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Just because you’re in the USA, it doesn’t mean you need to register for US tax. My business is based in the UK and we work with clients in the States, Europe and Hong Kong. As long as your transactions are recorded here I can’t see why you’d need to hassle and inconvenience of a US bank account. Stripe with a card reader should enable you to process transactions anywhere and have them paid to your UK bank account. I have a retail business and we process international transactions here.

I think you can appreciate someone’s bass playing but not know much about them. I reckon Greg’s doing the right thing to crowdsource some opinions from bass players.

It can be networks of people involved. One way it works is that someone with dirty money uses it to buy an asset at an inflated price giving it the veneer of legitimacy to it. The money is then transferred several times and returned to the original purchaser. Everyone takes a cut. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/17/cyberlaundering-funds-terror-internet-fake-transactions-cashless-society Another is musical instruments as antiquities being used to store capital. Guitars can easily be transferred across borders and few questions are asked about where they came from. Happens a lot with antiques. I worked at Trading Standards for a bit and it’s fascinating stuff. https://shuftipro.com/blog/antiquities-market-a-conduit-of-money-laundering-and-terror-financing/

Perhaps, I’ve heard stories about using such deals to launder money. This is so out of the realms of reality it smack of such things. I knew a plasterer who’d use his cash warning to buy second hand guitars (including some of mine). He’d keep them for a bit then sell them on if he didn’t like them. The principle is the same.

It’s a weird place. As you’d imagine, it’s a large, dusty and smelly old room filled with old furniture and old men (I don’t mean this negatively, I’m reasonably old too, it’s a statement of fact). I think that the sale room makes people go mad. Or they’re not considering value, and just want what they want. It’s quite good fun to be in a room with loads of old gear. But you quickly realise how much of it is junk. I think l the inflated prices for the last bass are either money laundering or a way to boost assets on a balance sheet.

Absolutely pathetic. Likely to be a money laundering scam or some other duplicity here.

Your playing was beautiful and smooth, mine less so! At the moment I’m working on intonation, so it’s quarter note pulse for half an hour at a time. I remember seeing my dad with loads of interests.

My kids (4 and 6) ran in while I was playing double bass and stomped around the room shouting “boom boom boom boom boom boom” which is apparently what it sounds like downstairs. I’ll miss it when they’re too cool…

I bought the PA, pay for storage, set it up and don’t drink at the gigs we do and we still split it because we sat down like grown ups and discussed it. Ive worked with bands before where I received a few for the gig which was less than the split, but the singer booked the gigs, paid for the rehearsals and basically did everything. This was absolutely fair to me. I reckon you should have a chat and ask what’s happening. Don’t drink and don’t get personal, just ask the question.

It’s a few quid. I’d have a chat and figure out what the deal is. The guy *may* be ripping you off, but there could be an alternative explanation. In my band, we split everything equally. I bought the PA but we’re paying it back from each gig. This happpenned because we all sat down and agreed. At the end of the payment terms we all own the PA. Happy days.

Stuart comes across as a complete and utter idiot here. Assume he’s probably tired and frustrated, but it’s not a good look.

It’s a little over 40 minutes from me and I’ve been a lot of times. Personally, most of the dealers I now use it to shift stock they can’t sell themselves, or want to turn around quickly. Instead of going there I’ve treated myself to a little beauty that will be arriving in a day or two…

Ahh I thought the auction was tomorrow. The problem with these guys is you have to take the auction descriptions as 100% accurate as caveat emptor operates here. You can’t really check out the pieces beyond a cursory glance. Personally I’ve seen some great stuff there and some junk.

You’ve got access to some incredibly knowledgeable people on here (not me, I’m stupid), but for the next course might be worth accessing the group knowledge here. I still think it would be worth adding a “further reading” section somewhere. I’m fact, I’d love to know more, too!

Have you watched the video now? This is a basic primer, not an exhaustive list. It’s a very general gloss over the key points. As I said, if you’ve got constructive stuff to add then that’s great. But hanging the bloke out isn’t the community spirit we should aspire to on here. It’s not particularly accurate site, but it’s a brief intro. It would be easy to add a slide at the end of the video or description in the links of where someone can go for a day by day breakdown of what Eric Clapton had for breakfast each day in the 60s.