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    Bass Direct

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    3 minutes ago, Andermtc said:

    Get ready everyone, this weeks newsletter says they hope to have the new site live this week.

     

    Sweepstake time?

    However, it also said: "but there will still be lots of work to do refining the site so please bear with us over the next few months".

    So, let's see. 

    Spector fans!?!

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    19 minutes ago, patrikmarky said:

    So back in the Spector club..took the plunge on this  of reverb ..has no serial no which is strange..doesn’t look like an after market respray..

    sounds and feels like a spector

    34” scale so research tells me it’s and old Czech..set up was pretty poor and the paint is lifting around the headstock ..but for £500.00 I think it’s a bargain..

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    Congrats!  A black Spector with gold hardware - cannot get more classic than that. 

     

    Yes, 34'' scale for a 5 string, dot inlays and the SSD logo probably all mean that it is a NS-5CR, built sometime between 93 and 99. They have their serial numbers inside the control cavity but sometimes they don't have any at all. Definitely a great bargain. Enjoy 👍

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    Music Man Old Smoothie StingRay - 40th Anniversary £1750 - *SOLD*

    in Basses For Sale

    Posted

    22 minutes ago, Chiliwailer said:

    Back up for sale 16th June. 
     

    I had a deposit from an overseas buyer, but repeated payment issues stopped the sale happening 🙆🏻‍♂️

    Hope you will find a buyer here in the UK. I recently sold a Stingray Timmy C to a buyer in the US. Well, the local depot here in the UK wanted to know if I had a CITES license. I could convince them that there was no need for one. I also had to send them the commercial invoices again as they somehow had managed to lose them. I only found out about the "missing" commercial invoices after checking the tracking info online where it said that they were waiting for the forms and that they had contacted the seller (i.e., me). Well, they obviously did not contact me and I had to chase them up. 

    Then the US counterparts asked me to fill in a toxic substance control act declaration (TSCA, I guess because of the fretboard glue!), a manufacturer's affidavit (actually this should have been filled in by EBMM but I put in the info myself and I also attached the original invoice from EBMM. Interestingly, after some googling I found out that a manufacturers affidavit is normally used for shipments over $10,000.00. Well, the Timmy C is a great bass but not not THAT expensive ; -), and a foreign shipper declaration. The buyer was also asked to fill in an import declaration and a TSCA form (importer single entry). Looks like these checks came into place as the bass returned to the US where is was made and because the value was above $2500. All in all a lot of hassle, costing me time and energy. So, in short, my advice to you - if someone from the US wants to buy one of your bass that was made in the US (like your Old Smoothie) and that is worth more than $2500 (yours would be slightly below that threshold but I am not sure if shipping costs are part of the value, which could potentially get you over the threshold), then kindly decline it (unless you don't mind filling in several forms and spending lots of time emailing custom officials and people working in depots ; -).  

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    Best Bass Bargain of All Times - 2013 Fender American Deluxe V

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    12 hours ago, Lfalex v1.1 said:

     

    Quite so.

    The Gallery did something different for me.

    I purchased a secondhand Ibanez EDC700 from them. 

     

    Except it had already been sold and left the building quite some time previously!

     

    Yeah, they refunded me, but how can you not know what is and is not in inventory?

    Doesn't fill me with confidence. 

    It's not like the Gallery is a warehouse like the one in the closing scene of "Raiders of the Lost Ark"...

     

     

    They need a new website and a good inventory management system, esp. as they list stock on their website and on Reverb. Same is true for Bass Direct (but their new website is apparently coming 🤞)

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    Best Bass Bargain of All Times - 2013 Fender American Deluxe V

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    15 minutes ago, asingardenof said:

    It's still showing as available at the original price for me.

    I guess it used to be available for £1450, then it went on sale for £0 (see screenshots in my first post), then it "sold" and now it is book for £1450. It probably was just a technical glitch. Not sure what the laws says if you buy something for £0 and then the retailer says no. Didn't have the time to try it out myself 😉 

    The Yamaha BB mega-thread

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    12 minutes ago, Gramski said:

    Peach have the MK II at £1675 and GAK are advertising at £1750. Still not cheap but will last a lifetime (perhaps less value for someone of my advanced years).

    Thanks! The BBP34 is still on my watchlist. Don't see any difference between the MKI and II apart from the two new finishes.
    The cheapest P34 (MK I) I could find online costs £1549. Pretty tempting.

    https://www.mannsmusic.co.uk/guitars/bass-guitars/yamaha-bbp34-midnight-blue-electric-bass-guitar.htm 

     

    Although, I guess I could just get a 434 (in my fav metallic red colour!) and, if necessary, just change the pickups (I read that some found them a bit dull sounding). For my purposes, it is probably just fine. Do I really need to spend £1k more? Wait, I start questioning my bass buying habits? On BC? Blasphemy! 😉 

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