On closer inspection, I can see how the bridge could be attatched to screws on the underside of the flame area. Afterall, it'd be a lot cheaper to attach a bridge piece to a flat piece of brass instead of carving it out like a sculptor.
I get where you're coming from with this. If I had another run of the mill low-to-mid-priced Korean instrument that played as well and sounds as good as this does, I'd play that. The neck dimensions, pickup placement and preamp all just click for me. I aim to get all mine set up like this, now.
Just remember that just because someone's "selling" it for that price, doesn't mean anyone will buy it at that price. A couple of DOD pedals have gone up in value, and it's made everyone think their DOD Grunge pedal is worth £75 on ebay.
Generally the analogue pedals seem to do a better job at cloning the originals than the digital ones.
I think it was mainly poor timing for them when they were released. Nowadays clones of pedals are much more commonplace, and are looked at as serving a different price point, whereas Behringer have a poor reputation for quality, and being a cash-grab when they were released.
Also, to be a bit more helpful to the OP:
If you ask this question in the effects forum, you're likely to end up with a vastly different consensus of opinion. If you're curious about effects, perhaps try an overdrive, distortion of fuzz with a great reputation for bass.
Fundamentally though, this is about art - either it's all unneccesary or none of it is.
I always used to play with effects - as the music I loved often had them on - and the sound of clean bass bored me to tears. It was fun to play with all these different sounds and have different options, but I definitely found my clean tone boring.
Now I'm a little older, a little wiser, and have a great P bass and Stingray, and honestly?
The pedals sound EVEN better!
The Bassballs is one I've always struggled to get sounding full enough for live use. I've not long got a Sovtek one as well, and I'm thinking of doing a comparison video if that's something any of you would be interested in?