He most likely will email you back and say that maybe someone just used the Phillips head screws doesn't make the rest of the phonograph a fake, yes, geee maybe the past owner was missing the original screws for the machine and substituted modern day phillips screws just to hold it together until he found some matching ones from the right era. ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Buchanan" <[email protected]> To: "Antique Phonograph List" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 8:56:38 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Oxford Jr. Crapophone
Mike I forgot to mentioned that I emailed the seller of this item and informed that the player was a fake. I also told him that the first thing that I noticed was all the phillip head screws that were used. That is a dead give away on anything that was supposed to be made during that time. Bill --- On Tue, 7/28/09, William Buchanan <[email protected]> wrote: From: William Buchanan <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Oxford Jr. Crapophone To: "Antique Phonograph List" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 8:43 PM Mike, I agree with you, I also have a problem with spending huge amounts of money on a photo. There is no real guarantee that you will ever receive the item and when you do and it turns out to be fake you have nobody to blame but yourself. Money is not that easy to come by for me, I have not worked in the past two years but even when I was working I would have never spent over $50.00 on something on ebay. I guess it all goes back to the old and very truthful saying "Let the buyer beware". I have been lucky, I have only been ripped off a couple of times on ebay and those times they were less than 30 dollars each so I feel very good about that. Bill --- On Tue, 7/28/09, Mike Stitt <[email protected]> wrote: From: Mike Stitt <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Oxford Jr. Crapophone To: "Antique Phonograph List" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 7:18 PM Well I hate to play bad guy but if you want to spend $500+++ and not know what you are doing maybe you deserve to take a hit. After all this is not face to face with a dealer but an internet auction. Call me conservative, I have a hard spending $500 on a picture and I can ill afford to lose that much money. Buyer should never be cheated and sellers should always be honest, it is un-knowledgeable (sic) bidders/buyers that allow abuse to go on and may be their own victim. Oldcranky Mike On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 1:18 PM, William Buchanan <[email protected]>wrote: > It is a shame that so many people are bidding on this piece of trash. > Although I must admit some of the parts look real, but that is a huge price > to pay for some spare parts. > > Bill > > --- On Tue, 7/28/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> > wrote: > > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: [Phono-L] Oxford Jr. Crapophone > To: "Phono-L" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Phonolist" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 8:04 AM > > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200365874976&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT > > > > This will undoubtedly set the record so far this year for the highest price > paid for a Frankenphone piece of Crap to be sold on Ebay, or probably > anywhere else for that matter. > > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org > _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
