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JJ Donohue
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I just received the following email advertising various BRW components from Brazil:

"Dear Sir Do you have interesting to buy Brazilian Rosewood guitar kits ? I am from Brazil ! Brazilian rosewood guitar kits price list : . fingerboards straight grain=vertical grain : U$ 20,00 . fingerboards flamed : U$ 15,00 . fingerboards very dark : U$ 26,00 . head stock veneer : U$ 5,00 . bridge blanks : U$ 5,00 . back and sides : between U$ 200,00 to U$ 600,00 This prices plus shipping ! I can send pictures !!! Do you have interesting ? Best regards Matheus email : hardwoodsbrasil@hotmail.c"

I was curious as to whether I am part of a mass mailing which I believe was generated from Guitarmaker magazine. Has anyone else received this? Also, is what this guy selling legal?

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Oh boy....here we go again...

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I have been getting those from him for a while now JJ. Same message.....

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[QUOTE=Hesh1956] probably a congressperson moonlighting....... [/QUOTE]

Didn't you just have your 50th birthday... there's your problem... you are a little past their target age. :-)

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[QUOTE=Shane Neifer] I have been getting those from him for a while now JJ. Same message.....

Shane[/QUOTE]
Same here. I doubt if the stuff is legal. I asked for paperwork and never recieved a reply.

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Dear all, I have interesting in more Brazilion Rosewood kits. Is this prices plus shipping? I am from US!

Ok, that's not nice. Normally, I limit my purchases to a few sets, maybe 3-5. I can't imagine what the shipping would be on a thousand sets, a million, or even a zillion sets--but to imagine somebody is actually willing to ship a brazilian sets of wood? Just think of the cost. Heck, a million bridge blanks at $5.00 a pop would cost $5,000,000. A brazilain bridge blanks would cost $5,000,000,000,000,000,000. Who does this guy think he's selling to? JJ, that guy is full of crap. There is no shipping company in the world that will ship a brazilian of anything.

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I received the same email and it went with the rest of my spam....DELETE
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Probably true but the AARP found me.......... [/QUOTE]

Don't feel bad Hesh. AARP started sending me stuff when I was 35.

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Probably true but the AARP found me.......... [/QUOTE]

Take 'em up on it, Hesh. Me wife and I got a $12 discount on a hotel room just by mentioning our AAAAAAARP status. (Just about the only recompense left in getting old.)

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never thought i'd live long enough to receive a geezer discount; might have taken better care if i had...
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[QUOTE=Hesh1956]
But how do you all remember where you put your AARP card...... [/QUOTE]

Hesh, this one's easy.

My wife carries it.

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If I had to have spam, I'd much rather get the brazillian Rosewood ones than the ones that tell me that I need to improve the performance of apparatus I don't own!!!!!
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[QUOTE=Sam Price] If I had to have spam, I'd much rather get the brazillian Rosewood ones than the ones that tell me that I need to improve the performance of apparatus I don't own!!!!![/QUOTE]


I actually replied to the e mail,(BRW), and told the guy,"yes, I am interesting."

After a few weeks of resending my request to see photos, he provided photos of 3 sets lying on the ground.

He then asked if I was still "interesting"? I replied,"Yes, I am, but I do not wish to invest in illegal wood!"

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I got the same email today. Must be working his way through the list alphabetically. Straight to the deleted items bin.

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