warwickhunt

Among other things I suppose that age, condition and colour (yes believe me, colour on basses affects their value as much as any other consumer commodity) are going to affect any value. Stick some pics up with a more detailed description of the overall condition. How much you paid for it shouldn't have any affect on its present value... however, you emigrating and how quickly that is likely to happen have a direct relationship on its value

[quote name='Beedster' post='185818' date='Apr 26 2008, 10:57 AM']FCS have made '62 NOS/relics but they didn't have stacked controls as far as I'm aware (not sure if all original '62 Jazzes had stacked controls). Chris[/quote] [quote name='gareth' post='185888' date='Apr 26 2008, 01:02 PM']No I don't think there is a CS 62. Normally CS's are 64's[/quote] If I can unravel our conversation in my head, I seem to recall asking if it was a stack-knob and it wasn't it was a 3 control model. I 'think' stack-knobs were only ever used briefly in 61/62 so he may well have said that it was a 62 but meant 62 onwards. I'll suss it out when I see it or I can ask some further focused questions. Still not much idea of what sort of figure he wants for it or what it is worth!

Crickey! Without listing the whole lot (CDs) is it possible to give an idea of what sort of stuff you have?

[quote name='martthebass' post='185804' date='Apr 26 2008, 10:34 AM']This isn't totally accurate. I bought the bass after it had been up 2 days and sold it within a week(ish).[/quote] I wasn't directing my comment at you or anyone in particular and I was just generalising about that bass. Peter had it up for a while, gradually dropping the price, then Mark had it up for a short while, then yourself with the price gradually dropping etc. It did 'seem like' that bass was on here from start to finish for quite some time and people weren't selling limbs to get it regardless of how much the price was reduced. I'm not siding with anyone on this issue. I'm trying to play Devil's Advocate and point out that it just happened to be one of 'those' basses (and we've had a few) that people haven't settled on and they are generally good basses with nothing wrong with them. However if a bass is going to skulk around on here like a kicked dog it may as well be put on eBay and find an owner elsewhere. At any given time in that basses time among its various owners, one of them could have stuck it on eBay but no one did. That's a choice that people made for whatever reason. TBH had I been struggling to sell a bass on here and someone had taken it off me, stuck it on eBay and made a profit I'd be applauding them. At the end of the day I'd have gotten the price that I had offered it at The point about any deal re. the pup for the bass, is a separate issue that I'm not familiar with.

No, I'm almost certain the guy isn't a knock-off merchant. He was just very scatty, jovial, eccentric. He knew about the bass that he had for sale he wasn't vague about it but we seemed to discuss 20 different things in the space of 10 minutes that I lost track of what was discussed It appears he has a fair old collection of genuine vintage instruments but wants to branch out. No I've no concerns in that respect, I just don't know enough about pricing etc.

I've just had a rather odd conversation (which I'm still trying to make sense of ) with a guy about part-exing his Fender against one of my Warwicks. Bottom line is that he has a Custom Shop 62 Jazz, may even be a 'relic' (part of the odd conversation) and he wants something different probably a Warwick. He's giving me a call back to arrange a day to pop over and try a few different things but I want to be fore-armed before he gets here. Ideally I'd like to know if anyone would be interested in this Fender as I'm 99% certain that I don't want an expensive Jazz sitting around the house doing nothing (too many basses doing that already, hence a few more going). It is either black or sunburst (again sorry for the hazy details but it was an odd conversation that seem to bounce around so many different avenues each time one of us asked the other a question) with a tortie plate, complete with case, candy and tags etc. I don't have a number for the guy so I can't confirm till he gets back to me but I'll post full spec asap. Please PM me and let me know if this is of interest as I'll not take it if it's going to sit around like a lemon. I'd also appreciate any input with a possible value as I'm a bit clueless with the present state of pricing for anything other than Warwicks

I don't quite get this people! This bass sat on this forum for weeks and was reduced time and time again... no one put their hand in their pocket and bought it. We all expressed interest and wished that it was this or that but at the end of the day someone pulled the folding stuff out and did what no one else had done, they bought it. What happens after that is pretty much immaterial! I'd have serious doubts about putting something back on here after it had been passed back and forth between 3/4 owners in as many weeks and had seen a price fall of £150+ in that time... it starts to look like a Jonah and would seem to be a waste of time and effort putting it back on BC, no body wanted it when it had 3/4 careful owners, who the f*ck would be serious about it after 4/5 owners? It's not like we are talking about some one post wonder who has snagged a bargain on ebay and then tried to flip a quick profit on here. This bass was offered to one and all for a v e r y long time and we all passed it up. Let it rest.

[quote name='GreeneKing' post='184942' date='Apr 24 2008, 11:28 PM']Tis most strange indeed.[/quote] No disrespect to the 'last' BC owner of the bass but it shouldn't really come as such a shock It was [b]mad[/b] cheap on here and TBH even I considered that it would have been worth more on eBay than it sold for on BC. Regardless of whether the BCer bought it and didn't get on with it or bought it to have a blast then turn it round for more than they paid for it, they paid the asking price and parted with their cash... to put it up for sale to the world at large (not just our little community) and get a respectable price could maybe be a salutary lesson to us all! I just hope a Basschatter didn't buy it