eBay seller backs out of guitar sale, time to snipe another one

Saturday, May 2, 2015 -- The guy whose had the Spectrum strat for auction on eBay reneged on the sale after the auction was closed. I paid him and I never heard anything from him, and eBay never showed the damn thing shipped.

I sent a couple of messages and waited until he finally responded with an apology, and a lame excuse that he couldn't see it now, it fell off the wall and was damaged.

Bullshit!

The only thing damaged is his pride -- he had no reserve on the auction, and I won the auction with my bid of $36. I think he just decided not to sell it. Period. He didn't get enough to suit him. Sorry about that chief, but it really isn't my problem. What kind of damage happens to a strat that falls down?

I was unhappy with the excuse, but I haven't raised a ruckus. He probably thought it would bring more ... it was a good looking tobacco-style sunburst, I expected it to go for twice what it did.

So, no new guitar coming ... or is there??

I keep prowling the low end of eBay looking for my next project, and found a likely prospect -- an arctic white Fender Squire strat. It looks really clean too. Seller is a pawn shop in Fort Worth. I paid more for it, but I'm glad that its a Squire strat rather than a Spectrum. I'm not wild about the color, but I'll live with it. The guitar's issues are that its dead -- nothing from the electronics. As simple as guitar electronics are, this is likely to be a very, very simple fix.

This guitar will be here next week, and I'm looking forward to getting it here and starting work on it.

This strat is the traditional three single-coil pickups, rather than the "fat strat" format I have in the Peavey Raptor EXP. I'm not real sure if I'll find a great deal of difference in the quality of the Squire

strat vs. the Peavey ... guess I'll have a chance to check that out myself, eh?

IBANEZ BOOGIE. I have switched from playing the Peavey back to the Ibanez Gio GAX30 for my nightly jams. The Ibanez is a shorter scale guitar, and I can confirm it just is easier to play. It's like putting on my old flannel shirt. Its a lightweight guitar too, I just can sing its praises enough.

I've also been playing my Oscar Schmidt OE-30 semi-hollow body, kinda switching off between the OE-30 and the Ibanez. I enjoy both, but the OE-30 takes a little more work to play. I have to say that of any of my guitars, the OE-30 just feels great in my lap. I love the look of the guitar too ... the bindings and tobacco sunburst are just gorgeous. I'm really wanting a red version of a similar guitar, but those tend to be the name brand, and they ain't cheap!

Enough guitar talk for now, I need to go jam.