What makes you decide to sell a bass?

[Defo]

For me it's simply if they are not getting played. I've never had more than six and have four now, all getting regular use.

[RhysP]

Lack of use has determined most of my sales.

[JapanAxe]

(1) Lack of use as above.
(2) Coming home with a new bass, looking at the old bass, thinking 'I won't be playing you any more'.

Unfortunately (2) has led to me selling a bass that I now wish I still had!

[Cameronj279]

If the bass no longer gets used then I'll sell it.

Unfortunately in the case of my last bass I had to sell it as I was owed a lot of money

[4stringslow]

I've never sold one. I only have two basses (a Fender P and a Fender J) but I happily play them both and don't feel the urge to buy any more. This approach must have saved me loads of money over the past 30 years or so

[FinnDave]

I only sell a bass if I am temporarily overcome by madness (my blue & maple Jazz last Autumn ), very occasionally if I simply don't get on with it (my Epi JC)

[JapanAxe]

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I've never sold one. I only have two basses (a Fender P and a Fender J) but I happily play them both and don't feel the urge to buy any more. This approach must have saved me loads of money over the past 30 years or so
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Are you sure you're in the right forum? This is a GAS forum for GAS-afflicted people!

[Lozz196]

For me it`s either of the following two reasons:

Lack of use - usually when I`ve bought yet another Jazz, as only use Precisions in my band.

When I`ve bought another bass, so offloading to pay for the new one. I always know which one will be sacrificed in advance though.

[alyctes]

Lack of use, and particularly if it's not doing anything unique.

Lack of use is often because I don't get on with it, so sometimes this actually means I don't like the sound or the neck or the ergonomics. Not always true though - the last one I sold was an SR500 which was lovely.

[Delberthot]

As soon as something new arrives the old one must go. There's no thought into maybe using it in the future, it just hast to be sold and fast.

Ironically I now have the most basses I've had in years (4)
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[*]EBMM Sterling - main bass
[*]Cort GB94 - rehearsals, spare and spit & sawdust venues
[*]Fender Acoustic - driven to it by the number of venues with unrealistic sound limiters (one gig in July has 85dB limit )
[*]Swift fretless - practice in the house and to remind myself why I don't need a fretless for gigging
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[Grahambythesea]

Because I'd bought something else instead, selling usually to fund purchase. Sometimes it was a mistake, getting rid of the Fender P fretless because I'd bought a Washburn EAB 5 string - the neck was a tree trunk, should have kept the P 😥