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Location: Bellevue, Washington | http://cgi.ebay.com/OVATION-1987-Collector-Series-6-String-w-ORIGIN...
Yikes. I emailed the seller about this to find out of this was a typo and the response received was: "Per my collectors reccomendation, that is the correct price. With only 1000 of these produced and only very few actually remaining alive and in good condition this is a valuable piece."
Alright, who's gonna buy it? Beal? G8r? T28? C'mon boys, it's VALUABLE! :D |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | That's the BIN price. I'm sure he'll take less. |
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Location: closely held secret | Wow. Saved myself $56,675.
Witko, are those your pictures? |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Originally posted by Waskel:
Witko, are those your pictures? The same question came to me. |
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| Those sure do look like Witko's pics.
I better call my insurance agent and update my policy... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I was thinking about sending mine back to MS to get a crack repaired before I give it to my daughter, but wondered whether it was worth it. Now I think I'll just sell it and buy a new Porsche. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Hell yeah, my photos AND description.
http://www.ovationgallery.com/page6string87c.htm
He was smart enough to add his own picture of the label and serial number. Somebody should ask him for photos of the actual guitar and not just some that he nicked from the internet. |
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Location: SoCal | They are Witko's pics. I just sent the guy an email but he won't listen.
Hey, I hope he gets his price. Mine will go up for sale right after his sells.... |
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| Originally posted by G8r:
I better call my insurance agent and update my policy... On second thought, I've decided to let the folks here have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I'll let mine go to an OFC member in good standing (and not a "Junior Member") for half that - an even $30,000 (worldwide shipping included - hell, for that price I'll hand carry it to you). And mine is even rarer than that eBay one, since it's the ONLY sunburst 87C in existence. Hell, I'll even throw in a genuine printed affidavit detailing who has played it, including such musical giants as Beal, StephenT28, JeffW, Moody, Cliff and of course, CaptainLovehandles.
Act quickly, I'm sure it won't last long. |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Here's his Craigs List ad. Wonder if he's getting any "serious interest"?
87C in Orlando CL
Here's a more reasonable deal. (Especially if it's in good shape.)
South Florida CL |
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Location: Bellevue, Washington | Originally posted by Patch:
Here's a more reasonable deal. (Especially if it's in good shape.)
South Florida CL |
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Location: SoCal | Call them? |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | Did you try calling the phone number? Sometimes that works better. |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | Hey I'll top all these offers and sell mine for 10% of his price. (: |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | I sure do wish you could advertise on Ebay for free, if the item doesn't sell. I'd post a bunch of them for 20 grand and above. |
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Location: Bellevue, Washington | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
Call them? There's a novel idea... just pick up the phone! Sometimes I think I was born with my head on backwards ;) |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | Join the Club. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | It must be your youth. Young people don't talk on the phone or otherwise. They'll text someone standing right next to them. |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Originally posted by RNickels:
I can't get these guys to respond to emails, I've emailed several times asking for more pictures and they don't even bother to reply saying no. I've had this trouble with quite a few CL ads. I can't help but wonder if those anonymous email links actually get forwarded, or if they do, do they get shunted into people's spam folders? I dunno. :confused: |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Originally posted by RNickels:
Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
Call them? There's a novel idea... just pick up the phone! Sometimes I think I was born with my head on backwards ;) |
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Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba CANADA | Someone should phone the nearest State institution for the criminally misguided and ask if they've had an escape...
For him to even reply that that price was 'serious' is laughable... It wouldn't be worth that if only three of them had been made (let alone a thousand...). Did it used to belong to John Denver? :D
It is what it is... |
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Location: Parrish, FL | I stopped and looked at the one in south Florida last month when I was in Ft.Lauderdale. It is at a pawn shop in Coral Springs, just north of town. The "small scratches" are from an impact of some sort on the lower bout. The are several small cracks and missing sections of binding on the neck. The strings were a wreck!
I asked how negotiable they were on price and they said they were firm at $1200.00 at that time. I see that they have dropped the price to $1000.00. I'd say it would be fairly priced at about $700 given that it needs the top refinished and binding repaired while undergoing a MS SPA treatment.
I told them thanks for letting me see and play it, that it was a nice guitar, but not a $1200 guitar.
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Location: Bellevue, Washington | Wow thanks for the review Blues, definitely no need to call them now :D I'm sure they paid a fifth of what they're trying to sell it for, even in the condition it's in. |
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Location: Colorado | I emailed the seller and asked for more pics of actual guitar. I told him I knew pics of the guitar outdoors were from the O Gallery website and the guitar belonged to someone else. He politely replied that he would try to get some more of his own pics by the weekend.
I looked more closely at the epaulets on the one up for auction. They are slightly different than the epis on Witko's.
G8r, do you take PayPal? ;)
Back to looking for change between the couch cushions... |
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Location: SoCal | Witko had the top of his (he's since sold it) refinished. The factory was out of the NOS epi's for the 87C and used the epi's from the 93C. Looked very cool and distinctive..... |
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Location: Colorado | I like the 93 epis on the 87. |
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Location: Ohio | Does this mean I cann sell my MINT Celeb Dlx for 10K????? |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | The really funny part of all this is that the dude trying to sell it probably thinks he is gonna make a small fortune on it. |
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Location: Texas | So, he's got a $57,000 guitar but he has to steal photos because he doesn't have "a working camera," yet, without a camera, he somehow took 2 photos that he labeled "actual photo" and then he took the stolen photos and posted them on his own Photobucket Account?
(At least he admitted that the photos weren't his in his ad…)
I hope that when one of you folks snags it you'll post your own actual photos of the guitar…
…we'll also need a scan of the receipt for your permanent file at the asylum…
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Not to be rude... But that wouldn't be worth a tenth of the BIN if it was #1 in the series.
And I woulda shut him down if he stole my photos...
Unless he is gonna give you 10% of what he gets?
(since he is selling with pics of your guitar, not his)
These guys have one for $1250...
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Location: Colorado | For $1250 it looks to be in pretty good shape, too. |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | Isn't the Coral Springs Pawn guitar the same one mentioned several posts back that has top issues? |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | yes |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Find out who his "collector" is that told him it was worth so much, so we can all sell our collectors to him. |
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Location: Seymour, Tennessee | Shoot yeah, I'd sell mine for a fraction of a fraction of that...... a decent size fraction though :) |
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Location: Littleton, CO | I saw that book elite on Ebay before I read this thread, and I figured the $57,500 had to be a joke or a mistake. Guess not! Someone should offer him $1000. |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | I did...he turned me down but said he'd be open to offers over $11,000.00. |
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Location: Littleton, CO | $11,000 is still insane. Crazy. |
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Yours for only 60 large.