hucklelele
Well-known member
You may have seen my thread a few weeks back about the "23" Minstrel" uke that arrived and proved to be a standard 21" soprano- and even clearly labled on the outside of the box- the vendor there eventually changed the description-
Now I've just had this delivered:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sky-25-New-...ltDomain_0&hash=item27d7561ac5#ht_5562wt_1018
an otherwise pretty nice uke uke at a pretty darn good price otherwise-
but AGAIN the dimensions were mis-represented-
even Photoshopped right on the pictures in the ad-
I THOUGHT I was ordering an otherwise tenor sized uke-
25" in length
and labled 64cm x24.5 cm in the photo
what the item is actually is pretty much just standard concert size
23.5"- including peak of pegboard
and I measure it 60cm x 20.5
so my ebay buying experiences are not good at this point
I ALREADY have another concert sized uke
and I'm left debating what to do now with this one
after going through a LOT of frustrations over trying to find out if the thing was in stock or had shipped- even though the ad still says 3 more available
I ordered this on 10/1 which I guess isn't unreasonable time from China, but they kept telling me the item wasn't in stock and t it didn't ship until the 14th. Before that I was offered a refund, which I tried to accept a few days later, only to be told the uke had shipped, and then it was days and days after before tracking info appeared
If this was more tenor sized as described, I'd be ecstatic with it because it's a very nice instrument otherwise, even with just 12 to the neck, the inlay and appearance are superb-
for a concert sized uke, it blows the usual landscape away for the money at least, but now I'm that much farther away from a tenor sized model, and just really disappointed by the experience of another uke size mis-reprentation-
this one even more blatant than the last- clearly mismarked on the photo
I gave them negative feedback, which I don't like to do- but it's clearly misrepresented- so I don't have what I wanted, and after a lot of hassle and speculation.
so Caveat Emptor "Let the buyer beware"
Wouldn't it be great if some dealer stateside just bought a bunch of these goods and sold them at near China prices? - at least a return wouldn't have to go back halfway around the world,
there wouldn't be any language proiblems
or trust issues in a paranoid hostile world always at odds with itself
Now I've just had this delivered:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sky-25-New-...ltDomain_0&hash=item27d7561ac5#ht_5562wt_1018
an otherwise pretty nice uke uke at a pretty darn good price otherwise-
but AGAIN the dimensions were mis-represented-
even Photoshopped right on the pictures in the ad-
I THOUGHT I was ordering an otherwise tenor sized uke-
25" in length
and labled 64cm x24.5 cm in the photo
what the item is actually is pretty much just standard concert size
23.5"- including peak of pegboard
and I measure it 60cm x 20.5
so my ebay buying experiences are not good at this point
I ALREADY have another concert sized uke
and I'm left debating what to do now with this one
after going through a LOT of frustrations over trying to find out if the thing was in stock or had shipped- even though the ad still says 3 more available
I ordered this on 10/1 which I guess isn't unreasonable time from China, but they kept telling me the item wasn't in stock and t it didn't ship until the 14th. Before that I was offered a refund, which I tried to accept a few days later, only to be told the uke had shipped, and then it was days and days after before tracking info appeared
If this was more tenor sized as described, I'd be ecstatic with it because it's a very nice instrument otherwise, even with just 12 to the neck, the inlay and appearance are superb-
for a concert sized uke, it blows the usual landscape away for the money at least, but now I'm that much farther away from a tenor sized model, and just really disappointed by the experience of another uke size mis-reprentation-
this one even more blatant than the last- clearly mismarked on the photo
I gave them negative feedback, which I don't like to do- but it's clearly misrepresented- so I don't have what I wanted, and after a lot of hassle and speculation.
so Caveat Emptor "Let the buyer beware"
Wouldn't it be great if some dealer stateside just bought a bunch of these goods and sold them at near China prices? - at least a return wouldn't have to go back halfway around the world,
there wouldn't be any language proiblems
or trust issues in a paranoid hostile world always at odds with itself