Greasy G
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A forum member who lives in the North West of the Uk has bought at least one very expensive vintage guitar from a particular ebay seller, which turned out to be not as described. He has had some assistance from knowledgeable forum members and I hope that at some point we will hear about a satisfactory outcome. A member of the other forum posted a NGD thread showing a '54 GT from the same seller. The buyer must have been stunned to see the replies pointing out some rather alarming issues.
It is a tragedy that - to date - we, the people who read these posts, have not yet thought of a way to stop a seller from reposting such guitars on ebay with the same description after (presumably) agreeing to take them back.
Due dilligence is a good thing, and is good advice. But at some point in the near future, another poor soul is going to find this forum, and then join the forum, after buying one of these guitars.
There must be an answer - and the answer seems to lie somewhere in the following area. Putting together - The knowledge of the online community.....and ebay. I don't know enough about ebay to guess what the options might be but I do know that if the seller decided to change his ID and then reposted the guitars, 20 people who are reading this thread would immediately recognize the problem guitar/guitars.
You're referring to eBay crook Rockkystar, aren't you?
I exposed a number of Rockkystar's frauds on this forum in a number of posts, see for example:
BREAKING: eBay fraud rockkystar almost honest
In these posts I used some SEO tricks to make these posts appear at the top position in Google. So if you search for "Rockkystar", one of the first things - if not the first thing - you see is a post exposing Lord Keith Douglas-Dickens. This way, if someone thinks about buying from Rockkystar but checks Google first, he or she has a fair warning.
So if we name names, provide proof (important!) and have long forum discussions where a lot of people participate (Google loves activity), everyone can get a fair warning!
PS I know that the person from France who bought a '63 SG Standard with undisclosed issues and changes reached a settlement with Lord Keith.