Klarinet Archive - Posting 000639.txt from 2004/03

From: "Film & Music Promotion Management" <FilmPromotion@------.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] EBay Dealer - ripoff?
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:28:57 -0500

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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=47097&item=3707374440

> My husband recently bought a Langenus mouthpiece on eBay from a
dealer
whose
> screen name is Taxijazz. The entire tip had been broken off and
crazy
> glued back on. You could not see this in the picture in the
auction, but
> the auction *did* say it was "repaired." My husband (Terry
Guidetti), who
> assumes the best of people and is naive about eBay bidding, didn't
ask
> questions, but is furious anyway. He works on mouthpieces for a
living
now
> that he's retired, and we don't come across these very often.
>
> Do any of you know this guy?
>
> Lynn

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Lynn, after seeing the picture that you made of it and looking at the
original ad, the guy ripped you off big time. His picture even
enlarged didn't show a bit of the breakage and attempted fix of the
broken mouthpiece - it looked perfect in the ad pics and I'm sure that
the seller planned it that way.

That's deception plain and simple. He should have described the
"fixed" part in his ad and shown what was fixed. Fixed can mean a cork
rip repaired......

If a Clarinet snapped in half and was "glued together" would you not
want to know that too? I'd get the shipping back on that MP as well -
it shouldn't cost you anything for that reject.

David Blumberg