e-bay ethics and suckers

Steve Blasyak atuneforyou at earthlink.net
Sat Feb 3 14:11:40 MST 2007


Hmmmm,

I have several boxes of junk parts like that. I wonder if I should sell em?

Just kidding folks. I'm not that desperate for money.

Steve

Pura Vida


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Farrell 
To: Pianotech List
Sent: 2/1/2007 1:53:59 PM 
Subject: Re: e-bay ethics and suckers


Some assembly required?



What a joke! Thanks for sharing Rob.

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message ----- 
> An old and regularly re-hashed topic but...
> 
> It never ceases to amaze me what people will sell on e-bay and the poor 
> uneducated suckers who buy some of this crap.  
SNIP> 
> Here is a new one.  A set of old vintage and worthless action parts.  It's 
> advertised as "Mason and Hamlin-Steinway".  Never mind the two are not 
> interchangable!  From the picture you can clearly see the hammers are worn 
> and flat, the knuckles are egg shaped, and the overall condition looks worn 
> and pathetic.  It says "The action was very responsive and not sluggish but 
> the owner wanted a new action".  Ya, sure.  Some poor fool will buy this 
> crap and think they were going to put them on their piano?  A sucker is born 
> every minute.
> 
> E-bay listing is here:
> http://cgi.ebay.com/Mason-Hamlin-BB-PIANO-Set-of-88-Action-Parts-Steinway_W0QQitemZ130074342274QQihZ003QQcategoryZ64431QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
> 
> Rob Goodale, RPT
> Las Vegas, NV 
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070203/f67059b1/attachment-0001.html 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 54220 bytes
Desc: 663d_12.JPG
Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070203/f67059b1/attachment-0001.jpe 


More information about the Pianotech mailing list

This PTG archive page provided courtesy of Moy Piano Service, LLC