What the heck is this?

[vanessa]

Totally insane...


http://cgi.ebay.com/Original-Vox-Wah-V846-icar-trash-can-british-pot-pedal_W0QQitemZ7421830249QQihZ016QQcategoryZ41422QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[cd]

It's a collector's item.

[burnt fingers]

I think the guy's got a reissue Wah with an old ( possibly just old, not vintage) bag.  I'd say show the guts and more close ups to proove it's the real deal. 

Scott

[jonathan perez]

i couldnt imagine getting ripped off that badly...a 1,000 vox 847.

but! i do contest...im sure it would be worth it if it were the real deal.

[RDV]

Man, I used to have one of those bags that came with an ancient Vox volume pedal.

I threw them both away.

I was 13.

RDV

[markm]

Man, I used to have one of those bags that came with an ancient Vox volume pedal.

I threw them both away.

I was 13.

RDV

Kinda like what people did with the picture sleeves from 45's back then.
Now, they're collectible!
Live and learn??

[calpolyengineer]

They are collectable because people threw them away. If everybody kept them, they wouldn't be anything special.

-Joe

[nooneknows]

I've just threw away 2 pairs of socket, relic. Could they be in the future collectable?! gonna take a look in the trashbin...
(kiddin')

[vanessa]

For me part of the insanity is there's not even any gut shots. Even so $1000+ for a wah-wah pedal??? 

[BDuguay]

"What the heck is this?"


wishfull thinking.....

[jonathan perez]

holy crap! what if it was a stock post-'71 846?! ah boy...the tone would be lifeless, and circuitry compared to the thomas organ/tdk wahs...

[R.G.]

Look at the bidders.

hawnsurfer bid $185. Two  and a half hours later parlortrash bid $426, hidden by ebay's bidding process to just more than hawnsurfer. Eight hours later hawnsurfer came back and chased it up to $299.99 and quit.

It is likely that the seller noticed that there was a newby (parlortrash has a feedback of 4, all of which were in 2004) and decided to see if they were gullible. Enter polodzine, zero feedbacks, two days later. polodzine has been an ebay member since ... June 11, 2006. Polo plops in a $750 bid, and parlortrash is into the bidding war. And right now, parlor trash is sitting there with a 900+ bid on the thing, polodzine having run him up.

There are a few possible interpretations.
One is that polo is a shill and parlor is a patsie.
Another is that BOTH polo and parlor are shills and no one else has leaped in.  Not very clevel shilling, but then never ascribe to malice what can be explained by incompetence.

What's really unlikely is that it is as it says it is. A good one to walk away from, and watch from a safe distance.

[AL]

Don't put your lips on it!

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/79/79awhatthehell.phtml

Ricky !! Where are ya'?


AL