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He has now said that he's been told it's a copy so he's setting the start price at Squier levels. As for oiling and fret cleaning - he hasn't said he doesn't know about guitars, he's said he doesn't know about bass guitars. Subtle difference.

What is very odd is what you find if you go to his feedback and look at the stuff he's sold. Three cars, each with a different format of listing but demonstrating different but intelligible levels of English, a couple of Sky boxes ditto, and things like a clock and a trailer which demonstrate his rather haphazard approach to the language. I can only assume that the intelligible adverts were lifted from the original ebay listings that he bought the cars from.

I can't see a £399 in the bid history.

[quote name='SS73' post='826265' date='May 3 2010, 10:41 AM']Nice 4001, looks real clean etc, but the neck pup is in the wrong place for 75.[/quote] Is it? I just had a look at Rickenbacker's archive and it looks right to me: Seems the same to me.

Would anyone build a headless with the truss-rod adjustment at the body end?

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='824635' date='May 1 2010, 10:20 AM']What the hell happened to this thing? Why would someone not even go to the effort of dusting something before putting it on eBay?[/quote] That'll be because they've seen one too many Antiques Roadshows and confuse dust, crap and grime with patina.

I've paid to play at a festival that I was involved in organising. Many years ago, the musicians in Tamworth decided that an annual free rock festival would be a good idea. We managed to get some things for free but not everything. We also charged stallholders. In the end, the 20 or so bands involved paid something like a fiver a head to play. We kept that model running for about ten years. It was always very popular, always oversubscribed. However, this was a rather exceptional situation, and I wouldn't advocate pay to play in more usual circumstances. I have mixed feelings on playing for nothing - I did it last night and I'm sure I'll do it again, but I don't want to make a habit of it.

[quote name='eude' post='813297' date='Apr 21 2010, 01:06 AM']the Musicman Bongo was a collaboration with BMW as far as I recall[/quote] Not with Armitage Shanks? I'm interested in seeing what the final products look like. It can't be easy finding a shape which isn't similar to someone else's shape, given that the instrument also has to sit reasonable well-balanced on a strap and be sufficiently conventional as not to drive potential buyers away.

Peavey Grind, and probably the Schecter Stiletto Studio-5 (based on the feel of other Schecter necks).

Have a look at the Peavey Grind too. £349 for the 5-string from GAK.

Just bought a Yamaha G-50 off Owen. All went well, I'm very pleased. He posted it to me well packed.

Count me interested. And I have a rather more manageable cab than last time...

[url="http://www.partysounds.co.uk"]Partysounds[/url] is another website worth looking at for adverts. I think that three of my last four bands were through there. What amp you'll need depends on the band. I could happily use a Gallien Kruger 200MB or a Hartke 120W combo with my old covers band, doing pop-rock and cod reggae on the social club circuit, but I'm using a 4x10 and 500W amp for the rock bands I'm with now. I was able to transport the GK and a headless Westone on the back of a motorcycle. I suspect that you'll find that most rock musicians your age will be looking doing originals music, so your surmise about working with older people is probably spot on.

[quote name='Wil' post='814490' date='Apr 21 2010, 11:45 PM']Yeah, but it's a bass, not a used car - using that logic, pre CBS Fenders would be going for a tenner on ebay.[/quote] Using that logic, 1963 E-types would be going for a tenner on ebay.

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='810842' date='Apr 18 2010, 10:20 PM']Or even keep it and play it. [/quote] No, that would be a bad mistake. They are truly dreadful instruments. I do wish I'd bought the one I was offered for £75 some years ago though, it would have helped with my pension. However, I was buying a bass to play, and after trying it out I bought the Baldwin he was selling as well.

[quote name='Jerry_B' post='798363' date='Apr 7 2010, 09:21 AM']I'm a bit perplexed by the idea that once you hit 40, only covers bands can be something to look forward to or be part of, with an originals band being less likely. Why so?[/quote] Because by that time, all the crap originals musicians have realised (consciously or not) that they are crap and have given it up, so 97.3% of originals bands disappear. Fortunately, at the age of 52, I've managed to join an originals band (and increase the average age significantly). Not that I dislike playing covers, I just get a bit of an extra kick from that additional level of creativity.

[quote name='Doddy' post='791449' date='Mar 31 2010, 02:41 AM']Like I said,there are alot of players who put their thumb over the neck when they play,and you cannot do this on a singlecut. I have had people play mine and struggle in the upper register because they tend to grip the neck with their thumb over the top. So when I said that it facilitates good technique,I am saying that you basically have to use a 'correct' hand position up the neck as you cannot physically reach your thumb over the top. If you have your technique together,it's not a problem,but for some people it is.[/quote] I found that when I played one at the Northampton bass bash, I had problems not in playing in the upper register but in getting there, as I move my thumb slightly round the neck when moving up a fair number of frets so my hand doesn't fall off. I wouldn't like to be forced to adopt any particular position though. I still haven't seen a singlecut that wouldn't be improved by being a doublecut, except the Status Streamline, which would be improved by getting rid of its fat arse so it looks like a Steinberger.

[quote name='Jase' post='775884' date='Mar 16 2010, 01:00 AM']Shame, Strats are quite sexy [/quote] Did Hitler play one?

Isn't the creation of the auction the invitation to treat, then the final bid is presumably the offer, and the acceptance of the money by the seller the acceptance? Hence as the seller hasn't accepted the money, it's not a contract as it hasn't been through the three stages. Or am I missing something - does the invoicing constitute acceptance, as that's by ebay presumably as an agent of the seller?

I'm not sure that there is a contract. It's a complex area. You could have a search on the newsgroup uk.people.consumers.ebay and also have a look at [url="http://www.out-law.com/page-394"]a legal explanation (sort of) of purchase contracts.[/url] By the time you've worked something out, you could have bought the components and made one...