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[quote name='itsmedunc' timestamp='1429885754' post='2756010'] I've stopped trying to sell anything on Ebay totally. If I remember rightly, if you add a Buy it now, your auction starting price has to be 40% lower than the Buy it now? To me that means you either have to start the auction 'high' (Buy it now 'high') or put the Buy it now at a 'too' tempting price or that high there will be no chance of selling it. By the time you have paid ebay, their postage cut and paypal fees it's not worth selling anything on there. I sort of worked out that by the time I had paid all those it knocked 20% off the final selling price. That's a big fee... Also, why would a buyer pay their fees when BC has a marketplace that is far cheaper and with far less scammers! [/quote]trouble with the BC marketplace is there's a £7 fee whether you sell or not (as I understand it) and there's a far lower market place for your item, on ebay you only pay if you sell and I claw a bit of the fees back by inflating the postage. [quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1429886661' post='2756024'] I generally put anything up at 99p and simply let it run it's course. The low start gets folk interested in watching it and most things find their true value. Certainly there's enough folk watching the basses that no bass ever gets sold at a real bargain price, unless someone is at Lands End with "Collection only". What bugs me is the reserve price. In a real "stand in the room and raise you hand" type auction, the punters don't know there is a reserve price. On Ebay it's like there's an "elephant in the room". We all know the reserve price hasn't been met. You can watch it for 7 days. It gets to the end, only to find the item NEVER gets to sell, because the [s]plonker selling[/s] seller has some inflated idea of the item's value. I even feel tempted to put my Harley Benton up there for sale, start at 99p, with a reserve of £2k and see it relist week after week, after week, after week.... [/quote]I agree with reserve price, what's the point? just start the auction at your lowest price if you don't want to risk letting it go too cheaply

what are the thoughts on adding a buy it now price on Ebay or even just having a buy it now price (no auction). Could it tempt people to pay that little bit more, or could you be selling for less than you'd get at auction?

ok, guys now it's been pointed out to me that I was putting in the wrong measurements I'm having a lot more luck TNT will do it for £25 with £100 insurance, any horror stories about them?

[quote name='Hobbayne' timestamp='1429864969' post='2755637'] 630 millimetres you mean? [/quote]yep that's right, silly me, classic mistake, I'm just a feet and inches boy really, all this continental muck just confuses me.

[quote name='pete.young' timestamp='1429829144' post='2755480'] Think your dimensions might be an order of magnitude out. 630 cm is 6.3 metres . that's one hell of a combo! I [/quote]no it's not it's .63 metres. thanks guys I'll give APC a try, looks like I had a lucky escape with Parcel Monkey, perhaps they use Brook Bond chimps to do their deliveries

I've just tried parcel monkey, they won't do it, same with parcel2go, thanks anyway. I get past the weight bit but when I put the dimensions in it's no no

I'm going to be selling my Marshall MB 4210 soon and I'd like to offer postage to get the best price, anybody know of a company that will handle 33Kg weight, dimension 630cm x 535cm x 280.

personally, extra volume is not the only reason I've tended to use an extension cab, (with my Marshall MB4210) it also looks better having a bit of a stack (more rock and roll ) and also it takes the amp up to ear height which means you can hear it more clearly

[quote name='Norris' timestamp='1429464097' post='2751616'] You can sometimes get a hum due to an "earth loop" which switching in the ground lift will prevent. Keep it switched off unless you need it though Edit: ... when you have a DI lead plugged in. It breaks the connection to the outer metal part of the lead [/quote]ok got it, cheers

just had an initial play with the Rumble I've just collected, initial reaction is very good but I'll reserve opinion till I've gigged with it, I can confirm that the XLR out is effected by the master volume and all the other controls, I can see this causing problems, quiet a few times sound guys have asked me to switch to pre instead of post EQ on my other amps because the signal to the desk is too high, unfortunately this amp hasn't got that switch. Having said that I've never played at a venue that doesn't have a DI box Can anybody tell me what 'ground lift' is?

[quote name='flippyfloop' timestamp='1429376491' post='2750953'] Anyone know the weight of the rumble 1x12 v3 bass cab ? [/quote]14.1 Kg http://www.andertons.co.uk/bass-cabs/pid37205/cid686/fender-rumble-112-v3-bass-amp-cabinet.asp?LGWCODE=37205;56375;2717&utm_source=googlebase&utm_term=2380000000&utm_medium=pricecomp&utm_campaign=GoogleShopping&gclid=CJSw0da6gMUCFQrJtAodKAoAHw

[quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1429356074' post='2750721'] Looks like I'm overdue a hearing test [/quote]Oh I don't know look on the bright side, at least you can't hear boogie woogie piano either

just listening to it now through my HI FI, sounds good, nice and balanced, and I'm the first to moan about the bass being low in the mix, even the Vaccines Ric sounded good lol, but you're not going to hear the bass through tele speakers are you? they're worse than they've ever been with these borderless flat screen TV's

I hope all this love for the Rumble is well founded, I've just pulled the trigger on a nearly new one that was on Ebay, pick it up tomorrow.

smoke and mirrors, people will hear a difference if they're looking for it, bit like £1billion speaker cables on Hi Fi's, but to my eyes nothing looks better than a black body with a maple neck P bass, unfortunately for a leftie like me they're like hens teeth, had a stingray with this set up, looked gorgeous but couldn't get on with the tone :-(

