petecarlton

Dunno whether or not it's a synth or a plug-in - it's certainly great.

I know exactly what you mean - I lost 4 days as a result of Jabba (see what I did there?) 1 and three from jab 2. No fun at all.

Not sure a cake bash is such a good idea 😂

I thought this was an old pipe tobacco, but it turns out to be an amazing bass build - can't wait!

Edited for latest acquisition!

As in phonetic punctuation?

I was literally just wondering that when I saw your post in notifications, Richard!

I've just bought a Sterling by Music Man Short Scale Stingray from Tom and it has been the smoothest of transactions and a delight to chat with him throughout the process. I have absolutely no hesitation in recommending him to other Basschatters, though - judging by the length of this huge feedback thread - they probably know that, as he's probably traded with them all already! Thanks again, Tom - you're an absolute gent.

We'll see...

I think the other costs would be UPS's - back in the day, Thomann used to swallow the delivery charge over a certain purchase price,

I don't think there'll be any extra costs from Thomann themselves - the website price will include VAT and handling, so it should be the price you pay: nothing else. But they're not there yet! I've ordered a product at £216 pre VAT and handling, and I reckon it's going to be £274.72, as against the old potential price of £256.80 (i.e purchase price including VAT), which means the additional handling fee will effectively be £17.92. That's not exactly earthshaking - perhaps we can call it the price of Brexit (no trolling intended!). Certainly manageable, given that I can't get the product anywhere else and - even if I could - it would probably be more expensive. But I was never great at maths!

Just had this in an email from Thomann: We do understand that our UK customers would rather make one single payment for the total amount, so we are happy to inform you that we will shortly be introducing door-to-door pricing whereby the price on our website will be inclusive of VAT and the additional handling fees outlined above. We hope to implement this in the coming weeks and our website will be updated accordingly. So I guess that's progress, of a sort.

Mind you, I have no idea how much they sold to the USA, where stuff was probably already pretty cheap from the likes of Sweetwater, Guitar Center and Sam Ash.

Very true - hopefully they'll get around to us soon!

OK

That's precisely what I mean.

That's a huge exception. I meant a more favourable (apologies for the previous typo) deal in terms of trade with UK private customers. Do you imagine Thomann (or any other EU-based company with a formerly-significant customer base in the UK) prefers the current situation to what existed before? I for one have been put off buying anything from them which costs more than £135 before VAT. I'm sure I'm not the only one here.

I - perhaps stupidly, in retrospect - bought myself a Positive Grid Spark 40, because they claimed it could handle electric and acoustic guitar and bass. The bass options turn out to be very limited and, although it's not dreadful, my overall feeling about it is "meh". Gregor and Frank's review has given me GAS for this NU-X jobbie, I've got to say. Very tempted. Mind you, it's £216 on Thomann (and therefore above the £135 post-Brexit bureaucracy ceiling) and they don't expect to have it in stock for 15 - 19 weeks. I might have to try the Mighty Plug in the meantime. EDIT: Just been outbid on a Mighty Plug on eBay. Damn! 😕

You would think that was a no-brainer too - the UK must have been their main market (or one of them) after Germany itself. And it's not as if they had no notice. Perhaps they're waiting it out in the hope that a more favurable trade deal comes along soon?

I'd rather be sharing an event with drummers than with (lead) guitarists! 🤣