That's another artifact of the insanely high selling prices of B3s.
There's been a widespread practice for years that I deplore of buying an older B-series Hammond and junking the guts, then buying an A-100 series and scrapping the case and power amps, putting the manuals and preamp into the B case to make a "B3." Takes two perfectly good classic old Hammonds to make one fake B3. Ostensibly the Festival was Lowreys answer to the Hammond B3. Founded by Roy Neal, Sceptre Promotions first Keyboard Entertainment festival was launched in May 1985 - but you dont just decide to start an organ. Oh yeah, then there are the fake B3s, or other organs called B3s. Fake sellers use pictures and descriptions from other auctions. And lots of items like B3s have been appearing that are scams. play carols on Christmas morning Size: The dimensions of each page of the two-page advertisement are approximately 10.25 inches x 13.5 inches (26 cm x 34.25 cm). There's lots of skullduggery with sellers using shill bidders to drive them up. Description: 1961 LOWREY ORGAN vintage magazine advertisement 'Lowrey Starlet' Enter The Lowrey Starlet - Exclusive A complete 2-keyboard organ with percussion - at the lowest price ever. When plugged in I cannot get the on/off switch to turn on the organ. Buyers see those and assume that's what they're worth, and it snowballs. Just inherited a 1978 lowrey organ model M-325 Jamboree with Magic Genie, Serial 2325 100d9 52869. When somebody sees a particular example go for an exceptionally high price, they assume that's what they're ALL worth and sellers start asking high starting prices or setting high reserves. eBay drives price inflation on collectibles of all sorts. Harvey's the man! That is of course a humorous article.