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Anybody know this guy/guitar?

Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 5:00 pm
by mr_sooty
Very interested in this. Anything I should be aware of? Anybody know this guy or the guitar? Did any of the techs here do the work he's mentioned? Unlikely I know, but worth a try.

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing ... =260851624

Re: Anybody know this guy/guitar?

Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 5:04 pm
by bender
Why are you after that over the ones you currently have? The roadworns are terrific and your USA standard is pretty hot too.

Re: Anybody know this guy/guitar?

Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 6:57 pm
by ChrisR
Anyone who has 'owned a Strat for 3 years', owns '4 custom made guitars', is 'a recording artist', can't spell guitar, or guitarist - but has a huge array of misspellings to that effect and yet still files their Stratocaster in the 'Acoustic electric guitars' section of Trademe using photos of another guitar strikes me as 9 partys dodgy, 1 part stupid.

IMHO :)

Re: Anybody know this guy/guitar?

Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 7:08 pm
by Jenesis
Just what I was thinking. :D

Re: Anybody know this guy/guitar?

Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 7:17 pm
by rocklander
ChrisR wrote:Anyone who has 'owned a Strat for 3 years', owns '4 custom made guitars', is 'a recording artist', can't spell guitar, or guitarist - but has a huge array of misspellings to that effect and yet still files their Stratocaster in the 'Acoustic electric guitars' section of Trademe using photos of another guitar strikes me as 9 partys dodgy, 1 part stupid.

IMHO :)
and has zero trades.

Re: Anybody know this guy/guitar?

Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 7:21 pm
by Vince
Jenesis wrote:Just what I was thinking. :D
Yeah, me too.

HOWEVER, I notice that the spelling mistakes increase dramatically after someone mentions "smarty's". Maybe he's deliberately misspelling stuff to be funny (ie, he's not a "smarty")?

I notice also that the spelling errors are not consistent (giterist/gutorast), which makes me feel that they MIGHT be on purpose. "thier", OTOH, is misspelled consistently.

OR PERHAPS... the first couple of questions were answered from a computer with some sort of spelling checker and the others weren't.

Re: Anybody know this guy/guitar?

Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 7:25 pm
by Jenesis
They don't have the best computers over there in Lagos.

Re: Anybody know this guy/guitar?

Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 7:39 pm
by Vince
Jenesis wrote:They don't have the best computers over there in Lagos.
Or it's two different guys answering.

Re: Anybody know this guy/guitar?

Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 7:44 pm
by ChrisR
Or it's not even guys.

Re: Anybody know this guy/guitar?

Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 7:45 pm
by Vince
ChrisR wrote:Or it's not even guys.
Some of the spelling looks like the proverbial 100 monkeys with typewriters. In a guitar case that fell off the shelf.

Re: Anybody know this guy/guitar?

Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 8:27 pm
by El Chris
nothing really to contribute to the topic

but theres a 1961 es 335 up :O

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Music-instrume ... 001585.htm

Re: Anybody know this guy/guitar?

Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 8:30 pm
by Ironbird13
El Chris wrote:nothing really to contribute to the topic

but theres a 1961 es 335 up :O

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Music-instrume ... 001585.htm
has Robnob won lotto :wink: :shock:

Re: Anybody know this guy/guitar?

Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 8:47 pm
by Cabb
Ha 10 grand for a beater... not today. I'm glad their are some other sceptics out there, I was gonna post that I thought the guy sounded like a poser who picked up guitar to talk the talk (see failed marketing pitch) but probably ran into a few too many hardcore guitarists for his ego - hence all the smarty carry on.

Re: Anybody know this guy/guitar?

Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 9:00 pm
by Capt. Black
9 parts stupid, 1 part dodgy.

Re: Anybody know this guy/guitar?

Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 9:04 pm
by bender
Ironbird13 wrote:
El Chris wrote:nothing really to contribute to the topic

but theres a 1961 es 335 up :O

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Music-instrume ... 001585.htm
has Robnob won lotto :wink: :shock:

HOLEY SH*T! Should we be expecting to see a whole pile of his gear up for sale on the auction site in the new year?