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"Offline!"

As an aside, I watched Mortimer & Whitehouse; they were discussing some random topic and Bob Mortimer came up with the comment "water isn't sentient".

Googling "Starfire by EKS" suggests that EKS is a guitar company based in Nagoya, Japan. https://www.guitar-list.com/brands/eks-technology However, I see instruments MIJ and MIC, so it's entirely possible they offshored production. Prices seem to be <£100 (eg. https://richtonemusic.co.uk/eks-starfire-performer-j-style-bass-black-2nd-hand/?srsltid=AfmBOopeMAmOgr7sfGvDeYgYiXp4nJvRh2jH9eNtrvzpY05OgnP2AvtA).

It says (C) Nagoya, as opposed to made in Nagoya.

It's just I've never wanted an Ibanez. Nor a Sire (or any other Fender-a-like).

Keep the cases in case...

But you have to enjoy it too, or it's just a job.

Copycat!

My answer is neither - you can get a used Ric for £1500.

Try one of these? https://slingerstraps.com/products/harness-strap-guitar-strap

Looked - nothing for me there, but others might find things of interest.

As a follow-up, our appeal against the TfL fine has been upheld; in their representation TfL produced 4 pages of falsehoods and concocted rules (they spliced together partial rules to form new wordings) which the adjudicators describe as "verbiage" and which our representation took apart line-by-line. The adjudicators finding includes the following statement: Back to the topic of this thread - the risk is that (i) appointed upholders of the law can and will overstep the mark in attempting to implement an action, and (ii) it can take a lot of time and effort to ensure that an unjust charge is overturned.

Sure - I just find it ironic.

The pictures form part of the description and the logo says "this is a Fender bass"; you can't sell a fake Fender by saying "this is not a Fender" or just not mentioning it at all. So, it was neither a Limelight nor a Fender, but had branding for both. (Another group goes so far as to say they won't even allow sale of parts instruments with genuine Fender necks on them.)

I guess you got the right person to look at it; I’ve stepped away from eBay. Did you report it as a counterfeit Limelight or a counterfeit of a counterfeit of a Fender?

eBay don't care about counterfeits - they wouldn't take my word that something which had "Made in USA" on it and the seller described it as "Made in Japan" was really a counterfeit made in China!

It had a brief moment in the limelight. 🙂

He would've only needed 4.

The old "it owes me..." assertion.

Years ago Schecter used to do a catalogue of guitar parts you could buy - enough to build a whole instrument. It was great. I think now it's just the name. (Oops - posted at pg. 1, then read @NancyJohnson's post; as I recall they were good quality and not so cheap.)

It's as genuine as the Fender logo on the front of the headstock.

Good point - that's why I could never have one of those.

Steve's Guitar Centre (Cosham, nr. Portsmouth) has one.

The brand is Squier, S-q-u-i-e-r. (It's the name of a family business which Fender acquired.)