thebigyin Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 Just purchased my old Bass back today I bought it originally from Electro Music before it shut down...it's an ESP Pancho Tomaselli signature bass (Jazz configuration) stunning Bass I purchased it second hand for about £650 I think new these were about £1000 plus......Swamp Ash body, Maple Neck, EMGX pups, Gotoh bridge absolute beaut but was a bit to Rock for me in shape....but I did a straight swap with a couple of Electric Guitars and it's back with me....was a fool to get rid first time but won't be going again....happy days. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alyctes Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 No, but I've sold two back to their previous owners Nothing expensive, mind. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walshy Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 Yes I have, bought a Stingray and a P bass back from a couple of people. Same price too👌 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverfoxnik Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 Yep.. Been down that road before.. Bought a Schecter Diamond P5 on here, sold it 3 years later, then bought it back the following year. Stupidly sold it again last year. I have learned nothing in 13 years of being on this forum! 😊 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo Valdemar Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 Yes. A glittering red Ibanez ATK with matching headstock. I regretted selling it and bought it back after it had been sold on again. Kismet! I sold it again soon after 😆 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkgod Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 (edited) yea, now here's a story, i sold my 80s G&L L2000 to some chap in manchester in the mid 90s, its was mint with tags in the original case, the one with leo fenders sig on the headstock before fender made him move it, listening back to the recordings i did with it i always thought sh!t that sounds good, should not have sold it. Then about 8 or 9 years ago i saw it on fleabay, i got intouch with the seller and indeed it was the chap i sold it too, so it was pulled and i got it back for £100 less than i sold it for in the same condition, he did not like it so stuffed it under his bed, so now it lives under my bed, still mint with the tags in the original case. 🙂 Im still looking for my wal midi bass, i badly want that back as i now have a use for it again Edited April 19, 2019 by funkgod 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Blank Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 Yes, just recently bought back a Godin A4 that I foolishly sold. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreek Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 I bought back my Overwater Custom Jazz. I tried to get my first Status Kingbass back. Owner wouldn't sell it when I had the cash, I didn't have the cash when it was for sale....ain't that always the way?? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyTravis Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 Yeah, I have - thank god. Bought in 2011 as a treat to myself for a messy breakup. Sold in 2013 to get married to childhood sweetheart. Who bought it back for me in 2017. A very special CS 1 of 1 (weird neck profile) 64 jazz bass relic. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezbass Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 I haven’t bought one of my old basses back, but I have sold one back to its original owner. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_b Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 All my basses were sold because I had just bought a better one. So, I have never bought back an old bass. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcnach Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 (edited) 13 hours ago, alyctes said: No, but I've sold two back to their previous owners Nothing expensive, mind. Indeed, I was one I've bought two basses back. Both from members here, although the first one I sold on Gumtree and only a couple of years later I found he was a member of BC (Hi Sam!): I met him at a gig we where I was providing bass amplification, and I did not recognise him but I recognised the bass. He wasn't selling at the time, but I expressed my interest, and a year or two later he sold it back to me. A Vintage (the brand) Jazz bass. The second one, @alyctes here bought it from me. A Shine Telecaster shaped bass with two MM humbuckers. Someone else was asking about those basses, I chipped in what I knew, and alyctes was there too... one thing led to another and my girlfriend bought the bass back for me for my birthday. Alyctes even dropped the price as it was a present etc... Thank you sooo much Edited April 20, 2019 by mcnach 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Krow Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 (edited) I would have bought mine back, but it wasn't for sale (for good reason, it's a LOT of bass for not a great deal of money, and the guy I traded it with had the biggest grin on his face when he first tried it out in the PMT Store where we met to do the deal). I got another of the same model instead... ...which I'm looking forward to getting my hands back on soon But it has directly resulted in the another, albeit 4 string version of the bass, being bought by the guy it's on loan to he's been so impressed! So I guess my original sale has resulted in two direct and indirect replacements?! Edited April 19, 2019 by Al Krow 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebigyin Posted April 20, 2019 Author Share Posted April 20, 2019 8 hours ago, silverfoxnik said: Yep.. Been down that road before.. Bought a Schecter Diamond P5 on here, sold it 3 years later, then bought it back the following year. Stupidly sold it again last year. I have learned nothing in 13 years of being on this forum! 