Ugghh, ebay hype

[Metaltastic]

Check out this listing for a 2 ch. Dual Rectifier I stumbled upon on ebay (bold facing added):

If you're looking at this amp then you know what you're looking at. This is one of the first Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifiers ever made. This is called the Black Faced Chrome Chasis. This is the monster beast of all monsters. There is not an amp on the planet that can touch one of these amps. This amp a few months back was selling on Ebay for $2500 used...If you know about these amps they are pure untamed power and gain from the depts of hell. These amps increase in volume once the tubes heat up and warm to full growth [ :Smug: ] Unlike the Marshall that when heated up continue to drop volume and gain this amp just roars louder and louder...You will not find anything like this on the earth. Once you've tried this there will never be another amp change for your musical career.

Except it ISN'T one of the first models ever made, far from it as a matter of fact. So my message to him:

Hi, just wanted to let you know that because it has the large Mesa logo and parallel FX loop, this is actually a Revision G Dual Rectifier, meaning it has a serial number of around 2800 or higher, and is identical to every 2 ch. made subsequently (except for the attached power cord, which was shortly dropped). Of course, I doubt you'll change your item description since hype = profit, but it is definitely NOT one of the first Dual Recs ever made

SOURCE: http://www.theboogiearchives.com/2ch_dual_recto.html

His response:

The black faced Mesa Boogies are actually the first Dual Rectifiers made.

(real convincing counter-argument there )

My response:

No, the option has been available through the whole run, and more importantly the parallel FX loop is the dead giveaway (and I notice you didn't post the serial # in the auction description). But hey, there's a sucker born every minute, so good luck snagging him!

Just doing my part to sustain INTERNET JUSTICE

 

[Emdprodukt]

item has been removed? besides that: pwned!

 

[Jaymz]

Haha what a fool he is

 

[Metaltastic]

Item link in OP updated, should work now! And yeah, an epic swindler butthole indeed

 

[iekobrid]

If you know about these amps they are pure untamed power and gain from the depts of hell.

Hey, don't go messin' with the Departments of Hell, now. When those underworld bureaucrats start pushin' pencils, you don't wanna know where!

 

[Metaltastic]

Hahahahahahahhahaha, good eye dude, missed that one

 

[grywolf627]

Hey, don't go messin' with the Departments of Hell, now. When those underworld bureaucrats start pushin' pencils, you don't wanna know where!

Hahaha You beat me to it. I was just thinking the same things.

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

I like the look of it.

 

[iekobrid]

Some days I get the urge to buy a black grill / chrome chassis Recto just so I can swap parts with the chrome/black one I have now and end up with one chrome grill / chrome chassis / chrome knobs head and one black/black/black head.



Knobs head.