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IME if you were paying fees just to list an item you were either a business seller or you were doing something wrong. As @neepheid has said eBay used to dish out free listing offers all the time. IIRC, I would get 100 of these every month. I think I had one month when I had a lot of things that I was interested in selling and I had to hold back a couple of items until the following month. If that is a different experience to others on here I don't know why. As for complaining about stuff being too expensive second-hand, it's pointless. There are lots of things that I would like to own new and second hand that are selling for more than I am prepared to pay. I just shrug and move on. If it's something I really want I'm prepared to wait until one comes up at a price that I am prepared to pay. I'm currently in the market for a second Eastwood Hooky 6-string bass. When they do come up on eBay and other sites they are only slightly less expensive than a new one, so I'll pass until I can either afford a new one or one comes up at a price that makes buying used worthwhile for me.

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I was discussing this with my partner yesterday - we're both in our fifties and the point has come where regular exercise is compulsory not optional if we want to continue doing the things we enjoy for a decent amount of time. I personally intend to continue to enjoy the pleasures of an active life well into my eighties so I'm trying hard to eat well and do daily exercise that includes cardio, strength, mobility and flexibility over the course of each week. I personally find that exercise is as important for my mental health as for my physical health, or perhaps that mental and physical health are really just aspects of the same thing.

@TorturedSaints I suspect that’s mine you're talking about. It is priced based on a valuation (which was considerably more than it’s offered for) by Bowspeed who also did the work. The valuation came as a great surprise to me when I’d dropped it in for the work to be done. I’d assumed it was just a cheapy which would be good as a backup. I’m a hack on DB so I thought a decent pernambuco bow in excellent condition for less than someone might pay new might be of interest to better players than me, but what do I know. I haven’t advertised it here because frankly I didn’t want to rub it in the seller’s face, but then, they could have had it repaired etc themselves had they wanted to.

This is pretty much me too. I walk every day, although not as much as I used to when I didn't work from home. The band has ditched all our backline but we still have a couple of weighty items notably the flightcase that holds the gear which replaces having a drummer, and the synth player's 2-tier stand. Our rehearsal space is a fair walk from where it is possible to park the car for unloading and involves a flight of stairs if the lift isn't working, so carrying the gear for that and for gigs tends to be a decent work-out. I used to be a member of a gym but once the novelty wore off I found it pretty boring and after Covid I didn't bother re-joining. Despite being the oldest in the band by about 15 years I'm probably the fittest and most healthy. Musically I play 3 times a week once for writing, once for a rehearsal with my band and once for a gig. If I have a week when we're not rehearsing and/or gigging I'll get extra writing or recording sessions in. I've never practiced for the sake of it, it's always been because I have something specific that I need to play and my fingers aren't up to speed.

To be fair though, the Rumble 100V3 wasn’t really designed to take on such loud situations. I’ve used mine with a quiet drummer, keys and guitarist and it coped fine for what was needed. The Rumble 500 combo is an excellent thing IMO, loud / lightweight and sounds ace! Having been a ‘heavy’ cab user for decades, I’ve been amazed by how good the lightweight stuff can be. Barefaced cabs have been a game changer for me, and still got my Compact which I’m going to use at a festival gig on Friday.

That was just the RM, I used to have a MAG 300 and that definitely had the Ashdown 'sound'. It's been an interesting journey for me the past few years. You'll probably know I've designed cabs for folks on BassChat mainly to put something back in. I was a complete newcomer to bass when I first joined and people here helped me a lot with my playing. @stevie and I worked togetehr on the earliest designs but came from slightly different angles, he was always an FRFR man wanting the most accurate cabs he could make, no expense spared. I was more interested in finding out why people generally wen't for a cloloured sound and what it was they were looking for in their ideal cabs. It soon became apparent that Stevie's expertise was greater than mine particularly in crossover design and he was interested in making the best cabs possible with cost almost no object. I was lucky enough to be able to be around as he developed LFSys trying some early designs out, listening to a lot of prototypes and discussing loudspeaker design. I've finally settled on two of his designs. The original BassChat 110T and a Monza Meanwhile I've gigged more and moved towards using in-ears and no back line. Floor monitors for low volume gigs and the in-ears for everything else. The Monza is only used rarely when I've a drummer who wants a bass speaker behind him or at festivals where bad experiences with poor techs means I take backline as a backup. If the sound people get it right the volume stays at 0 if I can't hear myself I turn it up and leave them to sort front of house. I had a couple of experiences playing sets with no bass at all on stage so I won't use somebody else's PA naked, so to speak. Having gone FRFR by going direct to PA having the FRFR Monza is a godsend. Room acoustics allowing I get a consistent sound through PA/floor monitors/in-ears/backline and practicing at home through studio monitors or headphones. The surprise came when @stevie bought a Trace Elliott amp, it just spread some magic through the FRFR speakers. I tried my Peavey Minimax and it does a similar trick. There's no mystery, whoever shaped the sound in the Trace amp was very good at their job in tome shaping and I can't quite match their expertise. It isn't one sound to rule them all, I still shape my sound differently for different bands and songs and enjoy being able to get it whatever I'm playing through, but when I do use backline I treat myself to a little bit of colour from a definitely non-flat amp.

In my limited experience lightweight cabs don't cut it compared to the heavier stuff so I can see with this. Rehearsal room last week had a Fender Rumble 100 combo that was so light it was almost hovering in mid-air! Awful sonic experience with a drummer and loud lead guitarist.

It's just the sound you're used to.