Aidan63

SuperBass2, Ray Brown, Christian McBride, John Clayton Wood, Brian Bromberg

beach is made of sand, beech is wood

corrected that for you 😄

Does the retailer buy the product from the distributor or does the retailer pay for it once sold (like M&S and other big retailers do), I don't know how it works with the instrument business, but I guess that PMT and Andertons etc. pay distributors 30-90 days in arrears and small retailers pay up front or on delivery/on invoice from supplier If you've had £500 capital tied up in something for 18 months and new stock will be more expensive and everyone else is selling for £650 then I can understand why you'd up the price as long as it was indistinguishable from current model, which is partly why manufacturers keep changing specs and available models so if you want the latest version you pay more and so old stock is apparent to knowledgeable buyers

shouldn't work in sales if you don't love the product and be prepared to put a bit of effort in to get the sale or even just help the potential customer as good service is recognised, bit like karma; can always Google P100 and ask a colleague imho

For the original £15k I'd want Victor Wooten to provide a couple of Basscamps with flights included in the price as well

many months ago, not in holiday season, emails over the course of more than a month, so no excuses; rather than just say we don't stock Mikro strings or there will be a long wait getting them or they are nla they just ignored me. I can find strings myself but I thought I'd ask the people who supplied the instrument originally, if you can't support it then why sell it in the first place, that's just selling boxes any idiot can do that, and lots do; then they wonder why Tescos sell guitars

A Lexus costs pretty much the same to build as a Toyota of equivalent spec but they sell for 2-3 times the price, they only sell 13,000 of them a year in the UK, so every one who buys a Lexus pays over the odds mostly in order to pay for the advertising (Sponsorship or whatever they call it) that creates the perceived value (as well as supporting dealers who sell low volumes compared to Ford or Vauxhall dealers so fixed costs per sale are higher), top price instruments are pretty much the same, it's about perceived value - and because some of the brands aren't well known and heavily advertised they are perceived as of less value hence resale values are lower even if they were originally good value for money when new If Victor Wooten played a Maruszczyk or a Mensinger and banged on about it then Adrian could charge more rather than charging cost plus profit plus a little margin for retailer and a what the market will bear factor I'd be interested to know how many Basses Fodera make annually compared to Adrian and what their actual costs are, I bet they aren't much more than 2x as expensive to build

Headstock didn't bother to reply to my email asking where I could buy strings for my Mikro Bass, nor the second, nor the third, nor answer the phone, nor reply to message left on answerphone Sold the bass, and won't buy anything they distribute again I expected better because they were helpful to Dawson's when I asked them to see if they could get some parts for my old Ergodyne bass 10 years ago

So many £2k plus basses for sale that don't seem to shift, and so much bumping, it's a shame we can't sort them by price, I look at the expensive stuff but will never buy any of it The £300-£1k reasonably priced stuff seems to sell fine though Ebay is mad, I just watched a used (no returns no warranty) Squier Affinity Telecaster sell for £2 less than a new one (with a 2 year warranty and 14 days return protection) including delivery (£148), I sold mine on here to someone looking for one to modify for £75 which I thought was an appropriate price for a 6 year old well played instrument in good condition and I don't think I was truly off the mark, and I'd have been embarrassed to ask any more but some people have a lot of front

seriously ? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-JV-Squier-Series-Jazz-Bass-Fender-logo-full-size-Squier-Series-small/273066974614?hash=item3f940f5d96:g:ZUgAAOSw9NBaggUH

what actually is the neck relief measurement and the string height ? are the 5 neck bolts tight ? this is Musicman's set up info https://www.music-man.com/faq#category2, scroll down to basses, which is a little different to Fender's

asking £1000

it made £375 wowser

I can't see anyone buying it except to wave their willy about how expensive it is even if it plays well and sounds great

Aswad before the chart hits The Sex Pistols upto NMTB REM before some of them started to believe their own publicity pretty much any band before they started taking coke

My experience with the short scale Rotosounds was not good, they ring sharp initially before settling back to the note so completely messed my head/ear up, changed to LaBella and all good. Scott Whitley reported same issue on his website. I bought them because I wanted to buy British made and because so many players use them but was disappointed with them in reality. The Ibanez short scale strings fitted originally were okay.

I'm even more confused as the paint code 039 which I think should be transparent black or ebony is clearly on a sunburst or natural Precision body - which I think just goes to show that Fender Mexico make mistakes there's no way of dating the bodies, as Andy says late 90s on, the only thing that dates them is the serial number which is only on the neck

now at over £200 on the latest listing with a very competitive but dodgy looking bidding pattern

should be transparent black or ebony body paint code 039, I have no idea which models were in that colour. I'd guess M is Mexico the fender serial number checker should work and tell you what it should be https://www.fender.com/product-registration/serial-search my 2003 mim Jazz has no date stamp in the neck pocket just the bar code and numerical label under the pickup and no date stamp on the neck just various inspection initials and part number label

£168 already, multiple reports to ebay that it's fake and still it's there ☹️

I bought a pair new (and amazingly bothered to register them when I bought them) that failed after 18 months and they were were replaced f.o.c. (again it was Sandra that sorted it and apologised) after their repair team quoted me £60 plus £30 shipping to repair them and then realised that they can't actually repair them (discreet electronics circuit board) and can't do anything except replace the lead as that is the only service item available. I contacted Audio-Technica and they couldn't help either and they couldn't provide the circuit diagram even though they make them for Vox. The lead is too fine for the intended use imho