Ambitious pricing for a unique Rick (well, it used to be one)

[Clarky]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/294954058610?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=2XbF-SxnQ_O&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=eqlPJw_SSty&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

[prowla]

Oh no - they replaced the pickups!

[ezbass]

Err? 

[King Tut]

I've just messaged the seller to ask if it comes with the original headstock and tuners 😂

[Happy Jack]

Thank God it has the original case ... makes all the difference, y'know.

[chris_b]

This is why my heart sinks when people start threads about modding basses!!!!

[FinnDave]

I never thought that a Rickenbacker could be made any worse, but apparently, it can.

[CJPJ]

Jetglo Black it might have been once apon-a-time but right now it looks more like sticky spray can tarmac-black over damaged wood

[alyctes]

It's the price that gets me.  A mutilated bass with pretty much everything anyone might consider to be "original" removed, and they want five grand for it?!

[King Tut]

[Clarky]

I have this awful feeling that the seller is really being earnest - rather than being a chancer - and thinks his "precious" is precisely that. Rather than a butchered 'vintage' bass that has lost any vestige of what makes a bass vintage and therefore desirable.

[Joe Nation]

Anyone who lists an item with two identical (rubbish) pictures of the front and one of the case, no detail shots or decent lighting, and asks five grand for a bass (even if it's worth that much), is getting a hard no from me.

[Woodinblack]

It is amazing how bad the pictures are on some even quite expensive items.

I am not sure there is an excuse for bad pictures and if I see them I assume they are trying to hide stuff

[lemmywinks]

Looks miles better tbh.

 

[runs away]

[Maude]

There'll be some better pictures of it in my NBD thread. 

[Taa]

(personal reasons due to the very bulky headstock repeatedly getting damaged on-stage) , Personal reasons?

[alyctes]

8 hours ago, Taa said:

(personal reasons due to the very bulky headstock repeatedly getting damaged on-stage) , Personal reasons?

 

Personally, I don't think I'm all that good at this bass malarkey.