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Post subject: 1978 lefty Telecaster...is this legit? Please help!
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 4:56 pm
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Any help would be appreciated. I am seriously considering throwing an offer on this Ebay item, but I want to get your opinion to make sure this looks like it's 100% authentic...I am always very carefull when it comes to guitars on Ebay. Seller says is 100% original...

Here's the link:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... K:MEWAX:IT

I know 70's fenders might not have the best reputation compared to their earlier cousins (I'm not asking to get into that HUGE discussion :wink: )...but with being born in '78, it being a lefty (which are tough to find), the color I want, and it being in such good shape...I don't know if I can pass it up!

P.S. - I know the asking price is waaaaaaaaay too high, but hopefully he'll accept my offer...if I so choose to extend one after getting your feedback!


I appreciate any information provided!

Ryan


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Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 5:25 pm
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I'd have to pull out my A.R. Duchossoir Telecaster book and check all the little details to be sure (I'm at work right now and my book is at home) but based on the quantity and quality of the pictures, I get a very good feeling about this Tele. Anyone who takes pictures like that and even shows the pot codes (which are useful for dating) is probably not a scammer.

The stickers in the body cavities and on the back of the neck at the heel look particularly good. In my opinion, the average scammer wouldn't bother with those and wouldn't have taken the guitar apart and taken such good photographs.

Anyone who would go to all the trouble to make such a convincing fake would probably have made a fake '50s or '60s Tele instead to get more money for their work. And - just my opinion, of course - they would have made a right-handed Tele so they would have more potential buyers.


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Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 7:41 am
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Thanks for the reply...I agree totally with what you said...

Any opinion on what a fair price would be for this guitar?...as the asking price is way overpriced for sure.


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