Someone is going to be upset if they buy this Gibson,

[Jim Garber]

Seems like online these pickups are listed for $180-200 or so. I don’t know what they actually sell for. The guitar ones sell for more, I believe.

[Mark Gunter]

Seems the ad has been removed now.

[MikeZito]

I almost feel bad for the seller - he is probably going to take a big hit on his investment in a 'Gibson' . . . but, it HAD to be stopped; and hopefully all of the notes and other work from Cafe members spared someone else from making a bad purchase.

[Timbofood]

Does the word
“Hard headed”come t mind when reading some of the posts about this fellow?
It’s a “bogus” piece of low rent mandolin no more, no less. The guy has the mistaken opinion that it’s something it’s not. He was “Told by someone who “knows”” so, thats what he is basing all his pitch on. Too bad, its nothing anywhere near what he thinks it is.

[MikeEdgerton]

Earlier this afternoon I sent the guy a message explaining why he might want to try and get his money back from the person he bought it from and why he was getting messages regarding it. Maybe he finally had a breakthrough. Maybe eBay delisted it, who knows.

[Ivan Kelsall]

From Allen Hopkins - " I think calling it "fake" is still accurate.". In common parlance Allen,i'd agree - but literally it can't be a fake. You can't 'fake' something that was never made in the first place. But ok - it's a 'fake' for want of a better word,
Ivan

[Bertram Henze]

You can't 'fake' something that was never made in the first place.

From that follows that someone posing as Santa is no fake (even though Coke does exist), but an Elvis impersonator is. Any mixture of both versions is possible...



...and I suspect that mandolin fits that category as well.

[allenhopkins]

"Fake" means more than just counterfeit; the other definition is "not genuine." Whether or not this was an attempt to copy a genuine Gibson mandolin -- and it wasn't -- it still is not a genuine Gibson mandolin, which is how it's being represented.

I still think using the adjective "fake" is accurate. One might opine, "Not a very good fake," since it looks nothing like any Gibson model, and the only thing "Gibson" about it is the decal. But I'm not convinced that labeling it "fake" is a mis-use of the adjective.

Before this turns into the Grammar Cafe, I'll bow out of the discussion...