OldePhart
Well-known member
Okay, there's this outfit on eBay that always has a Cordoba Ck25 "u-fix," damaged-in-shipping uke for sale - and they're different every several days so they are apparently selling them. This has been going on for several months, at least.
Few of them look like the kind of damage you see from shipping. Most have the bridge pulled off, and sometimes missing. They also almost always have a variety of other knicks, scrapes, gouges, etc.
Now, my question is this, how does one "store" end up with so many "damaged in shipment" ukes - always of the same make and model? I just don't see how this can be, unless they bought a shipment of ukes that had been shipped via cement truck and are unloading them one at a time...
On the other hand, I don't see any fraud scenario that makes any sense - the ukes typically sell so cheaply that it certainly wouldn't pay someone to counterfeit Cordoba ukes and sell them as damaged to avoid being found out by Cordoba's customer service (my first thought when I noticed this trend).
Any body have any ideas?
John
Few of them look like the kind of damage you see from shipping. Most have the bridge pulled off, and sometimes missing. They also almost always have a variety of other knicks, scrapes, gouges, etc.
Now, my question is this, how does one "store" end up with so many "damaged in shipment" ukes - always of the same make and model? I just don't see how this can be, unless they bought a shipment of ukes that had been shipped via cement truck and are unloading them one at a time...
On the other hand, I don't see any fraud scenario that makes any sense - the ukes typically sell so cheaply that it certainly wouldn't pay someone to counterfeit Cordoba ukes and sell them as damaged to avoid being found out by Cordoba's customer service (my first thought when I noticed this trend).
Any body have any ideas?
John