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I don't think it did!

The dog days of the Covid Lockdown was the best time for Facebook Marketplace guitar and bass bargains down south. Most of the sellers were either broke or thought the time off work was an opportunity to learn to play, and couldn’t. I got my Ibanez and Aria for good prices plus a SansAmp BDDI. It’s mostly rubbish these days.

Lovely Day - Bill Withers

A Leo morphing into a Felix

There's currently a bass I sold on FB Marketplace (that old charity shop Hondo, think you had one) being flipped for double what I listed it for, not only has he used my pictures but also copy/pasted the description, right down to the bits where I detailed the work I'd done on it and the new parts I'd fitted, all recounted in first person. Wouldn't even mind but the pictures I took were awful as my phone at the time had a rubbish camera! It's been on there for ages probably because my original price was the market value and the flipped price is about £100 too much.

Any update on how things are going now its back in their hands?

If I buy something it is mine and I can do what I like with it and that includes selling it for double or burning it in the garden for BBQ fuel - but I am not a hypocrite so that must be the other way as well: if I sell a thing and the next person manages to sell it for double - that is their good fortune and I am pleased for them. I'm an adult and I did a deal I was happy with at the time. Hindsight is a waste of energy. Once I've sold a thing I no longer care about it. Perhaps the next owner will sell it for a loss, or maybe for a profit. Either way it is not mine anymore and it leaves my mind. It's not an "anti-community" stance, it's a really "Why on earth should I get a say when it's not mine?" Stance. What next? Should I be upset if the 3rd owner after me makes a profit? Or only if it's the next owner? Advertising something at a higher price does not mean it will sell, and if it does, good luck to them. There are many reasons for a bass selling for more and for less. Perhaps the market improved / got worse. Perhaps there was a bidding war by people who only just discovered the item was available. Perhaps the model has somehow been associated with a recently exposed nonce and now nobody wants them so the value tanked. Perhaps the original seller really needed money and had made the decision to sell undervalue for a quick sale. Irrespective of the reasons why the buyer bought it they assisted the seller. They cannot be expected to offer a higher sum "just because" and they shouldn't be expected to sell at an undervalue themselves. Even if they bought it with the intention to sell at normal market value (or higher) they still did a deal with another adult who made the decision to sell in a way that suited them at the time. Slagging someone for later selling at a higher price is no more or less silly than slagging the original seller for selling at an undervalue and making others of the same model harder to shift at market value. Inflation and depreciation and simple desirability can change quickly. Several years ago I sold / part-x a very nice bass on here and the person buying it gigged it extensively and then decided to get a new one built with slightly different specs so he put "my" one up for sale. Another member of this "community" sent me multiple messages demanding to know exactly what I had sold it for (with the part-x value etc) and seemed to be demanding that I feel outraged that it was for sale at a price that might have been higher than I got. I pretty much got a lecture that me not caring about something that I no longer owned was a problem and that my refusal to tell him the details of a private transaction was against the community. It was a level of pathetic entitlement unworthy of anything claiming to be a community. Most amusingly that member has advertised many items way above market value / used sales on here and ebay etc. This happened again when I sold a pair of Mark Bass cabs donkeys ago and a different member actually had the balls to ask me for a breakdown including the shipping as I had sent them to mainland europe. He wanted to work out the cab price from the postage included price. I promise: if you buy a £100 pedal from me and manage to sell it for £300 I will be thrilled for you. Me being happy with the sale at £100 will not be affected by you managing to sell for £300.

Resons To Be Cheerful, Part 3 — Iam Dury & The Blockheads

The art of depping is to learn the songs, but be able to deal with key changes or structure differences on the hoof. The first takes discipline, the second is a skill best developed by joining in at jam sessions.

If you can dep, you know how to prep!

In a slightly different direction, my HX Stomp XL does all I want. Plus the various effects available when I want them. To be fair, the smaller HX Stomp does all of the same, but the additional buttons on the XL made it much more usable for me, and I was fortunate enough with buying/selling to upgrade at no cost to me.

On the group buy thing it specifically states "Important note: This product does not qualify for the IK Multimedia Group Buy. You will not be eligible for further free plugins upon purchase." - is that what it said before?

I think I may have missed those stories, and am too young to pick up the pop culture references! Apart from crime watch

Interesting @LukeFRC, I was pondering this earlier and while initially coming to the same conclusion, I remembered some of the rather dodgy geezers around here back in the noughties, I could name a few who made your average antique dealer look like a charity volunteer. The problem then was that they were working very much below the radar, or perhaps more accurately, there wasn't a radar. I think the forum is collectively wiser and as the result the guys who deal, most them honestly and legitimately, do so in the open. I've two stories form around 2010 - that I won't repeat as they've done the rounds on here a few times - that simply wouldn't happen today, both in a Minder meets Smiley's People meets Crimewatch kinda way

Just purchased the Xvive A58, everything good so far. They are slightly smaller but thicker than the Getaria 5.8ghz ones I have, but I imagine that is due to the replacable battery capability. Only used for bedrom practice so far but will try them a band practice on Thursday.

I am imagining all around the country there are bass players with a 2m length of black downpipe in their garage, with a little 6" piece sawn off the end

Very elegant! I'm quite keen on doing mine with a TE Elf, but if I'm honest it's because (a) I like the black/green colour scheme (b) it's a nod to the 1990s cabinets that needed a van with a tail-lift which aren't very good reasons and really I should just go with the Gnome and piggy back on your project