Waddo Soqable

Well had a response and I'll copy paste it here.. It's a case of yes it was misleading, oops it was a mistake, send it back for refund or tough titty... Not especially good customer treatment IMHO... Here's what they said... Hi - the 9.10 was misleading I am sorry it was a cut and paste error, however we did price the bass based on it’s condition as these are the USA basses so we usually sell for around £799 upwards. I understand you are not happy but there is not much I can do on yhe price I am afraid. We can collect and refund if you do not wish to keep and the bass and I am sorry for the confusing description but it was a razy week with stock so I messed up the description. Kind regards

Pretty much always mis-spelled like that now, as far as I can see...

..obviously Breadhead w@nkers only need apply...

I'll drop them a mail later, I'd hope they'd make gesture of a modest rebate of some kind.. I'll hang on to it tho rather than just throw it back at them ! The neck's not sticky fortunately, just been walloped a bit and attacked with sandpaper.. i'll try polishing it out myself first.. a proper refinish would doubtless be ideal, tho I suspect wouldn't be cheap !

Yes it's a nice enough example other than that... I'll probably have a go at polishing out the back of the neck to lose the sandpaper 'work' and try to level the edge markers.. it's almost like someone's replaced the side dots and left them deliberately raised in order to 'feel' them with his thumb or somesuch !

Ok, it turned up, impressive next day courier as compared to previous experience with DHL idiots!.. anyway been fiddling with it, and interesting to compare side by side with a cheapo Sub I've got, obviously the MM sub has way more 'sound' especially on the treble 'clang' end ! its been 'set up' very low and rattles like old widow panes, but I'll muck about with that myself.. the slight disappointment being there's some nasty gouges out of the back of neck and some eejit has been at them with sandpaper, also the neck edge markers look to have been re-glued in with big lumps of some type of adhesive, and on fret 5 looks like someone's tried to dig it off and left a right mess.. tbh the above IMHO takes it well below the sellers 9/10 rating, and wasn't mentioned in the descrip.! I may email Bass Direct with pics and pull them up on this, if I'd gone to see it in person i'd have been haggling down a bit on price due to this.. anyway I enclose a few pics for Il Professore.. I may swap the orig. silver pickguard over for the black one (obviously retaining the original ) as I prefer the look.. it's a straight swap fit even the screw holes, so no butchery!

He's got a diddy little headless bass there too hasn't he ? !

Sent pm ! 👍

When it rocks up I'll do some just for you professor... Meanwhile here's some interesting Russian Cyrillic for you to study....

That is unlucky. You must buy more.. 👍

I used to have a Hohner Jack headless bass, on that I was able to adjust for a decent low action, it was actually a very good bass ...purely IMHO...sounded great ( active elecs but you could switch them off if you wanted) I used it for gigs and it did the job well. I prefer the headless ones with a "body" myself, not keen on the little cricket bat things, again just IMHO .

You'll have to make do with the pics on their site till I have it in my hand ! ( hopefully tomorrow if what they say is true) ..curiously it still appears on their site as if it's available, would've thought they'd have put "Sold" on the listing by now. hey ho

Spoke to them on phone this morning, all good ...they also sent an email confo, tho I was out and about so didn't see it til later. Supposedly, they say, it should arrive tomorrow, which is pretty impressive ( if it turns up !)

Lovely stuff!....u gots no taste innit !!!!

Will do 👍. How many unwanted cans do you have then?

Plywood body..

Well is good we all like different stuff i guess ! ( bung the rest in the post to me eh !!! )

Probably more just that he was whats-his-face's brother..

Good rundown thanks for that 👍 .. Funnily enough I was watching a ratty looking "passive" one on evilbay that was start price of 550, so this one looks a very fair buy in comparison. ( never knew they did passive MMs at all )

True, I'm just still narked by those GAK / DHL nobs... !

Sheesh!... Inspired by old Michael Bubble no doubt....

We!l done, it was bugging me who it was !... I bet those guys did most of the "heavy lifting" on the track too, I'm sure I've heard Trevor Nelson talking about it somewhere...

Good to know BD have a decent rep. as a seller anyway, I've heard of them, but not ever bought from them before. Would have been nice to have had a confo email from them by now tho ( maybe they do it by hand, not automated ) It's a very long time since I had a proper Stingray so comparison will be tinged with memory clouds !