Stolen Limelight Precision...

[Kev]

I mean IN fairness, this is more than likely incompetence more than anything else.  I'm sure this parcel has ended up in the auction house pile in error as I'm sure they must hang on to it longer.  Or they shipped the 2025 Q4 pile earlier than they should have.  I think it's a bold conspiracy to suggest it was a deliberate act of the company, unless they wanted rid of it as it's effectively counterfeit and tried to get some money for it.

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

Maybe I should haver applied Hanlon's Razor before I posted previously, but it seems whatever system is in place to ensure that a parcel has a fighting chance to reach its intended destination before being disposed of and profited from is clearly broken.

[Cato]

I don't know how these things normally work but , if I've understood the timeline correctly, 30 days from initial postage to turning up in an auction for unclaimed goods seems like a ridiculously short period for a fairly valuable item, especially one that is so unique and easy to identify after it went 'missing' in the first place.

 

I agree it's far more likely to be error that criminal intent, but something has clearly gone very wrong here.

Edited 3 hours ago by Cato

[Cato]

I wonder if it's one of those Limelights with a Fender logo?

 

I can just about imagine a situation where, for whatever reason, the shipping information goes awol and ,after checking the headstock, the undeliverable bass is recorded as a Fender on whatever database they use for such things.

 

When the Limelight is reported missing they check the database and come back saying the only undelivered bass we have is a Fender,

 

Then because no one has reported a Fender bass missing they have no idea where the one they have came from and it ends up at the auction

 

Just a thought.

 

Edit.

 

The final step would be the auction house correctly identifying it but not telling the courrier company, and so the circle of f-ups is complete.

Edited 25 minutes ago by Cato

[walshy]

So sorry to hear this man and yeah I always use UPS as had bother with Parcelforce before. If I get offered anything at Vintage Bass Room I’ll get in touch immediately @knicknack

[Downunderwonder]

13 hours ago, Chris26 said:

Hi everyone, I think I’ve come across your bass in a live auction with Wellers Auctions in Guildford. I check their listings from time to time for instruments, and this one caught my eye due to the very limited information provided. A quick Google reverse image search led me to this forum. The auction ends tomorrow, so it may be worth contacting them ASAP. I really hope you’re able to recover the bass. Chris

Case closed but overlooked for two pages. Call the cops and get it seized before numbnuts takes it back from the auction house.