topo morto Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=331159353161&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:GB:3160"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=331159353161&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:GB:3160[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gjones Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 I wonder what the story of this is. If you don't play an instrument, why keep it in the back of a cupboard? It looks like a 62 reissue, and looking at the age of the case it's likely to be one of the early eighties US ones rather than a Japanese. 6 days to go and already at £399. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topo morto Posted March 23, 2014 Author Share Posted March 23, 2014 The ticket on it says '62 Vintage Precision bass, so a reissue of some kind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warwickhunt Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 The classic 'I don't know what it is' marketing ploy! P L EASE... if you have a chuffin expensive musical instrument in the back of your cupboard that you have owned for a couple of years then of course you know what it is! IMHO he's hoping that some gullible inexperienced player/investor will think this is a genuine 62 and that they are stealing it from under the nose of a witless novice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreek Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Thanks fellas - answered the daft question I was about to ask... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiliwailer Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 (edited) Amazing how we often [size=4]think the worst of people, sign of the times.[/size] The guy has added the serial number so it's obvious what it is now. Edited March 23, 2014 by Chiliwailer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warwickhunt Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Far better to err on the side of caution and be very wary of anyone claiming to not be an expert (in fact as soon as I read those words my default mode is that they are trying to pull a fast one... that and it was found in a loft/belongs to a friend etc.) than to get stiffed and try and complain after. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warwickhunt Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Well there was one person thinking it was genuine... they've withdrawn their bid. [size=4] [/size] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauzero Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 Looks like there's a Nady wireless included too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Jack Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 [quote name='Chiliwailer' timestamp='1395603141' post='2404253'] Amazing how we often think the worst of people, sign of the times. [/quote] [i]"Ok so having been asked by so many people about the date written on the end on the fingerboard I have had someone come round and remove it ..."[/i] It's quite hard to read that sentence without a certain amount of cynicism creeping in. No matter how hard I try to put a positive spin on it, it still translates as: "[i]Oops! someone spotted it - damn!"[/i]. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemmywinks Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 [quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1395736087' post='2405542'] [i]"Ok so having been asked by so many people about the date written on the end on the fingerboard I have had someone come round and remove it ..."[/i] [/quote] Says this now: [i]"Ok so having been asked by so many people about the date written on the end on the fingerboard I have had someone come round and remove it and it is handwritten on the end 12-03-82 so im guessing its a 1982 reissue model."[/i] Maybe he is just someone with lots of free money who bought a guitar on a whim, possibly under the same ambiguous "found this in my loft, could be a collectors' piece" sales pitch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Jack Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 Understood Lemmy, but why would he get someone to come round and remove a date written on the fretboard unless he knew it was a fake date? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul S Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 I read that as a slightly garbled way of saying the neck was removed to reveal the hand written date, which would make more sense. Anyway, no matter how many times I check in my loft and or the back of my cupboards, I still haven't found any valuable basses there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle psychosis Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 [quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1395739580' post='2405575'] Understood Lemmy, but why would he get someone to come round and remove a date written on the fretboard unless he knew it was a fake date? [/quote] He got someone to come round and remove the fingerboard (neck) so that the date could be read. Its poor English, not necessarily any kind of scam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Jack Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 Bwahahahaha!!! Good spot - I never got that at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topo morto Posted March 30, 2014 Author Share Posted March 30, 2014 Went for £1,270.00 - seems on the high side..? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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