Mr. Foxen

Only works if you assume people are smart enough to hit buy it now instead of biding. They aren't. Plenty of people are obsessed with the auction idea. The idea of a reserve is you don't want to sell for less than it, so no loss not selling it because it didn't get to it.

There are tons of parameters to compression, including multiband stuff. Basically a whole bunch of fiddling and you can get it, or you can push a valve power section just hard enough and it does it naturally.

Compression.

[quote name='Johnston' timestamp='1336133160' post='1641347'] Or a reserve the same as the BIN or within a few quid . (Can never work out that one) . [/quote] It means the BIN doesn't vanish when there is a bid below the reserve. Plenty of people completely ignore BIN prices and bid anyway.

[quote name='owen' timestamp='1336080273' post='1640740'] It is a pretty fundamental. We try and teach them. Some of them do not respect their own kit even. That is why I am looking for more robust kit. [/quote] Sounds a bit like making the exams easier because they can't answer the questions.

[quote name='Musky' timestamp='1336030262' post='1639597'] If you bid £100 on something with a £100 reserve the price automatically goes to £100 to meet that reserve [/quote] Pretty sure it doesn't quite work like this, mostly the reserve is there to ensure the BIN doesn't disappear. If your max is less than the reserve it tells you that you are high bidder but reserve isn't met. If you are over the reserve it doesn't put your bid up to the reserve visibly, so your 'hand' isn't revealed, but you win at the reserve if your max is over it if there are no other bidders. I only had it happen once ages ago, and there have been bunches of revisions since. Since the fact you can set a starting price renders reserves for non-BIN auction pointless, and the BIN is a giveaway on those ones, I generally assume anyone using reserve probably doesn't understand how it all works and might be a pain to deal with, so I bid less in anticipation.

It can cover up the sound of too much power amp wrecking speakers mind. Like you think the speakers distorting is the valves distorting and don't turn down.

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1336027837' post='1639574'] Speaker size has little to do with the amount of bass it can produce, that's the cab's job. 10" drivers give a better dispersion than 15". [/quote] A 10" driver gives better than a 15", but start using multiple 10s and it will mess up as soon as they are next to each other. The development in speakers recently has produced very good 12s and 15s, whilst the 10s coming out have not benefited so much. It does mean cheaper cabs that are using crude drivers still might have the old rules apply, but once you get into serious cabs, size ceases to make any odds over other factors. http://barefacedbass.com/technical-information/speaker-size-frequency-response.htm http://barefacedbass.com/technical-information/Volume-displacement.htm

I don't think shilling with any significance happens nearly as much as people assume. Mostly there are a lot of people who don't understand the set a max bid and Ebay bids by proxy concept. Especially with the regular free listings, no-one is prevented from starting where they want to start from. Pulling the listing and relisting higher is probably a bigger deal. I've had a guy threaten to come and punch me if I didn't drop my starting price. For some reason ebay wouldn't kick him off.

[quote name='Rick's Fine '52' timestamp='1335998414' post='1639463'] eBay still exposes your product to the biggest market, for the lowest price. [/quote] I've no interest in lowest prices. I want highest price for my stuff.

[quote name='Rick's Fine '52' timestamp='1335997589' post='1639451'] How do you know a bidder is a dishonest one. Did you win a crystal ball in an on-line auction?? (I hope you didn't pay over the odds?) [/quote] Everyone who does all these attempts to game the system must be assuming it, otherwise they wouldn't bother. I can tell bidders are dishonest when they message me after the auction saying they were planning to bid last minute and didn't realise I start my auctions at 3am for exactly that purpose, or often message me saying they'll last minute bid. Then I block them and they'll have to buy it direct, or if I remember, up the start price. I'd rather not sell via ebay anyway.

I don't know why people bid on items if they think the seller is dishonest. I try and block any bidders who are being dishonest. Rather not deal with them.

[quote name='umph' timestamp='1335994910' post='1639380'] Nah don't teach them how to, i like people breaking stuff and giving me money. Also +1 on the bandit! [/quote] I'd cheerfully go without seeing the inside of a Marshall valvestate or any Ampeg ever again.

[quote name='Rick's Fine '52' timestamp='1335993431' post='1639344'] The worst thing about eBay, which I've seen alot, especially on high end guitars is this; Say a bass is currently sitting at £4k, I'm the highest bidder and my max bid is £8k. Someone (A genuine buyer), will get a friend with an account to make a huge bid (Way over its value), lets say £50k, the high bid will then be £8050, and they will be the new highest bidder. They then instantly know that my highest bid is £8000. They then cancel the bid, stating they 'entered the wrong amount', which is shown, and people will see the £50k bid was wrong and cancelled reasonably. The bid then go's back to £4k, but the other buyer in competition with me, knows my max (For the moment at least), is £8k. It does give an unfair view, which I've seen dozens of times. Impossible to prove, but shady nonetheless. [/quote] Biding last minute doesn't stop that. They can still put in their 50k max bid right at the start, and you won't know its a 50k, you'll just be outbid by a 8050 bid when you put your 8k max. All it means doing it last minute is that you won't have won the item for the price you offered. Still be a typoed max bid, maybe you'll get a second chance offer, maybe someone will get an off ebay offer in. Put in your offer early = best chance of winning up to your price.

