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[quote name='Johnston' timestamp='1338568749' post='1676606'] [url="https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/Sending-and-receiving-money/collection-in-person-but-buyer-has-paid-Paypal-I-am-worried-I/m-p/254082/highlight/true#M2691"]https://www.paypal-c...ight/true#M2691[/url] [/quote] It's easy enough to get the tracking number from the UPS driver when he collects...it'll be on his barcode reader thingy... then you can track it exactly as the buyer can. That is POD.

[quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1338568574' post='1676599'] Why do you expect a seller to jump through a million hoops all so some chancer of a buyer can get a bargain at his expense? [/quote] Who said anything about it being at the seller's expense? NEGOTIATE the buyer has not paid for packaging Charge your time at £50 an hour if you want ....but get the buyer to compensate for anything the buyer has not yet paid for...... that way you might get closer to what you expected to get for it in the first place it's not rocket science.

[quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1338568023' post='1676583'] We clearly have very different definitions of "reasonable request". Boxes big/strong enough to protect a 4x10 are neither cheap nor commonplace. If it was an effects pedal you might have a point---but expecting someone to box a 410 for courier collection (out of their own pocket!!) is by no means "reasonable" [/quote] 5 minutes with 10 metres of bubble wrap and some gaffer tape should do the trick Who said anything of out of their own pocket? Is the seller incapable of negotiation? I sent a motorcyle exhaust full system with all it's sticky out fragile tubes and stuff with just a small length of bubble wrap and some parcel tape....it got to Edinburgh no problem and I was thanked for the quality of my packing.

[quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1338567861' post='1676580'] I'm afraid thats nonsense. If the seller doesn't pack the item properly for a courier then paypal will side with the buyer if it gets damaged. [/quote] The seller is not contracting the courier, the seller is merely allowing 'someone' to collect the item. It is the person who contracts with the courier who is responsible for its safe passage. That cab would take minimal preparation anyway...is the seller incapable of negotiating a packaging price with the buyer? It just seems to me the seller is trying to wriggle out of this coz he feels short changed.

[quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1338567266' post='1676561'] You mean apart from the seller having to spend his own time, effort, and money to find suitable packing materials [/quote] He doesn't though. Let UPS collect as is...it's not the seller's responsibility once UPS has collected.

[quote name='stefBclef' timestamp='1338566632' post='1676543'] If you want to try and convince the seller to post it then ask them before you put your bid in. Gonna be hassle for you either way mate...unlucky. [/quote] But the buyer is sending UPS to collect. The buyer is NOT asking the seller to post it. No more hassle than the buyer collecting. What's the difference between the buyer collecting and UPS collecting? NOTHING The seller is just looking for an excuse to relist coz he got less than he wanted. Poor form!

and don't need to pack it if they never paid for packaging

Not ever had an active bass. The bass I'm building atm has a P-retro in it...or will have when I find a small enough screwdriver to connect the pup and earth......so I am yet to discover the loys of active EQ. The main reason I am doing it is so I can change tone drastically from song to song without having to tweek the amp. which is often at the back of the stage and relatively inaccessible

[quote name='Johnston' timestamp='1338563824' post='1676450'] well the ad states A courier is not in person. [/quote] Are couriers machines now? last one I saw was a person. Don't pack it, let their courier collect it.

[quote name='RoRi' timestamp='1336322078' post='1643995'] Funk'n'stein "All day long" (from Israel). Cool groove. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyPXqRHFR5U[/media] [/quote] Man that is bliss....what a chilled groove!!

Tomorrow I think i shall make my debut visit to Bass Direct in Leamington...I think I'll take a run up there on my motorcycle. If you spot a bespectacled chap in lairy leathers around Bass Direct tomorrow, that'll more than likely be me. All for a Hipshot 3 string retainer that i don't want to wait in the post for!! LOL

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[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1338551455' post='1676173'] Make sure you get some proper solder and none of this crap lead-free stuff. [/quote] You need this stuff the 60/40 lead and tin stuff in the RED reels. NEVER the GREEN reels

[quote name='thebrig' timestamp='1338533443' post='1675831'] I've been looking at Warmoth for some time now, but I have heard that their necks are a bit chunky, is that the case? [/quote] Both my Warmoth necks are slim taper jazz. They feel slim and narrow to me - they suit my average sized hands. I haven't tried their standard neck profile. All I'd played before Warmoth for any length of time was my JV P which has a much wider fretboard but about the same thickness of neck.

and this is where we are now...

and the bridge went on..

Then the pups went in

Then the shielding went in - the bridge earth was soldered to a tag which is screwed down in a rout under the bridge with shielding foil ensuring connection to the underside of the bridge.

progress.......tuners went on

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sad-Lovers-Giants/104860292879894 Here is ours again!! Only 998,556 to go to get to the[i] first [/i]million 'likes'. there is another page run by a fan which has more 'likes' than our official page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sad-Lovers-and-Giants/70192439636 How did a fan's page get more than 1000 'likes' more than our official page?

Can you bypass the pre-amp by selecting a passive mode perhaps?

[quote name='mushers' timestamp='1337961312' post='1668131'] when i have spoken to hmrc i have had very different answers to the same question from different people it can be a minefield [/quote] I am an accountant by day. This is very normal for HMRC. Even their website carries exactly contradictory information on certain topics - sometimes only 2 or 3 paragraphs apart on the same web page . It is my belief that all advice is deliberately ambiguous so that all their bases are covered and they leave things open so that they can interpret 'law' whatever way they see fit (in whatever way will generate them the most revenue). Tax law is NEVER black and white, only all shades of grey.

[quote name='Phantomnin' timestamp='1337940082' post='1667619'] Why? Because bass is not the instrument people start on. [/quote] Rubbish!

[quote name='WalMan' timestamp='1337950707' post='1667915'] You are lucky then. They should have stopped it after 5 years if not sooner. [/quote] i think if you can show them recording/publishing contracts etc then they let you carry on. I did get a letter once a long time ago and sent them copies of these.

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