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

 

 

 

Edited 5 hours ago 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.