Go onto Gumtree and type "Bass Guitar", location Ashton-under-Lyne

[Paddy777]

I’ve dealt with him before and the idea that he’s just a benevolent collector that sells his basses is complete bollocks. He’s a sound enough guy and the 1 deal I did with him was a good deal for me, but generally he’s way overpriced, but he’s 1000% a trader.
 

Case in point - a couple of weeks ago I messaged a guy on Facebook about a BB735a that was up for £450, and he said he was sorry but he’d just agreed a sale. Within 12 hours the same bass (distinguishing marks and strings showed it was definitely the same bass) was for sale by Tony for £675, so yeh I was a bit pissed off about that one, but if you’re not fast you’re last I guess, however I don’t like the duplicity of telling people you’re a collector and denying you’re a trader when it’s obviously total BS. You just end up wondering why, what’s he hiding it for? I’d still deal with him if he had something I wanted etc, it is what it is but it’s better people are aware who they are dealing with IMO

 

 

Edit: Sorry it was a BB734a not a 5, but same rules apply and all that 😆

 

 

 

Edited March 13 by Paddy777

[Burns-bass]

7 minutes ago, Paddy777 said:

I’ve dealt with him before and the idea that he’s just a benevolent collector that sells his basses is complete bollocks. He’s a sound enough guy and the 1 deal I did with him was a good deal for me, but generally he’s way overpriced, but he’s 1000% a trader.
 

Case in point - a couple of weeks ago I messaged a guy on Facebook about a BB735a that was up for £450, and he said he was sorry but he’d just agreed a sale. Within 12 hours the same bass (distinguishing marks and strings showed it was definitely the same bass) was for sale by Tony’s for £675, so yeh I was a bit pissed off about that one, but if you’re not fast you’re last I guess, but I don’t like the duplicity of telling people you’re a collector and denying you’re a trader when it’s obviously total BS, and you end up wondering why, what’s he hiding it for? I’d still deal with him if he had something I wanted etc, it is what it is but it’s better people are aware who they are dealing with IMO

This 100% is what I’m talking about. Given he’s got about 100 basses it’s not a high turnover operation!

[AndyTravis]

He’s a lovely guy - he really is.

 

I’ve sold him a few bits and had 1 bass off him.

 

He’s deffo the next level up from me in terms of buying gear to try out to then sell at a later date when the honeymoon period is over…

 

Some of his stuff is really keenly priced and some of it is a bit rum.

 

But he has some decent stuff.

 

 

[Terry M.]

If you think he's expensive there's a used Fender American Professional Jazz Bass V currently on Reverb from a UK based seller. The seller is taking offers but the asking price is £5,500.00 with £250 delivery costs. I messaged him and he confirmed the £5.5k wasn't a typo.

Edited March 15 by Terry M.

[Kev]

6 minutes ago, Terry M. said:

If you think he's expensive there's a used Fender American Professional Jazz Bass V currently on Reverb from a UK based seller. The seller is taking offers but the asking price is £5,500.00 with £250 delivery costs. I messaged him and he confirmed the £5.5k wasn't a typo.

 

You often see Reverb sellers do this for a few days.  They then reduce the price and Reverb flags it as a 50% discount or whatever it may be.

[Terry M.]

15 minutes ago, Kev said:

 

You often see Reverb sellers do this for a few days.  They then reduce the price and Reverb flags it as a 50% discount or whatever it may be.

Ok but £5.5k really stood out. Surely it's a £1.5k bass at best.

[BassAgent]

Some absolutely lovely basses there. I really like that Maruszczyk Stenback-ish bass, the blue TRB is also very nice. Same goes for the Japanese Fenders. I consider myself lucky I'm on the other side of the Channel and have no bass budget atm, but otherwise...