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Post subject: Re: Is this Select Strat real/fake? How to tell?
Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 3:44 pm
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Auction ended 3am my time, couldn't sleep 'till 6 or so because of the adrenaline rush.. imagine if I had snatched it :lol:


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Post subject: Re: Is this Select Strat real/fake? How to tell?
Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 5:04 pm
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Yeah its funny how those auctions can get the heart going.
Auction sniper is a handy tool. :D


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Post subject: Re: Is this Select Strat real/fake? How to tell?
Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2017 1:12 pm
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Retroverbial wrote:
The Select Strat's channeled fretboard had to be rather labor-intensive to fabricate even with the assistance of modern CNC technology. I'm not surprised that FMIC dumped the entire concept.

The AAA birdseye maple necks too makes it expensive. Finding pieces that are birdseye all the way adds considerably to the cost. That kind of wood doesn't grow on trees. Well, er. Um. YouknowwhatImean.

Anyhow, it's not so much the nice finishes they put on them that makes me a Select fan, but that they did use premium hardware, pickups and paid attention to details, which I think otherwise has been an issue with Fender lately. I don't see them as any less than the teambuilt custom shop "store models". I'm actually thinking of picking up a Select Jazzmaster.


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Post subject: Re: Is this Select Strat real/fake? How to tell?
Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2017 5:49 pm
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More on the auction..

The seller wrote me back like a day after it finished claiming the winning bidder wasn't paying and that if I was still interested in the guitar (which of course I was). I'm not a super ebay user so I figured the steps for him would be to re-publish the guitar and allow me to make an offer, right?

Well he said he couldn't do that, and he 'implied' (this is me reading his intention, I can be wrong) that he wanted to skip ebay and have me pay through paypal directly to which I said I wasn't comfortable, as I wouldn't be covered.

He mentioned that paypal covers buys, but I'm not fully into how they do that.. and I'm guessing that it won't work for 1-1 buy/sells, as there's no record of the item or the actual purchase being made.

So... it seems it was a shady firgure after all :-/ Hope he didn't screw someone up, or that I'm wrong about him..


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Post subject: Re: Is this Select Strat real/fake? How to tell?
Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2017 6:40 pm
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I think you were prudent to refuse the "second-chance" offer -- doubly so if the seller intended to bypass Ebay altogether, which would abrogate the benefits of EBay's buyer-protection plan should the deal go south (which at this point I suspect it would).

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Post subject: Re: Is this Select Strat real/fake? How to tell?
Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2017 4:28 pm
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Retroverbial wrote:
I think you were prudent to refuse the "second-chance" offer -- doubly so if the seller intended to bypass Ebay altogether, which would abrogate the benefits of EBay's buyer-protection plan should the deal go south (which at this point I suspect it would).

Seconded. It wouldn't surprise me if the "winning" bid from the buyer who "pulled out" was from a shill account, and the seller is now offering it directly to all the bidders (that would be you only) at a price he drove up, and without paying eBay anything for having facilitated it all, and as Arjay said, giving the buyer no buyer's protection.
Higher price, less fees, and you're the mark.

That the seller has a single recommendation, and only as a buyer is also a concern. Buying a single cheap item from a store to get a 100% rating is a well-known tactic.
That the other bidder has only bid on items from this seller during the last 30 days, and bid on top of himself are further concerns.


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