{"id":779,"date":"2009-01-15T18:39:31","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T07:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seawind-network.com\/?p=779"},"modified":"2009-01-15T18:39:31","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T07:39:31","slug":"ebay_stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/20090115\/ebay_stories\/","title":{"rendered":"eBay Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The common reaction of friends when I tell them – “I bought this in eBay” is – “Is it safe?”, “How do you know – you’re not being duped?” – followed by “How do you do it?”. <\/p>\n

I bought my first professional saxophone off eBay – it took 3 months to arrive because it was sent via sea freight to keep the total cost at a minimum. This saxophone is perhaps the most expensive item I ever bought in eBay. In that 3 months wait, there were times when I considered that it will never come. <\/p>\n

After that, I bought and sold some 10 more music instrument, most of which are saxophones. The supplier started trusting me. When he had a problem with a client in Perth, he redirected the sax to me instead of returning it to China. Of course, I was also able to sell that unit locally.<\/p>\n

Once I decided to sell one of my saxophone stands as I was already collecting quite a few. The lady who bought it from me is from a local community band. We arranged for me to take the stand to her band rehearsal. When I delivered it, I took my tenor sax with me on a chance that the conductor would let me play with the band. Sure enough – they let me sit in and play. I went back to their rehearsals a few more times until my schedule made it difficult to go on. But it was a very pleasant experience worth many more times than the $5 sax stand I delivered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The common reaction of friends when I tell them – “I bought this in eBay” is – “Is it safe?”, “How do you know – you’re not being duped?” – followed by “How do you do it?”. I bought my first professional saxophone off eBay – it took 3 months to arrive because it was… Read More ›<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blob"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}