posted 14 February 2005 03:37 PM
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Here's documentation that Instrumentexchange.com is an outlet of Guitar Center; And that the old now-inactive eBay account 'instrumentexchange' was an account of Instrument Exchange / Guitar Center.Duplicate pictures in EI EBAY auctions is what caught my eye awhile back, ...and upon closer scrutiny discovered they weren't just duplicate pictures, they were separate auctions selling the same physical item! And sure enough, checking IE's feedback showed winners quite upset that "the instrument was already sold" or told a "mistake" had been made (boy did they make allot of similar "mistakes"). I wish I had the time to investigate their current activities closer; Maybe someone else here does.
I hen't seen Instrument Exchange on eBay in quite awhile and thought they had ceased doing eBay business, using their own instrumentexchange.com auction house now; But I would appreciate anyone posting a link here to any item for sale on eBay by Instrument Exchange or Guitar Center.
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Cases of duplicate listings found between 9-7-03 and 1-9-04:
===== RARE '54 Fender Tweed Twin Low Power Item number: 2556501746 RARE '54 Fender Tweed Twin Low Power Item number: 2556501619 ===== DANELECTRO Silvertone Item number: 2556501731 DANELECTRO Silvertone Item number: 2556501612===== GIBSON LES PAUL STANDARD Item number: 2556501714GIBSON LES PAUL STANDARD Item number: 2556501604===== FENDER Brown Delux Item number: 2556501701FENDER Brown Delux Item number: 2556501601===== Seventy's Fender Pro Reverb Item number: 2556501590Seventy's Fender Pro Reverb Item number: 2556501695===== Ovation Viper Item number: 2556501688Ovation Viper Item number: 2556501579===== Gibson ES 345 1962 Item number: 2556501572Gibson ES 345 1962 Item number: 2556501680===== orpheum 1830 Item number: 2556501672orpheum 1830 Item number: 2556501561===== Hartke Transporter 210 .... 2557875337Hartke Transporter 210 .... 2557877052===== item=2558063058item=2558063061===== item=2556501731 item=2556501612=====item=3700810339 item=3700908968=====item=3700810339item=3700908968=====
I he personally heard many complaints about instrument exchange ...although I he never had a bad experience doing direct business with Guitar Center store supervisors (many if not most floormen a bit too green still). A good thing about Guitar Center is that they can access the database of all their stores to locate a particular instrument. I stopped doing business with them when I learned that instrument exchange was one of their gigs.
Aloha,DT~
[This message was edited by Denny Turner on 14 February 2005 at 06:04 PM.]