Beware the new Sunburst Chaparral listing on reverb

[incurso]

New listing - https://reverb.com/item/86828031-hamer-chaparral-mid-80-s-sunburst

Old listing - https://reverb.com/item/66425542-hamer-centaura-chaparral-mid-90s-sunburst

Warning to any potential buyers - this guitar had some serious neck pocket damage.
Same serial number.
Looks like the owner has done some restoration job and is claiming that guitar is in "mint" condition.

Be careful

[cmatthes]

🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

[Dave Scepter]

New owner?.. looks like same owner to me~

Looks like he just repaired and refinished it... but I guess it's more fun to accuse him of being a witch and throw him in the water 🙄

[Biz Prof]

14 minutes ago, Dave Scepter said:

New owner?.. looks like same owner to me~

Looks like he just repaired and refinished it... but I guess it's more fun to accuse him of being a witch and throw him in the water 🙄

Fair enough, but the damage and repair should be fully disclosed in the listing. Otherwise, it's deceptive trade practice.

[Dave Scepter]

22 minutes ago, Biz Prof said:

Fair enough, but the damage and repair should be fully disclosed in the listing. Otherwise, it's deceptive trade practice.

100% agree... just thought I'd try and get in front of it before the villagers of Hamer chased him down wielding pitchforks and axes 🪓 

[murkat]

Flag, report it.

[Stike]

Went from "Played out with it for a year"/was in a bar fight to "Never liked this type of tremolo system with locking nut so didn't play it much. "

Sure Jan.

[Cboss]

47 minutes ago, Stike said:

Went from "Played out with it for a year"/was in a bar fight to "Never liked this type of tremolo system with locking nut so didn't play it much. "

Sure Jan.

I know wtf..less is more; overly verbose and/or complex explanations are a pretty accurate watch out indicacator 

[incurso]

Dude just re-listed it and casually added $1k more to the price

[burningyen]

So sad, and scary given that he's had pristine feedback up to now. Thanks for the warning.

ETA: Incredibly, listed yet again, this time in "Excellent condition":

https://reverb.com/item/86855566-hamer-chaparral-mid-80-s-sunburst

[diablo175]

20 hours ago, incurso said:

Dude just re-listed it and casually added $1k more to the price

I casually chuckle and send the curse his way, along the lines of, may your cat(s) piss in all of your guitar cases and they fester in the summer heat and humidity.

[Biz Prof]

7 hours ago, diablo175 said:

I casually chuckle and send the curse his way, along the lines of, may your cat(s) piss in all of your guitar cases and they fester in the summer heat and humidity.

 

[diablo175]

10 hours ago, Biz Prof said:

 

I do that on an hourly basis. That's not a curse, that's a reflex action. 😆

[HSB0531]

21 hours ago, diablo175 said:

I casually chuckle and send the curse his way, along the lines of, may your cat(s) piss in all of your guitar cases and they fester in the summer heat and humidity.

Oh Damn that's a Nasty picture~😮

[diablo175]

10 minutes ago, HSB0531 said:

Oh Damn that's a Nasty picture~😮

Heh heh heh, yeah. It is, isn't it. 😈

[HSB0531]

On 1/28/2025 at 9:44 PM, Dave Scepter said:

100% agree... just thought I'd try and get in front of it before the villagers of Hamer chased him down wielding pitchforks and axes 🪓 

Yes, just like in Young Frankenstein.  

 

[burningyen]

The $4395 listing was pulled. Now the guitar is back up for $2850 with a new explanation that the white marks were wall paint and that the cracks around the neck pocket were in the finish and "rubbed out":

https://reverb.com/item/86828031-hamer-chaparral-mid-80-s-sunburst

[diablo175]

37 minutes ago, burningyen said:

The $4395 listing was pulled. Now the guitar is back up for $2850 with a new explanation that the white marks were wall paint and that the cracks around the neck pocket were in the finish and "rubbed out":

https://reverb.com/item/86828031-hamer-chaparral-mid-80-s-sunburst

FFS. Could someone just take a baseball bat to that cock womble and explain why that's not cool to bullshit like that?

[specialk]

At least we know now to avoid that seller… 

[Stike]

22 hours ago, diablo175 said:

FFS. Could someone just take a baseball bat to that cock womble and explain why that's not cool to bullshit like that?

Elon and Zuckerberg first.

[Biz Prof]

1 hour ago, Stike said:

Elon and Zuckerberg first.

I'm with you, Stike.