Yesterday, I bought a Yamaha DD-50 that the seller promised was in very good condition and 100% working. This was a dishonest claim as the covers for the 2 foot switches were broken and missing.
This seller obviously had deliberate intention to deceive the buyer. He had even filed and smoothened out the parts where the covers broke off to make them look "normal" and identical on both sides. In this way, a buyer who has never seen an actual sample of the foot switch before might not be able to tell that the covers are missing.
Without the covers, the buttons on the foot switches are too small and hard to aim for. It becomes very difficult to control the Hi-Hat and Kick Drum functions properly and play the drum beats on time. Because of this, I got suspicious and did a photo search on the internet specifically for "Yamaha DD-50 footswitch".
Photo of DD-50 with good footswitches
Close-up of broken footswitches that were sold to me.
2 hours after the sale, I asked the seller about the missing covers. I asked for a refund because I was supposed to be paying money for a 100% working item. He refused to give a refund saying that he had already used the money to buy a guitar.
Beware when you deal with this person:-
Userid: uuMaar
Handphone Number: 81663984
Email addresses: pink.spider@hotmail.com and umarr-@hotmail.com
Right now he is also selling a Right now he is also selling:-
Yamaha PSR-E213 keyboard,
Epiphone Tom Delonge signature ES-333 and
BC Rich Assassin Body Art guitar.
May I suggest to the forum administrators to have a "black list" for clear cases of dishonest behaviour on Soft forum? This could be a database of handphone and email addresses that forum users could use to do a "reputation search" before dealing with forum members they are not familiar with.
This seller obviously had deliberate intention to deceive the buyer. He had even filed and smoothened out the parts where the covers broke off to make them look "normal" and identical on both sides. In this way, a buyer who has never seen an actual sample of the foot switch before might not be able to tell that the covers are missing.
Without the covers, the buttons on the foot switches are too small and hard to aim for. It becomes very difficult to control the Hi-Hat and Kick Drum functions properly and play the drum beats on time. Because of this, I got suspicious and did a photo search on the internet specifically for "Yamaha DD-50 footswitch".
Photo of DD-50 with good footswitches
Close-up of broken footswitches that were sold to me.
2 hours after the sale, I asked the seller about the missing covers. I asked for a refund because I was supposed to be paying money for a 100% working item. He refused to give a refund saying that he had already used the money to buy a guitar.
Beware when you deal with this person:-
Userid: uuMaar
Handphone Number: 81663984
Email addresses: pink.spider@hotmail.com and umarr-@hotmail.com
Right now he is also selling a Right now he is also selling:-
Yamaha PSR-E213 keyboard,
Epiphone Tom Delonge signature ES-333 and
BC Rich Assassin Body Art guitar.
May I suggest to the forum administrators to have a "black list" for clear cases of dishonest behaviour on Soft forum? This could be a database of handphone and email addresses that forum users could use to do a "reputation search" before dealing with forum members they are not familiar with.
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