...

 

Actually I saw a few pieces that he has on ebay for years, with recently raised prices, in euro's....... 😁

[prowla]

10 hours ago, Happy Jack said:

They probably looked a little less intimidating before Brexit wrecked the Pound ...

 

Ah - the pound in your pocket...

[yorks5stringer]

Ah yes, they call it 'The Brexit dividend'....

[tauzero]

4 hours ago, yorks5stringer said:

Ah yes, they call it 'The Brexit dividend'....

I'm going to be getting one of those. It's called a redundancy payment.

[Shaggy]

On 17 December 2018 at 10:35, Happy Jack said:

That's because he's not advertising the rubbish he puts in his adverts; he's actually advertising his shop.

His adverts are so outrageous that they attract the curious, looking to scoff. When they see his actual site they realise he's a shrewd businessman with some pretty decent stuff at decent prices. Then they buy something and leave 100% Feedback.

Simples.

 

I thought there had to be some strategy in the apparent craziness.   

Though not so many years ago he listed a fretless Wal neck with BIN of a mere £350 - albeit with truss rod nut missing so truss rod could have been FUBAR.   Sadly,  I dithered too long.......

On 19 December 2018 at 00:51, tauzero said:

I'm going to be getting one of those. It's called a redundancy payment.

Damn, really sorry to hear that tauzero, right before Christmas too