[bender-freak]

okay, i've pretty much quit Ebay since their PayPal only policy, and have been "running" craigslist for the last month or so...nothing but garbage showing up...until...day before yesterday, a full-body orange Gretsch with Bigsby with hardcase, an Electromatic, but still a great! price...i contact the guy immediately, tell him i would pay CASH, where can we meet and i can see the guitar and i will pay off like Las Vegas if all is as described...like NEW, he claimed....pics were blurry, but still all looked okay.....

i won't go to someone's house i don't know, and i don't want them coming here if i don't know them, call me paranoid if you will, but i had a situation a few years ago that ended very badly for the OTHER guy..!!!......anyway, the Gretsch guy says he WILL call me in the morning, gives me his cell#, and we'll set up a "meet" in a neutral place...no call yesterday morning, by noon i start calling him and get nothing but voicemail...okay, i understand things can come up, i left him several messages....finally about 5:00 yesterday evening he calls me and says he can't do it THAT day, but he can meet me at 3:00 this afternoon at the Bass Pro Shop front entrance with the guitar and case....i'm there 10 minutes early, by 25 after 3:00 still no sign of him, no call...!!?...i am one of those guys that if i'm told 3:00, it means 3:00, and i don't dally/wait long.....i boogie on outta there and back home...still no call, no word of explanation..nothing........

i am feeling now that this guy was not only a total flake, but a liar as well...i suspect he thought me or someone else would just send him the money, sight unseen...i've done this on Ebay in the past, but a local sale...not on yer life.....

sorry for the long discourse here, but my butt is in a knot and my attitude is definitely chapped and sore....GGGRRRRRRR...!!!!!