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Location: NW NJ | I think we are a little optimistic ...
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | does appear to be in good shape, however. |
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Location: CT | Remove the 1 from the buy it now price, and he's right in the ballpark. |
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| It's not worth $1200 but it's sure worth more than $200...and the seller knows it. |
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Location: NJ | Why would a '74 have a bleu paper label??
My '76 has a silver foil one . . . |
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Location: SoCal | He says he bought it in 1874 but the stacked tone/volume are from the early 80's.... refit? |
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Location: Scotland | It's one of the last non K-bar models.
This just shows how spoiled we are. If this was a late 70’s Martin at $1200 it wouldn’t be worthy of comment, except for maybe “what a bargain!” The fact is that $1200 is at least what these guitars should be fetching. |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | Paul, an 1874? Man, for a classic like that, he should get more! :D
He's obviously got a very high idea of what he can get, but if someone bites, props to him. |
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| Preach it Paul Templeman, Preach it! Isn't that the motivation for this website, that Ovations don't get the respect they deserve!? I have '78 Country Artist that is virtually pricless to me, but some bottom feeder will come along and want it for peanuts....phhttttt...he can take a flying leap.. |
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Location: CT | The buy it now is 1600. Minus the 1, and 600 is a good ballpark. |
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| Yes sir, that's more like it! I sent him an email asking the serial number. I don't recall a stacked tone/vol in 1974... |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Ssshhh! Don't screw up a good thing!
WE all know how good the guitars are, yet they're still a very fair price. Good deal for the consumer, and I don't hear tell the factory is suffering any.
Why, oh why would you want your good a fair product to enter that realm of things valued only by the money they attract? Leave things as they are and to those who find and join out happy band of those who see beyond the trappings of faded glory, inflated self-worth, and hype...to them we say, "Welcome pilgrim!"
When you have self-respect, you don't need it from anywhere else. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I hope he gets what he's aking for it. Nice guitar. Dave |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by fillhixx:
Why, oh why would you want your good a fair product to enter that realm of things valued only by the money they attract? Leave things as they are and to those who find and join out happy band of those who see beyond the trappings of faded glory, inflated self-worth, and hype...to them we say, "Welcome pilgrim!"
When you have self-respect, you don't need it from anywhere else. What are you people smoking up there? |
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| :) He lost me after 'Ssshhh.." |
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Location: Upper Left USA | In my Ebay auctions I would start at $1 and allow the public to bid up and hopefully reach my reserve.
I have adopted a different approach. I will offer a BIN and take offers. A good BIN price is reasonable but not a giveaway price. It should leave you twitching over the commit to buy button!
I have been handling nicer instruments lately and I just don't want to give them away. We get to set our price and in return the Seller's market for Ovations is improving. |
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Location: New Hampsha | Originally posted by Steve:
but some bottom feeder will come along and want it for peanuts....phhttttt...he can take a flying leap.. Huh? Did somebody call for a bottom-feeder?
Heah Ah Is! |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by The Wabbit Formerly Known As Waskel:
What are you people smoking up there? 
Who's askin? |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | I hope he gets the price he's asking also.(although I seriously doubt if he will)
If Ovation prices spike, that means mine will be worth more too. (: |
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Location: closely held secret | Careful, there, Phil...
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Location: NJ | PORT HURON, Mich. - Officials are trying to track down the origins of a mummified human skeleton that a Michigan woman tried to sell on eBay.
The St. Clair County medical examiner's office confiscated the mummified remains Tuesday from the home of Lynn Sterling.
Sterling, 45, told police she got the remains from a friend who works in demolition and said he found them in a Detroit school he helped tear down nearly 30 years ago, police said. She said she had contacted an attorney before posting the remains for sale.
"It's an anatomical, medical-use skeleton," Sterling told The Times Herald of Port Huron. "I would never have put it on (eBay) if I thought it was anything other than an anatomical, medical thing."
Sterling likely won't face charges, Port Huron Police Capt. Don Porrett said, though officials said the remains will be sent to an anthropologist at Michigan State University for further examination.
St. Clair County Medical Examiner Daniel Spitz described the remains as an intact skeleton with mummified tissue. He said age, sex and race could not yet be determined, but said the remains appeared to be those of a child.
"It's very, very old. It's probably some type of anatomical dissection that was part of an anatomy class that over time got into the hands of somebody in the general public," Spitz said.
Port Huron police were notified about the eBay posting by a caller from North Carolina who spotted the item on the online auction site, Porrett said.
EBay spokeswoman Catherine England said the posting was removed Wednesday because it violated a policy against selling human remains. The Web site allows the sale of skeletons for medical use, but not mummified remains.
Curiosity did attract at least one bid before the posting was removed.
"There was a bid on it for $500 from `Satan's Child,'" Porrett said. |
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Location: ranson,wva | oh my.......thats kinda weird..jasson |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | 'Satan's Child' is the new ebay username of Standingovation.
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by The Wabbit Formerly Known As Waskel:
Careful, there, Phil... No worrys. Gordo runs BC drunk better than GW runs the U.S. sober!
...he claims to have quit drinking, but the effort was politically unneccessary. He did the best 'mea culpa' in recorded history. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Truthy. |
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| This thread got real strange real fast...must've been my 'bottom feeder' comment...I gotta learn to keep my mouth shut... |
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Location: NJ | ". . This thread got real strange real fast . ."
If only I had a nickle for every.... |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | What's the big deal about the remains of formerly live humans? I've got maybe a dozen of them propped up at desks just outside my office. |
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Optimism?