Annoying Twit Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 I don't have the message any more, but I've had a discussion with him. Months, if not years, ago. At that point he said that he was looking for offers in about the £850 region. I didn't ask him how much he'd spent on it. Now he says that he wants about £1800. I think he's just making numbers up. if he actually thinks it's worth £1800 or even £850, it's going to be on ebay forever. I'd guess that he's using free listing days to list it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twincam Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 [quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1450063137' post='2929257'] I don't have the message any more, but I've had a discussion with him. Months, if not years, ago. At that point he said that he was looking for offers in about the £850 region. I didn't ask him how much he'd spent on it. Now he says that he wants about £1800. I think he's just making numbers up. if he actually thinks it's worth £1800 or even £850, it's going to be on ebay forever. I'd guess that he's using free listing days to list it. [/quote] Haha it's went up in value as it's an antique now durrrr! Lol. I'm not even sure if his string prices are right seems very high after looking on the site he claims he got the strings from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt P Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 I'm not believing the $500 string cost, from a quick look at the Octave4plus website they might have come to $200, but on the ebay listing it clearly states [b][font=Verdana][color=#00429A]The strings are a various collection of brands running from .317 (needs to be thicker than that), .254, .232, .217, .184, .156, .135, .105, .080, .060, .032, .024, .014, .011 and .008.[/color][/font][/b] which to me looks like some guitar strings, a bass 5 string set plus some fence wire Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annoying Twit Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 The more we learn about this, the fewer possibilities there are that the seller has any grip on any aspect of reality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorks5stringer Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 [quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1450108101' post='2929646'] The more we learn about this, the fewer possibilities there are that the seller has any grip on any aspect of reality. [/quote] Who'd have thought it, an eBayer with no grip on any aspect of reality! A Pretty litigious statement that...! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt P Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 if you take the last zero off all his figures then it all makes far more sense! the 10 string one I found sold for $560 about the same time as he says he bought this, so allowing for the fact that this one wasn't in playable condition then £250 sounds more realistic than £2500. I'm pretty sure that he's stuck with this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spectoremg Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 [quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1450108101' post='2929646'] The more we learn about this, the fewer possibilities there are that the seller has any grip on any aspect of reality. [/quote]This! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambient Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 As someone that's played a few ERB's, and always though they looked amazing, I have to admit that this doesn't do anything for me at all. In fact I doubt it's playable. He'd be better off returning it to whatever number of strings it was before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorks5stringer Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 I hear the Fleet Air Arm have offered him the full asking price on the understanding they can land Tornados on the neck... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tedmanzie Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 [quote name='Matt P' timestamp='1450113617' post='2929738'] if you take the last zero off all his figures then it all makes far more sense! the 10 string one I found sold for $560 about the same time as he says he bought this, so allowing for the fact that this one wasn't in playable condition then £250 sounds more realistic than £2500. I'm pretty sure that he's stuck with this. [/quote] He's definitely stuck with it! I Thin strings not even on the fretboard, fat strings touching each other, bits of gaffer tape covering up holes, no ability to intonate it, workmanship not even at O-Level woodwork standard, and the 'unusual' sales tactic of putting it up at TEN MILLION POUNDS and asking for an offer?! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TENNESSEE-15-STRING-EXTENDED-RANGE-BASS/291630566887?_trksid=p2047675.c100011.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D33984%26meid%3Db14981a9b2044ee9886b94299db020d0%26pid%3D100011%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26sd%3D291402250210 I wouldn't even have it for ONE pound. I wonder what exactly is going on here, it all seems a bit crazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt P Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 i was having a search to see if I could find the country of origin of the Tennessee basses and I think I might have found the seller, over on sevenstring.org, under the name SKJORH, looks like he's had it for years! [url="http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/bass-guitar-discussion/161414-15-string-tennessee.html"]http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/bass-guitar-discussion/161414-15-string-tennessee.html[/url] and I think that it originally looked like this [url="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/turquoisemoleeater/guitars/15bass.jpg"]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/turquoisemoleeater/guitars/15bass.jpg[/url] Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EliasMooseblaster Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 [quote name='Matt P' timestamp='1450113617' post='2929738'] if you take the last zero off all his figures... [/quote] ...including the number of strings on the damned thing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spectoremg Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 [quote name='Matt P' timestamp='1450174095' post='2930171'] i was having a search to see if I could find the country of origin of the Tennessee basses and I think I might have found the seller, over on sevenstring.org, under the name SKJORH, looks like he's had it for years! [url="http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/bass-guitar-discussion/161414-15-string-tennessee.html"]http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/bass-guitar-discussion/161414-15-string-tennessee.html[/url] and I think that it originally looked like this [url="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/turquoisemoleeater/guitars/15bass.jpg"]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/turquoisemoleeater/guitars/15bass.jpg[/url] Matt [/quote]So he's screwed around with it just to mess it up? Looks like lower guage strings originally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambient Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 [quote name='tedmanzie' timestamp='1450170061' post='2930137'] He's definitely stuck with it! I Thin strings not even on the fretboard, fat strings touching each other, bits of gaffer tape covering up holes, no ability to intonate it, workmanship not even at O-Level woodwork standard, and the 'unusual' sales tactic of putting it up at TEN MILLION POUNDS and asking for an offer?! [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TENNESSEE-15-STRING-EXTENDED-RANGE-BASS/291630566887?_trksid=p2047675.c100011.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D33984%26meid%3Db14981a9b2044ee9886b94299db020d0%26pid%3D100011%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26sd%3D291402250210"]http://www.ebay.co.u...%3D291402250210[/url] I wouldn't even have it for ONE pound. I wonder what exactly is going on here, it all seems a bit crazy. [/quote] That's why I said earlier that he'd be better off returning it to the number of strings that it was built for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tedmanzie Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 [quote name='Matt P' timestamp='1450174095' post='2930171'] i was having a search to see if I could find the country of origin of the Tennessee basses and I think I might have found the seller, over on sevenstring.org, under the name SKJORH, looks like he's had it for years! [url="http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/bass-guitar-discussion/161414-15-string-tennessee.html"]http://www.sevenstri...-tennessee.html[/url] [/quote] Good detective work, have you been watching The Bridge?! Now we need to storm his house and rescue the bass before he inflicts any more torture on it! With any luck a decent luthier could restore it to its former glory! (which to be fair is 'a ridiculous bass with way too many strings that makes you look like an idiot if you attempt to play it') Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt P Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 I was thinking that we took the more subtle approach and invited him to bring the poor beast to a bass bash, that way we could at least get a video of it being played before it's put out of it's misery (gently) Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annoying Twit Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 Is this the same seller? http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/bag-Vardy-Salted-crisps-offer-eBay-1million/story-28371128-detail/story.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alyctes Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 ahem... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TENNESSEE-15-STRING-EXTENDED-RANGE-BASS-/291630566887?hash=item43e6894de7:g:bJwAAOxycgVTixwQ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spectoremg Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 Do eBay have a psychiatry/psychology team? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sprocketflup Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 Visigoth - "New year, New me....oh wait no, same old same old" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GisserD Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 it appears to have been sold??? best offer accepted.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulWarning Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 has it? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TENNESSEE-15-STRING-EXTENDED-RANGE-BASS-/291674941903? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sprocketflup Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 Ive just read the description, aparently theres a volume control. i wonder where? Ive discovered too that I find the beaten up Black and Decker workmate that is straining to support the weight more aesthetically pleasing than the horrific monstrosity that is sat atop it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EliasMooseblaster Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 [quote name='GisserD' timestamp='1454588534' post='2971073'] it appears to have been sold??? best offer accepted.... [/quote] [quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1454588683' post='2971076'] has it? [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TENNESSEE-15-STRING-EXTENDED-RANGE-BASS-/291674941903?"]http://www.ebay.co.u...-/291674941903?[/url] [/quote] I told you he had a job lot of them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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