More Fun With eBay Mislabelling

[OC Richard]

Ha! A fellow Ebay watcher! I love looking at all that old cool stuff.

The things that seem to crop up on Ebay most often are 1) labelling things as sporrans, which are not and 2) labelling things as military, which are not.

Every conceivable civilian item of Highland Dress has been sold on Ebay at one time or other labelled as a "military Officer's such-and-such." And I come across vintage photos and postcards and cdvs all the time of men in civilian Highland Dress labelled as "soldiers".

One of the craziest Ebay bagpipe auctions I've ever seen is going on now. Seems that the University of Iowa has loads of vintage pipes that their pipe band used to play, which are all up on Ebay now. BUT evidently whoever is running the auctions doesn't know much about bagpipes, because the "complete sets" they're selling are "Frankenpipes" cobbled together of mismatched parts from various makers, often with missing mounts or ferrules, and often missing major parts like the bass drone midsection. And they're wildly overpriced. BUT a few of these mixed up mislabelled overpriced things have bidders!

Here's one. Frankenpipes with a missing bass midsection for $800, when you can get complete pipes in better condition for less than that

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Complete-Bas...item3f1d8e6111