Bassassin Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 Take one £70 Wesley acrylic 5er, four or five blue LEDs, a battery pack & a micro-switch... [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250593393393"][i]...et voila![/i][/url] Jon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annoying Twit Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 It might be interesting to ask the seller for a photo including the headstock! It's suspiciously absent on the ebay listing. Here's a Wesley for comparison. [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Acrylic-See-Through-5-String-Bass-Guitar-Wesley_W0QQitemZ140367120914QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxq20091214?IMSfp=TL0912140510001r24624"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Acrylic-See-Through-...140510001r24624[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bartelby Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 It was advertised here too: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=80211&hl="]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=80211&hl=[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annoying Twit Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 Oops! My post looks rather repetitive now that I've seen the other thread. Has anyone ever made an acrylic Rickenfaker? Now, that would be cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazza1 Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 [quote name='bartelby' post='772727' date='Mar 12 2010, 01:14 PM']It was advertised here too: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=80211&hl="]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=80211&hl=[/url][/quote] And most of the feedback has now been marked private!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassassin Posted March 12, 2010 Author Share Posted March 12, 2010 [quote name='bartelby' post='772727' date='Mar 12 2010, 01:14 PM']It was advertised here too: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=80211&hl="]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=80211&hl=[/url][/quote] Ah - I missed that while I was off double-ending on holiday! J. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throwoff Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 (edited) Just sent this - [i]Dear funkydrummer19987, [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Acrylic-See-Through-5-String-Bass-Guitar-Wesley_W0QQitemZ140367120914QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxq20091214?IMSfp=TL0912140510001r24624"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Acrylic-See-Through-...140510001r24624[/url] This is the same bass you are selling sans 5 quids worth of LED's a micro switch and 9V battery. You are aware you're trying to rip someone off right?[/i] I shall post if a reply comes Edited March 12, 2010 by throwoff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassassin Posted March 12, 2010 Author Share Posted March 12, 2010 I say good luck to him, nothing fundamentally wrong with trying to turn a profit. To be honest if anyone goes for this, more fool them - [i]caveat emptor[/i] and that. J. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh3184 Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 [quote name='Bassassin' post='772839' date='Mar 12 2010, 03:15 PM']I say good luck to him, nothing fundamentally wrong with trying to turn a profit. To be honest if anyone goes for this, more fool them - [i]caveat emptor[/i] and that. J.[/quote] +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bartelby Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 [quote name='Bassassin' post='772839' date='Mar 12 2010, 03:15 PM']I say good luck to him, nothing fundamentally wrong with trying to turn a profit.[/quote] But implying he made the instrument seems a tad off to me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throwoff Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 [quote name='bartelby' post='772898' date='Mar 12 2010, 05:00 PM']But implying he made the instrument seems a tad off to me...[/quote] And to me, there is a huge difference between making a profit and clearly misrepresenting something Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemmywinks Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 [quote name='bartelby' post='772898' date='Mar 12 2010, 04:00 PM']But implying he made the instrument seems a tad off to me...[/quote] Aye, i remember him saying in the original ad that the bodies were difficult to make, one mistake and it goes in the bin or something like that. If i didn't know it was a Wesley i'd assume that he made them himself. The text on the original BC ad has disappeared too.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umph Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 [quote name='throwoff' post='772811' date='Mar 12 2010, 02:42 PM']Just sent this - [i]Dear funkydrummer19987, [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Acrylic-See-Through-5-String-Bass-Guitar-Wesley_W0QQitemZ140367120914QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxq20091214?IMSfp=TL0912140510001r24624"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Acrylic-See-Through-...140510001r24624[/url] This is the same bass you are selling sans 5 quids worth of LED's a micro switch and 9V battery. You are aware you're trying to rip someone off right?[/i] I shall post if a reply comes[/quote] it's not though an amp is a bunch of components but put together its worth more than the sum of the parts, can't put a chap down for trying Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throwoff Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 [quote name='umph' post='772971' date='Mar 12 2010, 06:16 PM']it's not though an amp is a bunch of components but put together its worth more than the sum of the parts, can't put a chap down for trying[/quote] rubbish! I'm sorry but this is not a 'sum of parts' instrument its a cheap instrument with a cheap mod. The sum of its parts = 2 and both are low cost and of poor quality Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassassin Posted March 12, 2010 Author Share Posted March 12, 2010 [quote name='throwoff' post='772976' date='Mar 12 2010, 05:23 PM']rubbish! I'm sorry but this is not a 'sum of parts' instrument its a cheap instrument with a cheap mod. The sum of its parts = 2 and both are low cost and of poor quality[/quote] Agreed. I know this, you know this & chances are 99% of people who'd scoured Ebay for basses at any point would know very well what this thing is and what he was up to. However the world is full of gullible, easily impressed and let's be honest, downright dim people who go through life seeing and believing what they choose to see & believe. I for one feel absolutely no duty or obligation to try & protect them from themselves. J. