I've been up cashwise (not time though) on selling a bitsa bass once. Usually I've applied my by stuff at prices I can expect to recover upon sale policy, so if I no like, I can strip down and sell as parts. But I actually quite like my two bitsa basses, the third one got a bit overcomplicated and I never much liked the body. Think is any whole bass I've had will have been stripped own, reassembled and set up, so not even sure there is much difference.