{"id":55269,"date":"2014-03-21T09:30:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T09:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu?p=55269"},"modified":"2014-03-21T09:30:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T09:30:46","slug":"ebay-violins2828","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/zh-hans\/ebay-violins2828\/","title":{"rendered":"Buying a violin on Ebay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"col3-set\">\n<div class=\"col-1\">\n<p>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/content\/ebay-violin.png\" alt=\"buying a violin\" \/><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"line-height: 1.2em;\"><small>Buying a violin, cello,or viola on eBay &#8230; ?? <\/small><\/h4>\n<p>The large online market offered by Ebay is not a safe place for the inexperienced musician, violonist, cellist who wants to buy his instrument or bow online.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-2\">\n<ul>\n<li>Violins, violas, cellos and bows are difficult to judge by vision alone without a great deal of experience.\n<p>We recommand only buying an instrument or bow wich has a certificate from an international leading expert.<\/p>\n<p>There are many many ebay sellers who are selling NEW INSTRUMENTS as OLD and antique !<\/p>\n<p>They describe their fake instruments as &#8216;old Italian&#8217;, or &#8216;old master violin&#8217; etc., &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We have even seen fake violin bow certificates, and fake violin certificates on Ebay.<\/p>\n<p>These fake new made instruments are hard to judge by the inexperienced ebay buyer.<\/p>\n<p>I have the inpression that Ebay doesn&#8217;t do anything against this kind of sellers &#8230; Don&#8217;t look for the lowest price if you buy on Ebay &#8211; cheap instruments may need so much in repairs that the cost will offset any preceived savings.<\/p>\n<p>The most important thing on eBay is to evaluate who is selling,<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-3\">\n<p>why they&#8217;re selling, and how to reach them. A real store with legitimate return policies, accurate descriptions, and fair prices (not too low, not too high) is likely acceptable.<\/p>\n<p>If you know how to buy on eBay, you could be fairly safe, but only if you are very inexperienced.<\/p>\n<p>We do not recommend buying a violin, viola, cello or bow on eBay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stick only with reputable online dealers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Visit our&nbsp;<a title=\"violin-shop\" href=\"https:\/\/europeanviolins.eu\/en\/violins\/\">violin shop<\/a>&nbsp;for&nbsp;<a title=\"violin shop European Violins\" href=\"https:\/\/europeanviolins.eu\/en\/old-violins\/\">old violins<\/a>.French violins,&nbsp;<a title=\"Italian Violins\" href=\"https:\/\/europeanviolins.eu\/en\/italian-violins\/\">Italian violins<\/a>&nbsp;and violas.<br \/>or visit our section of professional&nbsp;<a title=\"French violin bows\" href=\"https:\/\/europeanviolins.eu\/en\/french-violin-bows\/\">French violin bows<\/a>, or&nbsp;<a title=\"French cello bows\" href=\"https:\/\/europeanviolins.eu\/en\/old-cello-bows\/\">French cello bows<\/a><br \/>Visit our&nbsp;<a title=\"cello shop\" href=\"https:\/\/europeanviolins.eu\/en\/old-cellos\/\">cello shop<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"Youtube european violins\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCgl_bv8zuuPz9BpX17SpcsQ\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"youtube european violins\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/content\/european-violins-youtube.jpg\" alt=\"twitter european violins\" width=\"200\" height=\"74\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Buying a violin, cello,or viola on eBay &#8230;  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"content-type":"","rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-55269","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}