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[quote name='lemmywinks' post='1235553' date='May 18 2011, 12:27 PM'] Is he a lighthouse keeper?...[/quote] Made me actually LOL

I'm starting to think there might be a case for putting as little info in your ad as possible. Just include decent pics and add stuff like condition and age if not immediately obvious. Ok you will lose out on some potential buyers but the ones that do persist with your ad will have had to do their research first... thus eliminating a portion of the tard/TIM-waster element. edit : I don't sell on ebay so I've not tested this theory.

Road Worn series?

[quote name='Dave Vader' post='1235263' date='May 18 2011, 09:42 AM']Whnfgh? Hrrnnhhh? Sorry just woke up, where did you lot come from? And why are there crisps in my hair? ....[/quote] I'd have a look in the mirror before going outside if I were you. Don't worry it should come off with some white spirits..... ... oh and the other eyebrow will grow back soon enough.

[quote name='Slipperydick' post='1235104' date='May 18 2011, 12:43 AM'][/color] I keep seeing this... At the rsk of seeming thick, can somebody explain these abreviations for me ?[/quote] MI means "made in"... I'm sure you can work out the rest.

Skin up.

[quote]..lovingly distressed..[/quote] An oxymoron from an ebay moron.

[quote name='BigRedX' post='1231714' date='May 15 2011, 10:28 AM']Actually I don't really like the look of a maple fingerboard unless the rest of the bass is also a light coloured wood. I'll go further than that and say that I don't like instruments where the neck is a different colour to the body IMO it looks cheap and nasty.[/quote] See the bit I highlighted.

[quote name='famstd' post='1231242' date='May 14 2011, 06:56 PM']I thought the Maple was a bit brighter, until I changed to Nylon strings. [b]I'm more convinced strings are more of the factor than the Fretboard wood.[/b] I do like the look and feel of Maple myself. [/quote] I doubt there's a bassist alive (or dead) who would argue with that.

Ok peeps. The seller has been in touch with me via our local (steady on MB1 ) music forum to help him post a further statement on his behalf as he is having some undisclosed problems doing so himself.... [color="#8B0000"][i]Hi,I'm Ronz,the guy who sold the Overwater bass. Let me point out a few things. 1.I am NOT a scammer and laugh at the people on this board who are quite willing to say publically that I am! You don't know me so you're just making guesses after hearing 1 side of the story. 2. I sold the bass in good faith and it did not have the extent of cracks that are pictured. There may have been laquer cracks but nothing more than that. Those are the first pictures I have seen of them at that extent. 3. Bass was sent insured up to £500,I'm quite happy to scan and post the reciept with extra insurance. 4. At NO POINT did I say to the seller,"so what,you got it cheap". I would love for him to post where I said that. 5.If I had seen the cracks I would have told the buyer to hold the bass there as that is what is needed when a claim is to be made,he showed me nothing,I only saw it on this forum after being tipped off by friends who frequent here. 6. He seems to think by pointing out that his wife works for the police force that this will somehow scare me into refunding him before I have my bass back. An honest seller is in no way intimidated by this and was fairly pointless to mention it I thought. 7. The courier's website has indeed shown it to be delivered,but with no address ,just Aberdeen and certainly not my name or signature. 8. Which one of you on this board would refund somebody when you don't have the bass back? Be honest? 9. I have my own signature series with Overwater so i'm hardly going to be a scammer! 10. I have tried number 19 twice and no answer. I've always maintained that when I get the bass back I'll issue a refund,ask the buyer to deny that![/i][/color] I'm just passing this on (as received). Please don't shoot the messenger.

Posted with the permission of all involved.... Getting hacked off with the sullying Aberdeen has received in recent times because of ebay scammers inexplicably claiming to be located here when they aren't, I PM'd the seller via our local music forum to offer any assistance toward a resolution and also gave him a link to this thread to give him a bit of perspective on the situation. He replied thus.... [color="#FF0000"][i]Hi,I sent him the bass which had No cracks etc on the headstock but he claims it did. I offered him a full refund on the bass if he sent it back. I still don't have it yet he says the courier said they delivered it. The couriers signature is certainly not mine and i don't have the bass. I'm sure as hell not refunding a bass when i don't have it. I'm as honest as they come and I'm not stupid either. If he wants to talk trash in public then he can carry on,I've got more class than that. That bass was sent without any damage although the volume pot may have been scratchy,I admit i didn't check that. If it arrived with cracks why didn't he take photo's etc in case it was courier damage as i sent it fully insured for the value. Anyways,I guess Ebay will sort it out sooner rather than later. And you can post this public if you want to.[/i][/color] What can I say? We've all seen the cracks on the back of the headstock in the ebay pics.

[quote name='JPAC' post='1229298' date='May 12 2011, 08:50 PM']Is there anything to do to a little used bass?[/quote] Play it more.

Of those it's Blue/Green for me.

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='1228511' date='May 12 2011, 10:29 AM']Oooh, there's a lot of winking going on in here. I love a good backroom conspiracy. EDIT to add... [/quote]

[quote name='neepheid' post='1228476' date='May 12 2011, 10:00 AM']We could gather a small [i]posse basschatus[/i] and pay him a visit [/quote] I know your just having a giraffe Matt but I think there may be more to this than meets the eye... I hope there is anyway. Besides, have you seen the size of him?

