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I see myself as a jerk with a bass.

My God, someone just say it!

How many basses have I won???? All of them? All the basses??

Most things are these days...

Surely Musicmwahster?

Because Letts was kicked out of the UK for being a gigantic Jabroni?

It was me!!! I BUILT IT! And I'd do it again to! Dang those meddling kids for ruining my plan...

If it was one or maybe two small issues, then sending it back (at the luthier's expense) might be fair, but this looks like it was built by someone that either just didnt care or didn't have the skills to pull off the build to a consumer level standard. Which would make me (personally) loose faith in the maker and want a refund. I'll bet good money if the OP gets it back, it will still have issues. Though I hope for their sake it comes back immaculate and that they are absolutely chuffed with it.

I'd just get a refund. Work like that isn't what I'd want in a custom bass, and a luthier that sends you a bass like that isn't one I'd trust/want to refinish it. Best advice is get your money back and go elsewhere. I'll be honest and say I dont understand the reluctance to name the builder unless you're happy for others to be provided with shoddy work jist like you have? All you're doing is protecting someone that's not bothered to provide you with a decent quality of work and sounds like they've tried to shine you on too... Reputations are earned either way, you're allowing others to get burned by protecting this builders reputation despite their work standards and service and allowing others to perhaps assume its someone who it isn't and inadvertently tarnish someone else's reputation. Dem's my two cents, not that they were asked for!

We're a bass community, anyone is free to discuss any topic that they wish. If you don't want to read a thread because it doesn't interest you, then you don't need to. Anyway, @Hellzero - I never liked you anyway and you've only ever sold me terrible basses at terrible prices, so good riddance! 😆 When you're ready, sell me the Lefay so I can crudely weld some ladder rungs to that steel fretboard and turn it into a proper bass! First Brexit stopped us trading basses, and now youve given up bass! What will be reversed first... Brexit or you quitting bass? 🤔

You do find some gems occasionally in Pawn shops... I've bought many a guitar from Cash Converters over the years, the 3 quite unbelievable ones that spring to mind are: ● The original Warwick Vampyre bass, serial number 1001, which in Warwick terms IS no.1. This was confirmed by Hans P Wilfer. ● A Gibson Les Paul signed by 35 artists including Aerosmith, Guns n Roses, Alice Cooper, Meat Loaf, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath etc. ● An LA Custom Shop Ibanez Iceman owned and stage played for years by Sam Totman of Dragonforce. None of the above Cash Converters really knew what they had... Makes you wonder how/why some people give up these gems.

You cant opt out of it if you're sending something of a certain size and weight, as of a week or two ago DHL is a compulsory shipping method, it cant be removed. Had a long call with eBay yesterday who eventually confirmed this.

So, apparently as of some time in August, eBay are now FORCING a seller to offer DHL shipping as a mandatory option for items over a certain size/weight, which will effectively mean ALL guitars/basses. The big problem with this is that when someone buys your guitar/bass, it defaults to DHL, which then when you go to try and arrange postage you, as the seller, are only given a time slot of between 0800 and 1800 Mon-Fri... ridiculous! Who can regularly devote a full day to sitting on their behind waiting for someone to maybe collect their parcel?? I've used eBay for 19 years, I've sold hundreds of guitars/basses and have always been able to trot down to the post office in my own reasonable time and send the item when I'm able either before work, after work, on a lunch break etc, this new dictator-ish rule of eBay means I simply cannot use the platform anymore for selling guitars/basses as I can't afford to stay home for a full day to facilitate collection. 19 years of regular use, and because someone in the lofty ranks of eBay has organised themselves a tasty backhander from DHL it means us, the plebs, can effectively no longer sell certain items without taking a days Annual Leave. Fug you eBay, and fug your fugging board or directors that thought this was a remotely reasonable option! Those of a certain lofty disposition can rarely see through the clouds to understand the impact of actions taken without due consideration to those on the ground floor. First world problem, absolutely, but still... frustrating!!

Possibly the best 5 word formation available in the English language. 😆

These things do seem to be happening more and more with companies saving costs everywhere which inevitably means tasking workers with more targets or lowering wages, both lead to mishandling of parcels. I had DPD somehow managed to send a Mesa 410 cab that was destined for Glasgow to Ireland, and a PJB 12X5 cab that was destined for Ireland to Glasgow, despite both being extremely well labelled! Parcelforce 24/48 has generally done me well over the years, I've probably sent 500 guitars/basses this way with only 1 or 2 issues. I tend to send them in a hard case covered in black plastic with the handle exposed and not in a cardboard box, this way the courier can hold the handle with one hand instead of trying to do the same with a giant cardboard box and dropping in 10 times in the process. Sometimes less packing, so long as a carry handle is exposed, is the better option. Not that this was a factor in your case!

Thank you my good man, I owe you a fondant fancy next time I see you. 👍

More or less of a faff than deleting the entire thread and recreating it with the correct picture loaded first? I have absolutely no coding knowledge, but I would have thought that this locked process of the first picture you upload being the thumbnail with zero ability to amend would be a process that could be changed to allow for a seller to pick the thumbnail they want to display?

Even with having removed that picture, it still remained... Is this then a question of closing down the ad and starting all over again to then upload the one you want displayed as a thumbnail first? Is there no ability that could be built in to allow for a user to change the thumbnail? Or does a mod have the to do it?

Hi, I've got an amp in the for sale section, typically the least useful picture is showing as the thumbnail and not matter what I do to change it, it won't change! Anyone know how to actually change thumbnails to one that you actually want to display? Russ.

@j4y Bought one of my beloved ACGs from me today, he came down to Wickford to meet and do the deal. A top guy to deal with! No issues at all, another great credit to Basschat! I will get it back at some point though! 😆