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Anyway, if he'd gone ahead it would've been done yesterday - I'd have the bass and he'd have the money.

Well, the join of the tailfin is pretty obvious.

Well, in stock, as opposed to awaiting orders fulfilment from external suppliers.

Well, certainly when one says give me your money before I tell you where I live and whether I'll be in...

Well, the title doesn't say Fender, but it's still got pictures with the fake Fender logo.

Incidentally, if you ever bend strings, you can use 2 fingers on the same fret.

Regarding 1. - take a look at videos of the adventurous players: Geddy Lee, Chris Squire, John Entwistle, Mark King, Jack Bruce, etc. Do they have "good" or "bad" technique?

I think most players are either (a) causing damage or (b) avoiding damage by exercising their fingers.

🙂 Well, regarding that question, that goes back to the thread title...

Yep. Anyway, on this one I wasn't going to drive 2 hours to turn up an say "nah, mate!"; the issue was not about paying, but about paying in advance with no SNAD protection. The auction houses allow (or even expect) you to pay in person on collection, thereby saving the hassle of dealing with couriers. However, if I turned up and it had a neck like a banana, I would not have gone ahead with it, of course.

It certainly wasn't my intention to haggle over the price; indeed I bought a(nother) Warwick a couple of weeks ago and paid the seller the pre-agreed price when I went to collect it.

Well, there's a condundrum there, because ebay won't let you make contact with the seller to see the item before the end of the auction. As far as checking it out, there could be an undeclared issue with it which you would only find out when you saw it. But in this particular case, the item was listed as collection only and the seller implied they couldn't trust me to go and collect it, but expected me to trust them to be there when I drove 2 hours to get there.

Is it the school holidays?

The only bad technique is one which produces bad tunes.

There is no right or wrong way to play. I used to do stretching exercises for my left hand and indeed it does stretch wider than my right. IMHO, there are two types of bass players (regarding left-hand technique): i. those who play "correctly", with their thumb elegantly placed on the back of the neck, etc. and ii. those who do what they like; if you look at the top players with their own recognizable style, they tend to be the latter.

Special added capacity.

The screw ends sticking up at the 5th fret are an especially ingeneous feature.

Ideal for a musician taking those first steps...

Wow - it got no bids at £100!

The seller is delusional.

I'll leave it to someone else to have that/those.

OK - I'm just saying it's easy for people who specialise in something to look down on others ignorance. However, in this case, I think the various folks here certainly did their duty in flagging up the issues!

I do take your point about the buyer thinking they're getting a deal. But what about if you bought a car which had an issue, or found you'd bought fake Levis, or any other suchlike - would you just accept you were a mug for not searching on google?

Actually, the ad still shows a Fender logo, which is illegal, especially since the seller is a business. I do feel sympathy for someone who has probably bought it thinking they've got a rare Fender; it's all well and good for those of us who have some idea to look down our noses at someone who is too dumb to know better, but it could easily be someone buying it as a gift. Given the number of ads where people can't even transcribe the brand name Squier properly, there are a load of people who could be taken in.