I had taken reprieve from two of my favorite things - playing guitar and making easy money on eBay - around the same time. Having made the mistake of taking the guitar too seriously, I put it away for a few years after a some guests played at our house one Thanksgiving. My brother, a keyboard player by trade, ripped apart a few classical numbers like they were child's play before handing the axe to our nephew Tommy. Tommy can do things to a fretboard that make a guitar glad someone bought it. Simply amazing.
As I watched I died a little inside. I could form a few basic chords but barre chords were a current frustration to not only my fingers but my memory as well. Disgusted, I tucked the cream colored Fender Squier StageMaster away on it's guitar stand. It re-sold for what I paid and I later regretted selling it. Locking Floyd Rose set-up, reverse headstock w/ locking nut, the cream color, made to Fender specification goodness - it was a really nice axe for the money.
Around the same time eBay ceased to be a source of pocket money when a Buyer right here in the town we live in lied to eBay & PayPal about the multiple auctions they won. It did not matter to the Wise Ones at PayPup that I had a computer generated receipt document for the shipment. Without a official USPS tracking number device they don't want to know you. So this 'buyer' wound up with a stack of free comic books -and- I had to refund their money or face inevitably having to do so, plus more charges on top of that, if I waited until the Wise Ones at PayPups Credit Card Council to tell me to go pound salt.
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