bassatnight

I think I'll point that out to him! ;-)[quote name='XB26354' post='720390' date='Jan 21 2010, 06:48 PM']Not going to get much interest listed them under Guitars->Accessories->Tuners [/quote]

Folks, For anyone interested ex Simple Minds and Propaganda bassist Derek Forbes is selling his beloved pair of Wal Basses on E-Bay one fretted and one fretless. These babies have a great track record and were used on many Simple Minds recordings and gigs. Mind you will need 10 grand to get them both! Steve.

Its an 88/89 Custom, consider paul rung!

Cheers Chris, what a great community this is. I have mailed Wal for a quote as ideally I would like a lined neck. Thanks everyone! Steve.[quote name='Beedster' post='715759' date='Jan 17 2010, 04:19 PM']PS, FWIW, if that neck's gone or not to your liking, I'd get a neck made rather than defret the original. Chris[/quote]

Kev, your not helping! ;-) lol [quote name='6stringbassist' post='715665' date='Jan 17 2010, 01:53 PM'][url="http://www.thebassgallery.com/workshop.cfm"]http://www.thebassgallery.com/workshop.cfm[/url] [/quote]

Folks, I have been offered my dream bass, a lovely custom Wal from a decent chap on here. I am really after a fretless Wal and due to their rarity and vastly inflated prices as new (£5k!) I was wondering about getting a decent pro Luthier to de-fret the neck and turn it into a lined fretless possibly even getting Electric wood to do it. Am I mad? should I just keep waiting for a fretless? am I stealing a decent fretted from the world? Thoughts? Steve.

I think this shows the benefits of putting your potential buys on here for us all to help with; a disaster averted me thinks...

As an owner of several SB's in the past all I can say is that the SB series is of a higher quality particularly the 1000 series which is a very good instrument and I will always have one in my collection I just think the SBr's are a newer series with perhaps better quality electronics but poorer finishes.[quote name='W1_Pro' post='696165' date='Dec 30 2009, 10:49 AM']Hello folks, I've noticed a few SBR 60's and 80's up for sale- I wondered wht the difference was between them and the SB basses. Can anyone enlighten me? Many thanks Stuart[/quote]

Your a braver man than I, I sold a mint Lakland 44-01 on the bay with no reserve and got less than £400 for it it hadn't even been played. That was a lesson learnt, there is always a chance you will not get the bidders and could potentially end up giving a decent bass away! If its a Wal or Sadowsky or similar your theory would probably work but what a risk to take! [quote name='Bassassin' post='696069' date='Dec 30 2009, 02:13 AM']Theoretically yes - but it's highly unlikely if you have a good, easily-searchable listing, with detailed, honest description & good photos. Helps if what you're selling is fairly desirable in the first place. Why is a reserve (and therefore a"pretend" low start) better than just starting at a price you'd be willing to accept, assuming you don't have the guts to risk a low start? What - and have hundreds of potential bidders swarming around it, hoping it's going to be them that bags a £10 Rick 4003? That's [i]exactly[/i] what you want. If it's an item with a known & specific market value (like my theoretical Rick) you can be assured that it will reach that, will have attracted probably hundreds of watchers, dozens of little low-bids, and if it's still low in the last 12 hours of the auction (which again, is what you want) then there's a very strong likelihood that you'll get some serious 3 or 4-way competitive bidding in the final few minutes, which will shove the final price significantly higher than market value. People take bidding really personally, and there's nothing like a grudge-match mixed with Ebay Madness. I've sold 50 - odd guitars & basses on Ebay and have seen this dozens of times. For the record, every one of my auctions has been 99p, no reserve, and even with Ebay's exponentially growing fee structure, I'm very, very happy with the end results of my sales. The actual process of dealing with bidders, stupid questions, people who can't/won't read listings etc is another matter, but goes with the territory. J.[/quote]

It a tough one as the seller you want the most money possible for your item and as a buyer you want to pay the least amount possible. If you have a Bass thats worth at least £1000 you would be an idiot to have no reserve and put it on at say a £10 start and if you start the auction at say £900 you just won't get any bids so from that perspective a reserve is common sense - it at least gets the ball rolling as it were, pepole with smaller budgets may think they will strike lucky and start bidding. If you go to an auction house you will not be told a reserve price so why should E-bay be any different? As a buyer on E-Bay you are looking for a bargain, you are hoping that someone with no sense will put an American Fender or a Wal or whatever on and sell for £250 so when you see the bass you really want and there is a reserve you are asking the seller because if the reserve is high (for you) you will look elsewhere and not bid. As the seller is it in your interest not to divulge the reserve and put potential bidders off? I suppose the answer is already there on the site - as the reserve price is not shown and is only known to the seller. (You also have to pay extra for a reserve price) [quote name='Conan' post='695672' date='Dec 29 2009, 04:03 PM']Complicated innit? I was under the impression that if you didn't set a reserve price, then you had to let the item go for whatever the highest (or only!) bidder was prepared to pay? Surely then, not putting a reserve on it is very risky as you could potentially have to virtually give away a valuable item! On the other hand, an item is only worth what people are prepared to pay for it - so it kind of pisses me off when people list items for a certain price and refuse to go any lower. Why use an auction site? Just stick it in the local paper! Or maybe I'm just jaded as the two basses I listed on there just before Christmas only just failed to reach their reserves... [/quote]

This was my rude response (apparently): [i]Might be worth seeing if you win the auction first mate. I am afraid the reserve price is private. (I usually give it out but his bluntness annoyed me) As for ringing you, not sure why I would want to call you, as you haven't won the auction yet?[/i] [quote name='bassatnight' post='695509' date='Dec 29 2009, 12:01 PM']Just had a very irate person calling me the rudest person he has ever dealt with on E-bay in 10 years (He has only had an account for 4 years!) He sends me a message demanding I call his expensive mobile number without giving a reason for the call (but no doubt wanting me to sell to him outside of E-Bays Protection) Then when I refuse to call him he sends me a tirade of hate telling me how bad a seller I am etc, he has 30 sales/buys and I have 400 all positive - Some people! Steve. (losing it with mankind)[/quote]