I was hoping it wouldn't be gone long enough that I'd need to worry, but I've joined here just in case TM never comes back! (hopefully it won't end the way of the Trombone Forum...) Like J. Jericho, I saw this via LaTrompeta's post on TH!
Hope I enjoy it here! I'll be on here some, at least, considering I'm a college student and have classes and practice and such.

@Kehaulani said in Is a $280 New Bach Stradivarius Trumpet too good to be true?:

Yeah. I remember the feeling of having a kid show up, surprisingly, with a new horn, a "bargan" off of the internet r by some hugry-to-sell something salesman, without talking it over with me.

ONE EXTREME WAS A SAX STUDENT OF MINE WHO GOT A PRETTY DECENT SAX THEN ENCASED IT IN CLOTH GIG BAG BECAUSE IT LOOKED COOL. AN INSTRUMENT AS VULNERABLE AS A SAX BEING CARRIED TO AND FROM ON A CROWDED SCHOOL BUS? GIVE ME A BREAK.

p.s. I am sight-challenged and hit the Caps key. Don't want to type it again. Not shouting.

Hey, it means their tech has job insurance!
While I'm pretty careful at looking over photos of what I buy online, I do think I have been really lucky in terms of not being ripped off by any seller yet. However, for most things I would typically ask my director (or now, prfoessor for each instrument, as I have access to all of them) what his (and now each professor) thoughts of the majority of them, other than the stuff I bought on the spot. (Which typically is stuff that was very cheap, like the Buffet R13 Clarinet I bought for about $200, or my Holton Stratodyne for $50 I got last year.)
I wouldn't say it's always reliable though, as I've nearly bought things before that had damage that was hard to see at first glance.

@lukarino said in Archive Retrieval Procedure For TM:

Since I don’t think the search function within the way back machine works on TM, you can search for a thread by putting “(insert query) site:trumpetmaster.com” into google, and then paste the link you find in google into the way back machine: https://archive.org/web/

The searches would only have been archived if they were deliberately archived, I think, else that would take a whole lot of space to search every single possible term and save the results.

There's also the original forum, which won't allow registration of new users, which is here: http://trptmaster.proboards.com/

I found it in January of 2017, according to this thread: http://web.archive.org/web/20170714231624/http://www.trumpetmaster.com/threads/oldest-zombie-thread-award-2017.86316/page-3 (if someone who was a moderator on there can log in, we could probably have them allow us to register, which would be kind of funny, to go back to the original forum.)

I was hoping it wouldn't be gone long enough that I'd need to worry, but I've joined here just in case TM never comes back! (hopefully it won't end the way of the Trombone Forum...) Like J. Jericho, I saw this via LaTrompeta's post on TH!
Hope I enjoy it here! I'll be on here some, at least, considering I'm a college student and have classes and practice and such.