Looks like a nice one? Would be worth checking out if you're in the neighbourhood.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/402792836275?ul_noapp=true
Looks like a nice one? Would be worth checking out if you're in the neighbourhood.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/402792836275?ul_noapp=true
I kind of wish I had a reason to go to Cleveland!
Timothy F. Lewis
"If brains was lard, that boy couldn't grease a very big skillet" J.D. Clampett
Luv that back flame!
It will be fun to see what this one goes for. If the neck had work, you'd think it could have been touched up a little better but not too late. Looks like a '01.
Last edited by jim simpson; Apr-15-2021 at 1:27pm.
Old Hometown, Cabin Fever String Band
Kind of wondering how that ended up in a "pawn shop"...
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”
My Mandos:
1981 Lloyd LaPlant F5 #6
2001 Lloyd LaPlant F5 #57
2006 Lloyd LaPlant F5 #106
2017 Boeh F5 #27
2020 Boeh 2-point #31
2012 Grey Eagle 2-point #57V
The last digit is the decade of manufacture, and the first digit is the year of the decade.
So 0283109 is 1990.
The numbering system on mandolins is different from the system used on guitars.
Signed by Steve Carlson -- I'd say this is a stone bargain.
How it ended up in the pawn shop is that someone probably brought it in and pawned it, and got maybe $5-600 on it. When the customer didn't come back, the pawnbroker put it up for sale. I'm kinda surprised it's priced so low; Elderly listed this '96 for $5,250/.
Even if this one needs work, I can't see why it wasn't listed for upwards of $3K.
Allen Hopkins
Gibsn: '54 F5 3pt F2 A-N Custm K1 m'cello
Natl Triolian Dobro mando
Victoria b-back Merrill alumnm b-back
H-O mandolinetto
Stradolin Vega banjolin
Sobell'dola Washburn b-back'dola
Eastmn: 615'dola 805 m'cello
Flatiron 3K OM
"your posts ... very VERY opinionated ...basing your opinion/recommendations ... pot calling ...kettle... black...sarcasm...comment ...unwarranted...unnecessary...."
In the last 15 minutes of the auction, it was holding steady at around $3k.
In the last 15 seconds, it shot up to $4k, then ended at $6800.
The winning bidder only bid once with 3 seconds left. Always an effective strategy to bypass the bidding war.
In the last 30 seconds priced jumped from $3028 to $6800, which was the final selling price! NFI. (I wish my eBay auctions would do that!)
Three days ago the seller added that he would accept returns if not 100% satisfied. Smart move.
I'm just a country boy, but $3028 sounded like a great deal, whereas $6800 is starting to sound like retail......
KC beat me to it.....great minds think alike!
Wow! Someone really wanted it. Hopefully for the seller, it's a real bid. I lucked out when I bought my 81 F5L on Ebay, I wrote the seller and made an offer even though it wasn't listed as "best offer", the seller accepted it. It's my favorite out of the brood.
Old Hometown, Cabin Fever String Band
Does anyone remember the time a buyer bid $15k for an F4 on eBay and systematically took the world of vintage Gibson oval holes into a whole other price range?
"your posts ... very VERY opinionated ...basing your opinion/recommendations ... pot calling ...kettle... black...sarcasm...comment ...unwarranted...unnecessary...."
It sure seems like a lot for that mandolin (especially not being able to see and play it in person) unless someone knows something about that mandolin or has some attachment to it.
It was a Carlson-signed instrument, but had some nasty finish problems on the scroll (as seen in the auction pics).
I thought 6,800 was about 2,000 "too high" for that one...
I checked the listing.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/40279283627...5d6000xlw00004
The seller relisted it shorty after the end of the auction, and the relist shows sold for $4500.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Gibson-...p2047675.l2557
Not sure what happened there. Shill bidding to get the price high, and then a fixed offer at a much lower price? Certainly moved very quickly to a relist.
Thanks for the follow-up. I missed the relisting and sale. 20 years ago shill bidding was common on eBay, basically get an "out of town" friend to bid up an item and when the auction is over, tell the second-highest bidder the "winner" backed out and you can offer it to them, if they are still interested. Now, eBay has some failsafes in place to prevent this, but not sure how well they work. Shill bidding was rampant among the vintage guitar community when eBay first started. Nowadays, I think at the very least a red flag comes up on eBay's end when it is apparent that something like this is going on. Certainly, if it happens more than once with the same parties selling and bidding. I think after so many non-payments, the shill's account at the very least gets "dinged" by eBay.
FWIW, my "buddy" a fairly well-known vintage guitar dealer for 30+ years, actually used his wife's eBay account to shill bid on his own listings FROM THE SAME COMPUTER! Needless to say, eBay noticed and stopped this immediately and he was suspended from doing business on eBay -- but actually, it wasn't for very long -- maybe 2-3 weeks, IIRC.
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