Thomann selling Harley Benton basses as 'Decoration only'

[Chienmortbb]

14 minutes ago, Pea Turgh said:

My saved link to the Deko page no longer works.  Are the days of Deko deals gone for good?

Mine has not worked for some time.

[lemmywinks]

It was there about a week ago in the accessories section, funnily enough checked earlier today and it's gone. Wasn't anything in there the last few times I've looked though.

[tauzero]

I've had the occasional look over the last few years but haven't seen anything. Maybe they've balanced supply and demand so they don't need to flog off the overstock dead cheap any more.

[Maude]

The deko thing was crazy. I bought, and still own, four acoustics for £120, and none of them needed anything drastic doing. 

I think a lot of the problems with their acoustics was uneven output from the piezo elements. A little fine tuning with some slips of paper/card and all mine are fine. The fretted acoustic had a high 17th fret but I just tapped it down and gave it little filing to level. 

I nabbed a fretted and fretless uke bass, and 34" fretless and a 32" fretted bass. The 32" is particularly nice and a jump up from the basic acoustic that most of the dekos were. 

[tauzero]

I bought an electroacoustic classical guitar and a fretless 5-string electroacoustic bass. Can't find any fault with them.

[kodiakblair]

On 09/11/2023 at 20:16, Pea Turgh said:

Are the days of Deko deals gone for good?

They've been gone for years, at least 2 maybe 3.

[Bassassin]

I somehow never managed to nab a single Deko, despite checking regularly. Really wanted one of their T-Bird clones for £40, before they changed the body shape.