budget bassist Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 (edited) [quote name='thedonutman' post='800110' date='Apr 8 2010, 07:38 PM']Update: The guy has emailed me back: - He assures me the fretboard is Ebony (Am I going crazy? I have two slotted Ebony fretboards on my shelf along with a Jackson guitar that has a Ebony fretboard - looks and feels [i]nothing[/i] like what's on this) - The original JANII was replaced with the Brass nut - £100 refund I'm not sure what to do at this point. £100 barely covers the work I'd want done at minimum, which is a nut replacement, setup (and possible a fret level). And I'd have to shell out more than that to strip the finish to get the bass the way I'd really like. In the interest of being nice to the guy I could just take the refund and try and sell the bass on to get my cash back. Do you guys reckon £650 would be a reasonable price for it? If not, I think I will get a full refund. Even if the fret/neck info was given to me in an email instead of the description I hope it's still within my rights to send it back on the basis that the fretboard is wenge and not Ebony.[/quote] You said jon shuker quoted you £100 for a fret dress and a setup, with a good setup, low frets should be no problem. £100 refund sounds reasonable to me, considering the price you got it for in the first place. As for the colour, that's no fault of the seller's. You bought it knowing it was that colour and you might want to strip it back, it would be unfair to send it back to the seller for that. If someone bought a bass from you and on reciept, decided they didn't like the colour and wanted a refund, would you not be pissed off? As beedster pointed out, this occurs fairly often when buying basses sight unseen and definitely isn't a "disaster". With all due respect, you're making far too much fuss over what (IMO) are fairly minor issues, which can be fairly easily resolved. You really can't complain at all, given the price you paid for it. Edited April 8, 2010 by budget bassist Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDM Posted April 8, 2010 Author Share Posted April 8, 2010 (edited) I've contacted the seller to ask for a refund to see what he says. I'd rather get the money back to put towards a Thumb NT4 or something. Rich: I don't expect the seller to refund me the money to get the finish done as that's just unreasonable. But if I get a refund I do expect it to cover getting the frets to "very good condition" and the neck "straight" as described and for the other issues he neglected to mention, ie the replaced and poorly refitted nut (which is ~30 Euros delivered from Thomann) Slidx: I try not to exaggerate problems, but I do scrutinize. Here are some pics of the paint, or lack thereof! [url="http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/4486/p10007174487508.jpg"]http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/4486/p10007174487508.jpg[/url] [url="http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/4672/p10007185235589.jpg"]http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/4672/p10007185235589.jpg[/url] Budget Bassist: I bought the bass aware of the paint issues. I can't expect any compensation for that but I'm just making the point that if I do keep it a lot of money (regardless of who's it is) will need to go into it. Edited April 8, 2010 by thedonutman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ou7shined Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 Take the money that you have been lucky enough to have been offered and say no more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xilddx Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 [quote name='thedonutman' post='800160' date='Apr 8 2010, 08:26 PM']I've contacted the seller to ask for a refund to see what he says. I'd rather get the money back to put towards a Thumb NT4 or something. Rich: I don't expect the seller to refund me the money to get the finish done as that's just unreasonable. But if I get a refund I do expect it to cover getting the frets to "very good condition" and the neck "straight" as described and for the other issues he neglected to mention, ie the replaced and poorly refitted nut (which is ~30 Euros delivered from Thomann) Slidx: I try not to exaggerate problems, but I do scrutinize. Here are some pics of the paint, or lack thereof! [url="http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/4486/p10007174487508.jpg"]http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/4486/p10007174487508.jpg[/url] [url="http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/4672/p10007185235589.jpg"]http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/4672/p10007185235589.jpg[/url][/quote] Second pic is a 404 but the first one just shows a small circle of missing paint, I thought you meant it was coming off like it had leprosy. Take the wedge. Do the frets yourself, it's easy. Get the highly prized JAN1 fitted properly, or again, do that yourself. Think about patching up the finish. You don't really want natural wood do you? It looks so horribly musicianly. My other issue is you have now strongly implied you would prefer a 4 string, which further compounds my thought you were after a bargain to sell on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDM Posted April 8, 2010 Author Share Posted April 8, 2010 (edited) [quote name='silddx' post='800187' date='Apr 8 2010, 08:42 PM']Second pic is a 404 but the first one just shows a small circle of missing paint, I thought you meant it was coming off like it had leprosy. Take the wedge. Do the frets yourself, it's easy. Get the highly prized JAN1 fitted properly, or again, do that yourself. Think about patching up the finish. You don't really want natural wood do you? It looks so horribly musicianly. My other issue is you have now strongly implied you would prefer a 4 string, which further compounds my thought you were after a bargain to sell on.[/quote] Fixed. I can assure you that I intended for this to be a fix-up-and-have-a-bass-with-character (what a mouthful ) project. Please don't make assumptions about me based on my ramblings. Edited April 8, 2010 by thedonutman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xilddx Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 (edited) [quote name='thedonutman' post='800202' date='Apr 8 2010, 08:50 PM']Fixed. I can assure you that I intended for this to be a fix-up-and-have-a-bass-with-character (what a mouthful ) project. Please don't make assumptions about me based on my ramblings. [/quote] fair enough. RE: the second pic. How the f*** do you do that to a bass?! He's either been trying to shag it, or it's had a bad fall onto the back of the neck, the shock of which has pulled the finish away and loosened it. My $$ has a high gloss black finish, it marks fairly easily but I can't imagine it getting to that state. Edited April 8, 2010 by silddx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDM Posted April 8, 2010 Author Share Posted April 8, 2010 Actually, I think the Bass Centre did a neck finish strip (you can see the round edge where the paint is supposed to be) but I guess the rest has flaked off since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 are you to accept the 100 or send it back? I think its safe to say that 100 compensation is a very, very fair amount. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XB26354 Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 Living above a luthier makes me rather tempted if you do keep it and then decide you don't want it I do love restore jobs. I'm about to undertake sanding out some marks in a SS1, not a major job but [i]lots[/i] of work... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTUK Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 For you...if a refund is on the table, go for that. As for its worth, I wouldn't know, but I am not sure you fancy the refurb anyway. It would be too much hassle as far as I would be concerned. Some of those 'fixes' would bug the hell out of me...and I can only see them from the pics but I want to be very happy with the condition when sellling. It seems the jury on here suggests this isn't the dog with fleas that it looks to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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