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Surely that is a shorty?

Not really true, the margins on the smaller gear are better, they're cheaper to transport around the globe, and are often replaced more quickly, so they're what are being pushed at the marketplace by the manufacturers. People have a habit of buying what's being marketed to them. The market place never decides with new gear, the manufacturers decide. In fact, it's not the manufacturers who decide, its the accountants or consultants working for those manufacturers who decide. It's why, for example EBMM withdrew the US SUBs, Nike withdrew the Pegasus etc. They needed to control a market in which the the buyer appeared to be thriving, i.e., the products were that good they were hurting profits elsewhere, which is the last thing the companies in question want. You think music gear is any different to other consumer products, dream on.

It's called an internet forum, and guess what, it reflects how people discuss these things in real life. You never had an opinion based on your experience or are you above it all?

I do agree with that, I look at the way courier have to work these days and don't want anything vaguely valuable in their care, not unless it's sent by a shop who will take responsibility.

Well you found it?

Read the T&Cs!!! Seriously, this is why some many people get whizzed with couriers, if someone send me a cab in bubble wrap I'd want to strangle them, mostly because it tears really easily and there goes all of the protection for the cab. Bubble wrap to protect cab, box to prtect bubble wrap, tape to protect box. That's how you do it, it's about respect for the buyer also

Mate, I'd venture that even I could copy that bass body shape using a jigsaw, get the pockets and routs done professionally and away you go

No, that just means you didn't read the T&Cs before you paid for the insurance

Small print is small print, that's your lookout But if you pay the reseller, and not the courier, for insurance, and as long as you've read the small print and exclusions and you are covered, they probably have to honour it (I'm happy to be told otherwise as this is obviously thorny). Interparcel have sorted a few issues for me, and to their credit, on one occasion when I booked a courier to collect an amp I bough on BC and the flipping idiot i bought it from put it in a crap box with no protection wrapped with sellotape. Guess what, it got broken. I think that was UPS, it was along time ago for sure, but I remember thinking at the time that I doubt the courier would have been so helpful.

And those are 'ridiculous terms and conditions'?

That's not my experience, using Interparcel to book a UPS delivery appears to negate the type of problems the OP described? Can you provide some of the ridiculous terms and conditions in question?

I think that any thread started by 51m0n about his new compressor is one that folks should take as being about as good an endorsement of that compressor as possible

Well put, for some reason everyone had failed to say it quite that effectively above

No, when it happened to me I underestimated the weight, and when that underestimate goes into the algorithm they use, which was clearly designed by an accountant not a logistician, it comes out as wrong dimensions. Go figure

Must try harder Jack

Fixed it for you Luke

That was both a joke about relics and a relic joke at one and the same time Jack

I was being slightly tongue in cheek, but good to hear

Quick screenshot of the bass for those who can't watch the vid

The more you deal with people on the internet the more you realise just how weird people are. I had something very similar happen with an interface about 10 years ago. Guy bought it, no hassle BIN, then within minutes of it having arrived I received a 'Seller Has Requested a Return' email. Apparently it didn't work when he plugged it in. It arrived back about a week later and the first thing I noticed was that the power supply was still completely wrapped up in the foam as I'd packed it, blue tape on white foam. Second two of the sliders no longer had tops. Plugged it in, worked fine. Most parsimonious explanation? The guy needed to replace the sliders on his matching interface? Possibly something more complex, but yes, people are odd. But as HKH said, you couldn't make this stuff up. you sure it's the same bass

Lovely playing, do you think that bass sounds all that different, or do you think that fact that it looks different makes us think it does. That style of playing seems to be the new slap in terms of demoing a bass, and to my ear, you're nearly always hearing the player and the style as opposed to the bass (which was often true of the slap vids also) Love the look of the bass. Chances of Fender rolling it out. Zero

That's certainly true

And all because a courier company don't know how to deliver parcels Sorry to hear that mate. Don't want to rub it in, but it could have been much worse

This place is a really good community, people talk stinky poo occasionally (mostly me), bicker occasionally, disagree strongly occasionally, and sometimes get into an argument for the sake of it, and there's a few members who clearly don't like each other, but these are no different to what you would see in any community. There've been a couple of dodgy members who were/are here purely to take advantage of that community spirit in commercial terms, but generally speaking, there's a sense of mutual respect and looking after each other on here that means we suffer very few of the problems that come with buying and selling on the internet (and there have been some lovely gestures made to people who have lost out on here). Just take a minute to think just how much gear moves around this forum with virtually no issues? Compare that to eBay!!!!!! A few times recently new members have come on clearly looking for a fight and haven't lasted long because they're expecting the more usual internet rules ala Facebook Marketplace or YouTube. People need to understand that this is a local forum for local people All joking aside, well done to Ped and the mod team, I've given you all a lot of crap over the years about various things, and got into some frankly daft discussions at times, but this really is an outstanding place. How many other forums could you have a full on argument with someone you've never met about something life critical such as, I don't know, how many string windings there should be on a tuner, and a couple of weeks later bump into them in person at a BC Bash and be greeted as an old friend.