Fully get where you're coming from Tony. The world is your oxter now - take it easy, and hopefully we shall converse again.
Best wishes now and for whatever your future holds.
S.
I feel genuinely angry on your behalf. Really hope it works out for you. Unless you specifically ordered a bass to look used, (and your post suggests not), this would be a 'comedy bass', if it weren't so serious a problem.
A disgrace and an insult to all the makers out there, struggling to produce the best possible.
Went for a wander up-town today and spotted this beastie in a pawn shop window. Amazing what's out there if you search. It's up for £6,500 btw, and no, it's nothing to do with me or anyone I know either.
Have posted about this a while ago, but following on from Rich, I thought I'd re-state my first Wal cost £50 (fifty), in 1989, and, no, it wasn't stolen.