Oh my, that is sweet!
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I have to admit to being a little tempted just for the resale value once everything gets back to normal, but I’m not really wanting to spend that much on a bass I haven’t ever tried, even if it is a shortie 
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Just found this article:
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Oh yeah, they sound amazing:
Throw rounds on that instead and it would be a serious punkabilly bass.
Just noticed from the article that it’s a U-profile neck though. Not my thing. At all 
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I forget chrome has a built in translator. Had to switch over from Safari. And yea, that’s a whole lot of politeness.
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The literal meanings are even more polite than the translation - one of the phrases it is (correctly) translating as “I’m sorry” literally means “there is absolutely no excuse”
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Wow. That one buyer is beign a total PITA. I am surprised the guy is putting up with it so well.
edit: the dude finally bought it, which was an excellent choice. What a steal if that’s what you’re after.
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Welcome to my world. I see $2700 40th year anniversary EBMM BSR Old Smoothie basses, in brand new shape going for $900 and not selling for a long time. I have seen so many basses that are being half priced to sell, and still don’t sell for a while.
It is the market right now, and it appears to be world wide. I have had my Sterling Ray4HH for sale for like 5 months, and it is brand new, everything but the box. less people have toutched it then any bass hanging on a GC wall, and I literally never pick it up to play it. All the stickers are on it and not a scratch.
I listed for $375 with Ernie Ball Strap Locks which are $15,
So new, out the door after tax is $425, and add the strap locks, and it is $440 value, and I mean pristine, this is as new as new can get, and newer then any bass that has been played by every person to walk into a GC and start noodling across the bass wall, with their kids sticky hands and people that generally just don’'t give AF.
and I wrote the add saying how new this is, and I don’t need to sell it, so don’t expect to get me to sell it to any low ballers, and I was getting people saying
$200
NO
$220
NO
$175
NO
different people offering, but instead of ignoring people, I at least like to say no,
so one guy sent
$138
So, I said “OK”
He got back and said when can you meet
I said, I am free anytime really
He said “can I come tomorrow around 4pm”
I said “sure, but let me make sure you understand what we just salked about.
You said $138, like a statement you will pay $138.
I answered “ok” like acknoledging your statement to pay $138.
Obviously you did not read any part of the long description I wrote about this bass, and you are welcome to come and look at the bass tomorrow at 4pm, but you better bring the other $237 if you plan to take it home”
He got pissed. “I didn’t text you to have a conversation, you could have just said no”
I said, “I didn’t write a very detailed description to have people ignore it and make ridiculous offers that no kid would take”
So he wrote back. " I will bring the $138 in pennies so you can feel like you are rich and spread them all over your bed and nail your chick on them and feel lilke scrooge McDuck"
to which I replied “and you still would leave without the bass in your hands”
So I am starting to see very nicely priced instruments as a LONG TERM investment these days.
8-10 months ago, I could pick something up from Let Go for $50 and sell it on Offer Up for $125 within a few days, and I was, but now, Offer Up ate up Let Go, and the basses, even the ones I want, and expect to sell quick, just sit, and get price slashed about 3 or 4 times before they are sold, if they are sold.
That one EBMM Stingray 40th annaversary, sold for $900 after being first listed at $1750, slashed to $1500 to $1400 to $1250 to $1100 to $1000 to $900 over about 6 months, and when it finally hit $900, I thought it would go next day, and I seriously thought about rounding up the cash and just getting it, but it ended up selling, about 3 to 4 weeks after lowering to $900
I really have not watched too many trends on Reverb for things like that, but in local markets, Offer Up, Craigslist, Local Pawn shops, its DEAD and no telling when it will get undead.
And they still keep pushing out bitchen new instruments with pretty affordablel price tags, and even those get on the 2nd hand market, but those are what sells.
Like this new Charvel San Dimas, damn, that green one with the roasted neck is sexy AF
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Yeah it took months to sell my Streamer LX. It felt totally weird because the price was awesome.