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='1228381' date='May 12 2011, 07:38 AM']Lets just say that with your heads-up and a little research I've established that your Aberdeen bassist selling an Overwater in this unusual colour shares the same first name with the Aberdeen bassist who sold me an Overwater in the same unusual colour... in the same time scale! I'm not guessing that it is a coincidence but right at this minute I am giving my seller the opportunity to see if someone else in his household has maybe signed for the bass. If that isn't the case and I don't have my refund sometime soon then I'll dig a little deeper into this. [/quote] PM replied.

[quote name='daz' post='1228344' date='May 12 2011, 05:50 AM']I am sure no offense was intended. (for those that don't know) OCD is obsessive compulsive disorder, it can take many forms from crippling preoccupation with repetitive actions such as washing hands again and again (or a certain number of times) or violent or religious thoughts. Or maybe counting the number of paving stones in a walk or number of steps taken. Excessive neatness is also a symptom. Ruby wax told of how after stringently cleaning an already spotless house, her mother would get out a tape measure and set square and make sure all the furniture was in exactly the [i]right[/i] place: IE the TV had to be exactly 20 inches from the back wall and each side had to be the exact same distance from the side walls. OCD can take many forms such as obsessive collecting, which i think was obviously (to me anyway) what was meant here. Many people have this in greater of lesser forms. I'm sure we have all marveled at pictures of rooms literally bursting with basses, often of the same type or even the same colour. Some may laugh it of as GAS when it really is a bit more serious and costs relationships to be ended. Mild forms of OCD can pop up at any time often in times of Stress. such as constant coughing or clearing of ones throat. I used to do the latter myself. I was vaguely aware of doing it, but not until, someone i had only known a while told me it was getting on his nerves, did i realize anyone else had noticed it. Frankly I'm glad he said it, as I'm sure within a few weeks id stopped doing it. I'm sure all that Gub meant was a mild dig at your number of same type of guitars, no offense intended.[/quote] [quote name='daz' post='1228349' date='May 12 2011, 06:22 AM']I am sure no offence was intended. OCD is obsessive compulsive disorder, it can take many forms from crippling preocupation with repeptive actions such as washing hands again and again (or a certain number of times) or violent or religeous thoughts. Or maybe counting the numbver of paving stones in a walk or number of steps taken. Excessive neatness is also a symptom. Ruby wax told of how after stringently cleaning an already spotless house, her mother would get out a tape measure and set square and make sure all the funiture was in exactly the [i]right[/i] place: ie the TV had to be eactly 20 inches from the back wall and each side had to be the exact same distance from the side walls. OCD can take many forms such as hording stuff or obsessive collecting, which i think was what was meant here. Many people have this in greater or lesser forms without even realizing it, or caring if they do realize. Im sure we have all marvelled at pictures of rooms litterally bursting with basses, often of the same type or even the same colour. Some may laugh it of as GAS when it really is a bit more serious and costs relationships to be ended. My own attic is crammed with litterally thousands of videos i will never watch (anyone see the Bob Monkhouse documentary last week ? The man was an obvious OCD sufferer, but still lived a happy and successful life) As for myself I have more books than the average mobile library van im sure. Mild forms of OCD can pop up at any time often in times of stess. such as constant coughing or clearing of ones throat. I used to do the latter myself. I was vagely aware of doing it, but not until, someone i had onlly known a while told me it was getting on his nerves, did i reliaeze anyone else had noticed it. Frankly im glad he said it, as im sure within a few weeks id stopped doing it. Im sure all that Gub meant was a mild dig at your number of same type of guitars, no offence intended.[/quote] There's a glorious irony in you typing this out twice.

[quote name='Grand Wazoo' post='1228306' date='May 12 2011, 12:40 AM']That's not nice gub, whoever you are, let me teach you a lesson of life, and that is that you don't overstep the mark, with that sort of jokes with people you don't know, those kind of jokes "might" be acceptable between known friends, but definatey not between strangers. So no, I haven't got ocd and your humour is not appreciated and well out of order.[/quote] I thought we were all friends on here... you know by virtue of us all being brothers of the bass.

John, is it possible that the damage did occur during transit? Ok the cracks on the rear of the headstock are visible in the ebay pics but I can't see any sign of the horrible ones that run up the fretboard etc. How well was it packed? To my horror I saw that that this guy is also in Aberdeen, so I did a wee bit of research and it turns out that the bass was advertised in March/April on our local muso forum for £850 and described as near mint. I can't see that he would describe it like that knowing that a potential buyer would be picking it up in person. The guy that advertised it here is a pretty well known musician on the scene up here from a very busy rock covers band and somehow it doesn't quite fit with the scenario that's unfolding here. I suppose it's possible that the guy you bought it off may have bought it off the guy who I think it is. Does your guy go by a sort of "rock n roll" name spelled a little like a 12 year old girl might?

Result.

[quote name='Protium' post='1227898' date='May 11 2011, 07:08 PM']£14 for a capacitor, really?[/quote] Someone will pay it too in the daft belief that one cap will "sound" better than another.