More Ebay madness

[lowend1]

Headstock is like an exaggerated version of the Gibby.
Pickups are proportioned / sized wrong. Bridge pickup looks to be positioned to far forward.
Pickguard is too large, and is shaped wrong.
Bridge cover looks like the neck pickup cover from a Jazz Bass.
No Varitone!
The body looks screwy, too, but I cant put my finger on the problem...
Uwe???

[Freuds_Cat]

I am in no way as expert as you more experienced gentlemen when it comes to EB's but I just felt that something didn't look quite right. About all I could put it down to was that the headstock made me look twice at it.

Either way the guy is either a scammer or an idiot....or possibly both?

[Nocturnal]

http://cgi.ebay.com/customized-signed-thunderbird-bass_W0QQitemZ270266006258QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item270266006258&_trkparms=39%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A10%7C240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

How about a $2000 custom Epi T-Bird?

[lowend1]

As Butthead said:
"Beavis, you can't polish a turd - but it's kinda cool that you tried."

[Chris P.]

Too bad Uwe doesn't collect finishes;)

[Barklessdog]

That has to be the most hideous paint job ever.

[Dave W]

http://cgi.ebay.com/customized-signed-thunderbird-bass_W0QQitemZ270266006258QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item270266006258&_trkparms=39%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A10%7C240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

How about a $2000 custom Epi T-Bird?

Never heard of that band before. Unfortunately I made the mistake of looking them up. Ultra-cheesy unintentional parody of a 70s funk/disco/boogie show band. Someone who likes that sort of thing might be insane enough to drop 2G on an autographed monstrosity, even if it is an Epi.

[Granny Gremlin]

Anyone care to give an estimated realistic value for this one?

The bass itself is a 70s Japanese copy (as mentioned, the hardware is close, but not quite right - also the body shape seems elongated), the bass is worth $250 tops (I am really being generous; I bought a similar one a few years ago now for $100... in worse shape and obviously a copy due to the finish - gives the SPCB a run for it's money... I sold it for about the same a few months ago).  The amp you'd have to pay me to take.

[Freuds_Cat]

Oh dear SG guy is a scammer.

I messaged him requesting better pics and saying that I very much doubted if it was in fact a Gibson.
I asked for a pic of the headstock and of the back where the neck meets the body.

He replied with this: "hi, i rang my uncle who knows a lot about instruments as he was in a well known band when he was young.

the bass is a 1969 gibson EB3 for sure"

His ebay account has only bought 1 item and therefore has a Feedback rating of "1".

Suddenly there is a bid!
Check out the details of the bidder. 


Bidder Information
Bidder:   Bidder 1
Feedback:   Zero • 0% Positive
Registered on eBay:   Less than 1 day
Item description:   limited edition 1969 Gibson EB3 bass and 30watt amp
Bids on this item:   1


Any guesses as to what is going on here? 

[Dave W]

You could always report it as a fraud.

[Freuds_Cat]

Is it worth it Dave? Done it in the past and had no discernable result from ebay.

[lowend1]

Is it worth it Dave? Done it in the past and had no discernable result from ebay.

FYI - I posted a MIJ EB-3 copy a few months back, and it was pulled in less than an hour. It has the lawsuit headstock, but otherwise is not going to fool anybody ('specially with a maple board!). Ebay told me to cease and desist from posting it again (or anything like it). I guess Big Brother's (read Gibson) legal dept. was on the lookout.

[Freuds_Cat]

Amazing isn't it? They could care less about their basses but are still prepared to spend money on an old and financially irrelevant copy.

[Dave W]

Actually they don't care about the old copy. They care about the use of their trademarked name in an eBay listing for a product they didn't make.

And even if the manufacturer doesn't catch it, eBay's rules prohibit putting a manufacturer's name in the title of an ad for a copy or clone. So it could have been eBay's own doing that the listing was pulled.