Nice Hamer SS in Germany

[JohnZ]

No affiliations - price seems fair. A good friend of mine has exactly the same, but this is not his':

https://www.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/gitarre-hamer-steve-stevens-familienbesitz-aus-1987/1561435844-74-906

[filtre_]

This guitar sold in Switzerland recently for a much higher price. I suspect the eBay listing to be fraud.

Link to the original listing for this guitar:

https://www.ricardo.ch/de/a/1138068052

 

[Victor (Fret Friend)]

33 minutes ago, filtre_ said:

This guitar sold in Switzerland recently for a much higher price. I suspect the eBay listing to be fraud.

Link to the original listing for this guitar:

https://www.ricardo.ch/de/a/1138068052

 

Glad I saw that as I was very very interested in buying it! My wife just gave me the go-ahead. Saved me 1000 £'s... 

[JohnZ]

13 hours ago, filtre_ said:

This guitar sold in Switzerland recently for a much higher price. I suspect the eBay listing to be fraud.

Link to the original listing for this guitar:

https://www.ricardo.ch/de/a/1138068052

 

Uhh, that's really fishy. I wrote the seller a message. Let's see what returns...

[donner]

13 hours ago, filtre_ said:

This guitar sold in Switzerland recently for a much higher price. I suspect the eBay listing to be fraud.

Link to the original listing for this guitar:

https://www.ricardo.ch/de/a/1138068052

 

I would reommend to be awfully careful with that one, too: As frequent watcher/buyer on ebay Kleinanzeigen especially this certain scheme of fraud with copied ads from ricardo.ch pops up really often.

Possibly one or more creeps are trying to scam buyers with hacked identities, that show long and reliable memberships or feedbacks.

As further signs, their replies come extremely fast, indifferently and without any proper grammar or orthography.

Also, they're mostly avoiding to share their name or anything more personal info.

I did report at least 7 plausible frauds in the category musical instruments to ebay  over the last year.

Ebay normally deletes these ads quickly, but fails to potect member identities against hacking and unauthorized takeovers.

I always do a pic search on google before I trust any ad with exceptional good asking prices.

 

[velorush]

9 hours ago, donner said:

orthography

Great word!  I had to look it up.  If anyone else is ignert: 

An orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language. It includes norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word breaks, emphasis, and punctuation.

I love single words that replace sentences.

[donner]

4 hours ago, velorush said:

Great word!  I had to look it up.  If anyone else is ignert: 

An orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language. It includes norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word breaks, emphasis, and punctuation.

I love single words that replace sentences.

Hey, thanks for tha flowers, velorush! And I am a native German speaker, English is not my mother tongue!

[velorush]

5 minutes ago, donner said:

Hey, thanks for tha flowers, velorush! And I am a native German speaker, English is not my mother tongue!

I have noticed in my conversations with German HFCers (e.g., @capridriver) their English is outstanding.  A testament to your education system.  My son is finishing up a second year of high school Spanish and doesn't understand more than a dozen words.  ☹️

I am all about economy of language.  One exactly correct word in place of half a dozen somewhat correct descriptives is a great trade-off.

[donner]

'nuther nice hamer for sale in Switzerland.

And 'nuther example for the determining power of language @velorush :

https://www.ricardo.ch/de/a/hamer-1045625438/

Looks like this (have seen that model before, could the experts please chime in?):