| Zachary Music said:
Alex is not selling anything on ebay. Alex is promoting on ebay. He is getting over 800 hits in less than 4 days and getting tons of email and selling lots of trumpets. Alex needs to put in a new large order of Olympus tomorrow.
Actually Seth,
I think it is a reasonable question. Alex is not the first to do this. I remember when WWBW came out with their Allora line of trombones. A professional horn with a Thayer valve (a big deal in the trombone world). I called them to find out who made it and why it was a professional level horn. They would only say they couldn't tell me who "the old world craftsmen are" and that it was a professional horn because it was well made, had a Thayer valve, and miniball linkage. Right. So within a week they had this new deluxe professional horn up on eBay for about $100 less than the catalog price. It didn't sell.
BTW, we found out later the VMI of Germany was the maker. It took a little detective work.
WWBW, Music 123, Jim Laabs, and many other stores constantly put things up on eBay for full price. They don't sell (generally), but they get the details looked at. You pay the fee. If it is blatant advertising with nothing real to sell, eBay frowns on it. But if it is just priced at full retail or overpriced, well, it works as inexpensive advertising.
Now I do not speak for Alex. But the principle of this action is at least explained from my viewpoint.
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