Huh. I thought these sales were handled by discreet phone calls. I don't know about collectible guitars but I can tell you that, among camera collectors, the experienced people usually don't telegraph their interest, nor their top bid, until the final seconds.
I suspect that ebay isn't the right forum for collectors of this uh... social strata. Therefore, I predict that the reserve price (hidden until the end of the auction) will not be met. Unless it is. :) It could be that Rebecca Romaine-Stamos is having a boring week in the Philippines, waiting out a monsoon in a hotel room, and is cruising ebay from a laptop. If someone like that bids $15,000 for it, that might do it. I'll bet $20,000 would do it. I'd make damn sure that no one ever takes the luggage tags or the tablature off it! The neck may be warped from her Martian tunings but then, expecting it to hold a tune is a bit like asking the Queen to hike up her dress to show a bit of leg, isn't it? It just now occurred to me that this is one more scary move from Norma. The writing stops. She agrees to a hits package. The first-ever sequel. She says "yes" to a documentary. She sells some guitars. <gulp> Did you see in the ad that "she's asked Fred to sell this guitar ***AND SEVERAL OTHERS*** for her." This is not... good. Not good at all. Lama Paul (@anglesnet.com) wrote > You can find her Ibanez George Benson, complete with tablature, at: > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2508437444. > Bob S. said I have never bought anything on e-bay, and am not a collector. But this guitar has to be pretty much way up there on a JM fan/collector's wish list. <edit> Can anyone out there give me some idea of how this "usually" works on e-bay (i.e., when do the serious bids typically come in ?) and if there are any collectors out there, what kind of order of magnitude (i.e., multiple of market price for a random guitar of the same make) might be expected at the end of the day?
