karlfer

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1418079750' post='2626764'] I just take spare pants. [/quote] Flash git [quote name='hiram.k.hackenbacker' timestamp='1418090252' post='2626819'] I accept that most of us could probably rectify most of the commonest problems we're likely to encounter, but personally speaking, I wouldn't want to be breaking out the soldering iron in the middle of the set. The whole point of having a back up is unplugging the duffer and picking up the back-up without breaking stride. I don't want to be stopping things for even as long as it takes to wind a new string on. [/quote] Nail, head!

[quote name='GRAHAM SG1' timestamp='1418079961' post='2626770'] Thanks all, I am only really concerned about the fit of a different neck, I would not want any gaps between body and neck at the body pocket which could arise from tolerance differences between the Jazz and Precision, at the same time I would not want to buy a neck that is too tight for the pocket, it would also need to be a Deluxe USA Jazz neck to keep the Deluxe spec of my bass . [/quote] If you need to keep the spec of your bass original, you will need to keep the original neck, because if you sell it people may consider it a bitsa, as in non production model .

I had an Arbiter branded one Tommo. It did actually weigh enough to have it's own gravitational pull!

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1417553724' post='2621726'] I'm not sure how you would know what a bass ACTUALLY sold for here on BC. Lots of people have made offers for basses that i've had for sale but no one apart from me and the buyer would ever know the actual price paid. [/quote] Quite right, but it's unlikely that somebody with a bass out for say £600, has sold it for a great deal less without reducing the price on the advert? Guess the point I was badly trying to make is that if half a dozen basses of X brand/model/rough year have been advertised at £600, and appear to have sold at around that price, it's a bit ambitious putting the same kind of bass out at £800.

Oh slap me silly and call me Mable

Seems prices are heading skyward on FEEBay, but that is asking price. As usual you see the same basses at daft prices on there week after week. Since September it is obvious to see the effect (on more expensive basses), of FEEBay raising the max final sale fee from £75 to £250. Whilst some seem to be asking a lot for a bass on here, with few exceptions they are not selling at those ambitious prices. So easy on here to search for X bass and see what prices the are ACTUALLY selling at.

This problem has been exacerbated by the change in licensing laws. In the past, a pub shut at 11pm, the band finished at 11pm ish. Now, some of the pubs we do, don't want you on until 11pm because folk come in later. No, I don't know what the answer is really, but I certainly hear of more landlords getting complaints now.

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1416581401' post='2611666'] Why would he give you the number of a sunday league club instead of his mobile phone or home number? Even if he does run the Sunday league club, unless he's there more than he's at home (and I doubt it), then it's kind of odd to give that out instead of mobile or landline number. Mother-in-law who was discharged on her own? And then she just let herself into her daughter's/son-in-laws house? Still sounds a bit odd (especially since you also now know it's a 1-bed house). When I was in hospital, they wouldn't even discharge a 20 year old unless there was somebody there to pick them up. I doubt hospitals are waving bye-bye to frail, deaf 80 year olds, and not even telling the family. Sorry, but it all still sounds very suspicious to me. [/quote] Yup, I'm starting to get that impression The point to me though is PAINPal. They give you all this "use us we protect you" and, well, shock horror, not always it would seem. Ultimately after going through Paypals procedures, then credit card company procedures, if no result, I will go to the fraud squad, even if they do tell me it's a civil matter. Jeez, it should just be so easy

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1416579879' post='2611649'] That still doesn't explain why the house where this man lives had only a frightened old lady in it, who, from what you've said so far, hadn't informed her family that there was a stranger lurking about the house, and also why the number you were given was wrong. You see, those things still leave a massive question mark over the entire transaction, for me. And it's not below a con artist to play on our innate human emotions. There's obviously no way to tell if that is the son of the seller, or even if the seller has died. Maybe I'm just overly-cynical? But what was his excuse for not being in on Saturday? What was his reason for leaving it until Tuesday to post? Why didn't the phone number work? Who was the old lady in the house? There are far too many questions over this for me to take it at face value, and if I were you, Karl, I'd push on with the dispute. Even if it is all above board, it's still your money. You need to protect your interests too. Send the family a bouquet of flowers if you're feeling bad about it. [/quote] Not being in on Saturday. He was apparently in Blackpool, had a turn, doctor told him not to drive. Leaving it until Tuesday. Dunno, none given. Phone number was for a Sunday league he allegedly runs (I didn't try it until I'd seen the old lady). The old lady apparently was his mother in law, who, unbeknownst to him had been discharged, on her own, from hospital that morning. Bit of research last night shows the property to be a ONE bed council bungalow. I knew it was small but............... Send flowers? I might if I knew who the Hell lived where?

In true Karl " if I can cock it up, I will, twice" style, early last night, I had fired off a polite but obviously questioning rant as to why Paypal wouldn't accept this dispute. Not long after that, I received the email from the sellers son, saying his dad had passed away suddenly on Tuesday.. This morning I got an email from Paypal saying they had opened up my claim . Now I know I'm a soft sh*te and if this lad genuinely did lose his father suddenly on Tuesday, he really is going to be upset with Paypal giving him a hard time. I shouldn't be let out really.

[quote name='chaypup' timestamp='1416563035' post='2611416'] This has SCAM all over it in massive red letters. Luckily it was via your credit card, you should be able to get it back as it was over £100. Got a link to the original listing at all? [/quote] Nope, it was removed within half hour of the PayPal payment being made. I have looked at the credit card thing and it keeps coming up with "merchant" which it was not, it was a private individual. I will try it with Paypal as the "merchant". Credit card site says; 1. Must leave it until 30 days after transaction 2. They will report their findings back with 21 days of claim being received. So, about another 7 weeks before I get to know one way or another. 5 years ago I lost a bass and £600 to Italy courtesy of Paypal and I vowed never again, but last week 2 basses I was interested in were both Paypal only. DEFINITELY never again, sell them to somebody else.