LukeFRC

I wonder if Parcelforce has to pay the VAT on lost items? My suspicion is that it was at some kind of custom/HMRC stage - you can imagine that customs have to check things, look out for VAT fraud, Brazilian rosewood etc - It's not hard to imagine at that stage things falling out the system - whether for good reasons (that probably conceivably exist) or unscrupulous employees moving things off to their mate at an auction house. BUT it's something you imagine Parcelforce being able to at least know about.

"watchdog" Ped?

I'm guessing "unknown government body" is short hand for "I'm not dobbing in my contact who gives us all this stuff to sell" ? I work for a company who owns an auction business (cars) - it is super locked down in terms of the auction house having a legal responsibility to know who is selling things and that they are who they say they are to stop money laundering. In my experience, based on the automotive sector, it is utterly unfeasible that the auction house wouldn't know the "government body" involved and also the name of thee disposal agent who would have authorised sale and the courier who delivered the items. anyway, I'm getting annoyed, and just edited out anything liablous or that would get me in trouble with the mods - how you've kept calm I don't know!

spoken to @warwickhunt? I dunno what he's got at the moment but there's been times when I've asked and been offered a lovely selection of early 90's Streamers at v v good prices.

Out of interest what’s so great about them?

I’m sorry to hear that

@stewblack I like to think we are a caring loving community of bass players here - if you don’t have a sofa, a bed will do (made of course), or even a blanket on the floor. think of the ethos of a sofa - not some physical manifestation.

But then left to work with Roger/Okeda international... Mas Hino also seems to have worked in New York for Suhr then gone back to be master builder at Atelier and then back to New York for his current stuff.

have you forgotten at least one update? I think the BB have been breeding?

can not believe you've put the jazz up for trade

There's also a guitar range with Yoshi's name mentioned (b3 guitars) - so my guess is that the metro Japan came out of an existing production line, with Yoshi focusing on the sadowsky stuff... the interesting question is what else were they/do they make...

Grit... and the fact it’s orange? i am also sat resisting the urge to buy a 1024!

Yeah kudos to you @Ricky Rioli

oooh well done finding that. An auction should have some fairly good money laundering regulations that mean they should know exactly who's selling and who's buying.

Ask Mrs Travis in a few months

I enjoyed it! You wait it will catch on, soon enough Davie504 will be doing extreme bass balancing videos... you do probably need to share a video of you playing it...

you might want to get this moved into the "wanted" forums, but seeing as I've only seen a couple since I first logged onto basschat... @Bassassin might be able to help, maybe

@Sibob bumped this and then I saw Platypus lovely Moollon. It looks great, love the gold guard. If had pulled the trigger on the ocean metallic with mint guard I got a quote for last year I would almost be at the right end of the queue now. As it is I decided to go with something made in the UK, partly cos I wanted it more but also cos it wasn't a 12-14 month lead time...ironically delays mean I'm still waiting!!

good point! I'm getting to play bass at church on Sunday! Can't wait.

Once a disease gets out of control, a vaccine programme is a major key to getting immunity levels up to allow you to get out of endless lockdown cycles. However, letting a disease get out of control is a choice, and when it is the speed and ability to lock down areas quickly helps keep lockdowns short and local... so yes someone in the UK government did very well putting our money into a vaccine programme - And I'm thankful for that. However our initial inability to control the disease, and our inability for the government to act quickly to lockdown areas mean we have 60 times the mortality rate.

I was emailing my counterpart in the company I work for, he made some disparaging comment about having to lock down again, so I looked up the mortality rates hoping to say something along the lines of "well we've had lockdowns but also twice the mortality rate so I wouldn't complain too much" or something. Our mortality rate is over 60 times higher per 100,000 than Australia - now there are differences, the seasons are offset, they have more space, they are struggling with vaccine rollout, and probably haven't been cronicallly underfunding public services for the last decade like we have chosen to at repeated elections, but still - 60 times the mortality rate. That's crazy.