lownote Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 (edited) 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 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fleabag Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 Sell it and buy something custom, and built with some passion 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuyR Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 Use it for gigs to save wear and tear to the valuable stuff. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad3353 Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_b Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 Flog it and buy something that is useful to me. (Not necessarily something musical) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miles'tone Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 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.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pea Turgh Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 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). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fretmeister Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 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. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lozz196 Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 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). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uk_lefty Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinB Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 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! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggaebass Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodinblack Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 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! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OliverBlackman Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barking Spiders Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 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. 😊 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodinblack Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skybone Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 Shouldn't it be "How much advertising material can SBL send out during one of the competitions?" 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor J Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 Sell it and knock a few years off the mortgage. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_S Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 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. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodinblack Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassfinger Posted July 27, 2020 Share Posted July 27, 2020 Sell it, buy a Rickenbacker 4003, spend the rest on hookers. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newfoundfreedom Posted July 27, 2020 Share Posted July 27, 2020 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. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodinblack Posted July 27, 2020 Share Posted July 27, 2020 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! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skybone Posted July 27, 2020 Share Posted July 27, 2020 And if only it worked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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