There’s also @JustTim but he usually was buying the same bass so it doesn’t count 
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Once. That happened once.
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So far…
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My wife was sitting next to me when I replied that, lol. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
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No, I can’t be “that guy” anymore. I have to be happy with the two basses I’ve selected to keep, and I can’t buy any more. My bass debt is great at the moment and must be paid off.
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It’s all good, Tim. Just bustin’ balls. 
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I know.
But saying it out loud - or in this case, writing it out - makes it a “thing” and not just idle thoughts in my head.
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mmmmmmm - you have written many things in the past that didn’t make them things.
Be who you are, embrace it, wear it like a badge.
It’s fun watching your exploits.
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The fatal flaw in this reasoning though is you’re selling the P Bass
I believe you’re keeping the Carvin B40 and the Charvel PJ San Dimas. So keep the Schecter P-4 you’ve got and it’s a beautiful triplet of basses. 3 is such a nicer number than two, non?
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…is that he thinks these are the last two he will own
I love two basses as a long term number. I’m at two basses and one guitar, and that seems perfect for me. But there’s two upgrade paths for my SBV I could see taking (to other SBV’s). I don’t pretend I’m long-term done, I know better than that.
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I would keep every bass I’ve ever purchased if I could. Alas and alack, budget dictates that’s not an option at this point in time.
I mean… eventually I’m sure I will own more basses. For now, that’s not in the cards, and I need to cull the herd, so to speak, for financial reasons. So I had to pick two and live with them for a while.
Had I not an unnatural love for Carvin, it would only have been the San Dimas.
“I would rather they have laughed at me, than not laughed at all”.
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It’s not laughing at, it’s laughing with
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We’re just laughing because it could be any of us and we know it.
Not looking to acquire gear, though xmas did give me a pickup I don’t have a bass for, but what I really need is a rug
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I’m definitely laughing with you.
@JustTim I just bought an amp I totally don’t need, but it was on sale. We’re all in the same sinking GAS ship matey.
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I’ve been eyeing this on marketplace for awhile but the price hasn’t gone down. I’ve tried doing research on this particular bass and it seems like they’d sell for about $200-300 Canadian, and since it also needs new strings, $500 seems kinda ridiculous. Am I wrong? And if I wanted to put an offer on it, what would be considered fair?
The ad also says it has a small scuff on the neck and body and that it’s from the late 90s.
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Offer what you think it’s worth and see what happens 
I am not familiar with BC Rich basses, but it could as well be that basses from that period are better than later models - you’d need to do some research on this.
There seems to be something really wrong with that E-string in the photo!?!?
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Definitely something wrong with the E string and the G looks very close to the edge of the neck
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The E is probably detuned and got stuck to the pole. The G looks close to the edge of the fretboard. May be a parallax thing.
EDIT: I would look at the neck carefully too. If it’s detuned, but they didn’t adjust the truss rod it may have quite the backbow. Ask me how I know 
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Looks like no/low tension on some strings.
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So, I pulled the plug on my only true bucket list bass! Things are set in motion…
I had been circling around this bass for almost two years now, but these basses hardly ever show up in the used classifieds, the version I want (the 4-string) is much rarer than the 5-string version to begin with, and I recently found out they don’t make the 4-string version anymore at all (unless as a custom-built order).
So, when I saw one, which had already been ordered by a dealer, I finally went for it. Added bonus here is that this saves me 9-12 months of the usual waiting time.
I do believe that this has a good chance of being my last bass purchase for a very long time (yeah, go ahead and laugh 
), as I truly don’t have any other bass I really want to own at this point. (I need/want to sell a few, but that’s another story).
To be honest, there was also something else that pushed me to follow through: some soul searching over the holidays and some deep conversations about mortality and about pushing things off until it’s too late; along with some unfortunate reminders of how things can end unexpectedly and way too early in recent months (in my personal sphere and beyond).
But, yes, it is also GAS
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