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Old 03-08-2018, 07:20 PM
Paraclete Paraclete is offline
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Originally Posted by TKT View Post

I got them off Amazon, which currently seems to be a dumping ground for all things defective. Not sure if that had anything to do with it, but I did get my money back on the broken set as well as other unopened ones I was no longer willing to take a chance with.
There is huge problem with fake stuff on online sellers like Amazon and eBay, Thomastik and other high end companies are a particular target. I don’t know how widespread it is with guitar strings, but with orchestral instruments, it is huge. Just be careful.
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