Beedster

With action you could drive a bus under, fret buzz is rather an unlikely side effect anyway, and I'm not sure why a bass being stood for a while would entail the neck being adjusted either. The guy doesn't really know what he's talking about, I'd wait and find one that is trouble free. But if you decide to go anyway, under no circumstances should you take a truss rod adjuster with you to test it, you move it and it breaks you could end up in a tricky situation. Take a very good look at the bass, check out the relief, string gauges and nut slots, have a very good look at the truss rod access (has it clearly been used a lot) and make a judgement call. Fender necks are not immune to being crap - not often but it does happen - and you don't want to land yourself a unusable instrument that's out of warranty. Good luck

Strings do look quite chunky which could be a factor if he’s changed them from original and not accounted for the extra tension in his set-up?

Could be as simple as a 1/4 - 1/2 turn on the truss rod, could be something more problematic. I’d not drive a long way to find out it’s the latter, perhaps ask the seller some more focussed questions re neck relief etc before going ahead?

Come on mate, tell us what you really think 😆 Kinda agree though 👍

All joking aside, most people can play a bass guitar but very few of then can play bass, let her have a go and likely show which camp she’s in 👍

Tell her you want to play keys on a few songs?

Nice one @Happy Jack 👍

Now you’ve decided that I’ll mention fret wear also, could in theory mess with things

….and the side dots invisible 👍

I must have missed the posts where people weren't? We've a shop selling for a very large amount of money an instrument that I doubt they have the expertise to fully evaluate (examples being misinterpretation of serial number, supposed originality of case, and the fact that if you go back through their sold inventory they generally deal in basses that sell for a small percentage of what they're asking for this), and a few folks have pointed out some of the issues. Even if the PG were original - which seems unlikely - the finish looks like no other '62 I've seen - and yes while each instrument fades differently there are some boundaries to how far that difference operates. I won't go into details but I suspect at least one member here has been drawn into buying a 'rare' bass from a reputable seller only to find that it's not what they believed they were buying and the seller hiding behind the commission sale excuse. Feels this thread and the other thread about the same bass are doing a public service? OK, might be 100% genuine and original, but there's nothing like enough info from the shop to suggest that's the case, and a lot of reasons to suggest it's not?

Ironically indeed mate

Completely, it's either branding genius or the opposite, I suspect the latter

And then there's the various SUB configs....... 🤔

Think we’ve been over this instrument a few times already, incompetent sale at best, dishonest sale if not

No need, once you've tuned up and down your strings a few hundred it's job done 👍

But damn, even mention of the words 'Prodigy Four 88' has sparked by symptoms again

Probably cheaper to replace the pub?

Lovely, totally agree re backline, my heart no longer misses several beats when I see either/both of the words 'Mesa' or 'Boogie' on BC/eBay/Reverb

Damn, so far from being the disease, Basschatitis is in fact the treatment?

An effective treatment for me has been switching almost exclusively to upright, where the costs and logistics of gear experimentation and switching are so ludicrous as to force me to stick with the same two instruments (one of which I've owned since 2015), strings, and PUPs for several multiples of their electric bass equivalent. That for largely audio reasons I need to use PA rather than backline adds a further layer to the treatment 👍

Lots of symptoms, not seeing many treatments?

That's a level expertise and experience that does it for me 👍