Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 1:34 pm
Did this happen to anybody else?: I placed a no hope bid just for the heck of it on this guitar. Some goof contacted me from British Columbia (Or so he/she says) claiming to also have a 1959 Rick 4000 for sale that I could have for $2700.00. He/she wrote in fractured Enlglish that he/she has a "new electronics store" and has one of these. I wrote back and told them that it looked like some kind of computer generated mistake. They got back to me and said no mistake, they have one. So I asked them to send me a photo. They sent photos that were obviously from the ebay auction that started this thread. So I emailed them back and told them that it looked surprisingly similar to the one that just sold on ebay, and that I must have it! Then I asked them where to send my money. They still haven't written me back and that was two days ago. Obviously, I'm NOT going to deal with this person/people, but I'm just wondering if they're trying to scam me only or others also. I think this happened to me with another ebay auction once about a year ago. Its just kinda funny. I think it must be some 9-year-old kid playing with the computer and trying to see what he/she can get away with.