I appreciate your point. Affordable long scale flats, which are perfectly good strings, are available for about 10 to 15 quid. So for something more specialised I suppose I was thinking 15 to 25 ballpark.
Anyway thank you for the info
Only happened to me once on BC.
Sold a bass at a very fair price - which we do here - and the buyer immediately listed it at a higher price.
I experienced a feeling as being in the presence of an unexpected bad smell.
I just made a point never to deal with said individual in the future. No need to make a fuss.
Sure enough they were subsequently outed by another member for untrustworthy behaviour. It wasn't a shock, some folk care more for money than the good things in life. Move on and don't pay them no never mind as my old Pappy never said.
I have a few active basses and they all behave so differently from one another. One is really quite mellow and I like it, another is so powerful it distorts on anything approaching full volume.
And I never know if the battery is going to last or not.
I feel your pain.