Pre-covid, the market here was amazing, my previous Streamer (which I priced high and actually turned a profit on, despite having bought new as a discounted floor model) sold in days. And my TRBX304 sold, I am not making this up, in less than two minutes - I posted the listing, realized I missed something, went back to edit it, and someone had already impulse-bought it.
I miss those days, as a seller. Good buyers market now for sure.
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Where do you have it listed or sale @T_dub? I’d like to take a look at it.
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This Charvel bass is sick.
I am loving this thing, probably not ready to drop $900 on it, but it seems every bit worth it, but one day when I can get one for $450, I would love one.
https://reverb.com/item/38211197-charvel-pro-mod-san-dimas-bass-pj-iv-lime-green-metallic
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That color is just crazy good. Kind of wish it had either a rosewood or lighter maple fretboard, but minor complaint - that bass exudes punk mojo.
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It is on Offer Up local, but I made a trade agreement with a guy that is supposed to happen this weekend, but if it doesn’t, you will be the first to know.
I am trading it and a beater bass I have for a G&L L-2000, a bass I have really wanted to try since I have know about it.
I have not heard back from the guy today, and he said either tomorrow of Sunday morning, so if it doesn’t happen by Sunday afternoon, I will show you the link and send you all the pictures I have.
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Roasted Maple is the thing that is the thing right now. you are not nothing if you are not making roasted maple necks and fretboards, and even leaving the headstock roasted maple (one time I actually agree with the headstock not matching the body color. There are other times obviously, but bases on this Charvel and color, I think the headstock and neck are a good fit.
They have a dark green, blue, and red of course
The blue and electric Green are 4 string p/j with reverse P for $899
and the Red and dark Green are 5 string Jazz pups for $999
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Yeah I’ve seen the roasted maple thing. Kind of hoping it dies out, like some people feel about quilted tops. The color is sitting in kind of this valley between the exotic not-quite-dark woods and normal maple. It’s not bad in any way, just kind of in a middle ground that I wish would go one way or the other. Personal preference, it certainly looks quite good either way.
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There was that time between mid march and maybe all the way to September, where it was both a buyers and sellers market.
People were not overpricing their basses, and often under procing them or making a package with all their gear, and sell it for what the bass was worth, leaving a $100 bass amp head and $275 bass cabinet to sell and get back all but $25 of what the package cost.
Or like I said, buy on one site, put an add on a different site for a price that is still a good deal, but more then double what I just bought it for.
The buying has really stopped now. People have been in covid too long, its ready to break sooner then later, and they don’t need to sell things to pay rent as work is opening back up, and on the other side, people are not looking for something do spend their time doing while on covid lockdown for god knows how long.
Everything just got stale.
Is there great deals to be had if you are a buyer, yes. Can you sell for close to the value of the bass these days, not even, or it will take a long time for that one right person to pull up the app, and look long and hard and go, That is the bass I have been looking for, hope he stil has it, and then you get a message “do you still have this”, and you feel so happy you are almost ready to lure them in by slashing it in half again, but have to contain yourself and just go thru with the sale.
If I were a serious collector, with the money to put towards investing in instruments that will either appreciated over the years naturally based on brand and origin and date of mfg, or will sell for double / triple what you paid based on them just selling for their actual value (which you paid 1/2 or 1/3 the actually value) when the time is right, I would be buying alot of basses right now. I am confident that whatever was spent would comeback 4-8 times when everything was sold at the right time, and that is with just regualr stuff, any of the 40th year annaversary MM basses, or 75th annaversary fenders, ones like that will grow in value 10-20 years from now, maybe 30, yeah, you can expect returns lot more then 8x what was invested.
But sadly, I am not in position financially to do this and I don’t have the room to store the basses (well, I could make room I guess, but…) so yeah, I won’t be taking part in this, not this go around.
I will wait or the next pandemic, and then I will buy the ALL I tell you ALL, and then Pinky and I will take over the world.
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Well, just ordered the Darkglass Vintage Microtubes because GAS!
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Fantastic pedal, you’ll love it.
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Does it work well with a BDI-21 or should it replace it you think?
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Everything works well with the BDI-21
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