Over the years I have been following the purchase and sale of Panart Hangs and have become increasingly alarmed to see that the amount of fraudulent activity is on the increase, especially on online classified and auction sites. The same photos often appear on regular occasions, the same text and the same process to "purchase" a non existing instrument!
I currently own two of my own Panart Hangs and I will take you through the process that I went through to obtain them. I hope this will help you out as I know many people want them! It is for this reason that so many people fall short and are "conned" out of their money on a regular occurrence. Here are some tips when buying from online auction and classified sites:
1. Before you enter into a sale, keep a regular track on the instruments for sale on auction and classified sites and see the price range that these hangs are sold for and the type of descriptions that sellers provide:
Often you will see listings with a total of 25 words to describe the item. Think about it... If you knew that you had a product in your possession worth thousands of pounds, you would want to maximise this and put as MUCH down as possible. Surely?
2. Some of you are probably thinking "what if it wasn't for profit?"
The only other reason that a sale of a hang would go through is if the seller does not use the hang very much and wants to see it go to a good home so again, the description or at very least responses from the seller should always have a large amount of detail or it would send out alarm bells to me.
3. Ask the seller for a video to be uploaded as proof. BE CAREFUL.. it's very easy to reproduce existing videos and re-upload them. Ask them to put their username to the auction site / classified in the video (written on paper somewhere visible within the video). If they won't do this, I would strongly consider whether to buy or not.
4. Do NOT under any circumstances pay for items that are listed on auction sites if someone prompts you to buy early - this is almost certainly going to end up with you loosing out.
5. Ask the seller if he is prepared for you to pick up (even if you are not planning on it), you can judge by the response how legitimate the sale is.
6. If at all possible meet the seller to do the exchange - (My first hang was bought direct from the HangHaus but the second one was bought second hand). I did this as a cash transferal at the safest place I could think of! (The arrival lounge to the airport I was flying into where security was bound to be high).
7. Ask the person to trade details on ID cards/passports e.g name and address. This way if anything later crops up you will have a firm point of contact.
8. Why not google the address and name - you never know, you will hopefully find an internet track and find a match / name with address.
9. Ask for a receipt as proof of purchase with the person's name and address on. If at all possible ask for the original documents. The seller should be able to provide some evidence of proof of purchase from the Hanghaus or if it is a chain, at least the relating documents.
10. Ask the seller if there are any defects / common faults like tuning issues or rust appearing.
Source: http://www.artipot.com/articles/1437067/hang-drum-hand-drum.htm
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