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You got a refund pretty easily enough from him. I tend to agree with lozboy, maybe he doesn't know what he's got with the guitar he sold you.
Can you point out to me what is wrong with the above gumtree ad.
In regards to the latest gumtree add, based upon what we know, would you trust him? I have met the guy, butter wouldnt melt but based on what hes done with Merlin, would you put your hard earned money into his very good priced gumtree offerings?
He's got excellent feedback on eBay with a couple even saying 'guitar exactly as described' another saying 'fantastic guitar just as described'.
We also only have merlins word that the paperwork was fake.
As of yet I can't see any obvious reason why not to purchase from him.
But what I do find strange is why does someone take the neck of a guitar as soon as they get it.
I have bought hundreds of guitars of eBay and never once thought to take the neck of any of them.
If you know him and have spoke to him, then what, other than what merlin has said, would make you not buy from him, as I am happy to be convinced otherwise.
https://www.gumtree.com/p/guitar-instrument/fender-japan-2002-st54-95-stratocaster/1275031477 ;
Something is very weird about all this.
Hmm....looks like the link needs to be copied and pasted into a browser - doesn't seem to work straight from here
I am concerned that some otherwise decent guy gets a kicking just because someone thinks it's a good idea to do so.
The quote that really annoys me and which if correctly interpreted is:- (he) definitely needs reporting, which I'm happy to do but I'd love it if (you guys give him) a hard time first.
Don't see a post were merlin actually says he reported him which would be the proper thing to do. And where is this serial number that was rubbed out.
Do you see what I'm saying here. There are things being said about this guy which don't add up.
Nonetheless, your right jonnyBGood, you buy what you want, and I'll do the same.
Regards
I bought the guitar in good faith, believing it to be an ST-54 95. After a short while I decided that it wasn't quite what I wanted and decided to sell on gumtree, where I bought it from.
I was contacted by another gumtree member who asked whether I was sure that I was selling an ST-54 95, and not an ST-54 80, as he had dealings with a guy selling what he thought was the same instrument. It turns out that the guy selling it had actually been selling it as an 95, although pictures of the neck pocket had proven to the other guy that it was indeed an 80.
He told the seller and the seller took the instrument down from gumtree and re-listed it later as a 95 again, in the knowledge that the listing was fraudulent.
I removed the neck to check it. It had ST54-80 stamped in the neck pocket. I looked at the paperwork. It sure as hell looked like ST54-95 was reprinted on the document and it certainly had a sticker with the serial number stuck OVER another paper that neatly covered up "ST54-80". It was made to look like something it wasn't.
I contacted the seller, told him I was unhappy with the guitar and wanted a refund. He told me he bought it and was selling it in good faith (despite having been told by "my informer" that the guitar wasn't what he was saying it was).
He hung up on me.
I texted him saying that it would be easy to escalate and that he should do the right and honourable thing.
He offered to give me a full refund provided that I wouldn't take his acceptance of giving me a full refund as him taking any responsibility for fraud.
I accepted. We met in Brighton, he paid, he took the guitar although he didn't look me in the eye, didn't say thank you, didn't apologise.
I posted about this incident on the forum.
He re-listed the guitar as an ST54-95, which it isn't. And he totally knows it.
Draw your own conclusions.
Had you offered the full disclosure that you have now given above, then your experience would have come across as more credible.
To me, you came across as someone who'd had a bad experience and just wanted to give this guy a kicking.
As I've already said, his feedback does indicate that an awful lot of people have been very happy with what he has sold them.
In addition to this, that gumtree ad looked perfectly good and reasonably priced to me and neither you nor jonnyBGood who both referred to it as an example of his skulduggery, have been able to tell me what was wrong with it.
However, now that I understand more about your experience with this seller, I to will avoid him like the plague and thank you for the heads up.
It's perfectly possible that most of his deals are bone fide, however we learn from experience so I am just saying proceed with caution.
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/322905183841