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Not even tempted to give it a bit more of a go? Personally I can't play BTB basses either because the string spacing is crazily wide, but surely worth a try for a bit?

No, as I said in the post that that was quoted from. Just making the point about 'by any standard'

While I agree entirely with almost everything you said there (and have said so a few times) I have a problem with this line. What is not a huge amount of money 'by any standard' of yours or mine, might not be of any standard to someone else. Obviously the OP could afford it, or he wouldn't have bid on it, but it always feels wrong deciding what is a lot of money to some people. I do know several people for whom £250 is a really huge amount of money.

I have one of those, its my main case. The strap broke as I had too much stuff in it - I have fixed it now but don't use the straps much any more, and the little tags on the zips came off. I still like it as a case though

I use .045 to .130 on most of my basses (apart from the 4 strings), and that seems to cover everything. Except the stick obv.. that has .008 to .118s

Played 2 gigs yesterday. One was a very poorly organised outdoor gig with a well organised truck and PA guy to set up playing on a truck. Had the best sound we have had according to the second band who saw us because we started late. The PA guy said "I don't think it is going to be busy, he hasn't done any advertising', and it wasn't busy but it wasn't surprising, there were a lot of local events on that afernoon that had been well organised and planned. Still worked out fun though. Anyway, the PA guy said 'you were great, you should have been the closing band for the atmosphere' but we coulnd' tbe because we had another gig that night. Trouble of playing in a suntrap is you can get sunburned and I did a bit. However, still like playing on a truck, especially one with a great PA that is all set up for you! The second gig was in a working mens club and as it turned out, it also went really well, and as a first, we actually got thanked by the venue organiser. so that was nice.

I find it worse than odd, I find it a bit disturbing. For every guy asking about a scam on a forum and being warned off there have to be 10 guys who are just saying 'oh an extra £50, thats good' without thinking 'why would someone want to give me an extra £50 that I didn't ask for?'. Which means that these people must be hugely successful, to the point where there must be a load of guys for whom this is their sole living.

How odd. My wife who uses PayPal in her shop has done tens of thousands of PayPal transactions, of which a few have claimed they didn't get it. All of them were judged in her favour when there were issues and she had proof.

Paypal protects you sending stuff if you have proof of delivery to the registered card address. All other bets are off

I think the NS Stick is more suited to someone coming from a guitar only world, but one think I like about the stick is that it is different, it forces you to do different things. I have the advantage of starting life on the piano, but spending most of the time since teens on a guitar. Its still in the 'little too different' group, but I was just randomly playing it yesterday, without any concious thought of trying anything, and it was starting to make some noises that weren't too unmusical!

My elwood I ordered with hipshot ultralites, just because it was a chambered 5 string so there was always the risk of being head heavy, so it was to get round that. I don't know if it would have been but I don't regret the choice. My haussels were good too, although I got a norstrand P Bass pickups, because I like nordstrands and it was reduced since.

I started the zoom thread and I haven't got one of those yet either!

UK taxes - it was VAT. Unusual that, I guess the send it out of the EU or something. Anyway, thanks for the notification, I now own helix native, hope I don't get so used to it I have to buy a helix!

I guess you must have mentioned or clicked on something - I have never seen that guy before.

Thats so speciesist. And its 'rat' not 'mouse'

I object to that. I do not have a ridiculously expensive haircut! I must admit to being in the "not surprised but a little disappointed" group that so many people are happy to renague on a deal just because everyone else does it. I certainly flag them up as a non paying bidder or a non selling seller when it happens, and have my selling settings set to not allow anyone who has more than (whatever the minimum) strikes against them is.

The SB8 would be interesting, but I am not sure that is sufficiently different from a bass really. Or I guess if I was going to go that way the NS Stick would probably be more appealing. I would certainly like a stand. I am still getting the strings to a place where they are happy. And learning chords.

I would buy it and at some point later sell it at a large loss. Works for me But if I have got something on ebay I buy it, sometimes it is a good reminder of that the only reason to put a bid on anything on eBay is if you are prepared to pay the amount you bid for it. So what is it? A 6 string something for £225 doesn't sound the worse thing that can happen

My friend was raving about how good it was, have to see it at some point

Mine is on my pedalboard, which is a shame when I am not using that at practice as I keep tripping over the lead. The position of the transmitter never affected anything, but as it is one of those with a hinge (has to be said, quite a weak one) and I have a load of ibanezes, I have always just put it on the strap or on my belt.

1) no - that G string too close to the pointy bit on the headstock and the A string too close the other way 2) no - just looks like you forgot to do the bolts up. I have a headstock in my shed that looks a bit like that! (but worse as there are 12 of them)

If the looper is your main thing, why not get a headrush looper, cheaper than the helix, but a dedicated looper. If it was me for at home, i would just get something like a Zoom Z1-four and a boss RC300 / 505 And yes, the stomp is too new for anything else yet.

To me square looks better.

No, hoses just don't last as long as they used to!

I would say 2.5 hours to 3 is the standard here, although I have rarely paid for a rehearsal (directly!) and when I have it has been a tenner - and it better be a nice place for that! Or be different in some way. We save that for the gigs. Although to be fair, the guitarist never turns up drunk. Yep, sounds about right. ok - that is a new one on me!