Klarinet Archive - Posting 000555.txt from 2004/01

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] $1200 for your clarinet....
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 13:33:21 -0500

> Elizabeth Ward wrote:
>
>
>>You needn't be that extreme. Just look for
>>someone who is a specialist seller with a
>>flawless feedback rating :)
>
>
>
>
> Ebay is certainly a different arena and a different context for
> purchasing an instrument, compared to purchasing from a dealer whose
> showroom you can visit or with whom you can do exchanges. The risks
> with electronic auction are more severe, as well as being different.
>
> So if you are saying "There are reasons why you may want to purchase via
> electronic auction", I'll agree. Perhaps you want (or enjoy) a gamble,
> perhaps you want a junker to tinker with, perhaps you want something
> unusual that wouldn't be in your budget under other circumstances, etc
> etc and etc.
>
> But if you are saying that purchasing an instrument without first
> inspecting and playing it (or buying it from a respected dealer with
> total exchange privileges) is as trustworthy as purchasing sight unseen
> (sound unheard and mechanisms unfelt).... there are simply too many case
> histories to the contrary.
>
> Most of us know this already, but for the sake of newcomers to this
> list, I felt that it needed to be said (again),
>

It is rare to read such a lucid and precise analysis as this one by
Elizabeth Ward. It is organized, thorough, and extraordinarily
well-thought out. It is the way people should, but rarely do, think
through a problem.

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Dan Leeson
leeson0@-----.net

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