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And always up for a long chat as well eh Karl?

Almost all my buying and selling has been done face to face.  A trip out and putting a face to a weird internet name is more than half the fun for me, plus you 100% know the item is delivered safely! OFC I live near the middle so this method works, and i appreciate not everyone is as lucky.

 

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10 minutes ago, Oopsdabassist said:

And always up for a long chat as well eh Karl?

Almost all my buying and selling has been done face to face.  A trip out and putting a face to a weird internet name is more than half the fun for me, plus you 100% know the item is delivered safely! OFC I live near the middle so this method works, and i appreciate not everyone is as lucky.

 

Is this the middle of England or the U.K.? Also, Karl would you come halfway to meet me?

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Slightly off topic and a bit of a curve ball, but I wonder if it would be worth someone with speaking to courier companies and see if any deals can be done regarding insurance. I am thinking form the classic car and bike world where things that aren’t possible suddenly become possible if the company thinks a decent number of people will use them.

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25 minutes ago, Hutton said:

Many thanks for this Karl. I would certainly travel to Edinburgh. I’ll view your ads with increased interest. You always have great basses for sale. You’re a top man.

Careful mind, that mcnach geezer roams those parts :D

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1 hour ago, T-Bay said:

Slightly off topic and a bit of a curve ball, but I wonder if it would be worth someone with speaking to courier companies and see if any deals can be done regarding insurance. I am thinking form the classic car and bike world where things that aren’t possible suddenly become possible if the company thinks a decent number of people will use them.

Maybe a company that specialises in the shipment of musical instruments and other goods that require handling with real care is out there somewhere.

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18 minutes ago, DJpullchord said:

You can send a pallet for £45.

Surely there’s space on one to wrap something up safely?

 

I had 500 copies of the Terrortones vinyl LP delivered on a pallet which somewhere along the route from the pressing plant in France had been smashed to pieces, damaging some of the records and a lot of the sleeves.

Nothing is safe from careless delivery companies.

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1 hour ago, T-Bay said:

Would be nice to think there was someone who could do it for sensible money.

There's plenty of same-day courier companies that will transport things as carefully as you like. The cost depends on how you define sensible - wouldn't make sense for a £500 instrument, but it definitely would for a £5000 one.

 

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Just had a bass delivered from Germany.Royal Mail weren't involved in any part of it's journey so from collection to me receiving it took 42 hours :D 

I've shipped plenty of basses and never had a problem,furthest went to Ghana. Done a few collection only,1 was an 800 mile round trip for a double bass. The DB was £200 so even with fuel a bargain. Last collection was a 600 mile round trip. It ended with a crazy old guy ploughing into the side of me on the A1.

 

Totalled the car and I had 16 weeks off work with a broken knee cap. Since I'm self-employed that cost me a forune.

Safe to say I'm done with "collection only"

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Maybe we're all spoilt with the Internet nowadays if there's folks complaining about seeing a bass for sale 500 miles away and the seller not wanting to post it. Perhaps go back to pre internet days bass hunting techniques, when all this gear was still for sale around the country but you just didn't see the adverts, so you didn't want it. You had to scan local papers or the stock a local shop carried, if you were lucky enough to have an instrument shop that carried basses local. Down here in Cornwall there was/still is very little. Personally I prefer it the way it is now. Even if 50% of sellers didn't want to post I've still got the opportunity to purchase a vast amount of instruments from around the country/world that just wasn't readily available 20 years ago. Nobody used to post basses because nobody outside of say a 30 mile radius would see the advert. We all coped back then and I think things are slightly better now :)

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@Maude

Indeed. People complaining that they can't spend large wads of money on gear they can probably marginally afford because they'd have to both travel and meet a stranger in order to collect it does start to sound like a textbook case of a first world problem doesn't it? 9_9

Don't get me wrong: I can and sometimes do travel large distances to meet/deliver stuff (as anyone reading my feedback can easily verify); and I do take the point that geographical remoteness is an issue for some people. All the same...

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Seems comments on this issue are split between those who buy the occasional instrument, who don't mind travelling, and those who buy a lot/deal, who do mind. If you want to deal/buy and sell for a profit, that's your business, but you can't really complain if people won't help you by shipping stuff to you.

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