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Beedster

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  1. I love it Although, for some reason, I also visualised it being played by Sting (perhaps it has lute-like qualities?) which has put me off a little
  2. Great bass. Check Kent. Check New gig. Check Mmmmmm
  3. Saw that, the board is probably screwed however (and by no means an easy fix, I've had to pay for two similar examples to be fixed over the years), and there's no way apparently of viewing before buying. Even at its current price I'd keep clear given that. Money going to charity is a bonus of course
  4. Good advice, but not 100% safe. This was what I found frustrating (from email between me and DV247 last year). Despite having paid for an in-stock item in the UK, it couldn't be sent to me because it was out of stock in Germany? I think their systems are the problem, might be very efficient for the business, but not for the customer. Might be different now, but might not, might simply be a lottery?
  5. I might be wrong, but I think a big part of the problem with DV247 is that, certainly when I had the two issues I referred to above, the website gives you the impression you are dealing with a UK busIness holding stock in the UK.
  6. I ordered a cab from Bass Direct early PM yesterday, payment was easy, and I received a very nice email within minutes thanking me for my custom, nice experience. Doorbell just rang and it's the bloody cab, I make that around 18 hours from me first seeing it to their delivering it. Absolutely bloody awesome service, especially given the accounts I'm hearing of other (and bigger) shops making a complete mess of things at the moment. Well done Mark and team, and many thanks. Chris
  7. My last two orders with Dv247 were chaos, totally illogical processes and rude comms. Never again.
  8. No mate, spot on. Makes me laugh when I sell something and people make me a trade offer at a significantly higher perceived value for their item - often several hundred pounds higher - than the price they're currently asking for the same item in the FS Forums 🤔
  9. Lovely amp, but if you'll forgive the derail, that really made me smile and should be a sticky for trade offers. The statement "...which I value at...." is followed in my head by use of the formula PV/~2 = LV
  10. Reverb will get better as people depart ebay
  11. That’s absolutely the best advice you’ll get
  12. Very optimistic isn't it Steve? I guess if the seller is unaware of current trends in used gear prices, is aware of what a blindingly good rig it is, and paid a bloody fortune for it back in the day, the price perhaps seems reasonable. Either way I hope the seller isn't depending on the proceeds, the BIN is about £2,500 above what the two could currently be bought for with a bit of patience and luck
  13. Glorious, glorious amp. I sold this mid-Covid lockdown because cash was short and I wanted to keep my SVT. As prospects of gigs looked bleak I then sold my SVT, so I keep coming back to this page wondering if I can justify buying it back. These come up for sale only very rarely, because people who have them tend to keep them. As Nik says, it's the Rolls Royce of bass amps, one of the best Mesa ever made, and that's up against some pretty stiff opposition
  14. Amazing how many great 70's bands are out there under the radar
  15. Beautiful bass, fantastic player as well. Great instrument
  16. There is, Shipley https://www.shiply.com/ who I have used a lot and with whom I've never had a problem. You have to be on your toes to get the best deal as drivers will bid en-masse, but I've found it a great way of moving things that I either wouldn't trust to Parcelforce, or Parcelforce wouldn't take anyway. A good example is a studio desk I bought from Hampshire, 3.5 x 2.0m, weighed a tonne also, cost around £80 to be delivered and the guys happily bought it through the house and into my garden studio.
  17. Businesses do lose a lot, they just send in such high numbers that it represents a small loss and in many/most it's probably covered by wider business insurance anyway.
  18. I can. No insurer, looking at the track record of couriers generally, would cover them
  19. As with all insurers (and couriers), it's not about how cheap they are, it's about how they behave when you make a claim. Frankly I don't imagine an insurer forking out £250 for a £4 premium every time a courier damages/loses something. I hope I'm wrong
  20. All the best for the move Nik, hope to catch up with you up there (you never know, if it takes you any longer to list 'The Thing' I might be able to justify a trip up......). Given your ability, your experience and your personality it won't take you very long to find a few bands and a network of like-minded people Of course, if you played DB it would take even less time 😁
  21. I see your Gunnarsson and raise you a Danko
  22. If the busker calls the 'bum' aggressive he needs to get a life frankly. That's just a guy down on his luck And frankly, I'd have paid the busker several bucks to stop playing
  23. I think there's a very good reason that all decent quality graphite/carbon necked basses are expensive. If the part is made by a reputable builder, perhaps this is OK, but I doubt it is. If people's experience of buying 'replica' carbon framed 'Italian' bikes from China (aka Chinarello), whilst the manufacturers made/stole high precision moulds, the quality of the materials used left many people with broken bikes and in some cases quite serious injuries as the result. Graphite/carbon has the advantage of reducing the variation and unpredictability of materials such as wood and metal, but it requires high quality manufacturing and materials to do so. Take a good look at the weave on a Modulus neck or a Colnago or Pinarello bike, and then check out the weave on a cheap bass neck or Chinarello, perhaps equivalent to the difference between a newly cut off-cut and a selected, well-prepared and seasoned piece of quartersawn maple
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