Is this price on reverb realistic or crazy? ('72 P neck)

[DF Shortscale]

I saw a converted fretless '72 P neck on Reverb for what seems to me like an insane price, around £1.5K (link here). I have something similar which I was going to put up for sale at some point soon but I had a very different price to this in mind, I'm curious what people's thoughts are - to me it seems like this should be priced as anything else that's vintage but modded, but who knows.

[Doctor J]

I'd say crazy, personally, but I'm not the target for old gear. I would not be surprised at all if it sells at that price.

[Beedster]

Poorly done defret, poorly maintained neck overall, and not even a nut installed. Very little real vintage value, £500 would be optimistic. If it stays there long enough some f***ing idiot will have a beer or teo and buy it however 🤔

[Reggaebass]

What’s with the holes on the headstock, weird 

[DF Shortscale]

Yeah I thought it was a 'touch on the optimistic side'. It has a couple of watchers, which means there must be some people out there thinking it's not completely crazy.

[Hellzero]

It's the crook from Cologne aka music-outlet-shop.

 

Now after polluting eBay with all his garbage, he's trying to find fools on Reverb.

[DF Shortscale]

49 minutes ago, Hellzero said:

It's the crook from Cologne aka music-outlet-shop.

 

Now after polluting eBay with all his garbage, he's trying to find fools on Reverb.

I wonder if he ever sells anything at these prices, I had a look at the rest of his shop, there are some shockers on there. 

[Doctor J]

I remember chrisguitars, usually a decent site, had a Coronado II bass listed for quite a while. For some reason, an owner had crudely gouged a hole, roughly the size of a cornflake, into the back of the neck around the 5th fret and inlaid a plastic jewel, like an emerald. They probably used their cro-magnon forehead to hammer it in. It was't a clean job, it wasn't a smooth job, the jewel stuck out, quite literally, of the neck. Eventually, it sold too. People forgive all kinds of sins if the thing is old.

[Beedster]

The reasons why people might buy stuff are many, complex, and odd. Many sellers rely on the fact that there is a person out there who will buy the most worthless of tat, the seller’s just gotta have a lot of tat and a lot of patience 👍

[Happy Jack]

11 hours ago, Hellzero said:

It's the crook from Cologne aka music-outlet-shop.

 

Now after polluting eBay with all his garbage, he's trying to find fools on Reverb.

 

10 hours ago, DF Shortscale said:

I wonder if he ever sells anything at these prices, I had a look at the rest of his shop, there are some shockers on there. 

 

That website has been turning up in comments on Basschat for ever. 

 

I've never seen this guy as a crook. His joke listings are more of a publicity stunt to attract attention and comment ... and they work!

 

If anyone is stupid/drunk enough to actually buy any of that stuff at those prices, then good luck to him.

[Hellzero]

Just now, Happy Jack said:

I've never seen this guy as a crook. His joke listings are more of a publicity stunt to attract attention and comment ... and they work!

It's the principle of crook, scam or screw and they are no joke listings at all, but real attempts to fool people.

[bass_dinger]

14 hours ago, DF Shortscale said:

Yeah I thought it was a 'touch on the optimistic side'. It has a couple of watchers, which means there must be some people out there thinking it's not completely crazy.

Or that people out there want to see if this item sells - if it does, they know that they can offload their own similar gear for the same inflated price. 

[Beedster]

15 hours ago, DF Shortscale said:

Yeah I thought it was a 'touch on the optimistic side'. It has a couple of watchers, which means there must be some people out there thinking it's not completely crazy.

Agree with the previous reply, people aren't watching to buy, they're watching either out of a form or morbid curiosity or to justify selling their own tat at similar rates. Not only true of junk BTW, just the same with vintage Fenders and explains in part many of the high asking prices (they often don't sell for anything like the optimistic prices at which they're advertised, sellers either accept best offers or find a way of turning an eBay listing into a private sale, but the hight early price often sets the tone for subsequent negotiations) 

[Beedster]

3 hours ago, Hellzero said:

It's the principle of crook, scam or screw and they are no joke listings at all, but real attempts to fool people.

I agree, vague descriptions, deceptive camera angles, and false information. How for example does a body posses 'killer tone', I strongly suspect that he didn't build up a complete bass around a £20 piece of close-to-firewood junk just to check it's tonal qualities before dismantling and listing the body only for sale......