warwickhunt

I think that Reuel's reply is possibly tempered by his recent 'experiences'. In the last year I've shipped to Romania and Canada and though there were glitches along the way with UPS (http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=19770&hl=ups+warwick) it got there in the end. Shipping Internationally isn't a huge issue; [list] [*]Ensure that you have a secure payment method. [*]Be sure that the buyer is aware of shipping costs from very early on - as a guide it cost me £120 - £150 for my shipping costs. [*]Pack the bass well. [*]Get adequate insurance for the item (and make sure the courier firm know that it is for a bass guitar). [*]Send the buyer the tracking number asap. [*]It isn't worth telling lies on the various forms as it 'may' come back and bite you or the seller in the backside. [/list] Good luck.

[quote name='Josh' post='345809' date='Dec 4 2008, 06:54 PM']Can I dangle mine over your head until you get one? [/quote] Yes but what about the bass... Boom Boom!

Sorry to dredge up an old thread (though I'm sure one or two folks won't mind )! Did anyone buy an amber/amberburst finish Spector in these various sales that is now wanting to move it on? I can do cash or a trade if you still need a bass. PM me any thoughts. Ta

[quote name='Annoying Twit' post='345275' date='Dec 4 2008, 12:35 PM']Current bid £4.61. Has no-one contacted the seller yet? He said that if anyone knew for sure that it is not genuine, he'd amend his listing.[/quote] Where does it say that?

Possibly essential reading (they even cross-reference each other )... [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=116"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=116[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=526"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=526[/url]

[quote name='LukeFRC' post='344418' date='Dec 3 2008, 05:27 PM']keep calm warwickhunt.....[/quote] [quote name='blamelouis' post='344694' date='Dec 3 2008, 08:25 PM']sh*te camera but here goes ..... [url="http://s66.photobucket.com/albums/h272/blamelouis/?action=view&current=DSCN1764.jpg"][/url] [url="http://s66.photobucket.com/albums/h272/blamelouis/?action=view&current=DSCN1775.jpg"][/url] [url="http://s66.photobucket.com/albums/h272/blamelouis/?action=view&current=DSCN1762.jpg"][/url][/quote] That's just plain fugly... Far better off going back to your Status. I'll take it off your hands to save you having to look at it any more.

An 88 bass would be during a transition period for Warwick so could well have Maple or Cherry wings, a 1 or 2 piece bridge and/or predominantly wenge neck with maple stringers or maple with wenge stringers. Pics if you please.

Buy a bass that looks sexy as f*ck. I'm shallow I know but unless a bass is so damn good looking that I have to pick it up as soon as I see it then as the Dr says, all of the other things can be fixed/modded. If a bass looks like a piece of sh*t then no matter how it sounds I'm not going to want to play it or have anyone see me playing it. I'm sure I could draw an analogy about whether you'd rather be seen with a bikini clad Supermodel who hasn't got the faintest idea of which end of a vacuum cleaner does the sucking (no BBC style pun intended), who can't boil an egg or a bird with a face like a Bulldog chewing a wasp who can wash dishes whist dusting the fireplace (again, no BBC pun) and simultaneously serves up the best soufflé ever! HOWEVER, that kind of analogy could be 'so easily' pulled apart... but you get the gist.

Find a local upholstery firm in the yellow pages, a friend of mine runs a company that re-covers sofas, chairs and the like (yes re-covers rather than dispose of the old and buy new... a rare thing these days hence her company is struggling) and years back she supplied my band with covers for our PA speakers. Shouldn't be 'that' expensive to get the material, if your wife has a decent machine to stitch them. I'd ask my friend if she had any but then you'd need to add on the postage costs so it may be better to source it locally. If you get stuck and just require the material I can enquire for you but I do know that they don't have the manpower available to divert from well paid work re-covering 3-piece suites to run up covers!

[quote name='tauzero' post='343177' date='Dec 2 2008, 04:29 PM']Oh. You mean you don't stick odd numbers of pennies onto the end of your bids? I always do. Might be that he really wanted to limit his highest bid to £380 but hated the thought that it might go for a couple of quid more than that.[/quote] Come on lets look at this objectively. Like you I ALWAYS chuck odd £ and pence on whatever I intend reasonably bidding (ie £400 is something like £403.55... or whatever) but you can't seriously think that someone bidding 'almost' £400 is going to bid £389.99? I accept that if the bidders limit was £380 that he might chuck a quid or a few pence on top of that, say £381.75 or whatever but £389.99... If your limit is £390 you'd at least bid £390 NOT £389.99 that is so close to the kind of rounded of bid that someone would usually place (£390) that you are almost begging to be beat. Sorry I have to say that if I see any bid of £XXX.99 that is just below a significant number then I'll have to think it's a dodgy bid. If the person genuinely wanted to bid to win, the least they would do is round it up to the nearest £ or a few pence over!

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='342077' date='Dec 1 2008, 04:50 PM']Which one are you bidding on? I only ask because I want to place a bid for £399 ... :brow:[/quote] Well I'm bidding £1001.01 so I'll beat you!

