DAMN YOU CRUSTY PAUL...

[the_zombiest]

...and your casio sk-1 out-bidding antics!

I like the site though.

Please don't smite me.


...sir.

[the_zombiest]

I take it back.

but only cos it appears that you were out bid also.

sorry

[Circuitbenders]

Ah hahahahahaaaaaa, i thought i recognised that ebay name 

It appears that neither of us can afford to actually buy an SK-1 these days, at least i'll be buggered if i'm paying over £30  for an SK-1 when i've just bought an Akai S612 with the rare disk drive rack for £25!

Anyway think yourself lucky, theres at least 3 or 4 people who appear to stalk me on ebay and outbid me on any likely looking circuitbending type machines as soon as i put in a bid. Bastards!

Time to get a new ebay account just for buying stuff. 

[the_zombiest]

my mate got an SK-1 from a charity shop for £6.

I keep on begging him to sell it to me.  I offered him £10.  It's not that unrealistic an offer.

The worst thing about that though is that he doesn't want it bending. He has no interest at all in it unless it's in it' normal, unaltered state.

Anyway think yourself lucky, theres at least 3 or 4 people who appear to stalk me on ebay and outbid me on any likely looking circuitbending type machines as soon as i put in a bid. Bastards!

It must be because of your status in the international benders market (i'm glad we're all mature enough not to put 'oof' or 'ooh err' or 'nudge nudge wink wink' after everything with bender in it).  For you are a purveyor of fine bendables and everyone wants a piece of that pie... just like that alesis HR16!!!!!!!!!!! 

ah, friendly competition.

[Circuitbenders]

.... just like that alesis HR16!!!!!!!!!!! 

ah, friendly competition.

Yeah, just noticed that one  . That was actually just co-incidence but i think i might start stalking you 

I remember about 4-5 years ago when circuitbenders was the only seller of bent kit on the uk ebay until someone else jumped on the bandwagon and started outbidding me on everything, no matter what it was. Kind of why i got sick of selling on ebay. Its all getting a bit childish when someones outbidding me on some knobs that i never actually wanted but i knew if i bid on them then this guy would outbid me straight away.

Anyone else notice the strange peak in the cost of Casio SA-1's on ebay a while back when SA's were a hot topic on this forum? I never thought it would come to a point where it would be possible to manipulate the price of second-hand toy keyboards just by posting a topic on a forum.

The HR16 will be mine, ah hahahahaaaaa!

[papaspank]

On a lighter note...

Last thing I sold on e-bay for audio disease was the 'vileotron'.

I sent the guy an e-mail asking how he was getting on with it.

his reply worried me at first...

'makes my guitar sound like a spectrum loading'

thought I'd done him a terrible dis-service and I was about to get big Neg feedback...

turns out he actually loved it to bits!

*sighs of a releaved seller*

teatch me not to read a reply properly. 

[Circuitbenders]

just like that alesis HR16!!!!!!!!!!! 

ah, friendly competition.

And we are both denied 

mainly because i completely forgot about it.

[the_zombiest]

just like that alesis HR16!!!!!!!!!!! 

ah, friendly competition.

And we are both denied 

mainly because i completely forgot about it.

I know!  I was pipped by a quid!  Gutted.  I've never owned a drum machine and this one really took me after listening to the samples here.  There's always next time... may the slightly richer man prevail... or more attentive man... or someone else altogether, for that matter. 

[Signal:Noise]

just like that alesis HR16!!!!!!!!!!! 

ah, friendly competition.

And we are both denied 

mainly because i completely forgot about it.

I know!  I was pipped by a quid!  Gutted.  I've never owned a drum machine and this one really took me after listening to the samples here.  There's always next time... may the slightly richer man prevail... or more attentive man... or someone else altogether, for that matter. 

One word....www.auctionstealer.com

Never fails me.

[the_zombiest]

One word....www.auctionstealer.com

Never fails me.

That's wrong dude.
Thats like the anabolic steroid of the e-bidding world.
You should be disqualified.












where do i sign up...

[Signal:Noise]

I know, I know. It's wrong but it just feels so right.

[Circuitbenders]

The theory is sound, but it still doesn't work when you know a drum machine is worth about £30 and the maximum you'd pay is possibly £35 at the absolute limit, and yet some idiot with zero feedback decides to bid about £75. 

Of course this is something i applaud when i am selling something............

[Signal:Noise]

Ah yes, the ebay paradox. Everyone should sell you stuff at knock down prices, but pay over the odds for anything you sell.

[shifty101uk]

That happened to me when I sold my Boss ME-50 with a cheap guitar cable and adapter, someone paid more for the pedal than it costs new in a shop...numpty. I didnt complain, I got a new graphics card, a metal muff distortion pedal, a sustain pedal, and a shitty delay pedal which was nice. I dont like multi effects they sound like fruity loops which is crap!

[Circuitbenders]

Strange isn't it, i saw an unmodified TR505 sell for about £85 a few months back. The going rate seems to be about £35, or at least it was before the world went circuitbending crazy!

I sold an Alesis datadisk about a year ago for around £140-£150. I think they cost around that much new and that was around 1990. As the auction ended i'm thinking 'oh god no, this idiiot is never going to actually pay that much' but before you know it the money is in my paypal account.

Very odd