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Recently been sorting out all my GAS issues and nearly all has come from some very lucky dealings and trades.

For example- I paid 325 euros for a Fender 400 PRO head-traded it for a Marshall TSL100 head and 1960A cab- traded that for a VBA400 halfstack (fully cased)- no money along the way.
Also, bought an old Trace Elliot 8x10 combo thing (no idea what it was) for 300 euros-traded it for a Mesa Boogie 400+, a week later, sold it for a very good price bought an Ampeg amp and a 2nd US made BSE410HLF, with a bit of change left.
Traded some nice basses: a) one of my Precision Lyte´s for a Gibson Thunderbird Studio V (my only 5er)
:rolleyes: two Fender MIM basses for a 78 Precision (still can´t believe that one!!!)

and sold a few (CIJ 70´s RI Precsion, CIJ Mustang and MM SUB) with the intention of using some of the cash for one more bass.

Recently got my hands on a US made 4PRO, so traded on my other Ampeg and Phil Jones Briefcase and got a Musicman Stingray out of it :)
Now today have sorted a trade of my T-Bird Studio V for a US made 610 HLF in a live -n roadcase so I can run the 4 PRO in Mono-Bridge mode! :lol:
And the last bass I buy for a long time (see the link in my sig) I think I have sused-a nice, cheap Gibson T-Bird Studio...IV :lol:

I think I am, hand-on-heart, done.

Anyone else having a good run of things lately with trades etc?
I find that trading seems to be more and more popular these days, what with the ´R´ word and all that...
Is bartering the new shopping?

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Back in the days of Musical Exchanges in Birmingham, a chap was part ex-ing an early 60's Hofner President against something more modern. M.E. were offering him £125 for it, so I offered £150 and walked out with it. eBayed it a couple of years later for £700...

I do have a problem with buying stuff from BassChat and selling it back to BassChat for a profit, though. I'm not knocking anyone who does this, but I don't feel comfortable with selling it back for more than I paid for it. Is that just me? Outside of BassChat, everyone is fair game for my profiteering though!

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the best story i have is of a mad geezer who used to come into the music shop i work at

he started off with a 1500 pound martin guitar...

swapped it every week with us, and various other music shops, and eventually ended up with a guitar worth 50 quid.

Saying that, i've been through some serious kit recently, made an enormous loss, but im still fighting! ha.

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Anyone want to trade me something for my Ironbird? :)

Trades don't appear to be working for me, in the world of bass as in any other - I think I need some of this magic to rub off on me!

I did manage to invest five hours of my time this week in support a colleague, to receive not one, but [i]two[i/] responses - I got [b]f***[/b] and [b]all[/b] :rolleyes:

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[quote name='Prime_BASS' post='849027' date='May 26 2010, 11:14 PM']Same really, my current bass rig cost me roughly £250. The epiphone JC only cost me £250.


However I would still like to know where Basshead finds these people?[/quote]


It is sort of strange.
Most of the people I deal with over here are either people just looking for a change or, like the guy I bought my Oly White 78 P from-
Don´t really know what they have.
He was selling it as an 87 and was convinced he was right. Go it for a song, even though I told him once I´d met up to have a look at it. But the fact that it was the week before Christmas and I had travelled to the other side of the country (for a gig) obviously influenced his decision.

The Trace Elliot/Boogie 400+ one was very weird.
Had gotten this huge monster of a thing that I couldn´t bring to gigs and scared the sh*t out of the guitarists with, next to my old Fender 400 Pro rig. So decided to advertise it for sale in a nationwide ads paper. No luck shifting it for months and I had given up and then this guy from the other end of the country rings and said he needed a big bass amp for a studio he had built. He said he didn´t have any money but could offer me a few trades. I said sure and he left hs house within the hour. 5hours later he arrives (round 12 at night) with a van load of bass stuff.
He had a pearl Vorg ric copy but the neck was wonky, a Gibson Sg bass (old) and a 400+-did a straight swap for that, despite the obvious difference in cost-value is a different matter!
Didn´t get on with the 400+ at all, so shifted it rather quickly, for a tidy sum indeed-got an Ampeg and a few other bits with some decent money left over!

Guess Ireland is just a rather lucky place to be when it comes to equipment :)

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[quote name='basshead56' post='849285' date='May 27 2010, 11:41 AM']It is sort of strange.
Most of the people I deal with over here are either people just looking for a change or, like the guy I bought my Oly White 78 P from-
Don´t really know what they have.
He was selling it as an 87 and was convinced he was right. Go it for a song, even though I told him once I´d met up to have a look at it. But the fact that it was the week before Christmas and I had travelled to the other side of the country (for a gig) obviously influenced his decision.

The Trace Elliot/Boogie 400+ one was very weird.
Had gotten this huge monster of a thing that I couldn´t bring to gigs and scared the sh*t out of the guitarists with, next to my old Fender 400 Pro rig. So decided to advertise it for sale in a nationwide ads paper. No luck shifting it for months and I had given up and then this guy from the other end of the country rings and said he needed a big bass amp for a studio he had built. He said he didn´t have any money but could offer me a few trades. I said sure and he left hs house within the hour. 5hours later he arrives (round 12 at night) with a van load of bass stuff.
He had a pearl Vorg ric copy but the neck was wonky, a Gibson Sg bass (old) and a 400+-did a straight swap for that, despite the obvious difference in cost-value is a different matter!
Didn´t get on with the 400+ at all, so shifted it rather quickly, for a tidy sum indeed-got an Ampeg and a few other bits with some decent money left over!

Guess Ireland is just a rather lucky place to be when it comes to equipment :)[/quote]


That's it. There is probably a lot less people with a lot less high end gear to trade with, or sell anything onto some one wants to pay a nic price for it.

That guy with 78 P. What a fool. Probably just thought he was getting 2 basses for 1.
If I could find someone selling fender 400 pro for 325 I would snap that up.

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[quote name='Prime_BASS' post='849313' date='May 27 2010, 12:10 PM']That's it. There is probably a lot less people with a lot less high end gear to trade with, or sell anything onto some one wants to pay a nic price for it.

That guy with 78 P. What a fool. Probably just thought he was getting 2 basses for 1.
If I could find someone selling fender 400 pro for 325 I would snap that up.[/quote]


that was the other 78-the siennaburst one.
I think his point at the time was that it´d be easier to shift two cheaper basses than one expensive.
Can´t argue with that logic- :rolleyes:

The 400 Pro was one wicked amp. The Semi-para EQ section was amazing.
I had the one with the fender rack tuner built in. miss that amp a bit actually. If I could find a(nother) cheap one, I´d buy it again as a back up, in a heartbeat! :)

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