FS At Last! 2001 GMP Roxie 541

[kizanski]

3 minutes ago, Dave Scepter said:

I smell something fishy going on 🤔

I'm not ruling it out, but there isn't a whole lot I can do about it.
He seems like a decent guy. He didn't flip out. He already left my positive feedback, i sent him, the $70, so it's settled in either case.

[Dave Scepter]

34 minutes ago, kizanski said:

I'm not ruling it out, but there isn't a whole lot I can do about it.
He seems like a decent guy. He didn't flip out. He already left my positive feedback, i sent him, the $70, so it's settled in either case.

You got his address?.. I'll take care of it🤣

[velorush]

Fishy: but what would he have to gain? Couple of bucks if he fixed it himself. If he wasn't going to protest and return the guitar, I see no motivation for 'fishiness.' 

But then again, how could that have possibly been broken off while packed?

Maybe someone opened it before the buyer got home and it fell over on the face, breaking off the switch tip. They then started removing the back plate to figure out if they could fix it before the buyer got home, but just as the first screw came out, they heard the door shut as the buyer arrived. They stopped and put the screw in a similar position as the switch tip and feigned ignorance.

That's a lot of assumptions, but I'm guessing falling over on that switch tip was the reason for the break. Or, the guitar laid on its face and something fell / leaned on it.

[kizanski]

5 minutes ago, velorush said:

Fishy: but what would he have to gain?

Exactly. I've already forgotten about it.

[lang]

My guess would probably be that the shipper laid the box face down and put something really heavy on top of it -- and the indestructo-packaging was the only thing that saved it from complete oblivion.

Edited January 13 by lang

[Eli]

11 hours ago, kizanski said:

So, I sold it yesterday morning, packed it up, shipped it out and it arrived this morning (NJ to Massachusetts).
Despite my "bullet proof packing" (the buyer's words), it arrived with the toggle switch tip broken off.

 

How did they do this?

It was double-boxed, reinforced corners, Styrofoam, bubble wrap...

It was arguable my best packing job ever. The guitar was snug in the case.

The package was in Fed-Ex's hands for about 12 hours. Did they TRY to break it??

 

 

 

I had one of those Gretsch PU selectors break off in my hand on a gentle pickup change.  I think there's some bad cast metal in some of those switches.