is this legit?

[Bright Moments]

http://cgi.ebay.com/NATHAN-DAVIS-paris-reu...1QQcmdZViewItem

so if you buy the obscure cd you get a free bonus of the nathan davis lp transferred to cd.

somethings fishy here.

[Jim R]

When I click on your link, I get this:

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[Jim R]

Is it this?

It does look fishy/odd... item in the title/photo is the "bonus", and the item for sale is barely described. The bonus is a "transfer"... hmm, okayyyy.

Odd that this person has nearly 3000 transactions and a 100% feedback rating.

Edited July 29, 2007 by Jim R

[Bright Moments]

Is it this?

yes!

http://cgi.ebay.com/NATHAN-DAVIS-paris-reu...1QQcmdZViewItem

[Bright Moments]

NATHAN DAVIS-paris reunion: jazzbuhne-BONUS for WATT fm Item number: 320098879291

[Jim R]

Neither of our links here works for me, even though it works if I copy it into my browser...

[Eric]

http://cgi.ebay.com/NATHAN-DAVIS-paris-reu...1QQcmdZViewItem

so if you buy the obscure cd you get a free bonus of the nathan davis lp transferred to cd.

somethings fishy here.

I bought something once from this guy. I was confused by the listing - thought I was getting a Contemporary lp by Sonny Simmons but what I got was a burn of that lp (with cover art) and a different CD (which was in the description, just like this Nathan Davis/Freddie Hubbard listing). I was a little annoyed - but he immediately refunded my money. His rating suggests people are OK with this - technically it seems semi-legal as you are buying one thing but getting the lp burn for free. Personally I won't buy from him again.

Edit - here is that listing:

http://cgi.ebay.com/SONNY-SIMMONS-rumasuma...VQQcmdZViewItem

Edited July 29, 2007 by Eric

[DukeCity]

Kind of reminds me of how people used to "sell" their Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards tickets on eBay. The tickets were transferrable, but not to be sold (either by SWA's or eBay's policies, or both). So people would be auctioning a "Plain White Envelope" or "SWA Drink Coupons" and if you were the winner of the auction you would receive two SWA tickets as a "free gift".

[MoGrubb]

The links don't work for me either.

[Claude]

The auction seems to have been deleted, there is no NATHAN-DAVIS-paris-reunion-jazzbuhne CD currently listed. Of course it's not legit to sell CD-Rs, including an offer to sell an LP together with a CD-R copy of the same music.

[robviti]

i think this guy used to be a member of the old blue note board. he's got a great many listings that include cdrs in the deal. it's interesting that ebay allows these kinds of transactions, where you buy a legit cd and get a cdr as a "bonus." of course, it's the "bonus" cdr that the buyer really wants, as demonstrated by the fact that the seller advertises the "bonus" in the title rather than the legit cd, which is usually something you could buy for just a few dollars.

Edited July 29, 2007 by jazzshrink

[J.A.W.]

Auctions like this are cancelled by eBay when they notice them, but many slip through the quite wide eBay cracks...

Edited July 29, 2007 by J.A.W.

[Shannon Dickey]

I know very well that they exist, but let's not discuss E-bay's "quite wide cracks"!

[Guest donald petersen]

this isn't really too difficult to understand-the legit CDs are just cover for listing the CDRs. do you think anyone actually purchases the legit ones? you can contact the guy and say i see you have so and so and etcetera and he will then do a transaction with you off of ebay and you will get a crappily done LP burn...it seems pretty clear...i figured this out and bought some stuff but would never deal with him again...the LP burns were poorly done. not even tracked properly...

[Jazzmoose]

The problem is, eBay doesn't really have people who search the listings for rules violations. I'm not even sure it would be feasible. So, unless an auction like this is reported, it skates under the radar. This one was reported, so it was cancelled.

[J.A.W.]

Edit - here is that listing:

http://cgi.ebay.com/SONNY-SIMMONS-rumasuma...VQQcmdZViewItem

That listing was also cancelled by eBay.

Edited July 29, 2007 by J.A.W.