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waynepunkdude Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 I used to have one of those Wesleys. not bad basses to be honest but not at that price. I was thinking of putting LEDs in it at the time but never got round to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throwoff Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250596861066"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=250596861066[/url] ITS BACK !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xilddx Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 I was going to buy this, it looks awesome! Unfortunately my money is in Nigeria at the moment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throwoff Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 [quote name='silddx' post='779309' date='Mar 19 2010, 12:50 AM']I was going to buy this, it looks awesome! Unfortunately my money is in Nigeria at the moment [/quote] Dude any chance is yours with Dr Adidewengo? The guy who has £3.1 million he needs to get out of the country? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh3184 Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 [quote name='throwoff' post='779572' date='Mar 19 2010, 11:10 AM']Dude any chance is yours with Dr Adidewengo? The guy who has £3.1 million he needs to get out of the country?[/quote] He doesn't anymore, he says its being transferred to my account as we speak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom1946 Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 I know the owner of Wesley Guitars, might send him this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annoying Twit Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 Can you ask him why the range of Wesley basses has been shrinking, with some of the more interesting ones disappearing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throwoff Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 Dammit, another business opertunity missed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xilddx Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 [quote name='throwoff' post='779921' date='Mar 19 2010, 03:52 PM']Dammit, another business opertunity missed![/quote] I can offer you excellant business opportunity in my country of Niger Delta. I am fine today and how are you? I hope this letter will find you in the best of health. I am Prince Joe Eboh, the Chairman of the “Contract Award Committee”, of the “Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC)”, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) was set up by the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha who died on 18th June 1998, to manage the excess revenue accruing from the sales of Petroleum and its allied products as a domestic increase in the petroleum products to develop the communities in the Niger Delta Oil producing areas. The estimated annual revenue for 1999 was $45 Billion US Dollars Ref. FMF A26 Unit 3B Paragraph “D” of the Auditor General of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Report of Nov. 1999 on estimated revenue. I am the Chairman of the Contract Award Committee, and my committee is solely responsible for awaiting and paying of contracts on behalf of the Federal Government of Nigeria. My Committee Awarded Contracts to foreign contractors for Drilling and Ecological Matters in the oil producing areas of Niger Delta. We overshot the contract sum by US$25,000,000.00. We have paid the contractors and withholding the balance of US$25,000, 000.00. But, because of the existence of some of the domestic laws forbidding civil servants in Nigeria from opening, operating and maintaining foreign accounts, we do not have the expertise to transfer this balance of fund to a foreign account. However, this balance of US$25,000, 000.00 has been secured in form of Credit/Payment to a foreign contractor, hence we wish to transfer into your bank account as the beneficiary of the fund. We have also arrived at a conclusion that you will be given 20% of the total sum transferred as our foreign partner, while 5% will be reserved for incidental expenses that both parties will incur in the course of actualizing this transaction, and the balance of 75% will be kept for the committee members. If you know that you will be capable of helping us actualize this transaction, you should send to me immediately the details of your bank particulars or open a new bank account where we can transfer the money US$25,000, 000.00, which you will be holding in trust for us until we come to your country for our share. Your nature of business does not matter in this transaction. The required details includes your company’s name, address, your private personal telephone/fax numbers, your full name and address, including your complete bank details where the transferred fund will be routed by the Apex Bank. Note that this transaction is expected to be actualized within 21 working days from the day the required details are forwarded to the Federal Ministry of Finance who will approve the needed foreign exchange control allocation for the release of this money to your account. Please, treat this as top secret. You should contact me urgently. Thanks for your cooperation. Yours faithfully, Prince Joe Eboh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throwoff Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 My God man, What an oppertunity! [url="http://www.419eater.com/"]http://www.419eater.com/[/url] these guys put scam baiting on a new level Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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