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Originally Posted by AUdubon5425
I think the story about the grandparents is bullsh*t too.
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I don't think the seller was making that up; after all, most people love their grandparents far too much (heaven knows I did) to even think of making up a story like that. People have been killed before in accidents on the way to relatives' homes, with some of those being very serious (for example, multiple-vehicle pileups; my mother was involved in one in the late '60s just before she died), so I wouldn't have been surprised if this happened exactly as the seller described it.
However, given the seriously incorrect description of the console's condition, there is a chance the whole thing could have been fabricated so that the seller can get (he or she hopes, anyway) as much as he or she can from the sale. As I mentioned in my last post, however, I would be very surprised if the seller gets $10 for this in its present condition. The cheap transplanted tuner/amp chassis is a dead giveaway. Had the original still been in there, even if it didn't work the entire console would probably have been worth a bit more, but not much considering the looks of the cabinet and the broken CRT.