Interesting Ebay…
Thursday October 09 2008
I peruse ebay quite often to see what junk people are selling, and sometimes I just wonder what goes through people’s minds.
Like this guy who’s been selling this Laubin for a month now, and every week it goes down $100. (It’s now the LAST… HOUR… and I see that it gets marked 10% off to a bargain basement price of $4400! Still $800 or so overpriced.)
Or this guy, who thinks a 80 year old ring-system loree in a ghetto looking case is worth $2700. Yeah. Right. (Meanwhile, you can get this oboe which is a few years older that the other one, with closed holes, and looking in better condition for $2000 cheaper.)
There’s even this guy who’s willing to repad your instrument for $350! ($400 for cork pads.) A great deal if he does good work! Who knows if he does good work though.
And then there’s this guy who sells terrible cane. I bought some a year or so ago, and it was like swiss cheese; every time I made a round, the flake (notice I don’t use the word “curl”) came out with gigantic holes in it and was stringy. Couldn’t do anything with it. (If you’re looking for cheap cane, go with the Bargain Bin cane from RDG…).
I guess the saying, “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” applies here. In any case, with the Dow dropping the way it is, it’s going to be hard to sell just about anything.
By the way, anyone interesting in purchasing an XL?
Oct 9, 2008
Cooper,
The RDG bargain basement cane is excellent. I bought a pound of 10-10.5 tube cane in Provo. Getting nice reeds from it.
Best,
john
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