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Author Message   Fompsweeva Username: Fompsweeva Registered: 01-2006 Posted on Saturday, October 07, 2006 - 2:50 am:    I was bored for a while today so went to look in cashies. They have a fake Ibanez JEM7. Buyer beware! I have alerted them that it's a fake and they're apparently chasing it up.   Munch Username: Munch Registered: 02-2001 Posted on Saturday, October 07, 2006 - 4:12 am:    Hey Mike, I doubt they would do anything about it. Cashies had a fake 1967 Fender Jazz bass in the Grote Street store. I told them it was a fake and what specifically proved it as such. However they kept it on the shelf advertised as a real Fender for another 12 months. It finally dissappeared a couple of weeks ago. I hope some poor fella didn't pay the $3,200 they were asking for it. FWIW, it had a genuine '67 neck mated to a plywood replica body that looked almost home made it was that bad. Cheers, Munch   Gemberbier Username: Gemberbier Registered: 05-2006 Posted on Saturday, October 07, 2006 - 6:47 am:    We had a Cash Converter in Eindhoven once, in Joep Egmond's old Musica Music Centre, after he moved to a new building. It was a bad place to buy guitars. The prices were too high and the material was low budget junk. Often they tried to sell used stuff for the original list price. They sucked and didn't survive. When they were about to close it down, they gave 15% discount. That was the first moment I found a reasonably priced guitar at Cash Converters: a handmade Spanish guitar with a solid Oregon pine top and Sapelli back and sides with a broken nut (plastic) I had to replace. It had a very long scale (66.5 cm (26.2") or so) which gave more tension and made it very loud. I sold it to a bighanded friend of mine, who really had a problem placing his huge fingertips. Cash converters are not better than a private garage sale, just more expensive because they have to pay rent and wages. They know very little about what they sell. All that matters to them is that they have to make a profit, even if they bought a fake. Cash Converters Amsterdam was on Dutch tv because they were guilty of fencing. They bought a stolen 3000 euro keyboard for 600 euro and let the original owner buy it back: http://www.amsterdamcentraal.nl/archief/2006/6/8/cash-converters-schuldig-aan-he ling I'm surprised that they still exist. Ginger

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