Woodinblack

ok, yes, all money is paid by the buyer so I guess you can say that fee is too, but it is a price on top of the sale that the seller doesn't get and can't avoid

eBay made a big thing about making listings free, so they got rid of fees on transactions and then added a manditory buyer protection fee, that the seller pays, that was higher than the fees in the first place. Means all the prices look stupid and it is not clear that when you make an offer to someone for say £100, it comes through to the seller as 'they made an offer of £87.32'

By who? someone completely deaf?!

Too early to tell on the MXR - I mean it will be the best seller at the moment as it has just been released so everyone will rush out and get it. See how it is selling when it has been out as long as the SY has been out.

Not sure what model you got but all of my LED lights, including the new one from Aliexpress have a 4 digit LED on the back with a select and up down button. I have a manual with mine, but it seems that the code is similar to my older lights so maybe it is a standard?

The drop down says the light is £138, the DMX controller is £29. The lights are in the tech spec, but so is the DMX controller so it is sold as parts.

I had a custom build made because it was what I wanted, and I couldn't get what I wanted off the shelf. It plays more gigs that most of the others, but not all because I don't believe on having a bass that I don't gig (except a 4 string, but I have had it so long), so the others get used as well.

Although the numbers are irrelevant (there is no real standard for that), the chapman stick railboard have a fret marker on the 2nd fret (2, 7, 12, 17 - who knows why).

more concerning is a lack of muting below the 0th fret

Maybe it is meant to be played more like an NS:Stick, but then the fan frets make very little sense. I suspect it was one of those 'because I can' rather than 'because I should' instruments.

Yes, the first fret on a chapman style instrument would be the zero fret, as you can't tap an open string.

Wow, I did hundreds of gigs with a hxfx and never had an issue. Mind you, never had an issue with my CTM100 either!

Indeed, that doesn't really make any sense. I assume thought that it isn't meant to be strung like a chapman stick?

Personally prefer the Bulbous Sapele!