<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>HTML Message</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY style="BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: none; BORDER-LEFT-STYLE: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: none"> As we've been discussing, buying pianos on eBay, or the like, can be risky (read that 'dumb').   Well, I saw a new piano and customer today on a referral. The customer, while living in Utah about a year ago, bid on this piano and drove to Washington, D.C. to pick it up. He won the bid at the sellers reserve, i.e., minimum.   For $12K, he got a 3-year-old, very little played, beautiful, near mint-condition Yamaha C5 (polished ebony).   It is a fabulous piano. And, no, it is NOT grey market.   With my luck, I'd bid on a Steinway and find out it was a Yugo with strings. Alan Barnard Salem, MO Joshua 24:15 </BODY></HTML>