ebay bargains,

[markytbass]

I saw a 5 string Rockbass Vampyre go this morning for £127, not everyone's cuppa and it may reappear if it was being shilled. Nearly pulled the trigger as it was only up the road, but held back.

[ahpook]

i got a brown (late 80's ?) boss GE-7B last week for £31...almost mint condition.

great little unit - used it today at practise.

Edited November 22, 2008 by ahpook

[Mr. Foxen]

Haven't bought anything in ages, thats probably a win for me.

Edit: Within moments, a cheap looking buy it now and I've gone and bought another pedal to not use. Eyes peel on the for sale forum soon.

Edited November 23, 2008 by Mr. Foxen

[warwickhunt]

A near miss for me... [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=180305668863&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=008"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...A:IT&ih=008[/url]

In the end I didn't bid, so admittedly the final price may have been higher but £200 for a 12 string Hamer is pretty damn cheap. Had it been the TP model I'd have been all over it.

[stevie]

I bought a £20 Seiko tuner for £2.28 a few weeks ago - the auction finished in the early hours of the morning and so there was no last minute bidding. A also recently got a brand new quality boom mike stand for £14.50 delivered.

Prices are not as depressed as I would expect them to be given the downturn. I recently sold a hifi preamp for £150 that I paid £40 for two years ago. Go figure. The best bargains are still the 'local pickup only' ones. And if you're selling, you get a much better price if you are willing to ship outside the UK. My preamp went to Spain, for example, and was bid up by someone from Italy.

Edited November 23, 2008 by stevie

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

I sorted out an xmas pressie for my daughter for £56 - a daisy rock Wildwood acoustic geetar. Its in mint condition with case & has been set up with beautifully low action.

[Alun]

[quote name='ahpook' post='334665' date='Nov 22 2008, 11:53 PM']i got a brown (late 80's ?) boss GE-7B last week for £31...almost mint condition.

great little unit - used it today at practise.[/quote]

They're great Mine is falling apart after many years use - I prefer the EQ bands to the newer ones.

Cheers
Alun

[Sean]

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='334718' date='Nov 23 2008, 09:02 AM']A near miss for me... [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=180305668863&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=008"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...A:IT&ih=008[/url]

In the end I didn't bid, so admittedly the final price may have been higher but £200 for a 12 string Hamer is pretty damn cheap. Had it been the TP model I'd have been all over it.[/quote]

I was sitting there hovering over that when it finished. We play I Want You to Want Me and I love Pearl Jam so it was a close call. There was just something a bit scummy looking about it all though.

[waynepunkdude]

I would have bought it as 3 back up basses

[lemmywinks]

Bought my missus a new laptop for £62.50 inc post.
2.2ghz celeron, 512mb ram and 60gig hard drive. All it needed was a new kettle lead for the charger and a cdrw drive (£3.19 posted, ebay again!).

Replaces her old 1.2ghz lappy which was £52.50 posted, off ebay!

Best bargain i saw in recent months bass-wise was a short scale encore in good nick, went for £9 as it was pick up only in sheffield. Don't suppose many o them steel workers have much use for a shorty bass......................

Edited November 23, 2008 by lemmywinks

[budget bassist]

I got a 75W solid state randall guitar amp the other day for £65 + £25 postage, not a bad price for a used one considering they're £225 new. Even better due to the fact that it was ex shop display and practically new!

[waynepunkdude]

[quote name='budget bassist' post='335021' date='Nov 23 2008, 05:40 PM']I got a 75W solid state randall guitar amp the other day for £65 + £25 postage, not a bad price for a used one considering they're £225 new. Even better due to the fact that it was ex shop display and practically new! [/quote]


Unfortuantly you now have a Randal

[budget bassist]

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='335044' date='Nov 23 2008, 06:05 PM']Unfortuantly you now have a Randal [/quote]
Psh! it actually sounds rather good for metal i think.

[elom]

I got a Stuart Clayton (who he?) book for 1p

(It's actually very good Stuart! - teaches me all the basics that I should have learnt years ago - I know what the strings are called now...)

[waynepunkdude]

I just bought [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170280228078&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fshop.ebay.co.uk%3A80%2F%3F_from%3DR40%26_trksid%3Dm38%26_nkw%3D170280228078%2509%26_sacat%3DSee-All-Categories%26_fvi%3D1"]this[/url], I think it's bloody cheap.

[markytbass]

I also bagged an Aria proII magna guitar for my son £56 posted. I won a bass amp last week but because of paypal problems (their's not mine) I will have to wait til next week to get my hands on it.

[spinynorman]

I got a Tapco mixer for £15. The seller didn't have the power supply and didn't know if the mixer worked. Fortunately the PS from my Behringer MIC 100 works fine with it.

[Dr.Dave]

I'm about to - i think. I'll let you know in 8 min 52 secs!!

[Dr.Dave]

( 8mins and 53 secs later)

Arse !

[budget bassist]

Haha what was it?

[john_the_bass]

I got a turbo tubescreamer - a relative bargain I think

[Dr.Dave]

[quote name='budget bassist' post='337664' date='Nov 26 2008, 08:17 PM']Haha what was it?[/quote]

A gator pedal case - it was a quid with a minute to go and I bid a fiver , but bidder one must have had a high bid in - went for 16.

[Bassassin]

I got some new (old) JapCrap a couple of weeks back - it was sitting at £25 or so, with 2 hours left, I put on a suitably satanic top bid of £66.66 and cleared off to a gig - with absolutely no expectation of winning it!

When I came back I'd got a Kawai Sleekline for £64.



Jon.

[bigjohn]

I bought a 2005 mint FSR gun metal blue MIM Precision earlier on this year for £170.

I dunno why was the only bidder. Very odd.

[budget bassist]

[quote name='Bassassin' post='338328' date='Nov 27 2008, 12:48 PM']I got some new (old) JapCrap a couple of weeks back - it was sitting at £25 or so, with 2 hours left, I put on a suitably satanic top bid of £66.66 and cleared off to a gig - with absolutely no expectation of winning it!

When I came back I'd got a Kawai Sleekline for £64.



Jon.[/quote]
Haha how lucky was that?