Excel 5 and Rogue 4 on allegro.pl

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Author Message basstard Advanced Member Username: basstard Post Number: 253 Registered: 3-2003 Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008 - 6:10 am:    Herea are the links to 2 beauties offered on allegro.pl (sort of ebay competition): http://www.allegro.pl/item454966783_gitara_alembic_model_excel_5.html http://www.allegro.pl/item454963948_gitara_alembic_model_rogue_4.html The problem is, the seller doesn't seem to have much of an idea about them (he listed them under electric guitars!) and won't provide serial numbers. There are also no papers. He says they were imported from Scandinavia. Therefore I would like to ask if there were Alembics like those 2 reported stolen in Northern Europe. I'm not considering buying any of them now but there seems to be something fishy about these auctions and I wouldn't want anyone to get into any trouble because of that... Thanks in advance for your help! adriaan Senior Member Username: adriaan Post Number: 1973 Registered: 6-2002 Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008 - 6:16 am:    Definitely looks like the same instruments - Rogue 4 with wenge top and Excel 5 with canarywood. It also says "SPROWADZONE ZE SKANDYNAWI" which apparently translates as "fetched from Scandinavia" - cheeky! basstard Advanced Member Username: basstard Post Number: 254 Registered: 3-2003 Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008 - 6:19 am:    It means "imported from Scandinavia" (btw, there's a spelling error - it should be "Skandynawii", with two i's - but that's a marginal remark). adriaan Senior Member Username: adriaan Post Number: 1974 Registered: 6-2002 Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008 - 6:27 am:    I sent an e-mail to Mica with the details, let's hope this gets sorted. Best of luck with your own missing Alembic situation - your karma is in good standing. basstard Advanced Member Username: basstard Post Number: 255 Registered: 3-2003 Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008 - 6:31 am:    Thank you Adriaan! :-) mica Moderator Username: mica Post Number: 5642 Registered: 6-2000 Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008 - 8:02 am:    I've alerted my distributor in Norway. I'd appreciate it nobody contacted the sellers directly. Thanks for letting us know about this - this is exactly the kind of thing that will assist in recovery. 3rd_ray Member Username: 3rd_ray Post Number: 96 Registered: 2-2008 Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008 - 10:26 am:    Good catch Jarek! http://alembic.com/club/messages/403/56870.html?1222890350 basstard Advanced Member Username: basstard Post Number: 256 Registered: 3-2003 Posted on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 - 4:47 am:    I've alerted the Polish police about it.