[quote name='spongebob' timestamp='1429200344' post='2749160'] I've used a pick for years, I prefer the sound - of me using one - as when I play fingerstyle, it just sounds a bit of a dull thud. I can't sound like other people! I like the 'cleaner' sound a pick provides, less thump. I do practice it at home, and I have got better, to the extent that when I dropped a pick at a gig, I just finished the number fingerstyle. But for me, I am a pick player. Coming from a drumming background, I just prefer the more percussive feel I can attack with using a pick....I suppose my style will always be a bit like drumming on a bass! [/quote]I too prefer the definition and attack I get with a pick, I've tried finger style just didn't like it but playing mostly punky stuff it's not surprising, I have seen some very good fingerstyle bass players but mostly they just seem to get an undefined thump when playing this way, I did read somewhere where some pro bass players use fingers in the studio and a pick for live work, don't know whether anyone on here can name them, but it does make sense, to me anyway

on the odd occasion I've had to learn a song I don't like (normally I'd say Can't stand that song I don't want to do it) I've just done the bare minimum to get by, I'll only go the extra mile if I like the song, and therefore enjoy playing it, if you're learning it for an audition maybe you should ask yourself why you're bothering if they're doing stuff you don't like.

[quote name='phil.c60' timestamp='1427892521' post='2735501'] They say that the pro 17's cut evenly across the spectrum so I went for those, but I found that with my band they were too much. They willingly change the filters for free in the first 28 days, so I rang, spoke to a very helpful guy who said 15's were the answer as they cut slightly less bass and less attenuation overall, I sent them off and they were back in 48hrs. I've been perfectly happy with them ever since. I was prepared to pay what they cost because I thought I might need to swap them or get advice: I did and the service was great.Once again. you get what you pay for! I have tried disposable sqidgy foam plugs in the past for other things (like shooting) and hated them. These are moulded to fit (via a Boots hearing person included in the price with a hearing test) and are still comfortable at the end of a gig. Couldn't ask for more, really. [/quote]cheers, think I'll pull the trigger, I use Alpine sage pro's at the moment but everything sounds so muffled when I use them, it doesn't help that my hearing loss is around 6K Hz anyway

had a call from an agent last week saying the pubs he deals with were asking him for something else besides classic rock covers bands, so he thought of us (punk covers and originals plus punked up pop songs) Ska and Mod bands are popular too, I do think it's important to try and stick to roughly one genre though, if you try and please everybody you finish pleasing nobody. Sorry bit of topic but sort of related, if pubs put on a diet of classic rock covers bands doing the same old songs folk are going to get fed up

[quote name='lojo' timestamp='1427826510' post='2734799'] Makes you feel good though doesn't it [/quote]certainly does

yeah cheat, nobody will know, there's some bass lines I cheated on for years, then learnt the 'proper' bass line eventually, did anybody notice? did they f***

[quote name='phil.c60' timestamp='1427823475' post='2734731'] I had a bad case of sinusitis which made my left ear felt like it was under water. Eventually I wondered if it might be hearing loss from playing, but as I normally stand with the drummer on my right it was puzzling. Fortunately my hearing tested as normal (for my age) and the wateriness eventually disappeared but I invested in some ACS Pro earplugs because it did worry me at the time and I wish I'd done it years ago. I don't rehearse or play without them now, and if we're off to see a band I think will be loud I wear them then, too. When you think of what you spend on Basses, Amps and cabs why would you not spend proper money (mine were around £135) to protect one of the most important bits of kit you have that can't easily be repaired (if at all, in some cases). And like Discreet, I'm not normally a sensible person either! [/quote]do these ACS Pro plugs cut all frequencies? all the ones I've tried (generic fit ones I admit) have cut the upper frequencies far more than the lower ones despite what has been said on here, which means the fashion for having loud bass drums is made even worse, ok when you're playing bass though

I wear hearing aids, my loss is round about 6K, the audiologist insisted it wasn't playing in a band or going to gigs that did it but working in a noisy environment, funny how I've got tinnitus in my left ear then, being cack handed I always have the drummer on my left,

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1427805687' post='2734428'] We play all over the country and there are plenty of paying gigs available to us. I think that people expect the gig venues to remain the same over time, but that simply not what happens. I can only speak for what has happened here in Nottingham, but only a couple of the venues that were active back in 1980 when I moved here still put gigs on, and even just 10 years ago the venues were completely different ones to those operating today. Venues come and go, it's whether the overall gigging scene gets bigger that matter and here there's certainly far more, and far better opportunities for bands than any time I in the past as far as I recall. [/quote]talking of gigs, I see we're playing the same festival soon, Strummercamp

[quote name='CHW' timestamp='1427798537' post='2734298'] There are still pubs putting bands on but some I don't know how they do it. A gig prior to Christmas, that I did a gig where for the first set there were a total of 5 people in the pub, the landlord, a bar person and the half a dozen F&F & WAGS we bring along. The second set livened up but it seems a strange thing for a landlord to risk money on in those circumstances.. [/quote]I've wondered this but some landlords get an entertainment allowance from the Pub Co, so it doesn't come out of his pocket, well, not directly anyway, we played a pub recently where they openly said they could only guarantee us £100, that was their allowance, but would pay us more if it went well, in the end they gave us £200