tegs07

Natural wood- black or if possible no pick guard for me.

The revolution won’t be televised- Gill Scott heron

Union city blues- blondie

Anything is only worth what someone else is willing to pay for it. I suspect it’s going to hang around for a while.

Soul Kitchen- The Doors

Space Lord - Monster Magnet 

6 minutes ago, Waddo Soqable said:

Just out of casual interest btw I enquired of a fairly pukka sounding guitar re painting firm, as to how much to refinish a bass neck in black "paint"... To strip it first £90... Then to paint it an additional £230... 😱

 

Having spent much of the lockdown doing this stuff it’s not surprising. It’s very time consuming.

Loser - Beck

The things that I used to do - g love and special sauce 

I shot the sheriff - Bob Marley 

The needle and the damage done - Neil Young 

3 minutes ago, Paul S said:

Probably just jacked it in.

Most likely, it was just exhausting 

The look of love -ABC ( no idea why that popped into my head- can’t stand the song- now it won’t go).

I would love to try a passive Ray. It’s a shame the Joe Dart is so insanely expensive. I really like the simplicity of it.

Peekaboo- Siouxsie and the banshees 

43 minutes ago, drTStingray said:

Yeah good view if you’re bidding. Back in 2010 or so, I bid on an immaculate 1989 trans red Ray with fabulous birds eye maple neck and board - I dropped out at £900 - it went for £1200 - what I didn’t realise was the tear drop case alone was worth £300 (as the up market pre EB basses - eg Cutlass, as well as some Rays and Sabres came in those). Mind you every cloud - I got a similarly beautiful 93 fretless in its original deluxe gig bag, immaculate, a couple of weeks later for just over £750!! Did a lot of gigs with that bass (paid for itself several times over). I still have it 👍

I never beat myself up about this stuff. If I have a maximum of £800 to spare that’s what I can spend. It may come with an all expenses paid trip to Vegas but if it’s more than £800 I can’t afford it!

7 minutes ago, drTStingray said:

I try and do the ‘right’ thing basically - and yes I think there is a morality involved - I’m not in it as a business so can afford to take such a view - there are businesses which do the right thing and others which don’t . I’m afraid that market traderesque bartering is something that doesn’t appeal - particularly when dealing with luxury items (which musical instruments are). 

I just take the stand that if I’m the high bidder I get it if I’m not I don’t. Not going to offer extra.

If some one is looking for a bass at a budget and people work together to find one in that budget I can’t see an issue with that either.

Jumping jack flash - stones 

Long tall sally - little Richard 

snap!

Freight train - joan baez

This one is very tidy:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/402919180648D

I would replace the pick guard though.

White light white heat - velvet underground 

It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing - Ella Fitzgerald 

1 minute ago, Waddo Soqable said:

Never mind Prof, I greatly appreciate your friendly support 👍  end of the day, I've got the bass i wanted, I've not exactly been massively ripped off.. I just ended up dealing with Rsoles

The neck is definitely fixable-  one good thing about the budget black finish is that the repairs won’t show once retouched.

5 minutes ago, Waddo Soqable said:

That one if you look closely actually does have some dings and is prob slightly more "worn" than my one, but like i said it was on my watch list !

Yep - I was looking for one of these for a while and as they mid 80’s and “cheap” they have frequently been gigged.

4 minutes ago, Waddo Soqable said:

As Tegs says, technically they've offered  a return for refund, so they're covered in that respect as regards sale of goods law.

They reckon it was priced correctly for that instrument and only the 9/10 rating was a "mistake" as in the cut and paste above , they reckon a 9/10 one to be £800 !

Personally I think it's a $hitty way to proceed, they should certainly make some gesture of recompense, but clearly have no intention of doing so, it's a case of send it back ( which i don't want to do now) or "put up with it"

 

 

They are pretty rare but do crop up - one on flea bay at the mo:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234048726358