You're gonna Love this Scam !

CrowBear Schmitt · Post by **CrowBear Schmitt** » 11 Mar 2004 3:25 am

Perhaps this belongs in Humour....
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3710624747&category=7266

nope,this is'nt my sale

Tony Prior · Post by **Tony Prior** » 11 Mar 2004 5:20 am

well at least he is not charging for shipping !

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 11 Mar 2004 5:33 am

The biggest brass monkey balls imaginable.

Savell · Post by **Savell** » 11 Mar 2004 5:56 am

The seller's location says plenty...

Fred Shannon · Post by **Fred Shannon** » 11 Mar 2004 6:11 am

Prolly a Fender 400 with neckstrap and extended pull cables with just 3 pedals.

fred

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If it aint got a steel, it aint real

Jay Fagerlie · Post by **Jay Fagerlie** » 11 Mar 2004 6:13 am

Yeah, but doe it make it sound like a Black pedal steel guitar?

Jeez.....

Where's the egress?

J

Glenn Austin · Post by **Glenn Austin** » 11 Mar 2004 6:24 am

Darn ! He will ship to the US only. Oh well....

C Dixon · Post by **C Dixon** » 11 Mar 2004 6:29 am

I wonder if it is anything like a scam that appeared in California about 50 yrs ago.

The ad in the newspaper read like this:

"GUARANTEED WAY TO GET RID OF ROACHES!!

ONLY $1.00. Send to the following address. Sorry no refunds"

The address was given. It is my understanding over 100,000 sent in the dollar. And this was in 1954!

When one got the product it was two small wooden blocks about 2 inches square. The instructions read as follows:

1. Find Roach.

2. Put roach on one of the blocks.

3. Take the other block and smash roach.

I also understand that legal attempts to prosecute were thwarted because the perpertarator made NO false claims.

carl

Herb Steiner · Post by **Herb Steiner** » 11 Mar 2004 6:29 am

Hey, the guy does have 100% feedback.

Now, if I could come up with a device that made a steel sound like a guitar, THEN I'd have something!

Maybe a herbal nutritional supplement... Get Ron Jeremy to host the infomercial... hmmm?

Gotta run to Dallas. Cya guys.

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Jim West · Post by **Jim West** » 11 Mar 2004 6:52 am

Is it bigger than a bread box?

Mark Ardito · Post by **Mark Ardito** » 11 Mar 2004 7:05 am

You can "BUY IT NOW" for $80,000!!!

What a deal!

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Matt Dawson · Post by **Matt Dawson** » 11 Mar 2004 8:01 am

Isn't this the third such invention...
after Gene Parsons and the Hipshot (!)
Matt
I'll tell you how to make a fender sound like a steel for $0

....give it to Jerry Donahue

Michael McGee · Post by **Michael McGee** » 11 Mar 2004 8:12 am

Be the first on your block to own a push-pull telecaster! (extra charge for all-pull strats)

mm

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 11 Mar 2004 8:37 am

Actually, I'm surprised ebay lets this sort of thing go on. In the first place, the only person who can get a patent is the person who does the inventing! The patent will only be issued in the name of the inventor. Therefore, no matter what this guy says or does, his name will be on the patent that's issued. He can transfer any or all of the rights to somebody else, but at this point...there's no guarantee that what he has developed is patentable, or that someone else hasn't come up with the same idea. Patent searches cost a lot of money and take a lot of time. It sounds like this guy hasn't done anything in this respect, so his "invention" (for all intents and purposes) is worthless at this time.

This type of thing (ideas for sale) comes up frequently on ebay. In fact, do a search on ebay for "inventions", and you'll even find a (new design?) blimp patent available...for the paltry sum of $10,000,000.

P.T. Barnum was right. There's one born every minute.

Ray Minich · Post by **Ray Minich** » 11 Mar 2004 8:57 am

$80,000 then 5% royalties every year thereafter? Sounds like an internet startup stock IPO from 5 years ago.

Richard Gonzales · Post by **Richard Gonzales** » 11 Mar 2004 9:03 am

Another solution looking for a problem !
Does he know the time it takes and the cost for a patent.

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 11 Mar 2004 9:34 am

No, but I'll be he knows the time and cost associated with this scam; not much.

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 11 Mar 2004 10:04 am

Probably just a pattern for pants with little studs.

Donny H. it seems he is selling the rights to go get the patent.
The person who applies for a patent first wins. If the inventor doesn't tough luck.

I was just sent the link for an granted patent for a friends invention. I am a sleeping partner. But I have been watching the process for awhile.[This message was edited by David L. Donald on 11 March 2004 at 10:08 AM.]

Mark Herrick · Post by **Mark Herrick** » 11 Mar 2004 10:47 am

Can you say "Al Petty"...

mickd · Post by **mickd** » 11 Mar 2004 1:16 pm

I'm looking for a device that can make a steel sound like a steel (I know the answer : new pair of hands)

Larry Robbins · Post by **Larry Robbins** » 11 Mar 2004 1:21 pm

Herb,
Do you mean an EXTENDS E9?

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Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 11 Mar 2004 1:30 pm

David Donald said...

The person who applies for a patent first wins. If the inventor doesn't tough luck.

I don't know the laws in France, David, but in the United States, that's simply not the case. I won't bother to quote our patent statutes chapter and verse, but suffice it to say that unless you actually did the inventing...your name cannot appear on the patent. You cannot steal, or patent, someone else's invention. Even if you furnished financial aid to the inventor so he could develop and patent his invention, your name cannot appear on the patent application!

After a patent is issued, the inventor can (through a legal contract) assign part or all of the rights to someone else, but the patent document will always reflect his, and only his, name.

Ed Altrichter · Post by **Ed Altrichter** » 11 Mar 2004 3:25 pm

I've seen that HIPSHOT thing advertised. Doesn't that work ? What's that all about ?

Scott Kirk · Post by **Scott Kirk** » 11 Mar 2004 3:30 pm

Hey Guys, Mabe its a chord stretcher. I could sure use one of those!and Isn`t Wiggley Wags located on the beach in sunny Arizona?

Bob Blair · Post by **Bob Blair** » 11 Mar 2004 3:35 pm

Hipshot is a good product Ed - I have a hip lever on my Tele that raises the B a whole tone (the same thing that the Parsons/White B-bender does, but a different mechanism) , a palm lever that raises the G a half tone, and a thumb lever I can operate to drop the 6th string E to a D. Easy to install, virtually no surgery to the guitar required.