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    Evri

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    23 hours ago, Geek99 said:

    Evri is private vehicles however you’d notice a pattern of failed deliveries against couriers if you looked hard enough 

    AH, yes, of course.

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    Evri

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    15 hours ago, Downunderwonder said:

    My guess is the driver doing the delivery has no other drops to make it worth his mileage to go anywhere near the 'farm'.

    I've heard some courier firms have trackers on their vehicles. I cannot remember which ones, though, and if actually true.

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    Evri

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    3 hours ago, Fishfacefour said:

    We get that from them quite a lot and we live on a main road with parking outside. 

    It's usually that the driver ran out of time in their round. 

    I just avoid Evri as far as possible. Sometimes they've claimed they've delivered an item and it's later turned up at a completely different house or just lost. 

     

     

    Without a doubt the worst courier experience I have had, either as Hermes or as Evri. The former lost track of a Steinberger XL2 I was posting to Vienna. Checked twice at Edinburgh and seemingly never left that depot. Hermes would not answer calls, and the chat-bot kept telling me it was unable to answer, or somesuch. I had to get the courier broker involved (Parcel Hero) and they actually got through to them but they were of not help. The purchaser was really understanding, but just as I was about to refund them and make a claim, some two weeks after courier picked it, I got an email from the purchaser that it had arrived in Vienna ok.....whilst still showing sat in Edinburgh.

     

    The second one, with Evri, involved a drop-off at my door (in a block) despite a note to leave in a particular safe place. A photo was provided but the item was not there when I arrived home.

     

    I now get items delivered to, or sent from, my workplace.

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    CSL Dan Armstrong-type bass on FB

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    On 08/01/2024 at 23:46, Bassassin said:

     

    I'd expect so. Never played a Armstrong or Armstrong copy, but I have an acrylic-bodied Precision and it's insanely heavy.

    Back in my teens, I sometimes rehearsed in the attic of a hippy flat. There was a Dano plexi guitar there, and it was heavy enough, iirc.

    Experiences with Andy Baxter Bass

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    4 minutes ago, Eldon Tyrell said:

    What does that mean? When I google for wicky/wiki wacker, it only shows me a cocktail and people wearing silly straw hats.

    The other hit I get is "The Wiki Wacker is a consumable item available from Luau Larry for 5 Red Beans. It temporarily increases attack damage. Also distorts screen and automatically induces dance emote when used while standing still."

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    Once known as Rickenbacker International Company. 

    Stack knob Jazz Bass

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    On 04/12/2023 at 10:47, Turbineclimber said:

    Grossly overpriced, especially considering Leo let the work-experience kid spray that one up. That black band is as wide as the M5 outside of Bristol.

    Those early stacks had that black overspray. And I've seen one or two that had the red almost faded away.

    A Ric with issues

    in eBay - Weird and Wonderful

    Posted

    On 26/11/2023 at 11:50, Cairobill said:

    I love a Rickenbacker, especially the V63. But it seems 75% of V63s have 'gone banana' (as I like to say) and there's no real way of getting the playability sorted. I had a V63 that I spent a chunk on doing the whole 'wood wedge by the neck and a bit of heating' which didn't solve the problem. 

    And yet, those V63s are just off the scale price wise. I always get gas when I see them up for sale but then I get a glimpse of the neck from the side and there it is....'gone banana'

    Amusingly, I often see the same issue (due to the horseshoe cavity being so close to the neck) on the outrageously overpriced Squire models. 7K for a banana no thank you very much...

    This one has definitely 'gone banana'

    I had a V63 and I drooled over it....except I couldn't get on with the baseball bat neck, so it went. The neck was ok. The swimming pool behind the neck is not good for those basses.

     

    And, yes, their prices are nuts right now, and most of them appear to be in Japan.

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