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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2002-10-19 20:59
Time to take it back to that antique stire and say "I'll give it to you for $850, <b>you</b> can sell it at $1100"
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Author: David
Date: 2002-10-19 22:18
Ah, the pleasure of cultural swapping. You get The Antiques Roadshow, we get The Simpsons and The Sopranos. Seems fair.
Have you had the downmarket versions yet? Z-list microceleb presenters and members of the great unwashed rooting around for bargains at yard sales. *Shudder*
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Author: jim lande
Date: 2002-10-20 03:48
Perhaps they meant to spell it cauldronet -- something a monster musician would use to stir the cauldron
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Author: JMcAulay
Date: 2002-10-20 04:33
My opinion of the Antiques Roadshow has just dimmed by about two orders of magnitude.
Regards,
John
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Author: bob gardner
Date: 2002-10-20 14:53
one person's treasure is another man's junk--or is it the other way around?
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Author: Synonymous Botch
Date: 2002-10-20 20:42
It would have been worth 11,000 USD if they had left the original finish on the surface. A lesson for you kiddies... never NEVER clean your instrument.
The Antiques Roadshow has rooned grudge sales for scrubbers like me.
PS Morrigan - You keep paying retail, it makes the economy GO.
He David? We avoid washing to keep the way clear of toits, geddit?
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Author: Synonymous Botch
Date: 2002-10-20 20:44
How many of the posters taunting this seller will try to unload a ten-year old tatty R13 for $1650 when new ones are $1400?
"Well MINE was hand-picked, and played IN professionally."
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Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2002-10-21 15:21
The owner ended the auction and relisted it at $55, a realistic price. As Richard Feynman said, never attribute to malevolence what can be adequately explained by stupidity. In this case, never attribute to madness what can adequately be explained by a typographical error. It's dollars to doughnuts the original opening price was intended to be $85.
Sorry to be the wet blanket.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2002-10-22 14:48
TKS for the referenced quote, Ken, it caused me to look in my [PB] Bartlett's [shorter], which has a number of applicable "pithy" quotes also!! Don
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