4th January 2012, 11:05 AM
Sometimes you get the scorpion.
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4th January 2012, 3:13 PM
Great Rumbler Wrote:http://www.regretsy.com/2012/01/03/from-the-mailbag-27/What a absolute asinine policy to have, I also would question the legality of such a policy.
4th January 2012, 3:23 PM
I don't get why Paypal would require evidence that someone willingly broke their own thing. I mean, why? What good does it do to tell someone "okay break it"?
That said, how do we know this person is telling the truth? She mentions some sort of verifier, but how do we know there ever was one? This story basically amounts to "an invisible dragon killed my dog, and here to vouch for that fact is my witness, the ghost who never lies, who only I can see and talk to".
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
4th January 2012, 3:26 PM
Well, I suppose it's always a possibility that the person who submitted the story broke their own violin and then took a picture of it for a fake story, but I doubt it.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.
4th January 2012, 3:52 PM
It's possible the violin was already broken. It's possible she got the image somewhere else. I suppose...
However, I was more specifically referring to the very suspicious claim that there is no such thing as counterfeiting in the violin world. Remember that this whole thing was because the buyer didn't think it was real, and all she has to back up her side is some unknown verifier.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
4th January 2012, 4:47 PM
http://www.abcviolins.com/labels.html
The point being that even though the label may identify the instrument as something it technically isn't, it's still 100+ years old and is worth money.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.
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