Lysdexia

[quote name='xgsjx' post='1028719' date='Nov 19 2010, 12:01 AM']I've got to agree with GEOFIO, I've been on here for a few years and never bought or sold anything on here! Saying that, I've not had anything to sell[/quote]

[quote name='geofio' post='1028375' date='Nov 18 2010, 08:26 PM']THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE A SITE FOR BASS ENTHUSIASTS, EXPENSIVE BASSES, CHEAP BASSES, WHATEVER , ALL I CAN SEE IS GUYS LOOKING AT PICS AND MAKING COMMENTS ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, ITS A WASTE OF TIM ADVERTISING ON HERE AS FAR AS I CAN SEE. IS THERE REALLY ANY POINT IN HAVING A FOR SALE SECTION?????? CHEERS GEORGE[/quote] On a more serious note altogether, I have successfully bought and sold on Basschat many times. That's a bugger with polemics - there's always some smart arse with an answer.

[quote name='geofio' post='1028375' date='Nov 18 2010, 08:26 PM']ITS A WASTE OF TIM ADVERTISING ON HERE[/quote] TIM WAS PERFECTLY CONTENT UNTIL YOU UNSETTLED HIM. Are you Fifa licensed or what then?

1. Derek Forbes. 2. Jah Wobble. 3. Barry Adamson.

[quote name='Alfie' post='1021189' date='Nov 12 2010, 11:32 AM']I haven't had much problem selling here recently, but then again my stuff isn't high end. [b]What bugs me is the unrealistic greedy pricing of some sellers[/b]. If I want to sell something for more than it's worth I will stick it on eBay with a 99p start, it almost always sells for over the going market rate. On Basschat I price between two thirds and three quarters of what I paid for it/its new price (whichever is the smaller amount) because it is not new and I have no right to expect a return on my investment, that was the risk I made when buying a new instrument, it really bugs me when people try to sell a used item for the same price you could get it new at an online shop, despite not having the benefits of a return policy or warranty. While it is not so much the case now that the forum has grown so much, I also think that in selling on Basschat there is a certain sense of helping people out to experience gear they otherwise would have no access to, by pricing slightly cheaper it helps things circulate and it all balances itself out eventually. This is why it annoys me when people try to sell used items for more than they paid for them, we can all see what the value of the item was and I would feel slightly dirty to purchase an item where [b]the Basschat system has been abused by naked profiteering.[/b][/quote] There's zero point in getting annoyed about this - the market dictates what price people are happy to sell and buy for. And whilst I don't mind people making a few bob on a sale if they can, if I was going to allow myself to get emotive about any of this then I would have some sympathy for those who have to sell very quickly. Not so sympathetic as to refuse to take a bargain mind you! Negotiations (of any kind) are generally biased against those attached to a desired outcome. There have been some amazing bargains here over the years - and it would be fair to assume that pressing cash needs of sellers mean nothing to the bargain hunters. After all - it's only a market-place facilitated by basschat. Not a controlled economy for the peoples republic of basschat.