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I have had many paypal issues in the past, but reading that link.........I never knew they had that instruction in ther dispute terms! When I think of the grief I've had with difficult, mind-changing buyers, I'd hate to think that coulda happened to any of my guitars and basses.

I'd love an epi semi , fnaar, fnaar!

Gone. Unsold or pulled? The Waffen disappoint me, these days. They've no fire in their belly for flagging up fakers any more...........

Haven't seen one of these for ages. Would love one [i]without[/i] the awful pointy headstock!

Yeh, I've got such on a bitsa JAzz I knocked up. Warmoth fretless bloodwood 'board on a padouk neck.

Scads of these MM copies over on German ebay. They look pretty reasonable, €20 difference between the two brands. Anyone on here tried them and if so, how do they compare to OLP? At €129+ I wouldn't mind one.

An induction loop will make the amps howl or gently whine, depending on distance from loop and current strength. I've been caught out with venue staff not even being aware they have them!! What a nightmare! And, yes, you can turn the loop off! You just need to get a hold of the technical staff and ask them to do so. Assuming you can find tech staff, that is. The Loop driver is usually just a 19", IU pre-amp unit.

The amp shows as not being uplifted? What did the courier give you as a receipt of goods when he picked them gear up? Surely you are covered? UPS are pretty good but that doesn't mean they're infallible. Or was it another agent courier who picked up the parcel? I had a similar thing happen to me with Parcelforce. I shipped a rare 335 to Spain and it went missing for the best part of two weeks; it just disappeared of the tracking system! The Spaniard was freaking, mainly cos he'd only taken a nominal amount of insurance (against my express instruction!). I was onto Parcelforce right away and the guitar was showing as being stuck in the international hub near Coventry. Only after an extensive investigation with a full description of the carton and its dimensions was the guitar found: it was discovered, hidden under some other items in a disused cornere of a massive warehouse. The tracking codes had been ripped off, somehow. The guitar was put back into the system and arrived at its destination two days later. Parcelforce could offer no explanation as to how the guitar ended up in the corner of a warehouse but the cynic in me told me it had been swiped and hidden, possibly to be collected after a few more weeks after the heat had died down. And last year, I paid for and never received a custom built bass from Italy, stolen in Milan from a courier hub. It's rare, theft, but it does happen. Just keep on their case.

Go on then. When's it valid till? PM me the details, Charic.

One piece I'd like to input: make sure you check the commodity codes that HMRC employ, cos in my experience they don't always use the correct ones. And the mandatory £13 (or whatever) handling fee that Parcelworse claim for holding your kit whilst HMRC go over it is a bloody insult.

There's a road-crew one somewhere, too.

UV writing in the cavities, as well. Were the guys known to the OP?

[quote name='steve-bbb' timestamp='1324467796' post='1474489'] [b]if the police arrested the thief then they should have also recovered your stolen property from the shop and restored it to you - it is not the property of the shop owner even if he did buy it in good faith[/b] [/quote] Well, perhaps I was a tad naiive in those days. IIRC, although the amp had been reported stolen, the cops left it up to me and the shop-owner to come to an agreement over re-imbursing him. A contributing factor to this 'laisse faire' attitude by the cops was that they were going easy on this guy cos a) he was a bit of a 'heavy' and a police informer. I guess another thing was that I had no proof of ownership, even though I had given a description of the item and its serial number to the cops [i]before[/i] I had even gone to the hock-shop.

Shows how doss they are to sell the kit to a local muso shop!! Even most thieving scum will head off to Crack Converters or a pawn shop. Only ever had one thing nicked and that was an HH amp head (back in the day) nicked from a weekend residency venue. There was only one guy in Edinburgh who handled hot kit openly and I popped up at his shop on the Monday after the theft and there was the amp, complete with serial number and Dymod serial number from shop of purchase. The clown had even given his real name and address to the shop-owner so the cops lifted him. I never got the amp back cos the crook owner (Boston's, anyone??) said he'd bought it in good faith (right, mate!) and had paid well over the odds for it, or so his books said.Though I was a dole-mole heavy metal kid in those days I flatly refused to pay what the shylock was asking and borrowed amp heads until I got an Acoustic 330 at a good price.