The smashed-up Taylor Swift guitar has discovered a brand new residence … as a result of somebody purchased the controversial merchandise on eBay.
Based on the e-commerce website, somebody scooped up the guitar — which was featured in a viral video on the finish of September — on Tuesday night for a whopping $6,550 … even amid doubts concerning the guitar’s authenticity.
As TMZ beforehand reported … Gary Estes, a Texas resident, spent $4,000 at a charity public sale on a guitar marketed as bearing a Taylor Swift signature on it. Upon receiving the guitar on the public sale, Gary was additionally handed a hammer … and proceeded to smash it up.
The video quickly went viral on social media … with Gary later stating he did not have any malicious intentions with the bit, claiming he was simply joking round.
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Gary clearly did not really feel too connected to his $4,000 destroyed guitar … the eBay vendor famous the person donated it again to the nonprofit … the Ellis County Wild Recreation Dinner. The cash from the sale will reportedly be used to assist agricultural schooling for native youth.
Whereas the itemizing marketed the guitar as one “autographed” by Taylor, a supply near Taylor’s merch firm denied the declare … doubling down and clarifying the pop star did not signal the guitar — it was later decided Tay’s signature on a separate merchandise of memorabilia had been connected to the instrument.
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Regardless that the itemizing included a “certificate of authenticity,” her merch firm shouldn’t be the one which supplied the documentation, as it isn’t an official Taylor Swift guitar.
There’s different questionable issues concerning the certificates … particularly because it does not have a seal, one thing that is sometimes discovered on paperwork like this.
Regardless, it appears somebody was nonetheless within the eyebrow-raising merchandise … because it’s set to ship to a brand new residence.
