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Here's a slightly prophetic one I found at my parents the other day... A 16yr old me wearing a T-Shirt that says 'Reuben' on it. 22 years later we now have a 2yr old son called Reuben!

I once found a few dozen very intimate personal photographs in the front pocket of a gig bag that came with a Stagg Strat I'd bought locally for £20... Definitely saw more than I'd bargained for! Promptly returned the photos to the person without thumbing through the entire stash!

Sellotape a piece of paper to the back of the chair with the word 'Soiled' written on it and at the end of the day move it to a corner, away from a desk. People wont risk using it.

Is that the new Fodera you've got slung over your shoulder?

Google it, I dare you..

Mine is relic'd after a hot curry.

If you remove one letter from each word you'd have 'Anus Asses'. There, it's been said.

Trolls be trolling... best response is no response (said the hypocrite...)

No social media at all here. Deleted my FB account over a decade ago. Never had an X/Twitter/Instagram account. Though I suppose BassChat is a form of social media... So I'm guilty of that.

@SteveXFR - I have a Marshall VBA400 full stack I'm debating moving on... That'd filth you right up! Just saying... 😉

Two 'Best Purchases' for me, nothing particularly bad this year... First is a Warwick Streamer LX that I got from eBay for an absolute steal. Needed new tuners (which I got from here!) and new strings, which I had, other than that its in exceptional condition and sounds brutal with that awesome Warwick growl. The second, was a Tamburo Opera Stave 7 piece kit with a full suite of Meinl Custom Classic Dark cymbals. This is an astonishing kit... FAR better than I deserve, but I love it.

I'm willing to bet he'll be let off with nothing more than a slap on the wrist... probably in the form of a warning and a £50 victims surcharge fee. This country is a joke for bringing anyone to any form of real justice.

Free delivery too if you order 198 of them! Genuinely slightly tempted to do that and spend the next 500 years shifting them at £5.99 a piece via eBay... A top bulk buy if someone wanted to take their full inventory.

£350 for a Cort A6 is a bit of a steal anyway!

Oh I do... but, only with those sellers/members that I know to be relatively trustworthy! I've met a good number of the BC higher operators in person and never really had any issues, I once had a problem with a Mesa I bought from a well known member, and they were absolutely superb in terms of communication and eventual resolution. If buying from a newbie, then yes, I'd expect no more or less security than on eBay etc. but veterans of the site are, for the most part (except me, I'm a terrible human and those that have met me will confirm!) are, by in large, to be trusted more so than those you have no bearing on.

This topic has been raised numerous times with the same opinions offered. If someone is happy to sell an item to someone for price A and the buyer then does a little tinkering, freshens it up, plays it for a while, then sells it on for price B (higher) I really don't see the problem. The problem would be if the buyer misled the seller by saying something like "Please can you sell it a little cheaper as I only have X much cash and this is an item I have always wanted" and then they flip it for a profit straight away. I have bought literally thousands of guitars and basses over the years, my 'buying rule of thumb' is to never buy something for a price where I'll likely loose money if I sell it. This has given me a fantastic opportunity to play with more basses/guitars/amps than I EVER would have had I paid absolute top dollar all the time. It's also meant many many people have made a sale at a price they were happy with. Being honest, on balance I've probably made a little money on most basses etc. I've ended up moving on down the line, but they have typically left me in better condition than they arrived. I've also sold basses to known BassChatters at X price to the see it listed for a much higher price a week later. So be it, I sold the bass so I then don't have a stake in what that buyer does with it after that - I've got my cash. While direct profiteering might not be in the spirit of BassChat, I don't have an objection to it so long as the seller wasn't misled by the buyer. We dont complain at Bass Direct and Bass Bros making their back end, nor about literally any shop we buy anything from. Just my two cents!

I'm travelling from Essex to Manchester on Monday. I can't make any major detour as I'll be very tight for time, but if this seller can drop the bass off at either the Ford Dunton Technical Centre before 10am Monday (when I'm leaving) or his address is very close to the north side of the M25, I might be able to help...

I know the difference between Magistrates and Crown Court. My question was how does that comment confirm that it was in the Magistrates Court and has now been kicked upstairs to the Crown Court?