Corktip100

Well, I might have offended someone when I admitted that I like playing Kpop basslines...

Unfortunately, that is true...

I really hope not....

@Beedster, you're right, I shouldn't be so bothered. Amazon have provided their normal excellent customer service and replacements have already been shipped. I guess I was just amazed at someone's bare-faced audacity.

Hi Everyone, I don't often post on forums, but something just happened that has left me stunned. I like D'Addario flatwound strings, and ordered a set from Amazon - usually the best price around. D'Addario pack their strings in a sealed plastic bag inside a cardboard sleeve. The strings arrived and, without thinking, I just pulled the ripcord (the perforated opening strip) on the cardboard pack to reveal the plastic bag inside. Instantly, I saw that something wasn't right. The bag wasn't sealed, and in fact had clearly been opened with a pair of scissors. What's more, inside the bag was a random set of roundwound strings. I think they were still D'Addario - they had the colour-coded ball-ends, but the silk windings were the wrong colour (a very pale blue). They'd also been previously fitted as the silk was frayed and the ends were bent. Someone had ordered a set of roundwounds, opened the bag, replaced them with a set of used strings, and then returned them for a refund. On inspecting the cardboard sleeve, they had obviously sliced the pack open carefully so as not to disturb the opening strip and then stuck it back down with double-sided tape. I then innocently ordered a set and got the results of someone else's little crime. I am absolutely appalled that a fellow bass player would stoop so low. Shame on you, sir!

I have an early 90's IGB. As a callow youth, I tried to modify it (and bodged it), and it's on its second neck. It's been dropped, it's been lent to at least two people and yet for a bass that cost me 200 quid new about 28 years ago, it's still going strong. It has been christened "The Bass That Won't Die". I love it.