A fascinating variant on the ebay auction:
 
edited to remove link as Ebay pulled the page.
 
Goofy?
 
Genius?
 
All I can say is "don't click "buy" until you've read the fine print".
 
best regards,
mike

TOTAL PRICE IS $30,000
 
WINNING THIS AUCTION RESERVES YOUR PLACE TO PURCHASE THESE GUITARS ONLY. THE WINNING BID IS ONLY YOUR DOWN PAYMENT TO CONFIRM YOUR INTEREST. THE REST OF THE $30,000 WILL BE DUE IN PERSON/TRANSFERRED TO MY BANK IN PERSON  AT THE LOCATION WHERE WE DECIDE TO MEET.

I put in two bids.......(just can't take any chances in the bidding process)

was the ad taken down?  the link gives me a search of "cherry" Gibsons

does appear it was yanked..

Not worth it anyway unless you can get a second one as a back up...

that's completely against ebay's rules to do the transaction outside of their control.
 
speaking of which, i've sold some stuff on ebay lately and the fees have been unbelievable!
 
between them and paypal double dipping, I think they're getting about 20% to 25% of what I sold the items for!

Yes, it's gone. I'll edit the post.
 
I thought the best part about it was the description where it described 3 nice old Les Pauls as "important examples of the Norlin Era". That made me chuckle.

mike_mccue
I thought the best part about it was the description where it described 3 nice old Les Pauls as "important examples of the Norlin Era". That made me chuckle.

 
Yeah, that raised my eyebrow too. 

That guy actually has some other amusing auctions:
 
http://www.ebay.com/sch/trogly_ze_burninater/m.html?item=290920342849&pt=Guitar_Accessories&hash=item43bc342541&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562
 
Atomic Green Dean Bass:
For sale is a 4 String Atomic Green Dean bass. I bought this from the original owner who wanted to learn bass and thought the bass looked cool. Unfortunately, he never used it, so I thought I'd give it a shot. I never used the bass either lol. Im a guitar player and bass is a bit too boring for me unless its funky stuff.

During my time of owning this cool bass I've had tons of complements on it and I added faux black binding done in sharpie. This sharpie will come off if you desire it too, but I think the bass looks 100x better than before with it on. The marker has faded where my hand has come to rest on it though, so you might have to do another touch up job.

All in all, the bass has been a trophy piece all of its life and would love to actually be played.
 
 
 
Washburn RS980 Rare sought after guitar!:
 
However, it has aired out for about 2 years now at least so the smell has pretty much faded away.
 
 
 

Somehow I managed to restrain myself from bidding on either...