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    The "Nice Try" Thread

    Well,the Craigslist Funny Post thread is going so good...........I thought I would start a new one.
    Vintage strat style neck..........
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    Re: The "Nice Try" Thread

    and he will consider shipping international, nice of him.

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    Prototype. Nice "tunners."

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    Re: The "Nice Try" Thread

    "nothing really notable"
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    Re: The "Nice Try" Thread

    That guitar must have had some real tuning issues to need both locking tuners and a locking nut.

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    Re: The "Nice Try" Thread

    I know what they're saying here..but it just strikes me as funny.

    "Michael Jackson, Guitar Anthology" HUH?

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    Re: The "Nice Try" Thread

    Quote Originally Posted by elicross View Post

    Look -- you made a stupid generalization that you should've known wouldn't play. You made it worse by calling billions of people weak-minded in a post that was jam-packed with spelling and grammar errors. A few of us called you on it. Just take the hit. You know you had it coming. If you're so much more Christ-like than the rest of us, turn the other cheek.

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    Re: The "Nice Try" Thread

    Looks like nylon strings and agibson style truss rod cover LOL

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    Re: The "Nice Try" Thread

    How are those "vintage-style" tuners?
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    Quote Originally Posted by gbstrat View Post
    Okay, that tears it. I have officially lost my last shred of interest in "vintage" guitars.

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    Re: The "Nice Try" Thread

    "This is a very common hard to find item."
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    Re: The "Nice Try" Thread

    Quote Originally Posted by elicross View Post
    "This is a very common hard to find item."
    From later in that sentence:
    "... for anyone who is either replacing a worn one from his original 60's Strat or is completing a absolute , correct 1960's Stratocaster restoration project."

    Aside from the handful of people who routine smashed their Strats, who the hell wears out their original shim?
    Following that vintage logic, this shim would almost have to have belonged to Hendrix, Townsend, Blackmore... for a few hundred less, maybe Yngwie.
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    Re: The "Nice Try" Thread

    Good idea refin! I've been watching this one for a while, as it is relisted and relisted...and relisted. It first went up for sale when Micheal Jackson died back in June last year, for a Buy It Now of $30,000. Since then the price has slowly come down, $27k, $25k, $22k, $20, $15k (it hovered there for a while), so on and so on all the way down to its current asking price:

    Homemade (sorry, "one-of-a-kind")Michael Jackson marionette.

    I keep waiting to see if the price will come down to, say, $50 (and nobody will buy it then either). Or if he will just give up altogether. But he just keeps on listing. He's probably spent $50 in lisitng fees by now.

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    Re: The "Nice Try" Thread

    That thing is creepy as hell!
    s'all goof.

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    You can't get that authentic 1972 sound without it!
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    Re: The "Nice Try" Thread

    Good job it's a 72, them 71's and even 73's just ruin the look of a good guitar IMHO.

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    Re: The "Nice Try" Thread

    Quote Originally Posted by curtisstetka View Post
    That thing is creepy as hell!
    It might sell if the seller deleted that open mouth close-up.
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    Re: The "Nice Try" Thread

    Indeed.

    And really, no matter how creepy the doll it, it'll never come close to the original. RIP, Michael, and I hope your demons are now at rest, but... holy crap that dude was a freak.
    s'all goof.

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    Re: The "Nice Try" Thread

    Better yet, re-list the item as an "MJ Impersonator Marionette."
    Because the resemblance really isn't very good.
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    Re: The "Nice Try" Thread

    Wild. According to my monitor, she's nearly invisible.
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    Re: The "Nice Try" Thread

    I got bout half way through..

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    Re: The "Nice Try" Thread

    Heh. They couldn't make a case for including a case with the case?
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    "I went to the hardware store and bought batteries. But they weren't included.

    So I had to buy 'em again." - Steven Wright

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    Re: The "Nice Try" Thread

    I want send and email to them.
    "... Well, since it doesn't include a case, how 'bout throwing in some conundrum sticks?"
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    Last edited by melody; 01-21-2010 at 04:15 PM. Reason: Now it works sorry had the wrong link..

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    Re: The "Nice Try" Thread

    Wow. And that's from a dealer who thinks that demo will help sell that pedal!

    Somebody from Boss should tell 'em to take that video down or lose their right to sell Boss products.
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    Re: The "Nice Try" Thread

    Quote Originally Posted by NeoFauve View Post
    Oh my Gawd..

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    Re: The "Nice Try" Thread

    Heh heh the guy selling the shim relisted the thing after it didn't sell... This time he used BIGGER WORDS.
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    Re: The "Nice Try" Thread

    Quote Originally Posted by melody View Post
    Oh my Gawd..
    that's as useful as a solar powered flashlight.
    do I look like I know what I'm doing?

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    Re: The "Nice Try" Thread

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    Re: The "Nice Try" Thread

    Wow! After seeing that Boss Vibrato video, I feel a whole lot better about MY guitar playing.

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    Re: The "Nice Try" Thread

    Quote Originally Posted by melody View Post
    so he got it 2 years back, it comes with a 5 year warrenty, but it's broken (kind of).. um am I missing a step or is he?
    do I look like I know what I'm doing?

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    Re: The "Nice Try" Thread

    Just gotta use the second channel that's all...

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