"Vintage Music Man"? I hate People that Blatently Lie on eBay!!!

[Baird]

This bugs me.

Vintage Music Man 4 String Electric Bass Guitar NEW - (eBay.ca item 110251319143 end time 13-May-08 23:58:02 EDT)

Yes, any knowledgeable consumer should be smart enough to determine that this is not a real Stingray, but for the love of god, stop being a weasel and title your auction with what the bass really is!

I want the 30 seconds of my life back that I spent reading these auction details!

 

[AnthonyD]

And to think, eBay pulled the plug on a recent auction of mine because I used "Like New" in the description.

They claimed it was deceptive in that search results looking for "new" would find my item.

 

[bovinehost]

POS.

Where's WonderDog?

 

[Beth]

I hate that company. Totally unapologetic about their ripping off schemes.

 

[mathewsanchez]

I don't think the title is a lie as such, because the company who makes this knock off bass is called 'vintage'. It also says 'music man style' so its not claiming to actually be a music man. But the title does seem a bit deceptive. And what really annoys me is that it claims to be as good as an EBMM but for $1000 less, when clearly it is very poorly built.


Just a little question for Big Poppa, is the company 'Vintage' actually licensed to use the 3 +1 headstock or are they breaching copyright law?

 

[Beth]

The company "Vintage" is not licensed to use the 3+1 headstock design.

Funny, the last time I checked their site, they had MM ripoffs, but they didn't display the 3+1. Now, they do: Electric Guitars by Vintage Metal Axxe from John Hornby Skewes

Wonderdog?

 

[Beth]

If you surf around that site, you'll find that for each series of Vintage Bass guitars and Vintage Electric guitars, they introduce it with three descriptive adjectives. For example:

Vintage®EST96Series
Stimulating, Stylish, Expressive.


Vintage®MetalAxxeReaper
Agile, Addictive, Aggressive.

Vintage®V940/V950ActiveSeries
Fast, Fluid, Funky.



Let's have fun with this... Let's come up with three adjectives that express how WE feel about Vintage® instruments...

 

[bovinehost]

Crappy, cheap and churlish?

 

[Duarte]

I like real stingrays.

 

[cky4ever]

Bad, worse, and worst...

vintage being the last of the three types of companies...

 

[T-bone]

Plain, Lame, and Ugly?

tbone

 

[GHWelles]

POS.

Where's WonderDog?

Right here, I will look at it.

OK, I have filed a complaint with E-bay and the listing should be canceled by tomorrow.

 

[silverburst]

Blatantly.

 

[( o )===#]

 

[GHWelles]

Listing Removed!

 

[mathewsanchez]

Listing Removed!

Hooray!!!

 

[bovinehost]

Speed of lightning,
roar of thunder!

 

[Baird]

Here is what the idiot replied when I very nicely told him that his listing was "potentially" a tad misleading.....

Thank you for your insight. I know this is not an EBMM instrument, and no where does it say it is. The Ernie Ball line is "Musicman", I have not used that term, and while this guitar is made by Vintage to resemble the EBMM model, my title represents the same similarity without using the copyrighted terms.

I have added the word "Style" to the title to further expound that this is not a Ernie Ball instrument.

Scumbag.