Mellotronists

mellotrongirl wrote:

> Reserve not yet met on the original, but with a "buy it now" price of
> $471.00 ?!?!? Madness, I'll tell ya.... madness.
>
> Nice CD's just out with Mellotron:    Beulah's Yoko    Quasi
> _____________
>
> And what's this in a recent post about an M-400 that got tweaked
> because it was shipped in an anvil case upside down? Wouldn't the
> feet sticking out imply, uhm..."this side down"? Maybe I need to be
> educated about the diff between a muff cover and an anvil box. Mine I
> just wrapped up in blankets and slowed down on county roads and at
> RxR crossings & hoped for the best.
>
> I should make up packaging stickers that read "this side must face
> north" or "not radioactive this week" and watch a few shippers and
> truckers pull their hair out. Really throw a curve and poke
> ventilation holes in neat grid patterns on one side of the box.
>

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Hello Mellotrongirl and gang,

RCA NE-6 is another example of people testing the waters
on eBay. In my six years there, here are two blatant instances :

A common lightbulb (not rare Edison) with opening bid of $1 .
......But a "buy-it-now" price of $5000 !

A postal card  from 1905 depicting an early railroad and canal.
Typically, this card has sold for $40.00 .  This time, a new
eBay seller had buy-it-now for  $1200 !

Motto : "There's a sucker born every minute"

RE: shipping of Trons, I suppose Murphy's Law applies
in every aspect of the term.  I don't have the colourful
transport stories as Streetly/DK and others, but my
M300 had been dropped off the rear of a truck  and
split-open before I purchased it. This was the same
unit which JB lovingly shipped to DK in 1991
and was featured on DK's  video series.

My beloved MK-I "Julia" had gotten quite a few
knocks and bumps as she travelled from Merced,CA
to Vermont.  And this was Keyboard Carriage Inc,
a firm that "specialises in musical instrument
transport." Someone tried to use fork-lift blades under
the MK-I cabinet, resulting in split lower panel in the rear.
Their "customer service" bordered on rude-crude
when I called to file damage report.

Motto :  Maybe your idea of special labels and grille
vents with recorded growls might help, Mellotrongirl !

If shippers get any more inept, we might have to affix
labels on bottoms of all beer-bottles stating :
"Open Other End."

Cheers, Jerry K.  (" reserve not met, hazmat! methane danger")