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how would YOU spend $2,500,000?

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Post by vvv » Sat Nov 28, 2009 8:07 pm

If ya gotta ask ... :twisted:

Alternative answer: About a half.

Double-secret probation answer: the board and the kids' pictures.

Actual answer: the cost of two blooded stallions and a sparkley glove.
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Post by calaverasgrandes » Sat Nov 28, 2009 10:28 pm

yeah I have no problem sending half a million to someone with NO FEEDBACK! seriously, if it's genuine it would be going through an estate liquidator, auction house or other such middleman.
the part about not being able to update the listing? Crap, you can change the price, name etc until someone bids on it, then its locked.
wait no bids? Maybe I should tender a best offer of....$2000?
Harrisons are nice. Does it have automation? number of inputs? Number at mixdown? submasters? monitor control? Tape machine control?
for half a mill they sure do expend very little effort.
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Post by jakeao » Sun Nov 29, 2009 6:22 am

Is it just me, or does the console in the photo of MJ and Quincy, not look the same as the console in the other photo. I think we have a not to smooth criminal. HEYO!!!!
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Post by kslight » Sun Nov 29, 2009 8:23 am

Yeah that's pretty cheesy...I think I'll flag it to eBay...looks sort of fake/fishy to me...

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Post by Z-Plane » Sun Nov 29, 2009 8:26 am

I like how half their website uses phonetic spelling.

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Post by calaverasgrandes » Sun Nov 29, 2009 1:52 pm

yeah, it seems the producers desk switched sides from one photo to the next. Not impossible to have done of course, but seems unlikely.
i always think ebay/craiglist sellers with a luandry list of unreasonable demands are fishy. I sell stuff onboth quite often and I bend over backwards to accomodate buyers.
all this lack of detailed info, lack of mention of wiring harness, year it was made etc. FISHY
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Post by jakeao » Sun Nov 29, 2009 5:36 pm

Yeah that's pretty cheesy
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Post by Marc Alan Goodman » Sun Nov 29, 2009 5:41 pm

Didn't the Glands make a record at the studio that had the thriller console? Called Double Thriller? I'm feeling too lazy to look it up but I'm sure the info's floating around somewhere.

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Post by Harry » Mon Nov 30, 2009 5:19 am

I would put that $$ into room treatment.

and maybe a lava lamp:)

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Post by lysander » Mon Nov 30, 2009 8:51 am

Is the phrase "kind of" or "type of" missing from the description?

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Post by Sean Sullivan » Mon Nov 30, 2009 10:27 am

Marc Alan Goodman wrote:Didn't the Glands make a record at the studio that had the thriller console? Called Double Thriller? I'm feeling too lazy to look it up but I'm sure the info's floating around somewhere.
I love the Glands. I've lost their self titled CD twice now, and really need to find a replacement. But yes, I've heard that claim about Double Thriller as well. That CD was done at Elixir, in Athens, but their website is pretty vague and it doesn't look like a MR2 in the pictures:

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Post by oldguitars » Mon Nov 30, 2009 12:58 pm

wow. Of course, we know that record was a hit because of the console. if it was on an API, it would have sucked
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Post by fucdemas » Mon Nov 30, 2009 11:12 pm

nice find

this might be twitter worthy

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Post by AstroDan » Tue Dec 01, 2009 9:00 am

"the part about not being able to update the listing?"
That's part of ebay listing protocol for all items over $100,000. That and "sorry, can't test if it works...or check the serial number...or add an intelligible photo...or prove my existence..."
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