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I picked up this rather nice Peavey USA made TL-Six today. For a 30ish year old bass, it's in immaculate condition - no marks anywhere except a teeny tiny little scuff on the very tip of the headstock, other than that, you could pass it off a new. It needed a near full 360 turn of the truss to take out the relief in the neck and the Kahler bridge wasn't very well spaced, I've moved it to 17mm spacing. All in, a rather tasty beast in fairly astonishing condition! Came with all the original case candy and the original hard case too.

There's only one thing for it... A Spock vs Shatner style Duel to the death!!!

I buy basses/guitars fairly regularly. Mostly to try them for fun, things I've not owned before. I only ever buy if the price is right as I want to almost guarantee I can get my money back or even maybe turn a small profit as and when I sell. Though some will always stay with me (unless dire financial situations means I need to sell). I'd rather have a few fun instruments to play than cash in the bank - if I need the cash I can liquidate an instrument in fairly short order. Money in the bank does nothing and earns nothing, so I'd rather enjoy a nice bass for a few months then sell it on (or maybe keep it!) than have cash doing nowt in the bank. I quite enjoy hunting for something interesting, so for me I'd say it's not 'filling a hole' so to speak, it's more a hobby I enjoy and an alternative to having cash savings.

To be fair, Tauzero has a point! Links are pretty much essential in these threads! 🙂

You should sell it to me... it'll look great next to my black one!

Recently sold Keith an acoustic guitar case - he paid up promptly, good communication throughout. Another credit to Basschat, would definitely be happy to deal with again!

Having Googled "Warwick Stage Systems" (including the quotation marks to ensure Google searches the exact phrase) it does show a small handful of other similar speakers in the image section - most appear to have been 'for sale' ads in Europe. Best guess would be that Warwick were looking to venture into the PA world, ran out a few prototypes/low production units, and decided it wasn't worth the time! It's probably a very well built and good quality beast! Doubt it'd be worth a huge amount. Looks very 'Accugroove'. An interesting piece!

They might argue it, but if you show them the messages (they should have access to the anyway) that proves he bought it expecting postage when your auction clearly didn't offer postage, then they'll waive the full fee - or at least have done before!

They should honour that offer as well. They did in my case based on the fact its not your fault the buyer clearly ignored your conditions of sale.

eBay will refund you the sales cost or allow you to re-list with no charge if you show evidence of the buyer doing what they've done. I've had that before and they waived the fee I incurred.

Different amp sir

I have a new one I'd sell for £318... 😉

In my personal experience, I've never owned a Squier Strat that couldn't be set up to be played really nicely. I bought a Squier Strat from a bootsale a few months back for £20, initially it played like a dog. It took me about 45 minutes to set it up properly - now it plays beautifully. Squiers are generally pretty decent first guitars and if you have a teeny bit of know-how you can get them playing to a standard that exceeds their price point. I'd steer clear of 'Starcasters', they're the super low budget Argos type version. Now they are a bit crap... All my humble opinion, but I say it with a fair amount of experience in setting up cheaper guitars to play at their best.

T'riffic offer sir... The Epiphone would probably be a better fit for a starter, when they're set up properly they're great players, and has 'that look' that any budding guitarist would want!

There's a chap selling a Jackson DS24 DKAM for £125... that's pretty cheap for a decent spec guitar in what looks like top condition.

I was on the fence and I have to say, I'm glad I bought one. It's definitely better than I'd imagined and if you don't like it, either return it or play with it for a few months then lob it on eBay and make your money back plus a quid or two extra!

I play 6 string bass half a step down and it didn't miss a beat during yesterday's 4 hour practice.

That's not in the basschat spirit to keep an amp for that long!!! That TA503 was actually my very first foray into MarkBass amps, I remember it being a great little amp, it's what made me get the SD1200!

Well, I've just plugged mine in and compared it to the Trickfish Bullhead 1K... Personally, I prefer the Trickfish, but by a FAR far smaller margin than I was anticipating. I've had the privilege to own and use a sizable number of excellent amps over the years, (Mesa M-Pulsa, Mesa Strategy Eight:88, GR Bass Dual 1400, Markbass SD1200, Markbass Multiamp, Orange AD200B, Trace Elliott V4, among numerous others!) and I will quite honestly say that this pokey little £149 purchase is an astonishingly good bit of kit for the price! Everything in it has a use, nothing superfluous, the fan is quite quiet, the LEDs behind the push buttons and master volume are a great touch, the build quality easily rivals brands costing 5 or even 10 times the cost. I would bet VERY good money, that if you stack this little critter up in a blind sound test against 5 other amps costing 10 times as much and told someone that one amp was £149 and the other 5 were +£1500 that this one would not be identified as the cheapest of the lot! If you're on the fence about buying one... get off the fence! £149 is absurd for this. And this is coming from someone who's last three amps were a Mesa Strategy Eight:88, a GR Bass Dual 1400 and a Trickfish Bullhead 1K.