Scott's giveaway dilemma

[lownote]

Ok, the bass gods are kind and you enter and win Scott's latest competition. So you are now the owner of a Fender worth either £7000 or $10000.

What do you do? Do you gig with it? Or keep it under the bed.  Or do you sell it PDQ to pay off bills, buy a Porsche and maybe slide a new Sire into the frame?  If the latter, would you get anything like its 'worthness'?. And if you did sell it, would you until the end of time regret having to say "I had a 65 P bass, once, briefly".

Not easy.  Hope I don't win, too many problems.  

Edited July 26, 2020 by lownote12

[fleabag]

Sell it and buy  something custom, and built with some passion

[GuyR]

Use it for gigs to save wear and tear to the valuable stuff.

[Dad3353]

25 minutes ago, lownote12 said:

...Not easy.  Hope I don't win, too many problems.  

S'why I don't 'do' lotteries; too scared of winning. 

 

[chris_b]

40 minutes ago, lownote12 said:

Ok, the bass gods are kind and you enter and win Scott's latest competition. So you are now the owner of a Fender worth either £7000 or $10000.

Is it one of the great sounding pre-CBS Precisions?

The problem is you now own a bass which is an appreciating asset. Do you play it or put it away and watch the value increase day by day. I'd keep it safe and just take it out for special gigs.

[BigRedX]

Flog it and buy something that is useful to me. (Not necessarily something musical)

[miles'tone]

My "Excalibur" would be a 1965 Precision so I'd keep it, love it, use it for the usual as well as being my beater and beach bass. No fear!

If I won the Jazz I'd ask the new owner of the P to do a swapsies..

[Pea Turgh]

I won a really nice mic in a competition once - super duper valve jobbie.  Sold it, regret selling it.

If I won one of these basses, I’d like to think I’ve learned my lesson and keep it forever (unless I didn’t gel with it).

[fretmeister]

Don’t forget the benefit of entering the competition by allowing access to your Facebook, Twitter, instagram, and gawd knows what else.

Any person or company giving away prizes of that value will make far more than that for the sale of your data.

[Lozz196]

I wouldn’t enter that - or any - competition unless I wanted the prize. If I had said bass I doubt I’d gig it but I’d play it at home (all this said if I didn’t get on with it I’d probably move it on though).

[uk_lefty]

Set it in fire as an artistic statement. String it upside down and gig it... I don't know. I don't think I could justify keeping one. 

[MartinB]

Looking at it the other way round: if I won £7000 in a competition, I definitely wouldn't spend it all on a vintage bass. So it's definitely a "sell it" from me!

[Reggaebass]

41 minutes ago, fretmeister said:

Any person or company giving away prizes of that value will make far more than that for the sale of your data.

I don’t enter any competitions for that very reason 

[Woodinblack]

carefully file down the headstock and put a new Squier waterslide on it. Then it will be just as good but noone will nick it

Or trade it in for an Alleva Coppolo - I hear they are quite good!

[Mrbigstuff]

Part of me feels that if you don’t want the bass, then leave it for someone who does. I know this isn’t how it works but it wouldn’t feel right to me to enter knowing I didn’t want it. 

[Barking Spiders]

I have few scruples and would enter the competition just to win it and then auction it on EBay and hopefully 'earn' myself an obscene amount. I also regularly enter Planet Rock's competitions even though I never listen to the station.  😊

[Woodinblack]

In all honestly, win it, ebay it straight away (or sell it wherever). Get myself something nice and still have some money left over. A vintage fender isn't anything I am interested in, they all have 4 strings, the jazz isn't a nice colour and P necks aren't nice.

But there is an alpher custom I would get if I had the money, so I guess that is where it would go.

[Skybone]

Shouldn't it be "How much advertising material can SBL send out during one of the competitions?"

[Doctor J]

Sell it and knock a few years off the mortgage.

[Ed_S]

Get it refinished in pristine poly, re-fretted with stainless steel and Plek’d, chuck a bridge on it that doesn’t rag your hands to pieces and re-wire it with a hot pickup. Then gig it.

[Woodinblack]

Take it to the repair shop as you know, it is old and tatty. I am sure they would be able to fix it right up.

[Guest]

Sell it, buy a Rickenbacker 4003, spend the rest on hookers.

[Newfoundfreedom]

I'd sell it and use the money to rent some thugs to send round to Scott's house and "gently persuade" him to remove me from his email list. 

Seventy thirteen spamming emails a week is more than one man can endure. 

[Woodinblack]

16 minutes ago, Newfoundfreedom said:

I'd sell it and use the money to rent some thugs to send round to Scott's house and "gently persuade" him to remove me from his email list. 

Seventy thirteen spamming emails a week is more than one man can endure. 

If only there was an unsubscribe button on the emails!

[Skybone]

And if only it worked