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Note there's also a link from the petition to contact your MP.

We need to make that a sticky!

It looks decent, except is that a real snare drum, in which case it's a fail on the be-kind-to-neighbours basis.

There was a wanted ad for a SansAmp yesterday on FB and a number of people replied warning against the fraudster, including one or two I didn't recognise. I can't see the post now, so maybe it's been taken down.

I think the pedals are the biggest compromise on the cheap kits.

I thought it missed the point; the restore removed all trace of the original use and the bridge & pickup covers were a mistake. it was discussed after the programme was aired on BBC.

Completely pulling up the drawbridge and cutting off communication is certainly not the answer, that's for sure.

I'm mentally drafting a letter to my MP... There will be a number of revisits/clarifications to the agreement over these coming months. Fortunately, the actual impact of such restrictions is minimal at this precise moment, due to the virus situation, so there is time to get it sorted.

In that case, the EU were right, on this occasion.

I think a 90-day permission sort of arrangement should be simple enough (and nothing to do with Johnny-Foreigner invading good old Blighty, or anything like that). As things stand, the "free trade" deal doesn't quite seem to be quite what it says on the tin, so they'll be needing to do some revisions of it.

I wonder what it'll go for.

They just look like not quite an Ibanez to me.

I may be a naive fool, but I think they really just didn't quite get it right on this (and the s/h instruments market, discussed in other threads); after all, the agreement document is loads of pages of gobbledegook. I don't think the agreement was intended to put minor musicians out of business, nor stifle the 2nd-hand market. They probably spent so long wrangling over fishing rights and NI that they didn't go down into this aspect of the minutiae. Writing to your MP should help bring the matter to their attention and maybe move towards getting things put right.

Yes, I’m pretty sure they have toured with no original members.

Well, they dropped the ball on that one!

As a side-effect of this, I’ve sworn that I won’t buy remotely and pay by bank transfer or PayPal Friends & Family; I’ve just had a purchase rejected on this site because I said I’d pay PayPal Goods and cover the cost.

This is the multi-use tracking reference: PN518894078GB

I discussed with my local Police when he said he was coming to my house; they said I'm not far from the station and just call 999 if he turns up. They weren't so interested in taking any action regarding the fraud itself, as I'd already raised the case with Action Fraud and gave them the reference. It has been raised with Leicester police and some have contacted the local Trading Standards. There are also cases raised with the Musicians Union, more targeting the question of musicians' unpaid fees than the sales fraud.

There are still people who haven't got their refunds and are being given the run-around with failed PayPal refunds. https://www.facebook.com/groups/BassPlayersMarketUK/permalink/3876293265715606/?comment_id=3911545288857070&reply_comment_id=3911675612177371

£350 - that's an arm and a leg!