Latest eBay sucker bait

Chuck_Clark · Post by **Chuck_Clark** » Fri Oct 17, 2003 8:57 pm

Here you go folks, don't let this one get away.

Its a Genu-wine VINTAGE Sweetone pennywhistle!!!!!! Only ten bucks to start.

Lessee... vintage? That'd make it... what... SIX (6) years old????

TXwhistle · Post by **TXwhistle** » Fri Oct 17, 2003 9:07 pm

Rust means vintage? I'm going to leave my Sweetone outside and sell it for $20 in a couple of months!

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Fri Oct 17, 2003 9:30 pm

Vintage... off what vine?

Post by **Nanohedron** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 12:52 pm

Walden wrote:Vintage... off what vine?

...Sour grapes. I'm betting that Chuck doesn't have a tastefully oxidized Sweetone to sell to us at a collector's premium.

chas · Post by **chas** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 3:54 pm

It's one of those ways in which one has to know the ebay jargon. Vintage seems to mean a recent example of something that's been around for awhile. If it really is old they'll call it antique.

Post by **Dale** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 5:59 pm

Hm. If I knew it was authentic, geniune, AND vintage, I might bite.

Dale

Chuck_Clark · Post by **Chuck_Clark** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 5:19 am

DaleWisely wrote:Hm. If I knew it was authentic, geniune, AND vintage, I might bite.

Dale

Don't bite Dale. Nanohedron is only partly right. I may not currently have a such a vintage Sweetone, but for eight bucks I'll be glad to vintage one of the mundane ones that I do have. Heck, for only nine bucks, I'll vintage the blue Sweetone C that got sat on and has a sort of wrinkle partway down the tube. Then you'd have a vintage instrument with character

Celtoid · Post by **Celtoid** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 7:02 am

If you stick a copper or brass whistle in a manure pile for a few months it will be authentic antique vintage with patina.

...and have character too.

Zubivka · Post by **Zubivka** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 7:50 am

Celtoid wrote:If you stick a copper or brass whistle in a manure pile for a few months it will be authentic antique vintage with patina. ...and have character too.

Say what you want but no wonder some whistles stink.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 12:38 pm

Chuck_Clark wrote:...but for eight bucks I'll be glad to vintage one of the mundane ones that I do have. Heck, for only nine bucks, I'll vintage the blue Sweetone C...

How could you.

LittleMy · Post by **LittleMy** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 6:17 pm

Celtoid wrote:If you stick a copper or brass whistle in a manure pile for a few months it will be authentic antique vintage with patina. ...and have character too.

I know someone who named her daughter "Patina." No, really. Wonder how much she'd go for on ebay?

OutOfBreath · Post by **OutOfBreath** » Wed Oct 22, 2003 11:09 am

It isn't just eBay. The geniuses in marketing at Fender Musical Instruments came up with a clever idea a few years ago. Basically, what they do is take a "re-issue" guitar (re-issue guitars are another silly idea, but that's another story) then they have the "custom shop" turn it into a "relic." They let some of the metal parts corrode, beat, gouge, and fade the body, apply cigarette burns to the headstock, etc. Then they sell this "Fender Relic" for $2500 instead of the $900 the basic reissue guitar would sell for (and even that's an inflated price, IMHO).

P.T. Barnum was right, I guess...

John

Post by **Nanohedron** » Wed Oct 22, 2003 11:16 am

A practice during the "antiquing" craze in the U.S. (not only do I remember it, I even aided and abetted my mom on a project or two...good thing I was a minor and exempt from prosecution) was to take a length of chain and do the obvious thing with it.

*eyes the unused Moon cittern in the corner*

momerath · Post by **momerath** » Wed Oct 22, 2003 1:53 pm

LittleMy wrote:
Celtoid wrote:If you stick a copper or brass whistle in a manure pile for a few months it will be authentic antique vintage with patina. ...and have character too.
I know someone who named her daughter "Patina." No, really. Wonder how much she'd go for on ebay?

Depends. Was she a funky gold Patina?

LittleMy · Post by **LittleMy** » Wed Oct 22, 2003 8:30 pm

momerath wrote:
LittleMy wrote:
Celtoid wrote:If you stick a copper or brass whistle in a manure pile for a few months it will be authentic antique vintage with patina. ...and have character too.
I know someone who named her daughter "Patina." No, really. Wonder how much she'd go for on ebay?
Depends. Was she a funky gold Patina?

Groooaaan. Hee hee.