Too good to be true?

[Elvis Valentine]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Precision-Bass-Rare-colour-combination-Beautiful-P-Bass-/261192705761?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item3cd04c66e1

[jackers]

So he is saying it's a fender custom shop but doesn't show the certificate, (also I don't think custom shop orders had the S-1 system did they?), and saying he bought it from denmark street but the location is marked as China....smells very iffy to me. Also, a zero feedback seller doesn't help matters.

I would say that, at best, it's an early 2000s US Fender, and at worst it's a Chinese copy with a Fender sticker.

Edited April 1, 2013 by jackers

[topo morto]

[url="http://www.intone8.co.uk/usa-fender-precision-bass-stunning-rare-colour-combination/"]http://www.intone8.co.uk/usa-fender-precision-bass-stunning-rare-colour-combination/[/url]

PM him and ask him why the move from Glasgow to China...

[warwickhunt]

What's too good to be true?

It's a Fender (possibly) which he ordered from a shop; he actually doesn't say that it is a CS and at present it is £82... that sounds like a bargain atm!

[warwickhunt]

I should add that I wouldn't touch it with a bargepole!

[BassBus]

Why would someone in China buy an American custom shop Fender when they make perfectly good copies of that bass in China with Fender on the headstock ;-)

...Allegedly [size=4] [/size]

[Elvis Valentine]

Lol. Yes all very valid points. I mean yeah for 82 buckeroos its a bargain im sure , assuming he would send you it. No feedback first transaction too.

[Elvis Valentine]

Also is a candy apple red p bass with rosewood fret board not pretty normal?

[dustandbarley]

[url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Precision-Bass-Rare-colour-combination-Beautiful-P-Bass-/181113861167?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2a2b3a342f"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Precision-Bass-Rare-colour-combination-Beautiful-P-Bass-/181113861167?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2a2b3a342f[/url]
and again
[url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Precision-Bass-Rare-colour-combination-Beautiful-P-Bass-/271182562258?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item3f23bd83d2"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Precision-Bass-Rare-colour-combination-Beautiful-P-Bass-/271182562258?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item3f23bd83d2[/url]
Here it is again - different seller?
Whats happening with the back to back bass / guitar combos in his other items?

[steve-soar]

[quote name='dustandbarley' timestamp='1364830696' post='2031387']
[url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Precision-Bass-Rare-colour-combination-Beautiful-P-Bass-/181113861167?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2a2b3a342f"]http://www.ebay.co.u...=item2a2b3a342f[/url]
and again
[url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Precision-Bass-Rare-colour-combination-Beautiful-P-Bass-/271182562258?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item3f23bd83d2"]http://www.ebay.co.u...=item3f23bd83d2[/url]
Here it is again - different seller?
Whats happening with the back to back bass / guitar combos in his other items?
[/quote]Well, what happened was that in 2006, 3 young Chinese friends visited London and all went into a shop and ordered identical basses. Then they all decided to sell them at the same time. Oh and they all have exactly the same houses too. There, totally legit.
You shower of suspicious bastards.

[Elvis Valentine]

Somebody bough one of em for £310 i hope they dont pay before realising.

[yorks5stringer]

I think only charging £20 for postage from China would be enough to set alarm bells ringing, never mind anything else!

[Phil Adams]

Reminds me of the Not the Nine O'clock News sketch where the auctioneer introduces lot No 298 "the Caymann Blue" (postage stamp) thought to be the only one in existence etc etc. It sells for 3.5 million or something like that.
Next is lot No 299..... another Caymann Blue