Mellotronists

"I have the exact (VINTAGE MELLOTRON M 400 MOOG ARP AN) that you are 
bidding on in my private stock, but for a better price." 


-------YIKES!  That is so wrong in so many ways it's amazing.  I 
wouldn't bid five cents for that poor thing unless it was delivered 
to my door, COD, and I had the chance to inspect and test it before 
paying for it. What problems could possibly arise from ordering 
through some schmuck with an already evident lack of scruples, having 
no way of verifying said schmuck's real identity and particulars, or 
the legality of provenance of the instrument, huh?
JS