BC adverts that still haunt you

[Guest]

EDIT: to play this game best, a link to the original advert would be lovely 😊

Firstly I didn't need a p bass in my life, secondly a 1¾" nut would probably be far too much for me....

....but I can't forget this Cort sold earlier this year.

I love the combination of pale colour, white pg and maple neck, and I love the Di Marzio sound, and I definitely like the idea of a 7 lb bass. 

And it went for £155!!! Gah.

 

Edited May 18, 2021 by Ricky Rioli

[TheGreek]

Nice bass....but don't start me on basses I should have bought 

[Reggaebass]

There’s been too many, a few limelight’s spring to mind, by the time I’d typed the message, it had sold 😥

[AndyTravis]

I should’ve bought this. It was around for a couple of weeks and I should’ve found a way.

[Chiliwailer]

Round about 2014, a Wal in my neighbourhood for £2.5k 😢😢😢

edit - it was on BC 

Edited May 18, 2021 by Chiliwailer

[Beedster]

Oh God, this is a thread that is going to run and run. My problem isn't the ones that haunt me because I didn't buy the item in question, but the sheer volume of those that haunt me because I did

[Cat Burrito]

I don't have pics but going back over 12yrs there are only two that I wish I'd bought and both owned by (minor) names. One was a vintage Fender Precision in red that boasted the claim of being ex-Musical Youth and the other was a 1976 Bicentenery Gibson Thunderbird (ex-Quireboys) that was only around £650 at the time. Obviously now it would be nearer £3k. Regrets, I've had a few, but then again too few to mention....

[Guest]

30 minutes ago, TheGreek said:

 don't start me on basses I should have bought

 

14 minutes ago, Chiliwailer said:

 in my neighbourhood 

 

6 minutes ago, Beedster said:

Oh God, this is a thread that is going to run and run. 

I did hope to restrict it to just BassChat adverts 🤔

[Chiliwailer]

Just now, Ricky Rioli said:

 

 

I did hope to restrict it to just BassChat adverts 🤔

Mine was BC and local!!

[Woodinblack]

The poplar burl overwater 5, but sadly it was one of those non communicating buyers or I would have bought it.

[Reggaebass]

I’m still gutted that I missed out on this 78 P, I was abroad at the time and couldn’t get a decent signal and missed out , I still search for it sometimes 

[Guest]

9 minutes ago, Chiliwailer said:

Mine was BC and local!!

Apologies for my assumption!

[Skybone]

This.

[Chiliwailer]

4 minutes ago, Ricky Rioli said:

Apologies for my assumption!

Cheers, though the original post could easily read that way 👍

[Guest]

47 minutes ago, TheGreek said:

Nice bass....but don't start me on basses I should have bought 

That Cort was definitely a bass I should NOT have bought....and yet the regret, the regret..... 😅

[hooky_lowdown]

21 minutes ago, Ricky Rioli said:

That Cort was definitely a bass I should NOT have bought....and yet the regret, the regret..... 😅

Don't want to rub it in, but it's a cracking bass. Luckily I have an even better P for sale currently. 😉

[Guest]

6 minutes ago, hooky_lowdown said:

Don't want to rub it in, but it's a cracking bass. Luckily I have an even better P for sale currently. 😉

Fortunately heavy enough to inhibit my foolishness 😅 For some reason the CV 60s P on sale atm is gnawing at me. Again, the neck would be much too broad for my comfort. But perhaps that's part of the strange attraction.... 🙃

[MacDaddy]

several years ago - can't remember how many - there was a Ritter bass in the for sale thread for £900.

I seriously thought about it, but decided £900 was too much 😖

[bloke_zero]

I thought this thread was going to be about traumatic BC Rich ads. I'm still haunted by the Eagle that came up a few weeks ago - it's probably still available I just don't have the money!

[Bigwan]

Last week...

Missed it by deliberating too long... But I'm not too sad... I have something else French coming!

(@walshy I was quite sad for a few days though!!!)

Edited May 19, 2021 by Bigwan

[LukeFRC]

There was I think Wes Steed ( @wesfinn)  built a beautiful Herbie Flowers jazz bass replica, that I think @molan owned for a while. It was up for sale here twice I think, and then also at Bass Gear. At all times I hadn't the money  

Who knows where it ended up 

https://www.vintageandrare.com/product/Custom-Herbie-Flowers-Jazz-Replica-2011-Relicd-Blue-38375  

Edited May 19, 2021 by LukeFRC

[sammybee]

Not a BC ad, but Norman Watt Roy's 1960 Fender Jazz for 6k at Andy Baxter's a few years back. I had the (spare) cash at the time,  thought about it too long & it was gone. Think it would have been a cracking investment

[Reggaebass]

19 minutes ago, sammybee said:

Not a BC ad, but Norman Watt Roy's 1960 Fender Jazz for 6k at Andy Baxter's a few years back. I had the (spare) cash at the time,  thought about it too long & it was gone. Think it would have been a cracking investment

I live just round the corner from where Andy Baxter was and I remember that bass, whoever bought it, Andy was going to get Norman to hand it to them 

[sammybee]

16 minutes ago, Reggaebass said:

I live just round the corner from where Andy Baxter was and I remember that bass, whoever bought it, Andy was going to get Norman to hand it to them 

Yep. I had a couple of chats with Andy about it. It took him a few weeks to shift it, I guess it was a lot of cash back then for a bass. Kick myself at least once a week for not grabbing it at the time & getting the OG to show me how to play Rhythm Stick properly

[knirirr]

This one:

At the time it would have been ideal, but someone else got there first.