No, dear readers, this isn’t the photo I took after removing packing materials. This is exactly what greeted me when I opened the box. This is how someone chose to ship me a set-neck guitar in thirty-degree weather. But wait; it gets worse.
This damage was disclosed to me after the guitar was shipped. He said he dropped the tape gun on the guitar. Given the lack of tape on the box, I’m suspicious. Also, in order for his story to be true, he’d have had to have dropped it twice on the front of the headstock and once on the back. (Jim Garrison: That’s one magic tape gun!)
The rest of the guitar is dirty, dingy, dented, dinged. It’s tempting to just flip it for what I paid and forget about it. Except: this guitar has the hand-wound Ren Wall HRW pickups that were a very rare option on Heritages of the era. And it’s a one-piece back, and an Ultra top, and a lovely color. I’m going to rehabilitate the old (eleven-year-old, anyway) girl. Watch this space.
#firstworldproblems
Indeed.
WTF
did he not post photos of the gtr in the “for sale” ad?
at least it is only cosmetic…but still gets a big WTF??? if it wasn’t disclosed pre-sale.
and that is one of the shoddiest packing jobs I have ever seen
glad you a) got the gtr b) got the gtr intact
Not getting my 535 done with the HRW pickups is the only regret I have on the guitar.
Wow. That is something. Maybe he’s so sick he just doesn’t give a $h!t about his rep anymore.
This is bullcrap ~
A known dirty deed by the seller , I hope you give detailed negative feedback as there are so many out there who take advantage of honest E-Bay’ers who won’t post negative feedback because they’re scared the CROOK might ding their precious 100 % feedback rating .
Hats off to you for taking on the big job of deciding to repair it , I’m in the dead middle of doing this to a rusted out vehicle I bought from a similar lying dirtbag who posted many fine photos but didn’t bother telling me he was selling UNSAFE junk .
Please post detailed articles of how you go about fixing it .
-Nate