The price is what seems fake: 2,022 USD. For an old EL? Jeez, EO was paying $800 for old ELs when the SV ELs came out.
Here are some real fakes. There was a guy on eBay selling ELs in one day auctions for $500 NEW. Shipped to your door from Germany. (Germany? I guess that's where they "fell off the truck").
When you hit the "Buy it Now" button, you get a message saying to send a Western Union MO to the following address.... He must have known how to break eBay's codes, because that shouldn't happen with a Buy It Now.
I reported this to eBay, got a form letter response. He finally pulled his EL ads but a week later emerged under a new user name selling NEW Ultravids for $500. Same deal as before. Oddly, he had a 98% favorable rating as a eBay seller under that user name, but again, he must have found a way to beat the system to get that on there.
I wonder if he managed to bilk anybody?
The old adage applies: If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. OTOH, sometimes companies just suck.
I bought a Panasonic audiotape recorder/transcriber from a company that refurbs electronics. The transcriber arrived when I was really busy with a once a year project that doesn't involve transcribing interviews.
So I tried it out, seemed to work okay, and I left good feedback.
When I was through the with data collection project and got back to writing articles, and went to record an interview, I found that the power button wouldn't stay "ON". So I had to put something heavy on it to keep it pressed down.
The next week, the the foot pedal switch started giving me problems. Only one end of the "Play" foot switch worked. So I had to work the pedal with my heel.
I wrote the seller, told them this was not "refurbished" but frazzled, and that I wanted a unit in proper working order. No answer.
Wrote again, no answer. One more attempt and then I respond to one of the comany's ads and give them the worst rating possible and explain why. I'll also complain to eBay, though I doubt if they will do anything about it, and I didn't pay through paypal, so no recourse there.
So I'm probably stuck with paying for a refurb that wasn't refurbed.
So, yeah, on eBay, caveat emptor!
Brock