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Yup. The agreed 25 quid seems the easiest - the path of least resistance (as I suggested earlier). Re the OP, the questions was 'would it bother me?' My answer, a resounding yes.

Hanging it from the ceiling's gonna be a job....

Personally I’d just pay the return postage, mark it down to experience and get looking for another bass

Why are people getting het up about this? As far as I understand it, the only quibble here is whether or not the aesthetic quality of the top of this bass is a fault or not. Some say yay, some say nay. Ultimately the vendor's covered by the Ts and Cs, they don't consider it to be a fault, so honestly I'd take the offer of getting it picked up for £25 and move on. Yes, they've been a bit rum and heavy handed about it - it's been escalated and a compromise offered. Whether or not I would have allowed it out of my factory is irrelevant (but in case you're wondering - I wouldn't).

I truly think you didn't read the entire thread, and certainly not my crystal clear posts, or maybe you didn't understand what I was talking about regarding the OP's rant. So here it is even more clearly exposed: 1. OP buys a bass. 2. OP doesn't like it. 3. OP sends it back and asks for replacement. 4. OP gets it and find it's badly bookmatched. 5. OP asks for another replacement arguing that the top is badly mismatched, not correctly bookmatched. 6. Seller says OP has to pay the return fee, because there's no fault. 7. OP starts a rant here. 8. Everybody, but me starts ranting. 9. I explained why this is inadmissible to get a free return in this case. 10. Nobody reads the thread and the arguments, but push the rant further away. 11. My blood pressure is fine, but I really can't stand bad faith.

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This looks great - and I think your process bang on i.e. record properly and mime, and find a video wizard to mash it up 👌

To my ears, That sounds like a P-bass (or neck pickup at least?) Roundwound strings A healthy dose of Compression And I think I detect a pinch of Pitch modulation i.e Flanging or Chorus just to give it all a bit of ‘3D’ shimmer? That should get you in the ballpark…

Yes my first real bass combo as the amp shown above but as a 15" combo, probably only pushed about 60-80 watts into the one 8 ohm speaker but always seemed loud enough, bought in about mid 80's mine was with Compressor as pictured no flange in sight. I wish i still had the 70's 4x12 Marshal and 100watt guitar head it replaced, it would be worth a fortune now. but +not giggable in my car at the time.

Just ordered an MPC Key 37, and I blame you guys. Demn you all. I had no idea about this type of product, but I get the idea there's a lot of fun built into that thing, and that it integrates well with a DAW. Also, with limited width and weight, for travelling, right now it looks handier than my four-octave keyboard + desktop synth. Now wary of the above mentioned paralysis and unintuitivity, but I'll try and treat those as much needed training for the grey cell. Thanks, guys! Bert

Why do people like your drummer, singer and guitarist bother to be part of bands (very busy lives) there surely has to be a good degree of time commitment to make any band work, especially if you are gigging.

Bass arrived safely. Pros Great build quality Perfect set up Looks great Plays great Cons On the slightly heavier side but not too bad. At £399 this was a bargain. However, not sure I would pay the £599 RRP.

Your ire is such that you missed the point that no reason is necessary, therefore nothing is inadmissible. I'll spare your blood pressure and leave it there.

I had one some years back, long gone, but I distinctly remember thinking how much better it sounded that other basses I had that were twice the price…..quite fancy another, TBH.

Beautiful ❤️💛💚

Couldn't find the original but here's a cover by Geoff Palmer:

And I was CLEARLY talking about that bloody bookmatched top, nothing else and THAT is inadmissible as there is no mention of this bookmatched top anywhere, nothing else!

You used the word 'inadmissible' regarding the complaint. In the first 14 days nothing is 'inadmissible'. the quoted Law states.

Did I contest this? Absolutely not! My point of view is concerning the argument pointed out, which is a non bookmatched top, which is totally irrelevant here as this feature has never been stated anywhere by the manufacturer, aka Cort, nor the seller, aka GuitarGuitar. For any distant sale, as you pointed it out, you can return any item within the legal period, which is 14 days (or more if the seller has clearly stated it), at your own cost even if there is nothing wrong with. Should you find any real fault, then the seller MUST pay the return fee and refund (and here, a voucher is absolutely not a legal solution, only a full refund is valid) or replace the faulty item, and that's it. So why arguing over and over? I hate the top as it looks, even when it's (almost) bookmatched, but I would never ever use this argument to refuse the sale as it's legally totally irresponsible. Do you, now, understand what I've been writing since the beginning?