[HAM] Hammond OrganSeller and e-Bay. BUYER BEWARE

[Joe Procopio]

While his response to Ernie was uncalled for, his point in this posting 
is a good warning.
This company has had several listings on Ebay. 
The ads tout how the internals of the organ have been restored to like 
new conditions, new tubes, etc.. without ever showing pictures of the 
internals. The _outside_ of the organs look amazing with high gloss 
custom color finishes worthy of a good car restoration...
The prices are staggering $8-10k
And looking at the dozen or so pictures one can easily be impressed with 
how spectacular the organ looks... they even had a really really cool 
looking gloss black B3 with Hot rod style flames ... really impressive 
looking (I know I drooled)...
impressive enough that someone might get distracted from asking the 
important questions like how well (if at all) the inside was restored...

These pictures (all I have to go on other than their ebay ads which do 
not show internals) show sloppy paint overspray..paint on electrical 
connectors,
rusted and or broken mountings and chassis, and what seems to me at 
least just little or no care at attempting to "restore" the organ... 
just a lemon with a shiny new paint job to distract the unwitting buyer...


And for the record... if Ernie is happy with the re-re-capped TG and it 
sounds better to him... good for him!

Joe



Scott Hawthorn wrote:

>Well, that is the finest photo of mouse poop I ever saw. But I have to ask: 
>what is this gigantic gallery of pictures supposed to prove? There's no 
>text, no description of what the problems are. I couldn't read the 
>advertisement at the size it was posted so maybe that's why I'm missing 
>your point. I have certainly seen much-worse organs in my somewhat limited 
>experience. Too bad if the guy overpaid, but whose fault was that? I have 
>to wonder if there is some kind of commercial agenda on John's part here.
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>--Professional Skeptic
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