https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/unsatisfied-with-my-epi-sg-purchase/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:20:43 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/unsatisfied-with-my-epi-sg-purchase/paged/3/#post-262002 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 05:13:09 +0000 Guitar Players Discussion corbind https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/unsatisfied-with-my-epi-sg-purchase/paged/3/#post-262002 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/unsatisfied-with-my-epi-sg-purchase/paged/3/#post-262000 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 05:04:11 +0000 Guitar Players Discussion ivankaramazov https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/unsatisfied-with-my-epi-sg-purchase/paged/3/#post-262000 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/unsatisfied-with-my-epi-sg-purchase/paged/3/#post-261997 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:14:16 +0000 Guitar Players Discussion corbind https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/unsatisfied-with-my-epi-sg-purchase/paged/3/#post-261997 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/unsatisfied-with-my-epi-sg-purchase/paged/3/#post-261972 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:10:32 +0000
I agree with Wes's thought. The internet is a good indicator of things, and he's barely around. In fact, according to google, that address is a Montessori school. Honestly, having lived in Indiana, if I saw something being advertised as for Columbus, I'd look past it no matter what it was.]]> Guitar Players Discussion ivankaramazov https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/unsatisfied-with-my-epi-sg-purchase/paged/3/#post-261972 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/unsatisfied-with-my-epi-sg-purchase/paged/3/#post-261966 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 01:44:02 +0000
Sorry to hear about your bad experience on EBay. All I can say is what goes around, comes around. Unfortunately, you may not see it, but if this person takes advantage of people, sooner or later someone will take advantage of him. You never truly get away with doing wrong.

Post negative feedback, he deserves it.

And it is hard to believe this is such a big business. I spent nearly an hour trying to look it up, and only found a few references to this business. It was not even listed with the Columbus, Indiana Chamber of Commerce. Very suspicious if you ask me. I also found a link to this business's website, but got a "couldn't find server" notice.

Hopefully EBay will do something about this, if not and you are stuck with the guitar, this would be a good place to experiment with modding the guitar. Try putting some better pickups in and see if you can file the frets ends down yourself.

Good luck,

Wes]]> Guitar Players Discussion Wes Inman https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/unsatisfied-with-my-epi-sg-purchase/paged/3/#post-261966 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/unsatisfied-with-my-epi-sg-purchase/paged/3/#post-261876 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:48:07 +0000
That is not to say that you are not going to get ripped off from time-to-time. I use eBay for any random item I might need - from outdoor deck speakers to guitars to software for my computer to neckties! I've had over 350 transactions (buy and sell combined) and probably 340 positive experiences. The 10 have been a pain in the "ass", but overall it has been a great way to find odd stuff (pickups, tuners, pickguards, etc) and a great way to sell random stuff (old refridgerator, hot tub, etc).

The KEY to eBay is to ONLY buy from people with 99.7+ feedback. If someone is below 99% you need to probably move on unless the deal is SOOOO good that it is worth the risk.

Anyway, just a random rant/counterpoint.]]> Guitar Players Discussion The Dali https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/unsatisfied-with-my-epi-sg-purchase/paged/3/#post-261876 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/unsatisfied-with-my-epi-sg-purchase/paged/3/#post-261867 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:12:37 +0000 Guitar Players Discussion corbind https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/unsatisfied-with-my-epi-sg-purchase/paged/3/#post-261867 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/unsatisfied-with-my-epi-sg-purchase/paged/3/#post-261860 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:06:21 +0000 Guitar Players Discussion TRGuitar https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/unsatisfied-with-my-epi-sg-purchase/paged/3/#post-261860 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/unsatisfied-with-my-epi-sg-purchase/paged/3/#post-261851 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 04:22:23 +0000
I got screwed over by a power seller about 6 years ago on eBay over a laser printer that was not what was claimed - he had listed it as one model and I had emailed to verify that but when it arrived it was a lower grade model without the specific feature I was looking for that the higher model had. He avoided my email for a while, claimed to be on vacation (maybe true / maybe not), said send it back, and then claimed that I had "tampered" with it and wouldn't refund my money. eBay sided with their "power seller".

He had a decent but not perfect seller rating. Most people probably wouldn't have noticed the model difference nor perhaps cared (I was needing the ethernet feature) so would have given him a good rating on the stuff he sold. What I find interesting is that 20 some odd years ago on the internet (yes it existed then) I bought and sold a bunch of stuff (usually geek to geek) without any intermediaries and I never ran into any difficulties.

Just be careful that you don't end up without a guitar or without your money back. One of my early dot-com tenures was with a now out-of-business online auction VAR. I can tell you this much. The business models totally revolved around the sellers. The consumer based KPIs of the day we & they all looked at were click-thrus (views,traffic) and % listings sold. If something was done for the consumer, it's business justification was always to ulimately improve click-thrus. The sellers and the channel (eBay in Corbind's case) are the partners. Not the consumer. I'll leave it at that.]]> Guitar Players Discussion rparker https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/unsatisfied-with-my-epi-sg-purchase/paged/3/#post-261851 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/unsatisfied-with-my-epi-sg-purchase/paged/3/#post-261842 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 03:11:30 +0000
I got screwed over by a power seller about 6 years ago on eBay over a laser printer that was not what was claimed - he had listed it as one model and I had emailed to verify that but when it arrived it was a lower grade model without the specific feature I was looking for that the higher model had. He avoided my email for a while, claimed to be on vacation (maybe true / maybe not), said send it back, and then claimed that I had "tampered" with it and wouldn't refund my money. eBay sided with their "power seller".

He had a decent but not perfect seller rating. Most people probably wouldn't have noticed the model difference nor perhaps cared (I was needing the ethernet feature) so would have given him a good rating on the stuff he sold. What I find interesting is that 20 some odd years ago on the internet (yes it existed then) I bought and sold a bunch of stuff (usually geek to geek) without any intermediaries and I never ran into any difficulties.

Just be careful that you don't end up without a guitar or without your money back.]]> Guitar Players Discussion Hyperborea https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/unsatisfied-with-my-epi-sg-purchase/paged/3/#post-261842