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ajdover
Member
Username: ajdover

Post Number: 96
Registered: 11-2003
Posted on Tuesday, June 08, 2004 - 5:39 pm:   Edit Post

Folks,

The same seller on Ebay who failed to sell his Elan at $1400 or better is now listing it at $1500 or better. I don't get it. Comments?

Alan

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4713&item=3729057998&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
mik
Junior
Username: mik

Post Number: 14
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Tuesday, June 08, 2004 - 6:59 pm:   Edit Post

To attribute the adjective "cumbersome" to an item you are trying to entice someone into buying is a little, erm, novel too.

Clearly there's a new way of thinking goin on here...
kmh364
Intermediate Member
Username: kmh364

Post Number: 124
Registered: 9-2003
Posted on Wednesday, June 09, 2004 - 3:57 am:   Edit Post

That's the old retail store mentality: if something fails to sell at a low price, raise the price and see how it does. Usually this works because human mentality tends to associate price with quality (i.e., higher price means higher quality, right? LOL!). Personally, I think the owner is smokin' rope!
pookeymp
Intermediate Member
Username: pookeymp

Post Number: 107
Registered: 7-2002
Posted on Wednesday, June 09, 2004 - 8:48 am:   Edit Post

"very cumbersome" at that...

this is a very interesting strategy.

I'm gonna hold out until he posts it for $2000...then I might bite. :-)
bracheen
Senior Member
Username: bracheen

Post Number: 463
Registered: 11-2003
Posted on Wednesday, June 09, 2004 - 8:54 am:   Edit Post

I hate to break it to the boy but that's not Zebrawood showing through the paint unless Zebrawood started coming quilted.

Sam
hasse
New
Username: hasse

Post Number: 7
Registered: 4-2004
Posted on Wednesday, June 09, 2004 - 9:22 am:   Edit Post

English lessons please!
What is ment by cumbersome? According to my Oxford advanced learner's dictionary it means: "heavy and difficult to carry" seams like an odd way to sell bass

best regardes Hasse
mik
Junior
Username: mik

Post Number: 17
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Wednesday, June 09, 2004 - 9:40 am:   Edit Post

Yes, exactly Hasse, that's what I was saying further up the thread. A little dry English sarcasm on my part. I think your English is doing just fine though, and your definition of cumbersome is accurate!

cum·ber·some (kmbr-sm), adj.
1) Difficult to handle because of weight or bulk.
2) Troublesome or onerous.
3) Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; embarrassing; vexatious; cumbrous.

Mik
davehouck
Senior Member
Username: davehouck

Post Number: 638
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Wednesday, June 09, 2004 - 9:54 am:   Edit Post

Hasse; your dictionary is correct. The seller's use of the word is confusing.
hasse
New
Username: hasse

Post Number: 8
Registered: 4-2004
Posted on Wednesday, June 09, 2004 - 12:51 pm:   Edit Post

Thanks Mik and Dave. Now I get your point Mik it took a while before the penny dropped.
I thought it was some kind of American bassplayer slang. In Danish we sometimes reverce the meaning of words and sentences in fun. Making it impossible for foreigners trying to learn Danish to understand what Danes are talking about.
exampel:
Q: "are you being ironic?"
A: "NO"

Hasse
811952
Intermediate Member
Username: 811952

Post Number: 197
Registered: 10-2003
Posted on Thursday, June 10, 2004 - 7:53 am:   Edit Post

I wonder if his wife told him to sell it and he's doing everything he can not to... "Honey, I've tried eBay 7 times and NOBODY will bid on it..."

John
valvil
Moderator
Username: valvil

Post Number: 473
Registered: 7-2002
Posted on Thursday, June 10, 2004 - 1:49 pm:   Edit Post

LOL, that's a good one John. Maybe not far from the truth.

Valentino
jagerphan84
Junior
Username: jagerphan84

Post Number: 46
Registered: 10-2003
Posted on Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 10:33 am:   Edit Post

For anyone who was at all interested, the price (and the Buy-it-Now) have dropped back to $1400.

Here's a link to the new listing:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3732545507

(Message edited by jagerphan84 on June 24, 2004)
kmh364
Intermediate Member
Username: kmh364

Post Number: 159
Registered: 9-2003
Posted on Sunday, June 27, 2004 - 6:53 am:   Edit Post

Anyone make the guy an offer via email? Not being in the know for used prices, what's the thing actually worth? I might be interested in the thing for the right price (I don't actually "need" another one), but I'm thinking closer to a grand.

BTW, the seller must be a club site surfer, or may actually be a member, because all the inaccuracies and/or unfortunate choices of words have been rectified in his current auction post text.

(Message edited by kmh364 on June 27, 2004)

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