Frank Blank

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It was ridiculous, no one in their right mind would pay full whack for that, it should be half price really but discovering that part of their discount was a lead which is included anyway was the last straw for me, I’ll not use Andertons again. Well it might be a tad thin for me but time will tell.

Well a pristine Ibanez SRH500 turned up on the doorstep this morning at 08:27. Double boxed with padding between boxes and the bass inside the original Ibanez box, well done PMT and DPD. Funny to think that Andertons wanted me to pay exactly the same for an ex-demo SRH500 with significant cosmetic damage, as a discount they offered me £30 off and a free lead, turns out all SRH500s come with a free lead anyway, that’s Andertons off the Xmas card list. The bass is very light and has that quality way beyond price point thing about it. It also has a slim fast neck that all my previous Ibanez SR models seem to have that makes it extremely easy to move around. With the absence of pickups, the dusty end of the neck Is shaped in such a way that it can be used as a comfortable thumb rest. The flatwound strings sound surprising bright acoustically, the only odd thing is how scratchy they feel against the fret when bending the strings, *shudder*. It came set up beautifully, probably a bit high for low action fanatics but about right for me. Looking forward to playing it through the QSC later and hearing how it sounds. Such bliss to have a just two controls, tone and volume.

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I've just ordered the Ibanez SRH500, I'll report back.

I have just purchased another Ibanez SRH500 but this time from PMT. It was showing as in stock in their warehouse so I called and was assured this item had been stored in the warehouse unopened in its box since delivery.

I noticed it back up, I think you are right, they are just waiting for a mug.

Floyd Lawson and Vivian Weathers from the early Linton Kwesi Johnson albums. Beautiful, simple song serving bass playing and no idea what happened to them after. John Wilson who played on Heaven 17s superb debut Penthouse and Pavement, brilliant slapping (and I usually dislike slap) excellent guitarist too. I think he was shafted on a couple of recordings afterwards for other bands and then seems to have vanished.

I didn’t. After being offered a ridiculously low discount and a free lead I just opted for a refund. PMT have one at their warehouse that’s still in it’s unopened box , I’ll probably buy that.

I spoke to PMT about their SRH500 and apparently it’s in stock at their warehouse and hasn’t been out of the box since it was delivered to them. I might go for that one.

The more I look at it the more I think the more I think that’s right, the damage on the front might be from over enthusiastic pick usage but up on the topside there?

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I totally agree they are chancing it, what makes me sad is that they’ll probably keep offering it at the ‘as new’ price and when they realise they really can’t get away with it it’ll probably go in a skip whereas at the right discount I’d have bought it.

I have to say their responses were quick and polite, just delusional.

My thoughts exactly. Used is usually a third off and I have never sold nor purchased a bass that badly marked and nor would I.

Well here’s the pics. As you can see (I’ve only included the significant two, there’s damage on the neck/side of the fingerboard too), I said there’s a new one on Bax at £499 so a discount would have to be less than the Bax price, they offered me about thirty quid discount and a free lead! Ha ha, refund ahoy obviously...

Exactly what I’m doing. Anyone asked for an ex display discount before? How much are we talking?

I saw the bax one but a) I have no experience with bax and b) assumed it was iffy somehow because it was cheaper. Awaiting a call back now as the chap dealing with it was on lunch.

Good point.

No, the email ended with ‘do you want to proceed with the transaction?’ I’ve asked for pics.