One Fine Dark Burst

[Guitardon]

I seen this one while up late last night so I thought some one here migth be interested.

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1520629707

 

[nicholas]

 

[RW Foster]

That looks like one from the group that Guitar Galleria has.


http://www.guitargalleria.com/igtr-gibsn93000.html

 

[Plankspanker]

Looks like very straight flame to me.

 

[darkburst]

All darkburst are fine as far as I concerned o

 

[access]

Beautiful guitar, not so Beautiful plan!

'Gabbay' was selling that one himself on ebay a month ago, now he bids on it a dozen times!

shill bidding anyone? Welcome to the wonderful world of ebay historic les paul sales!

 

[Guitardon]

Beautiful guitar, not so Beautiful plan!

'Gabbay' was selling that one himself on ebay a month ago, now he bids on it a dozen times!

shill bidding anyone? Welcome to the wonderful world of ebay historic les paul sales!

Access, Sounds fishy. What's really going on? Is this guy Gabby selling it under a different screen name and bidding up the price?

 

[lespaul506]

sounds right. good looking darkbursts though

 

[Plankspanker]

This one's going on EBAY in a couple weeks.

http://pic4.picturetrail.com:80/VOL52/463695/609937/6819278.jpg

 

[nicholas]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh Robert .....:dude

 

[tsutpen]

I'm not sure if that is the same guitar Gabbay was selling. Although it looks close. If I remember right the guitar Gabbay was selling had a more severe reverse chevron. I bid on it and was about $200 short. Gabbay sent me about 15 email messages trying to get me to meet his price -- he worked me for about two weeks but he wouldn't come down to my price, so it was a no go.

 

[Aggie]

Darkbursts getting rare

I heard the Custom Shop will be making fewer of the Darkbursts since the recent batch was prototyping the upcoming Dwayne Allman Burst.

Better get the cheaper 58' while you can!

 

[access]

I think the word 'fishy' is why you cant hardly sell any decent Les Pauls on Ebay anymore

It is a beautiful guitar, but check out the bid history! all the same people that were bidding on it the first go round, except now 'Gabbay' is the BIDDER not the SELLER.

Whatever it goes for Im sure will be a fair deal, but if you were bidding on it just to find out the seller had all his freinds bid the price up to soak you for more than it would have normally gone for, you would be pissed!

Thats why people just hate buying higher caliber stuff off ebay. Its too easy for some group of jerks to rip a guy off!

 

[Guitardon]

Simple advise!

If you don't want to be bumped in an auction wait until the end of the auction and place your "best shot bid" with one minute or less to go.

Part of the problem is too many people bid too early. If you do you are putting yourself at risk of being taken advantage of.

I used to be in the antiques business and I went many auctions. They were like minature "ebays" I would sit in the back and watch the action. All the dealers were in the back watching people bid. They would bump them as far as they could by watching how anxious the bidder looked when bidding.

The same logic holds true for Ebay. If you bid early and re-bid when someone bumps you you accomplish nothing exceipt taking the lead for a while. Face it the lead means nothing early in an auction. It's the end that counts.

Also some of those early bids you see may not be friends or the seller. Many times I see early bids in the $10 to $100 range. I believe some people just have nothing to do with their lives and jump in early and place "safe bids" well below the reserve. They appear to be game players and not serious bidders or friends because on a $3000 item they don't help the outcome of the auction by bidding and stopping at $100.