Author: Dick Schneiders
Date: 05:37:47 02/28/05
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On February 28, 2005 at 07:56:33, Steve B wrote: >This unusual Fidelity 6100 Phantom appears again from the same seller >apparantly he had two >the last once sold yesterday for $525.00 > >unusual, in that it has the coloring of a 6126 Eyeball Phantom(Green Lettering) >but it is a normal Phantom > > >http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5170642723 > >Seems As If I Posted This Before Regards >Steve Steve, The actual owner of these machines is *not* who is running the auctions. He is using a broker to set up the eBay auctions and sell the items. I have been in email contact back and forth with the actual owner, and he does have several more Phantoms. He said that he acquired them at the same time from a warehouse sale. The owner is not a collector or dealer. He didn't say how many he had. I asked and he answered that he did not have any 6124's (as if I needed another Phantom, anyway), but did have a couple 6126's with the 6100's. He said he wasn't certain if the 6126's worked, as some of the machines he has don't work properly. I specifically asked about the green lettering on the 6100, and he was a bit evasive with his answer. They are using the same picture for all of the auctions, and it doesn't show the front where the Eyeballs are and I am not able to read the lettering on the buttons. It is possible that they simply mixed up a 6126 with the 6100 manual, but I don't know. When I asked the broker house people, initially, about the buttons on the first one for sale, I was told what they read, and it was obvious that the actual machine for sale was in fact a 6100, but it might not have been the one in the picture. I tried, and so far failed, to purchase a single black pawn crown, to complete my 6126 set. Perhaps I should simply make an offer for one of the non-working machines. That seems to be the only way I am going to get this pawn crown. :-) Dick Schneiders
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