😊 Lol know the feeling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebigyin Posted April 20, 2019 Author Share Posted April 20, 2019 8 hours ago, funkgod said: yea, now here's a story, i sold my 80s G&L L2000 to some chap in manchester in the mid 90s, its was mint with tags in the original case, the one with leo fenders sig on the headstock before fender made him move it, listening back to the recordings i did with it i always thought sh!t that sounds good, should not have sold it. Then about 8 or 9 years ago i saw it on fleabay, i got intouch with the seller and indeed it was the chap i sold it too, so it was pulled and i got it back for £100 less than i sold it for in the same condition, he did not like it so stuffed it under his bed, so now it lives under my bed, still mint with the tags in the original case. 🙂 Im still looking for my wal midi bass, i badly want that back as i now have a use for it again Good luck with the search Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FDC484950 Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 8 hours ago, AndyTravis said: Yeah, I have - thank god. Bought in 2011 as a treat to myself for a messy breakup. Sold in 2013 to get married to childhood sweetheart. Who bought it back for me in 2017. A very special CS 1 of 1 (weird neck profile) 64 jazz bass relic. There’s just something about a Jazz bass with matching colour headstock - olympic white, candy apple red, lake placid blue, they all look fabulous! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skybone Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 I haven't bought back any instruments I've sold, bit have bought the same versions of them before. Unfortunately it wasn't that great a reunion due to the passage of time, but it was good to reminisce for a while. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uk_lefty Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 Not yet... But my old Warwick Streamer LX comes up now and then. I'm tempted but there is a reason it keeps getting sold, I guess. For the right price I'd buy it back to see if now being more equipped to handle it I can get the best out of it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldslapper Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 Bought a Groove 5’er, sold it. Bought it back off same buyer, sold it. Tracked it down, bought it back, sold it. Like a an old flame that is lots of “fun” and exciting when together initially, but long term we’ll never last. I’ve tried to buy an old Squier P bass bitsa back off an old student...many, many times, but she won’t budge. Keeps saying something about “sentimental” reasons, only bass she needs .... blah blah blah. I obviously failed her 🥴 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggaebass Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 8 hours ago, Al Krow said: I would have bought mine back, but it wasn't for sale (for good reason, it's a LOT of bass for not a great deal of money, and the guy I traded it with had the biggest grin on his face when he first tried it out in the PMT Store where we met to do the deal). I got another of the same model instead... ...which I'm looking forward to getting my hands back on soon But it has directly resulted in the another, albeit 4 string version of the bass, being bought by the guy it's on loan to he's been so impressed! So I guess my original sale has resulted in two direct and indirect replacements?! As lm a recent new member of the BB club 🙂 I can appreciate how nice that white one is Al , very nice 👍 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaggy Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 (edited) My old Steve Smith custom long scale "EB-2" - foolishly sold to a BC-er several years ago, who recently very obligingly traded it back to me; in better shape too. Edited April 21, 2019 by Shaggy 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deedee Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 Not bought one of my old basses back (yet) but wish I had done on a couple of occasions. 😟 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebigyin Posted April 20, 2019 Author Share Posted April 20, 2019 2 minutes ago, Deedee said: Not bought one of my old basses back (yet) but wish I had done on a couple of occasions. 😟 Do it lol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahpook Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 (edited) I'd not buy an old bass back, but I do keep an eye out for a Fender Precision I (stupidly) sold in about 1989 - black and maple. I'm curious as to what happened to it really, so if anyone has such an instrument with a national insurance number scratched onto the back of the scratchplate...it may well have been mine. It's water under the bridge now (and I don't get on with P-necks), but I still wonder.... Edited April 20, 2019 by ahpook 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmccombe7 Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 (edited) No but i know the guy who has my first bass a Columbas Jazz that he used after i bought myself an Aria SB1000. He was mate and guitarist in the band. He offered to give it back couple of years ago but his daughter was learning bass and she's moved on to an Overwater now. Also my twin neck Shergold 4 & 8 strings was for sale on Gumtree and i emailed the guy but he never got back to me. It was Shergolds first 8 string as they converted one of their 6 string necks to make it. Was great bass but bloomin heavy for a wee 9st teenager The Shergold and the Columbas both in this pic. I'd removed the Columbas name and put my own instead. The daft things you do when you're young Don't think i'd bother buying old basses back now tho. I have some nice ones as it is. Dave Edited April 20, 2019 by dmccombe7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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