I bought a trumpet on ebay from "pitolee" in auction
# 2533003569The seller said the trumpet "is absolutely beautiful" . . . "although there are some slight dings and light scratching which do not effect the play."
Check the whole ad at
ebay or hereHere are pictures of the trumpet as received. It looks as if it had been used as a hammer – seriously.
Dents on the slide of the second valve
Dents on the main barrel near mouthpiece
Dents on a rear slide
Sticking Valves
Quicktime Movie:
(requires Apple's Quicktime program or similar media player (not MS Media Player);
Directions. Right-click and select "Save Target As" to save at some location on your hard drive. Change name from stickyvalves-MOV.txt to stickvalves.mov. Then open with Quicktime; this web service would not allow us to save a .mov file, so we did it this way.)
And there was of course the disclosed dings and scratching which are not pictured
Here are the pictures from the ebay ad; notice how they do not reveal the real condition of the horn.
Here is the initial email response from Seller once a problem was identified:
From: "John & Dianne" <****@lvcm.com>
To: " C*** S***
Subject: Re: trumpet Item # 2533003569
Date: Saturday, May 31, 2003 9:40 PM
I am sorry to hear you did not understand the part of the description that says" it has slight dings and scratches". It does not have severe anything and the valves are fine.
----- Original Message -----
From: C*** S***
To: ****@lvcm.com
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 4:10 PM
Subject: trumpet Item # 2533003569
We received the trumpet this evening in the mail.
It is not as represented and would like to return it. It is severely dented in at least two places and the valves are very sticky.
Please refund my payment via Paypal including shipping and provide your shipping address. I would rather not get into any feedback forums or using Paypal's dispute processes and keep it simple.
Thanks
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