last few hours for a WAL

[Kev]

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=280220857427&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=018"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...A:IT&ih=018[/url]

i think the reserve is £2200, goin off a guy who kept bidding til he got to the reserve, and then pulled his bid...

[BB2000]

Is anyone up to date with the value of Mark 1's? Is this sale out of the ordinary or is it a typical price. (I have some in much better condition that this - one of them could pass as new.)

[Kev]

its seems like it went for more than it should have, £2700 just seems too much

[WalMan]

Hells bells!!!!! That's just madness

[Wil]

That's a stunning bass, but that kind of money is ridiculous.

[The_D]

I played one just like it at the start of last month at a jam session I played at. Very nice bass but have to agree that £2700 is a bit much.

[Kev]

i can't see how it can be justified to pay over 2k for one really, doesnt a g&l bass get a similar tone?? cant remember the model

[BB2000]

Actually, I guess they are worth that. I was wondering today if I'd sell my favourite Wal for £2700 --- and I wouldn't.

[The_D]

[quote name='BB2000' post='191995' date='May 5 2008, 02:14 AM']Actually, I guess they are worth that. I was wondering today if I'd sell my favourite Wal for £2700 --- and I wouldn't.[/quote]

Valid point. I suppose its all relative. I couldnt justify any more than £2k for a bass.

[WalMan]

[quote name='BB2000' post='191995' date='May 5 2008, 02:14 AM']Actually, I guess they are worth that. I was wondering today if I'd sell my favourite Wal for £2700 --- and I wouldn't.[/quote]
Sort of my thoughts as well, though a leap in prices like this does seem madness.

Every year I up the insurance on mine - and it is nothing particularly special and nothing like what I paid. I suppose it has to do with Pete retiring.

I would love a 5'er, but unless my premium bonds come up better than they have I cannot see that ever happening now. Could help out my pension pot I suppose, but I cannot really see me ever letting mine go.

[cetera]

[quote name='BassManKev' post='191989' date='May 5 2008, 01:26 AM']i can't see how it can be justified to pay over 2k for one really, doesnt a g&l bass get a similar tone?? cant remember the model[/quote]

Er.... NOTHING sounds like a Wal.....!

The price is all relative. I'm not sure I'd let mine go for £2700 either....

[Kev]

ye but thats sentimental, not because the bass is actually worth that much in cash to you

for someone to BUY one for £2700, they either have serious idle wannabe disease, or they have far too much money, which they must have got from selling their common sense...

Edited May 5, 2008 by BassManKev

[warwickhunt]

An instrument is worth what 'someone else' is prepared to pay for it! If people are paying £2k - £2.7k for a Wal, then that is the value of them. Conversely, I've just sold a NT' 91 Warwick Streamer that I personally rated as a very good and desirable bass which would have cost you the thick end of £1.5k 17 years ago... I sold it for £600 as that was its value to the bass playing populace

You can discuss the vagaries of fashion and/or supply and demand until the cows come home but ultimately you put an instrument up for general consumption and the buyers decide its worth.

[chris_b]

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='192629' date='May 6 2008, 07:26 AM']An instrument is worth what 'someone else' is prepared to pay for it! If people are paying £2k - £2.7k for a Wal, then that is the value of them. Conversely, I've just sold a NT' 91 Warwick Streamer that I personally rated as a very good and desirable bass which would have cost you the thick end of £1.5k 17 years ago... I sold it for £600 as that was its value to the bass playing populace

You can discuss the vagaries of fashion and/or supply and demand until the cows come home but ultimately you put an instrument up for general consumption and the buyers decide its worth.[/quote]
+1. Wal's are a classic. They look good, feel good and sound even better. £2,700 is not far off the price of a Wal when new so it isn't that expensive. Because they are such a good bass coupled with their rarity value you should all be buying one now as the prices will be a lot higher in the future.
I'll be selling mine when they reach £10,000.

[franzbassist]

Three basses (two Mk 1s and a Mk 3) have sold on eBay in the last week, all for £2k+! Interestingly, the Mk 3 went for the "smallest", which I guess means people regard the Mk 1 as the "classic" Wal to have.

I think this is all to do with Pete retiring, and the uncertainty for future production that this has created, but from what I understand the Wal marque will continue, and importantly be in very good hands, when it does resurface.

Cheers

Gareth

[Kev]

the mk3 was by far the nicest imo

[cetera]

[quote name='BassManKev' post='192551' date='May 5 2008, 11:25 PM']ye but thats sentimental, not because the bass is actually worth that much in cash to you

for someone to BUY one for £2700, they either have serious idle wannabe disease, or they have far too much money, which they must have got from selling their common sense...[/quote]

It's actually worth much more than that in cash to me.

Thanks for your well thought out opinion on the matter....

[shaundixon666]

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/WAL-CUSTOM-BASS-1986-made-april-1985_W0QQitemZ140229318780QQihZ004QQcategoryZ4713QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/WAL-CUSTOM-BASS-1986...1QQcmdZViewItem[/url]

[Kev]

[quote name='cetera' post='193062' date='May 6 2008, 04:47 PM']It's actually worth much more than that in cash to me.

Thanks for your well thought out opinion on the matter.... [/quote]
perhaps your not following what im saying

yes, im sayin it may well indeed be worth £2700 to you, but for someone who has never had a wal before, to spend £2700 buying one is crazy money

[cetera]

[quote name='BassManKev' post='192551' date='May 5 2008, 11:25 PM']for someone to BUY one for £2700, they either have [b]serious idle wannabe disease, or they have far too much money, which they must have got from selling their common sense...[/b][/quote]

Re-read your own statement. Who are you to say any of that?

I stand by my original reply.

[Kev]

again, what i am saying is that somebody who isn't loaded would not go around spending £2700 on one unless they were obsessed with idle's tone, however someone with more money than sense would have no problem with it.

Edited May 8, 2008 by BassManKev

[cetera]

Or, as in my case..... I played a Wal at the Bass Centre in the mid/late 80's & couldn't afford one as I was a student. Many years later & having invested in my equipment & bought and sold to get better gear I found myself in a position where I could buy two (fretted & fretless) of the very bass I'd wanted for all those years.

I don't have more money than sense. I worked hard and saved/traded to a point where I could get them.

I know you want a Wal.... and one day you may have one..... but in the meantime don't slate those that do or choose to buy one for a price out of your current budget.

[Sercet]

The price you pay for a bass depends on how much disposable income you have. When I was sixteen, I never imagined ever having the money to buy more than one bass...or to spend more than £300 on a bass. Now I have more than one bass. The most I have paid is just under £2,000. I can't imagine spending more than £2,200 on a bass...but who knows, when I get my earnings up to £500,000 per year and my mortgage has gone my limit might be £2,500.

I'd like a late sixties Rickenbacker. I've never had one, but I would pay £2,200 for one.



Steve