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Ah, that’s a good idea and one I missed 👍

Re clingfilm or plastic, this is what I received from UPS when I did it….

That is the absolute bottom line, like many large organisations, they are characterised by a systematic absence of care for or responsibility towards their customers, they are largely unregulated, cover every possible example of professional failing on their part in small print, and make communication and complaint almost impossible 😡

Worm meet can 👍 Completely agree but aware others don’t 😆

What bass is it Jay?

….by which I mean the item was seriously damaged, not the box, their argument is that the box is there to soak up the damage and not to arrive in pristine condition!

They generally won’t reimburse unless it was fully insured AND it didn’t arrive or was SERIOUSLY damaged 😡

My heart sinks when anyone sends me anything via any courier these days 😕

Thanks Steve, it’s a nice one, price was right for a bass I can gig without too much stress but which is a truly vintage instrument in age, look, feel, and tone. It came with some VERY old rounds that normally wouldn’t be my thing, preferring flats on a Precision, but which just work so well on this. It’s one of those basses that I just want to pick up and play, and for whatever reason I haven’t found that with most of the basses I’ve owned. I won’t say it’s a keeper because experience dictates that’s an elusive quality, but I’m certainly enjoying having it 👍

My current vintage Fender BTW

I am of course inviting a load of flak by saying it, but I find that compared to a skinny neck, a nice a beefy Precision neck adds a little heft to the Jazz tone 👍

Not sure if any wide-necked Jazzes are manufactured however 🤔

I have two, one fretted and one fretless, both bitsas, both very nice, I’ll post some pics at the weekend 👍

Never take me too seriously 👌

100% this ^ I’d go so far as to say that with the possible exception of a refret I’d not let a tech near any of my basses. Every time a tech has ‘setup’ a bass for me I’ve had to reset it, the worse example being the guy who installed a new nut on a fretless with explicit instructions to replicate the exact depths of each slot of the nut that had broken, but who set it up to be almost unplayable below the third position the slots were so far off the board. ‘That’s how most people have it’ said he in his jaunty workmanlike tone…..

Fender QC strikes again 😆

By the way, that's pretty impressive even by courier standards, but having arrived at its intended destination within a reasonable period of time still has some way to go to beat Parcel Monkey and my lost then found then lost agin then living on a pig farm in Suffolk Mesa Boogie cab

Check with the courier first, cling film gets stuck in the sorting machines used by some firms. About 2 years back I sent a box protected in bin bags (neatly done) ands Interparcel charged me £30 fee for manual handling. When I told them to do one they pointed out that a) it's clearly written in their T&Cs and 2) they still had the package Funnily enough I literally just told the same story to a guy here who sent me a package covered in cling film and warned him to watch out for the invoice!

Thanks @Woodinblack re the above more than one of your fellow mods were/are aware 👍

It's a journey that I'm glad I've also come to the end of Lawrie 👍 (PS interesting point about dealers not wanting to buy back instruments they previoulsy sold......)

It's probably important that I make it clear that I have no hard evidence that I was being scammed, and it ended without acrimony. But it certainly felt like I was being scammed at the time (and that was also the view of few others I was keeping in the loop). It's quite possible that the appraisal of the bass given to the member in question was genuine if, as it transpired ill-informed, and that the member was acting in good faith. However the fact that it happened twice, plus the multiple BC IDs, tend to push my thinking in the opposite direction. Vintage Fenders are a big money business, there's a lot of emotions around the buying and ownership of them, so it's bound to attract some sharks

One of the least pleasant experiences I've had on BC was selling a '60s Precision to a 'member' (I use the inverted commas because he was 100% a dealer and anyway was technically 'members' plural as he had multiple Basschat IDs and was clever about doing it) in around 2008/9. He came back a few weeks after the sale and said he'd had the instrument independently verified as not original or authentic. Quite a lot of money had changed hands and this was a pretty anxiety-inducing thing, especially as I no longer had the money which had gone into a mortgage deposit. I'm a trusting person (less so now sadly, in part due to the guy in question), so my first worry was 'Shit, I've been sold a dud, didn't do my homework, and am possibly going to be left several thousand out of pocket'. Having said that, two guys on here had looked at all the evidence and had given it the all clear. The buyer sent me what appeared to be a professional appraisal of the instrument and indicated that he was expecting a significant cash refund, interestingly not a reversal of the deal, IIRC I had told him I was only selling the bass to put money into the mortgage so he kinda had me over a barrel. I said I would go back to the original seller who, to his credit, went straight to business and produced not only a lot of documentary evidence relating to past ownership but also cast significant empirical doubt on the detail of the 'professional appraisal' I had a PM from a long standing member a year or so later suggesting the same guy had done something similar. I messaged the mods about it. I also messaged the 'member/s' and told him/them I was wise to his multiple IDs and wondered why he would do it as it shouts 'dodgy'. I didn't mention the fact that he appeared to be trying to scam members by using dubious facts about instruments, I should have done, and I certainly would now. Is he still a member here? I'd be surprised if not, although I imagine with different usernames

Interestingly when I open the cabin doors and windows the humidity in the room increases. Might just be the weather yesterday and today, and we are also in a natural dip in the middle of a lot of trees and farmland. But I assume air moving around the cabin constantly is probably more important that the minute to minute humidity of that air?

I get that mate, and I doubt there was any trouble that night, but when a landlord suggests you leave in that situation, you leave 👍