Denmark Street.

[The Funk]

[quote name='bassaussie' post='191712' date='May 4 2008, 05:56 PM']As for the rest, yeah,Wunjo's is probably the pick of the bunch, although they're still very expensive. I doubt I'd ever spend money in Denmark Street.[/quote]

Brian at Wunjo will always do deals on things in the shop. A lot of the time you don't even have to ask.

[bassaussie]

[quote name='The Funk' post='191740' date='May 4 2008, 06:37 PM']Brian at Wunjo will always do deals on things in the shop. A lot of the time you don't even have to ask.[/quote]

Thanks for the tip. Next time I'm in there I'll keep that in mind. I just assumed their pricing would be similar to the rest of Denmark Street.

[Bass-ic]

i think i would like to be there for the show down.
Nice!
Matt

[stingrayfan]

The joke is that Denmark St ponce about like they're shops for pro musicians and anyone else is a tyrekicker. Last time I looked though, pro musicians got their the bulk of their stuff for free under sponsorship deals, so it's you and me that buy stuff.

So, why the attitude?

[Happy Jack]

[quote name='stingrayfan' post='191771' date='May 4 2008, 07:04 PM']So, why the attitude?[/quote]

Because they're not really shop assistants ... they're either struggling wannabe musicians or failed has-been musicians, and they're all paid peanuts.

[Vasquez Rich]

I'm always on the lookout for a nice T'Bird.. have been looking for 20 years (haha)... found one or two on Denmark Street last summer, only £249 more expensive than I can get Oop North... how they ever get anyone to buy anything is beyond me.

Richard

[Tee]

Nobody asked the question yet then? I'll probably be nosing around there tomorrow.

[FJ1200]

[quote name='Sibob' post='189978' date='May 1 2008, 08:31 PM']I also wanna be there when tBBC asks the question!! :-D, am only just outside london with constant jaunts in.

Maybe we should mount an 'intervention', all of us just turn up....."you know how you're perceived??"

haha

Si[/quote]


Nuts! I was just going to suggest that!

[Tee]

What, Flashmob style? lol.

[MacDaddy]

In fairness to the Bass Cellar, in 2002ish I bought a Kubicki from them, great discounted price, and he kept throwing lots of extra's in. This was the older baldy guy?

I have had a bad experience with The Bass Gallery, in terms of their customer service, but most folks on here who know them seem to love them.

Horses for courses and all that?

[misrule]

[quote name='Rich' post='190423' date='May 2 2008, 12:32 PM']That's what was so great about the Bass Centre (RIP) back in the Wapping glory days of the late 80s... you'd wander in there and a guy would approach you and the first thing he'd say after 'hello' was "Is there anything you'd like to try?". That's [i]try[/i], not buy. It was always kid/sweetshop time in there. I remember going in there once and telling him what I wanted from a bass... he sat me down at a Trace amp, pointed me at the free coffee m/c, and then brought me [i]fifteen [/i]different basses to try, gave me all the time I wanted, and never once prodded me for a decision or showed any sign of impatience... ahhh man, those were the days... [/quote]
I was working near the Bass Centre one Saturday in 1999, so I popped round to look at the acoustic guitars in the back. I arrived after 9am but found the place wasn't open until 10. However, a guy was carrying boxes out into the street -- and he waved me inside with a cheery "try anything you like".

So I sat for an hour on my own playing their hand-made stock in the humidified 'conservatory' place at the back. Not much there under a couple of grand.

And I bought a beauty which I still have. The bloke's attitude was an exercise in how to sell stuff.

Cheers

Mark

[Tee]

Perhaps the same bloke that served me in '99 when i bought a MIM Jazz and Trace Elliott combo there, all for a pretty reasonable price. However, a couple of years ago, i bought another bass there and the sales assistant dropped the bass on the floor right in front of me, seconds after i had said i'd buy it