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Strange Reverb buying experience
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So not technically a classified but I’d like to undertand from the board if this is coincidence or a new phenomenon on Reverb.
Last week a guitar I’d not seen before was listed, gorgeous turquoisey double bound heavy relic tele at £3000. I liked and watched it for a couple of days and saw 5 offers made, then the price was dropped to £2800 and I decided to buy figuring it would be an easy onward sell for minimal loss if it wasn’t for me. All went through ok, messaged the seller and… nothing. I waited 3 days, still nothing. Was waiting until today which is the 3rd business day before requesting a refund, but yesterday the refund was automatically issued, no comms at all. Fair enough, I guessed the seller was negotiating offline with someone else but if I were Reverb that would have red flags all over it.
But the weird thing was on Thursday I bought a reasonably priced used strymon nightsky from a different seller and exactly the same thing has happened. No response to messages, both sellers have good ratings, automatic refunds issued after a couple of days. Any thoughts on whats going on? I am hesitant to buy anything again from there but never had issues before.
Cheers
Rich
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So whilst that is really bad behaviour on reverb, it feels like you can at least move on from the experience feeling OK about it.
Anyway, weren't you supposed to be shrinking the pedal board, not adding to it?