How much did your collection cost

[TheGreek]

[quote name='Sean' post='933782' date='Aug 23 2010, 03:37 PM']2 x Grandmothers
1 x camel (male, 5 years old)
1 x week of "payments in kind" to undisclosed BC member
7 x contract killings

And that's just my NS5![/quote]
[b]What you need to ask is did you get value for money??[/b]

[TheGreek]

[quote name='Bigwan' post='937086' date='Aug 26 2010, 01:08 PM']I started counting up the value of all my gear (at new-for-old prices) a while back for an insurance quote and stopped when I beat the £10k mark! But I don't smoke, only drink occasionally and don't have a swinging social calender so the money has to go somewhere!

Bass-wise it looks a bit like this:

Fender Precision - £600
Lakland Joe Osborne - £730
Lakland 55-01 - £400 (*Editor's Bargain Buy Award*)
Shuker Custom 6 - £1800(!)
EB MM Bongo - £700 (actually the 5 string version cost £700 and I straight traded that for this 4 string)
Warwick Corvette - £400
No-name acoustic bass - £50
Aria Pro II 5 - £170
Ibanez RD300 - £60 (going permanently to my brother when he brings my Warwick back)
Westfield P copy - £20 (now given it away)

So that's £4930 then. I'd hate to think how much I've [i]actually[/i] spent in the last 17 years... but this is what I have knocking about to show for it!

...worrying thing is I could happily live with just one... but don't make me choose!

...this total is probably enough to buy more than 1, possibly more than 2 of my dream basses - take note children![/quote]

[size=3]Look what you can get secondhand:[/size]

[b]Warwick Dolphin Ltd edition in Bubinga - £650
Jaydee supernatural Roadie - £650
Veillette Citron - £888.12 ( not including the £199.13 those bastards at Customs & Excise charged )[/b]

Compare this with:
Warwick Rockbass Corvette 5 string - £429 new
Ashbory (toy) Bass - £200(ish) new
Crafter Acoustic - £269 new (was this over the top?)

[size=3][b]There's much to be said for Ebay!![/b][/size]