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[quote name='Musky' post='562636' date='Aug 7 2009, 10:35 AM']Does anyone know how VAT would fit into these scenarios? If a shop sells at a 15% commission, surely VAT at the current rate of 15% would also be added to the sale price in the shop? Or does the shop only have to pay VAT on their commission as there's no outlay to then for the bass?[/quote] I asked this of one of the stores I dealt with once, and I think their answer was that the VAT was only applied to the commission. But you'd probably want to check that with a retailer, as I'm just telling you what I vaguely recall was the answer.

[quote name='chris_b' post='562598' date='Aug 7 2009, 09:53 AM']I always imagined that the commission would be added. Does it make a huge difference if you add 35% to the price?[/quote] If you add 35%, that's the same as taking away 25% (more or less). For example Say I want £1000. They add 35%, so the final price is £1350, so the commission ends up at £350. However, say the agreed selling price is the same, £1350. If you calculate commission at 35% (which is the scenario I was talking about above), then the commission works out at £472.50.

[quote name='obi 2 kenobi' post='562579' date='Aug 7 2009, 09:35 AM']The Gallery is 15%. At least thats what they charged me last year for selling a bass[/quote] Yeah, I've sold through them in the past, and they were around that rate when I sold as well. I should've just gone straight to them I guess.

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='562451' date='Aug 7 2009, 12:44 AM']For some reason, I feel sure I know which shop it was that quoted you 35%. [/quote] It's quite possible you do - you're in the right part of the world. I don't want to name the shop, though, as I don't think they've done anything wrong. I asked them what their price was to sell something for me, and they told me. And to be fair, they told me very quickly, and they were very polite and friendly in the transaction, which is more than I can say for a number of their competitors. Now it's up to me do decide whether I like what they've offered me. The point of the thread wasn't to name-and-shame, just to check out the current rates. However, if anyone reads this, hopefully they'll see that 35% is a bit above market value!

[quote name='dunetune_jazz' post='562163' date='Aug 6 2009, 06:56 PM']As far as I recall it has always been around 20% or a bit less. 35% is taking the mick.... look else where sell it yourself you will save a ton of cash.. jz[/quote] Thanks for the info. That's more like what I was expecting. I've actually sold a number of instruments through UK stores in the past, and I always remember the rates being around 15-20%. When I got my reply today, I just thought that things must've changed considerably in the past couple of years.

I was wondering if anyone could give me an idea of what sort of commission rates UK stores charge for the sale of instruments on consignment. I made an enquiry today with a fairly well known store, and was a bit shocked when the rate came back at something like 35% of the sale price!! Is that typical?

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='462568' date='Apr 14 2009, 09:33 PM']Drop Brandt from www.ThePerfectBass.com an email they did me a cracking discount (mention that you are a TB member ).[/quote] Do you get hit with much tax when they come in, or are you able to sneak them past customs?

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[quote name='BigBeefChief' post='457362' date='Apr 8 2009, 01:35 PM']Well I think it looks pretty cool. If you said to some people "Don't do that, it'll effect the resale price" they may say to you "So what? I bought this bass to play, not to sell".[/quote] [quote name='warwickhunt' post='457374' date='Apr 8 2009, 01:51 PM']IIRC Billy sat down with a Dremel tool in a hotel room and did that scalloping himself. Funny but if he put that bass up for sale I don't think many people would be asking what kind of fool would do that to a bass... in fact had the seller of the bass in the OP been a 'name' player and that bass was his main tool we'd probably be arguing that the start price was way too low and we'd be worried that it was a scam. As an aside; back around 1980 I had a late 60's Jazz and you have no idea how quickly I binned the cr*ppy tuners, bridge and pups and installed Di Marzios etc. It's all about perspective! [/quote] Those are good points. OK, maybe my reply to MB1 was a bit OTT, but I find it amazing that people are criticising the guy who made the mods. They should be thanking him!!! Fender stopped being innovative around the time Leo left. There was no way anything as "revolutionary" as a P/J was going to come from that company in the 70s, and in fact, it took them to the mid 80s to finally release a P/J model, and even then, it came from Fender Japan, not the US company. Bassists in the 60s and 70s simply didn't have the options available to us today, so they improvised with what was available and made the best tools they could. Without those improvisations, a lot of the features we take for granted today simply wouldn't exist.