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Posted: **Sun Apr 02, 2023 1:02 pm**

Hi Garret,
I will be getting a refund and I'm sure the seller is NOT going to want to pay the return shipping. (Which eBay says she will have to do.) I will know in 3 days. Should that be the case, I may try to repair it with JB Weld, as some suggested. I don't have access to getting it soldered. It is actually a really nice horn. Things like this always pain me because I just think about how it survived the ravages of time for more than a century only the get busted due to negligence in 2023. We shall see. I will know more by Wednesday or Thursday.

Posted: **Tue Apr 04, 2023 11:29 am**

1923VictorFan wrote: Fri Mar 31, 2023 1:02 pm I guess I must confess to ignorance. I purchased (on eBay) an Edison Home, 11 panel horn from a seller who said shipping would be $24.99. Of course it arrived broken and in a ridiculously inappropriate box-like-thing shown below. Ebay said that I am entitled to a full refund (because it was not packed appropriately) + the seller will have to pay return shipping costs if they want the broken horn back. The whole experience has been a huge hassle and it certainly was no bargain. I still need to find a horn, this time under more realistic conditions.

This reminds me of the time I bought a horn (2014) for my Amberola D-X from a guy in Ontario, Canada, and had it shipped to me in NY (near Rochester). When I picked it up at the post office, my brain couldn't quite make sense of what I saw. It was cartoonish to say the least*, but amazingly it wasn't so much as even scratched.

I just shook my head and laughed.

*I did want some Little Debbie's snack cakes afterward, though.

Posted: **Tue Apr 04, 2023 8:34 pm**

Fran, that's my favorite shipping story and picture. Such stupidity rarely has a happy ending.

George P.

Posted: **Wed Apr 05, 2023 2:41 am**

That takes a below average level of loftiness and elevates it into a supreme art form

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