Here's the rest of the story. The vendor is Antonio Lamaq himself (his full name is Marc Antonio Lamaq) and he has spent most of the last three years at the Chinese factory which made these. He been troubleshooting and refining their operation. In 2007 he will have an entirely new range and he normally would never consider selling on eBay. He decided to dispose of a few remaining instruments to clear out his earlier production of design which will soon be 'old' stock, and to do so before Christmas on eBay at very low prices. You and me and anyone else who found them and trusted them has just ended up buying guitars not from some liquidation, or a dealer getting cleared of bought-in 2nds, but from the designer himself set up by him. Lamaq charges upwards of £10,000 for his own hand made classicals. Methinks that whatever these turn out to be like, they will have been a bargain.
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