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Re: Made in China "Buffet:

Author: jdbassplayer
Date: 2021-01-03 21:10

Well the biggest thing is that Aliexpress is not a place to buy used items. It is a place for Chinese exporters to sell cheap goods and nothing more. You should never buy anything on Aliexpress (or Wish for that matter) expecting it to be high quality.

The second biggest thing is that if a deal is too good to be true it always is. If there was an R13 for sale for under $500 then it will sell in minutes. There's just too many people out there constantly searching for cheap instruments, so you're not going to find the deal of a century unless you spend hours on eBay a day.

Now lets move on to the listing itself. First of all the case is wrong, it looks like a cheap Chinese case. The real Buffet case has a red interior with a rounded shape. But lets give the seller the benefit of the doubt and say maybe they just replaced the case. The second red flag is the thumb rest, it's clearly not a Buffet thumb rest. Now again we could assume maybe they replaced it with a different one, but at this point there are several red flags that should tell you this is a listing to be avoided. A big red flag is the location of the serial number. Why would any manufacturer put a serial number where the thumb goes? That's just going to be uncomfortable and will wear down. Buffets only have serial numbers at the bottom of each joint. Also they are not marked "Made in France" below the serial number. Next look at the logos. They are stamped too deep and are not the right color. They are also the newer style, again why would someone sell an almost new Buffet R13 for less than 10% of the original price? Next we have the bell ring, R13s have a bell ring, this one does not.

And finally, the biggest red flag is the white gloves. Good instruments do not come with white gloves!

Hopefully this helps you in the future. Right now you need to get in touch with your credit card company and do a chargeback. Aliexpress does not give you a full refund unless you ship it back to China, which will be quite expensive. Not to mention it is a felony to ship counterfeit goods in many countries, so once you have it you have to find some way to remove the logo if you want to send it back.

-Jdbassplayer.

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