Most outlandish prices

[Steve Browning]

3 hours ago, Terry M. said:

Thank goodness it's not just me. I'm not running a business where profit is a factor. 

Me neither. I mentally depreciate anything to zero when I buy it, and just want it gone when deciding to move it on.

 

Guess I'm not destined to be a millionaire. 

[JJMotown]

8 hours ago, binky_bass said:

Best just swerve these tryers. There's a number of regulars on here that are clearly dealers or at least semi-pro buyers and resellers that always have basses sat for years on end. We all know who they are! 

Very true.

 

There's a guy selling an Epiphone Explorer Bass for £550 in the Marketplace, when he brought two Epiphones (Explorer and Thunderbird) for £75. Crazy!

[Burns-bass]

38 minutes ago, JJMotown said:

Very true.

 

There's a guy selling an Epiphone Explorer Bass for £550 in the Marketplace, when he brought two Epiphones (Explorer and Thunderbird) for £75. Crazy!

 

Has that happened on here?

 

I guess you can make your money however you want, but that's properly distasteful. I think the one I had I sold for £150 (after buying it for that price). Capitalism innit.

[JJMotown]

37 minutes ago, Burns-bass said:

 

Has that happened on here?

 

I guess you can make your money however you want, but that's properly distasteful. I think the one I had I sold for £150 (after buying it for that price). Capitalism innit.

Unfortunately, yes.

[Burns-bass]

3 minutes ago, JJMotown said:

Unfortunately, yes.

 

Wow. 

 

I regularly see some of the bedroom dealers in Bristol pickup Facebook bargains cheaply and sell them in the same marketplace sometimes hours after buying them. 

 

It's really classless and a pretty awful business model. But I sometimes write for the *** newspaper, so I don't have a leg to stand on.

[Grooverjr]

4 hours ago, Burns-bass said:

. But I sometimes write for the *** newspaper, so I don't have a leg to stand on.

I bought my first bass amp with cash made by stuffing stamped addressed envelopes (kids, ask your parents) with *** slimming section's diets, so I won't have a word said against that very fine publication. 

On topic, I have a number in my head where it becomes not worth selling and I would rather keep it, but generally I want it gone and am prepared to take quite a big hit on most stuff. There's only Fartbook here in Mexico, really, and I have been dealing with so many tyre kickers with bass stuff and  bike stuff I have been trying to move on before we up sticks again. I price stuff below market rate and clearly list prices etc. and all you get is people asking the price and if you will drop it to them half way across the city for free or take staggered payments. It's soul destroying but if that happens at a fair price I can sort of understand why people try to put a slice on top to cover the aggro. 

[Gremlin1975]

Yamaha BB735a go for between 650 and 1100 same exact everything. Make this make sense? One thing that's a positive is that high end "heavy" cabinets are cheap, while lightweight cabs are at a premium. The sound is not as good I own 6 bass set ups and my lightweight Rumble 500 and Ampeg Porta 500 will never sound as good as my heavy stuff. I hought a Henry 8x8 for under $300.

[Bolo]

It's just the sound you're used to.

[Terry M.]

29 minutes ago, Gremlin1975 said:

Yamaha BB735a go for between 650 and 1100 same exact everything. Make this make sense? One thing that's a positive is that high end "heavy" cabinets are cheap, while lightweight cabs are at a premium. The sound is not as good I own 6 bass set ups and my lightweight Rumble 500 and Ampeg Porta 500 will never sound as good as my heavy stuff. I hought a Henry 8x8 for under $300.

In my limited experience lightweight cabs don't cut it compared to the heavier stuff so I can see with this. Rehearsal room last week had a Fender Rumble 100 combo that was so light it was almost hovering in mid-air! Awful sonic experience with a drummer and loud lead guitarist.