Auction Link:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=10183&item=2510789641&rd=1
cool
has an Eb head with it, too!
This should be very interesting to watch.
The economy is tanking, but how badly in lieu of an available two-headed Olwell?
Pull up a chair.
I’m sure even Patrick is watching.
It’s not another head, is it? From the description it sounds like a corps-de-réchange. Top hand section?
Stuart
On 2003-02-22 14:16, David Migoya wrote:
cool
has an Eb head with it, too!
This should be very interesting to watch.
The economy is tanking, but how badly in lieu of an available two-headed Olwell?
Pull up a chair.
I’m sure even Patrick is watching.
Hmm, from my reading of the auction ad, it has an additional Eb body section, not an Eb head.
Loren
The Eb section is one piece with six holes. A Pratten style. The one middle piece fits the head and long footjoint of the D flute.
Now that this auction has ended, I see that the high bid was $2,231.67 and that this bid did not even meet the reserve price! Seems like the seller was intending to do a little price-gouging on this sale of a keyless D Olwell flute with an Eb corps de rechange. Who knows where the reserve price was set, but for the high bid price one could almost buy both a complete keyless D flute and a complete keyless Eb flute new from Patrick Olwell (albeit with a wait time of 1-2 years). A brand new keyless D with Eb corps could be had from Patrick for less than the high bid price (albeit with the same wait time). However, to tide himself over during the wait, the high bidder could buy a keyless Seery D, available almost immediately, and still keep change in his pocket.
They say that a sucker is born every minute, but I guess the sucker for this “deal” must have got lost somewhere along the way…
It is said that a ‘good deal’ is one where the buyer and seller are happy. I can assure you this was the case.
So, in other words, the seller didn’t want to sell and the buyer didn’t want to buy? Why would either of them bother, then?
Jef 
Perhaps the ‘seller’ simply wanted to get an idea of what it would go for, for insurance purposes?
Here’s another I discoverd today. 3 piece Olwell on eBay made in 2000. 3 days left and no bids, and no reserve. $1000 starting bid. No bids means seller can still change price, etc.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2512528500&category=10183
Nah, it probably just means that he contacted the high bidder after the Ebay auction closed and sold the flute to him at the high bid price, even though it was less than the price-gouging reserve price he was originally after. The seller is happy because he sold the flute at above the market price, and the buyer is happy because he has an Olwell flute to play, even if he did overpay.
There’s a clothing discount store where I live that has as its slogan “An educated consumer is our best customer.” This flute buyer was not an educated consumer, but it looks like he was S. Peak’s best customer…
Very intuitive John, albeit pert. You are correct. 