Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

I, like most of you I'm sure, enjoy perusing the selection of Rickenbackers on ebay. Well, during tonight's session I found a rather peculiar posting for a 1967 325(1996) in fireglo for only $1700 "buy it now" price. I know! Dirt cheap. After reading through the numerous spelling and grammatical errors I was a bit turned off by it. Also, I thought I had seen it somewhere before. I searched for it here in the register and found the about a year ago it sold for $6000 on ebay. Even more striking was that the pictures on the register are the same for the ebay posting. Hmmmmmmm.

I thought that I would bring it up on here and see if anyone knew what the real deal was with this guitar. I think it's too cheap to be true. But who knows? Maybe he just needs some fast cash...

Here's a link to it.
http://cgi.ebay.com/1967-Rickenbacker-3 ... 362wt_1139

Greg, that's commonly known as a "hijacked" or "hacked" auction.

Stay clear.

There are numerous threads on this topic here in the RRF. Simply use the SEARCH feature at top right of the page.

Greg,

Whenever you see an an eBay ad that looks something like this:
It's a scam. Run away! You'll notice the text is actually a jpeg file. They do this so it looks like a picture to eBay and it takes a little longer to get caught.

I hope that helps, good luck!

Dan

Thought so! I wasn't actually going to try to buy it because some deals are just too good to be true. I just wanted to do my part in trying to make everyone aware of a would-be scam. Also I thought it was a jpeg, and that's funny that they all use the same darn one... complete with spelling errors as well.

On a side note: does anyone have a 1964 325 in Jetglo with no f-hole played by the front man of a certain 60's pop group for sale for less than 2 grand?

That would be reeeaaal nice.

if you see that offer on the bay RUN!