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I’m possibly wrong, I certainly haven’t seen in figures backing this up, it’s just my personal experience. I think a lot of people are wise to the pitfalls of buying online, plus they are protected to a large degree, both by PayPal and their banks. I think nowadays it’s the seller who’s more at risk, I think scammers have turned their attention to them. This is particularly the case on Gumtree, at least from my experience. That’s one of the benefits of selling on here, you do kind of know people, or at least know of them. You can see their posts and feedback etc.

I’m actually more worried about being scammed as a seller.

They have that on Talkbass. The for sale section is split into sales in the USA, and those for Europe.

I can understand that. I like to try instruments before I buy them. I’ve also found that my idea of mint condition, can often be at odds with another person's idea of what mint condition means. There’s also the postal and insurance thing.

I’ve never seen anything like that. You’d normally need an interface to convert your analogue signal to a digital signal that your laptop can see. You’ll also need some kind of DAW, something like Reaper.

I love his 7 string playing.

I didn’t realise you were going. How fantastic. I’ve been looking at the photos people I know are sharing on Facebook, it looks wonderful.

The problem with eBay, is unless you have a lot of positive feedback, you’re stuck with a monthly maximum sales level that’s below the value of most reasonable quality instruments, unless you list it as an auction.

I’ve had more luck on Facebook recently. There doesn’t seem to be a pattern to it, it’s all down to luck, selling the right thing at the right time. I’ve had very little interest on here for my W&T bass. One guy had me take it all the way to London with me, take a trip up to Camden, wait around for an hour while he played it. He then announced that he wasn’t sure because it was a 33” scale and had humbuckers, both of with are clearly mentioned on the advert, he’d also owned a very similar model previously. He said he’d think about it and get back to me, he hasn’t though. My experience of selling through Facebook has been great. Gumtree not so, you do have to watch what you’re doing there. Never post something, never accept PayPal, always insist on cash on collection.

Musicians often play a variety of instruments.

D’Addario use different coloured ball ends identifying the gauge.

I might have. I did a RS instructor course as part of my final year at uni, which was 2015, I’ll have a look.

Skyler Acord? Never heard of him, sounds like a character from Star Wars.

This shows it starting on E at the 2nd fret of the D string. Disclaimer, I’ve never played it, don’t particularly like it, and I’m sat on a train so can’t check the accuracy 😁. Starting on E follows the chords, it moves to B in bar 3.

Very nice!

I’m not sure if they’re closed though. They usually put on Facebook if they’re closed. It might be that whoever’s left behind was busy or something?

Mark is in LA for NAMM.

I'm selling a five string bass that Nick showed an interest in. I was due to travel London, and said that as long as he was definitely interested then I would take it along with me. I spent the day carrying it about, and then travelled to Camden to meet him, (this actually being in the complete opposite direction to the station I was catching my train from). After waiting for an hour while he played the instrument, he then announced that he was unsure about it. The reasons: it was a 33" scale instrument, and it had dual-coil pickups. Both of these were clearly stated in my advert, and we'd talked about these 'issues' beforehand. I fully understand that you want to be sure that an instrument is right for you before buying it, but if you know that it's a 33" scale bass, and that it has dual coils, then why ask someone to go out of their way so you can try it? I suspect he just wanted to try the bass, and in reality had little intention in actually buying it. It's also more than just a little bit annoying that there has been no further contact from him, despite him promising that he would think about it and get in touch. I would advise not going out of your way if you're selling something, let him come to you.

It’s odd, I can remember phone numbers of relatives from when I was a child, and dates of birth too. I’m like a walking diary. Songs and music though I really struggle.

It’s an amazing accomplishment though. It’s not just the notes, it’s all the tempo markings, dynamics and all the other notations. It looks like it turned him into a bit of a monster to work with though. I’d have been off out the door, probably in floods of tears 😁