It depends on the market. Here in Japan sellers are usually totally honest. I’ve been burned maybe twice out of dozens of purchases and both times I got my money back.
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I recently sold 4000 CDs, more than 1000 DVDs and Blu-ray, some speakers as well as other stuff. Packaged it perfectly and sent it via DHL.
Three 30kg boxes with CDs were complety destroyed.
And sadly, a very rare mint condition Infinity Kappa Center B speaker arrived beyond recognition. I saw the pictures after it arrived and it looked like Dresden 1945.
The buyer cried on the phone, and I could relate to that.
Selling and sending stuff can be very frustrating 
I bought two towers, a center and a 500watt powered sup about 1999 or 2000 and a nice Onkyo receiver. My ex-wife took the receiver just because she knew it would break up my system. She gave it away! I bought a new Onkyo in 2003, but it wasn’t the same. I still have it all to this day.
You can kill that down time in school with that Rick!
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Yeah, I also have an Onkyo now, a TX-NR7100. It’s OK-ish, but nothing high end. I am so looking forward to my hearing go bad, so I no longer yearn for highend equipment 
All my higher end stuff had to go anyway, cause: downsizing. I’m p#ss poor now … and my girlfriend does not want the whole house stuffed with A/V tech.
I had a 9.2 highend system (for my after hour room), 7.1 mid end (living room), 5.1 mid end (guest room), stereo (bath room) and a PA for DJs on my roof terrace.
Only a few items left, specifically the Infinity Kappas (90/80/rear) and three subs.
Hard to sell large speakers here in Germany, as everybody is listening to music on their d@mn smartphones using mediocre earbuds.
What a f#cking time to live in!
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TL:DR, but for 2000 dollars (+/-1696 euros) is a very good deal for a used ricky. I would do anything to get a ricky for that price (including getting a small loan from the bank).
Sadly most Rickenbackers I find online ar at least 2500 to 3000 euros.
Very good argument. Most things many women spend money on lose value with time, or are cosmetic treatments or things that can cost a lot of money. I’m surprised by how much money some of my friends use on lip fillings, acrylic nails (which seem to get longer and longer these days. I was surprised once at a train by how a teenager was able to even use her phone with those long nails), etc. These things cost a fortune and they don’t last.
I also never understood other women’s obsession with shoes and purses. Why so many shoes!
I must be a very odd woman because I’m not interested in those things. I am more interested in technology, music, orchids, fountain pens, and if I had space I would love to have lots of aquariums and terrariums. To quote Moss from the series The IT Crowd, “I like being weird. Weird is all I’ve got!” 
But back to the subject of the thread, yes, some old basses are a good investment and their value increases with time.
Happy holidays, everybody! 
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These are things one can only think about, but not worth using as arguments in a discussion. Nothing good would come of it.
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This is so funny! 
But if space is the issue, you can hang basses from the walls.
I believe she most certainly is aware of your hiding place under the bed but just pretends she doesn’t. When you are not around, she probably takes the basses out to vacuum clean the floor and puts them back there in exactly the same position they were, and you never notice!
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Hahaha … no!
When she gets the opportunity to make me feel like a silly naughty boy, she takes it. That happens often, obviously.
And she knows me better than I know myself, so usually she catches all my little anarchic endeavours, no matter how cunning I think I am.
But her side of the bed is close to the wall, so she can’t look under it easily. Also, it takes some strength to remove everything. She is small-ish, but strong (klein, aber oho!), but not that strong … the only advantage I have in this relationship, otherwise she beats me at anything 
Her rule is: for every additional 9m² I can get a new bass. Meaning: she really wants to move to another place. But I like it here: it’s close to my favourite park and we are in the middle of the leftist multiculurural and generally crazy spot in Hamburg. It’s the least boring area in Hamburg. Still boring, of course!
LOL! No - it’s VERY dusty down there. I know, cause vacuum cleaning is my task
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You saw the condition of my Atelier for yourself. I still can’t believe it’s used; there’s not a mark on it!
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You should see the inside of my wife’s wardrobes. Anyone would think I was married to a millipede!
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You did say once that she’s KGB trained, sooooooo… 
Her father is (probably, though he never admits it specifically). He knew everybody important in the ex-USSR personally (except Putin, he says), has quite a lot of knowledge about things he shouldn’t … and has really impressive military capabilities. But he keeps denying, in a very friendly fashion … and with a wink. WTF?
I wished she were KGB (FSB now) though! I found it kind of sexy when I met her, as my father was in the Dutch military intelligence and security service, and I always wanted to be seduced by a russian spy that had special training for that. I would have spilled any secret with great joy!!!
Turns out, an east german girlfriend is just as good
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That is not my wife either. Not really.
She doesn’t collect fashion stuff. What she mostly “splurges” on are cozy and multi-functional clothes. Nice shoes, pants, and jackets from REI that she can wear to the office and then go to the gym or rock climbing afterwards.
She buys high quality cosmetics… but more like expensive sun-blocking stuff because she’s so fair skinned and wants to avoid getting burned and getting skin cancer.
She’s also a computer programmer at a big company, and I’m a brewer at a tiny independent brewery. So she earns roughly double what I do.
All of our “splurgy” personal items come out of personal accounts. We don’t use pooled funds for them.
All of which means - I’m not going to use the argument that, “Well you spend money on…” to justify buying this bass. The argument I might use is, “It’s funded by the bass I just sold, and the birthday money your parents just send me.”
But really… because my grad school is going to be funded at least in part by joint money. I think I need to hold off on buying the bass until we at least discuss how grad school is going to get paid for.
As for space - all of our guitars are on wall hangers, and I have an empty one on the wall in my personal room because I just sold another bass. She still (probably rightly) doesn’t want me to just continually build a GAS bass collection that takes over the house.
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After he died, I learned that my Grandfather’s real position while stationed at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in the early 1960’s was “Director of Cold War Operations”.
Publicly, he ran the base radio station.
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Having had counterintelligence training specifically on this subject - they are usually more practical than especially zesty when it comes to that
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My father bragged about it all the time! But this was Dutch military. It’s basically a rock band with all the sex, drugs and rock’n roll.
And secrecy is LOL!
As a child, I visited the bunker he worked in many times, and clearly remember the recreation room with lots of porn & cartoon magazines.
In our basement we had a box with folders that had a “top secret” print. It was full with nonsense. I would have gladly given it to a sexy soviet spy. But, alas, that never happened
My father was really very different from my girlfriend’s father. In case of war we wouldn’t have lasted a day…
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