Yeah, it's the same old guy running that shop as back in the day. Called to check if they still had the head, said yes so I said 'great see you tomorrow.' Then dude calls me back saying 'there's good news and bad news - we have the head but the price was wrong.' So I ask him in which direction it is being corrected to which he replied 'upwards because it's super rare,' so I told him there's 6 of them for sale online right now and his was already the highest priced (USD1600) and hung up.
This is a guy who used to list the most batterred 60s (non-rev) Tbirds (not just worn, but with bridge slant mods and unfilled holes etc just really beat up) for upwards of 4K. ... a decade ago. 70s EB3s for 2K (again, a decade ago). Now I remember why I stopped going to that store. It seems all the really cool vintage stuff was sucked up by him, and then he put insane markups on everything becasue the only one you could find locally was at his store. That just won't work no more in the age of the internet.
So sign or no sign, there ain't no dealling with a dude like that.
.... I can get a brand new, custom to my specs, Hovercraft for that much.