[quote name='tauzero' post='341898' date='Dec 1 2008, 01:48 PM']But they didn't put in a bid of 399-99, they put in a bid of 401. However, 399-99 of the bid was used to cover the previous maximum of 389-99 plus the increment of 10. As soon as someone bid more than 409-99 (399-99 plus increment), the bid went to its maximum of 401, hence the next bidder had to bid at least 411.[/quote] I think we're chasing the same thing around and we agree with each other. One of the bidders placed a bid of £389.99 which is a silly amount to bid UNLESS you want someone to just beat you with a bid of £400! My view is that the seller wanted to guarantee that he got £400, as it happens he achieved this and more so no need to continue bidding it up and risking not getting a sale by being the highest. Not that it matters I'm just passing comment so that less experienced bass playing/buying eBayers (what this section of the forum is directed at) can be aware of regular 'tricks'. Ultimately you bid what you want to bid and if you when, great but there are things to watch out for that can have you paying more than you need. Walk away from an auction being shill bidded and chances are it will come back again but the seller will be less inclined to bump things. I say this because I'm watching a bass that has followed the pattern of bidding that I outlined above and 'surprise surprise', it has been relisted for the third time due to 'non-paying bidders'. This time the bidding hasn't followed that pattern and the bids are staying remarkably low for the early stages of the auction (which they haven't done before). Time will tell if I am correct... and the bidding might still go daft at the end! Wish me luck.

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='341449' date='Nov 30 2008, 09:49 PM']Late to the thread, and it's often difficult to analyse auction bidding after the event, but I can't see the shill bidding on this one. By the time Bidder 11 slaps down his £389.99 there have already been 10 other bidders. Bidder 12 is presumably the £399.99 and the bid is that figure because eBay automatically adds £10 to the previous bid; Bidder 12 never actually placed a bid for that amount. The eventual winner gets into a small-scale final-seconds bidding war against Bidder 13 which takes the total to £436. Incidentally, I'm not a Fender fan and I don't much like sunburst finishes, but that is a truly beautiful bass. It may only say "Fender" in small letters on the headstock, but I reckon that's a pretty fair price.[/quote] [quote name='gareth' post='341490' date='Nov 30 2008, 10:37 PM']I don't see anything wrong with this auction. The bass is a nice condition JV precision and the final price is in line with recent sales.[/quote] I have no disagreement with the seller or the final price, it is worth what it is worth. However it ALWAYS sets alarm bells off when you have a bidder (i.e. bidder 11) putting in a bid of £389.99... £389.99... who 'genuinely' puts in a bid of £389.99 if they truly want to win something? Nobody, "not ever" puts a bid in of £XX9.99 if they want to win; that is a bid set to ensure that your shill bid is just below what you genuinely want. I've seen it soooooo many times you wouldn't believe it and if you don't trump that bid it is equally amazing how many 2nd chance offers you get.

[quote name='The Burpster' post='341191' date='Nov 30 2008, 03:44 PM']I laughed so much I wee'd a little...... [url="http://cgi.ebay.com/ELECTRIC-BASS-GUITAR-PRS-STYLE-BLACK_W0QQitemZ300254644692QQcmdZViewItemQQptZGuitar?_trksid=p3286.m20.l1116"]http://cgi.ebay.com/ELECTRIC-BASS-GUITAR-P...p3286.m20.l1116[/url][/quote] Phew glad you warned me that it wasn't a PRS otherwise I might have hit the BIN. Uncannily (nothing) like a PRS.

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='341158' date='Nov 30 2008, 02:45 PM']Maybe it's just me, but I think £436 for a Squier - even a JV - is a bit daft. But it looks nice.[/quote] So £685 for a Squier is VERY silly? [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=150310448903&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=005"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...A:IT&ih=005[/url] I had one of these early large Fender small Squier logo basses when they first came out and it was very good. Whether it is worth more 'as a player's bass' than a USA bass of a similar age/quality is a different matter.

Hey I'm always a bit sceptical and prone to getting it wrong occasionally but a bidder putting £389.99 and another bidder @ £399.99 smacks of shill bidding to me! Let's be honest even the most inexperienced eBayer goes for the straight rounded up figure (£400), whereas the wise/experienced eBay goes a couple of quid and a few coppers over the top of the nearest rounded figure (£401.01 or similar). What do you reckon? [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320320053866"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=320320053866[/url]

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='340628' date='Nov 29 2008, 05:16 PM']At last! A picture without a fruit machine in it! [url="http://www.jazz-nights.com/SaraMitraGallery3.htm"]http://www.jazz-nights.com/SaraMitraGallery3.htm[/url] PS Have I got the smallest stack in the world? [/quote] Jeez but you must be good... you've even got time to read a comic while you're playing!

So is it a coincidence that you and Homer went missing at the same time? ... oddly enough you come back within days of each other!

[quote name='NancyJohnson' post='340447' date='Nov 29 2008, 01:37 PM']Just get a Waterstone...you I love mine. They have some great new finishes and blocks on the neck now as well. P[/quote] You know that I would if I could find one in the UK at the right price... just not in those finishes.