Great to hear Vinny- did you check out the youtube vid I posted by the way??

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Where do I go blerties and hellooooooooooooooooo

As above

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Illl check it now blerties here is my strat its now on youtube called
My 1980 Stratocaster
on vinnypop channel
There is no sound just the pics need to get my pc sorted something is stopping sound from recording to youtube maybe a bugggggggggggggggg

Blerties the Haka clip your name is Renda that one its awesome wow you nearly have 1 million hits.

Ive seen it- and Ive also seen the video of the song that you dedicated to your wife and your cat- sounds nice mate

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Thankyou blerties Paradise is a nice song where in New Zealand are you based are you in a band play solo writing.

Im strictly an at home player- I used to be in a band during school, ussual story we went our separate ways. I have an Am Deluxe as you can see for my avatar. Im in Auckland, NZ. I live in a suburb called Mt Eden- Just down the road from Eden Park where we beat the wallabies the other night Great game though mate

Heres a pic:

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Beautiful strat blerties ive always liked the perloid pic guards very classy on stage and a unique colour too.

did u see the pictures of your strat I found on eBay ?
I saved you the trouble..Check the official vinnypop thread.

I Like your strat but it's not all original.

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USA 1989 Clapton Signature Strat in 7up Green
USA Standard Telecaster all Blk w EMG 81/85
ESP Eclipse II w EMG 81/60
Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier & Road king 4x12

Who's strat are you talking about frantic?

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vinnypop

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USA 1989 Clapton Signature Strat in 7up Green
USA Standard Telecaster all Blk w EMG 81/85
ESP Eclipse II w EMG 81/60
Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier & Road king 4x12

yes frantic ive seen it but you should not have shown the body serial number we dont want thousands of Vinny Pops exploding all over the world hahahahahhahahahahahhahahahaha that would be worse than Lonely Boy

Glad you got some reimbursement. Hopefully we were some help in that regard.

Vinny, after reading your posts I can see exactly how you were fooled.
It seems to me you are an all or nothing, deep end of the pool kind of guy.

Now that can be a great trait, but sometimes it will work against you. When buying (especially 2nd hand stuff,) you need to learn how to dial back the excitement a bit, take a few deep breaths and assess the situation. especially when someone makes grand claims. When I was younger I had a roommate that was a used car salesman. He was pretty much all the bad stereotypes rolled into one. he was like that in his home life too, ended up costing me a fortune when he skipped out on bills and disappeared. From exposure to him I learned not to trust anything a seller says or implies without proof. I also think its a good bargaining tool, to appear skeptical and maybe even disinterested when buying.

I don't think you are really stupid, but I kind of think your natural enthusiasm might sometimes make you careless. When your careless, sometimes we do stupid things, that maybe we normally wouldn't do.

I am happy that you got your cash though, and that the lesson here was only a little spanking for the ego, and not a big hole in your bank account.

I wonder if it might be a good idea for you to seek out a good Japanese strat for your next purchase. What is the price comparison to Am. stuff there?

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I'm not an expert, but I play one on the internet.

Hi, Twelvebar... a quick answer to that last question: retail price on an American Standard Strat here is AUD $2100 - $2900 ...you would be able to knock a few hundred off for cash. Japanese Strats can be had for half that price, and more like $700 - $800 secondhand.

At the moment AUD $1000 is equivalent to US $820, so you can see that prices here are quite steep.