Holton TR550 by Conn Selmer - any good?

[TBoneHalfNote]

Does anyone know at leats anything about this student trombone?
Holton TR550

I've searched the whole Internet and there is no info whatsoever.
I only found that it was made by Conn-Selemer I guess after 2000 but it can not be verified either.
I suspect it's a late UMI production and it was made in Taiwan but since there is no information available I can only be guessing. If it's Taiwan I'll skip it.
If it was made in the US I could probably consider it even if it's new and will cost me around $900!
They've got some old stock locally. That's probably why even Conn-Selmer site has no info on them.

The problem: I found that PayPal changed verification rules for our location and I'll have to wait up to a month before they allow me to use my account. I'm not even inclined now to collect all the information they request for verification. It means I cannot buy off the US eBay any longer unless I make a huge effort.

So I can only look now for a trombone locally. And locally we have almost nothing to choose from.

[TBoneHalfNote]

Forget about it!
Everything is fine. PayPal quickly did verification of my account with the limited amount of info I provided for them.
It sounded more scary tahn it actually was
Of course they rather need money than loosing their valuable customers.
So, bye bye Holton TR505!

[TBoneHalfNote]

By the way, the only reference to one of these that I found on the Internet was the following auction that ended some time ago:
https://auction.catawiki.com/kavels/233 ... e-trombone

Take a look at picture #4 in the picture line and tell me what you see at the crook of slide and near the crook on the tubing?
That's what I was talking about when sharing my observations on recent Blessing Chinese made horns in another thread. It's very sad that you no longer can buy a new cheap horn that will last.
Rot, rot, rot... Yes, it's red