When you say 'shiller' nothing there differentiates it from 'bidder'. They don't know what my bid is, they could be trying to beat my £5 max bid with a £5.50 bid, or they could be shilling my £6 max bid to its conclusion. Either makes no difference. If they keep cancelling, they'll get kicked off. Nothing stops someone intending to shill putting their shill bid on at any time and it will work exactly the same.

Cancelled bids and such show up on their profile. Ebay get negi about it after a while.

[quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1335966414' post='1638742'] other basses are available...not that i can use the brand name [/quote] Its pronounced 'ee-ban-yeth'.

[quote name='Rick's Fine '52' timestamp='1335973337' post='1638870'] In that case, they simply contact the 'buyer', and agree not to proceed with a transcation, as long as the buyer agree's, then the sellers listing fee's, and selling fee's are all refunded. Assuming they are in collaboration, then its easy, and no fee's are incurred. Its an on-line form on the drop down menu that gets sent to both parties. The seller then has the experience of knowing what the item is likely to achieve at auction, prior to deciding to re-list (Normally "due to timewaster"), or not. [/quote] So they can be bothered to do all that, when can't be bothered to type in some numbers to start price and reserve? An you assume this all happens every auction, to the extent you act in accordance with that assumption every time? Do you then send them messages saying 'I forgot to bi last minute'?

Make them swap instruments.

Have you decided all other bidders except you are shilling then? And have you considered that since the 'shiller' also has their max hidden, nothing stops them from 'shilling' before you even bid at all?

Learning how to not break your gear should be a pretty fundamental part of being a musician. you don't get to be a pilot by forgetting to put the wheels down when landing, and saying 'Not my job, I am just supposed to fly the thing.'.

[quote name='Twigman' timestamp='1335965131' post='1638708'] Just spoken to Jack. It is a Thor that he bought from a chap in Brighton that apparently came from a bunch that were discovered in an industrial unit in Milton Keynes a while ago. The cab is a Soundcity [/quote] Ah yeah, same story as with mine. First serious valve amp so can't really say how it sounds in comparison to others, but you can hear it on Golden Shroud. Which on listening again (being in studio with it being recorded kinda killed it), pretty much fits here: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_XaFAW51QU[/media] Edit: Better representation of the broader range of the Kemp, didn't have the intro when I heard, so didn't recognise: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSelURcwkb8[/media]

[quote name='Johnston' timestamp='1335964702' post='1638699'] You may not pay the maximum you are willing but it is an auction after all. Where two bidders are supposed to go head to head . where if you may pay less because no one else wants it. As for begrudging someone. So illegal practices are ok in your eyes then Having the seller (Or just a knob thinking it's funny) bidding it up is more akin to haggling than an auction. [b]1.[/b] (Business / Commerce) a public sale of goods or property, esp one in which[b] prospective purchasers bid against each other until the highest price is reached [/b] [/quote] Yeah, that part is covered by the fact they don't know my maximum. Bids only happen as necessary, you just set a maximum, bids are done for you. The purpose of an auction is to determine the most appropriate price for an item, I decide on my half. If they want more, then it sells to someone who wants to pay more. If they are shilling, then congrats they just paid Ebay 10% of their made up price for nothing.

[quote name='Johnston' timestamp='1335963643' post='1638677'] That doesn't stop the shillers pushing your bid up . so you end up paying more because you have someone bidding whose only intention is to get more coinage out of you rather than a genuine bidder fighting it out. [/quote] Can't end up paying more than you want to spend though. It is pretty wrong to be begrudging paying people what you have already decided is a fair price. Shill away, if I get outbid, then I let it go. Bear in mind they don't know your maximum.

[quote name='brensabre79' timestamp='1335960138' post='1638581'] Like you, I can't be arsed to find the link. Basically some company that makes hideously shaped basses and guitars got the arse about someone on BC selling a 30 year old instrument privately because it bears more than a passing resemblance to their design. [/quote] It was actually one of the newer, only a passing resemblance ones they got uptight about, rather than the almost perfect, and substantially improved in some areas, jobs. I take this to mean they have dropped their standards to below this entry level competition by this point. The thread is stickied at top of basses for sale.