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12 minutes ago, bnt said:

40k, you say? It sold for $93,438.75 (includes buyer's premium). What's that in $ per cc of sweat? 🥴

😲 some people really do have too much spare cash 

1 minute ago, la bam said:

UPS distribute for Thomann amongst others. Pretty much every bass I've had from Thomann and Andertons contain a cardboard guitar box with a larger rectangular box. Albeit that's not packaging everyone has available.

You could argue thats what they use if they then demand a hard case.

It might sound daft, but I think cardboard is also used as if its dented or damaged upon arrival you have visible proof it's been mishandled, rather than just for its protective qualities.

 

new basses do come in just the cardboard box, but are they insured? Also I would imagine that the courier would look far more kindly on a claim from a major retailer who gives them loads of business than little old me

18 minutes ago, owen said:

I always hate insuring. But i would have hated paying the £800 repair cost on the last bass I shipped even more. Make sure your packing fits their criteria. They will use ANY excuse to wriggle out of liability. 

that's part of the problem, I think they insist on a hard case, but it's not worth getting one for a sub £200 bass

cheers guys, I'll check out UPS

as the title, is it worth paying out when sending a bass with a courier, don't they all exclude musical instrument from insurance?

BTW the bass is under £200

I answered no, but I do use a bit of overdrive all the time, which, I believe, acts as a sort of compressor

12 minutes ago, sammybee said:

These day's eBay have far more sophisticated ways of promoting good sellers and hiding the bad ones. In fact it is pretty hard to be a bad seller on eBay, natural selection filters them out. Mostly

although not would you'd call prolific, I've had very little trouble on ebay, mostly just a bit of hassle, only once did I feel I'd been cheated out of money, that was when I offered a part refund because the buyer said  goods were not as described, and that was to save the bother of paying return postage, find out the buyer had done the damage and then having to resell, should have known he had very low feedback, lesson learned

1 minute ago, Machines said:

I thought it was a 50/50 shot. They won't get the money though so it all seems a bit pointless.

fair enough,  you've gone into it with your eyes open and are prepared to put up with the hassle and slight uncertainty of getting your money back 

24 minutes ago, Machines said:

Cool saves me making my own thread.

Did a BIN last Sat on a bass at a very good price, new seller so was quite aware it was a bit risky (PayPal protection though).

Paid immediately, no contact from seller despite 3 emails from me. There are no contact details on eBay, I just have to wait till 23rd so I can open a case against them as i'm fairly confident it isn't going to show up. 

If it does though, you'll all be extremely jealous.

new seller? alarm bells, I've only had trouble on ebay a couple of times, both had very low feedback.

That's the other thing with fat-baby, says he's a dealer, with only 10 feedback? don't thing so.

15 minutes ago, Maude said:

There's definitely something strange about him. He's got fourteen active listings with between three and nine days left to go on them and not one bid on anything. I know that's not out of the question but it seems odd, coupled with the same item selling multiple times, getting good feedback but being relisted again makes me think he's at best, just a bit thick but probably best avoided, at worst, a scamming knob'ead and probably best avoided. 

if he's scamming he's got me beat, not much of a scam is if he's not getting paid and paying ebay selling fees

loads of stuff, WD 40 or Jiff for me, but not nail varnish remover as one of our ex guitarist found out to his cost on his nearly brand new Gibson SG 😖

5 minutes ago, Bassfinger said:

when one starts to make boastful claims about their musicianship etcd

I don't think anybody would make boastful claims about their musicianship, in fact their 'charm' lay in the fact that they wrote simple good songs that more or less anybody could play

I suspect it boils down as to whether you like the Ramones or not, they're an easy target if you don't, "anybody can play and write their simple songs with dumb lyrics", the same argument could be made about the early rock and roll stars like Buddy Holly, and anybody can write simple songs, the trick is to write good catchy simple songs, IMO the Ramones and Dee Dee in particular, continually pulled that trick off

 I can't see many gigs happening until all social distancing regulations are lifted

I've set it up now, no real problems, had to change my primary email address, it just surprised me that all of a sudden I had to have a business account to receive payments form bandcamp

 a bit of hum not a big problem, as long as you can't hear it while you're playing, at least you know they're working, our old guitarist thought his amp had packed up, very unhappy about having to use my spare TE for the gig, turns out that just the power light bulb had blown 😂

anybody had to set one of these up? recently sold a couple of CD's off bandcamp, and they're asking for a business account to be set up, never had any trouble before, it's always just gone into my personnel paypal account

12 minutes ago, BillyHunt said:

That looks like the same amp.What's going on there?

well that's what I was wondering, either somebody has left him feedback before for that amp and the buyer has sent it back or he's found a supply of AH300 SMC GP7's, unlikely I would think, whatever happened I think you may have dodged a bullet there

he's got positive feed back for a very similar amp before at £150, was that you?

you can report him to ebay, they'll probably just give him a warning, but if he gets a few they'll suspend his account, that's what I was told when I reported someone for non payment of an item they'd won in an auction.

Is it this one https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Trace-Elliot-AH-300-SMC-GP7-bass-amplifier/303587304493?hash=item46af36a42d:g:3SYAAOSwE0perh~y 

He's only got low feedback anyway so it's probably already happened to him

And what does refurbished mean a wipe over with a damp cloth?

😁

one thing I only discovered recently was to clean the tip with a wet sponge regularly, sounds odd but it works,

32 minutes ago, isteen said:

I think this one has got a fan, not sure about the weight

you can see the fan at the back, either that or the cooling fins,  most of the series 6's seem to be 200 watts, but with Trace Elliot you never know,

I've got one of these, series 6, but where your's says model number mine got  200 watts written in it, or so it says, it's bloody loud I know that, fine amps as are all the Trace models,  I've also got an SMX and the writing on the back of that is nearly ineligible, depends what pen they used at the time 😊.

The weight might be a clue to wattage, mines a fairly manageable 13Kg  and hasn't got a fan, but the higher wattage ones were a lot heavier  with a fan,

live streaming doesn't really work for me either, I'd rather just watch a video of an actual gig, we did a video for an online festival yesterday, me and the singer did 3 acoustic songs each, but by far the best bit was the whole band playing  from a gig that had been filmed