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05-17-2005, 04:41 AM
| | | | Is this a good deal?
Hello
I can Buy this Double bass for 900 Euro's : 
the guy says its 90 years old, with a 'pine' ? top ? (dennen in dutch) a 'ebben' neck, and the rest triplex...
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05-17-2005, 05:06 AM
|  | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | Why does the link for the pic say "Cello"....  ?
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05-17-2005, 05:07 AM
| | | | it's the category in wich the bass is sold on a internetsite.. |
05-17-2005, 05:14 AM
| | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | | So this is like Dutch eBay...an auction site? So people could actually bid much higher than 900 Euro...?
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05-17-2005, 06:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Almere, The Netherlands | | | Yes, Marktplaats is an auction site. It works a little different from e-bay. Sellers give an asking price and bidders cannot be held to their bids.
Dennen is Dutch for fir, ebben is ebony, triplex is laminate.
I don't trust this very much. Did they make laminated basses in the 1920's?
900 euro's is about 700 USD, not a lot for a bass of 80 years old.
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Hans |
05-17-2005, 06:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Almere, The Netherlands | | | Oops wrong way around!
900 euro is 1,150 USD still not much
Hans |
05-17-2005, 07:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Denver, Co. | | | If the rest of the bass looks as good as this angle, I say grab it.
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05-17-2005, 07:23 AM
| | | mmm the guy send me an email.. there is a crack in the top is it still a good deal? |
05-17-2005, 07:25 AM
| | | deventer, in the middle  |
05-17-2005, 08:04 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Denver, Co. | | | The top doesn't look laminated....especially with that crack in it. Laminated wood doesn't crack like that....it may be a hybrid...carved top and laminated back and ribs. You better grab it quick!
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05-17-2005, 08:28 AM
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Originally Posted by hansieko Yes, Marktplaats is an auction site. It works a little different from e-bay. Sellers give an asking price and bidders cannot be held to their bids.
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But I suppose my point was - what happens if somebody bids 1,000 Euros or 2,000 etc. etc. ?
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05-17-2005, 08:36 AM
| | | | who bids most, can have it. but if i have a agreement with the guy who is selling it for 900, i can have it. and if someone bids 2000, it's a pitty, i allready have it..
BUT... there is a crack... (yes its a fir top, not laminated, with a crack) how bad is it? can you play with a crack? is it fixable? or do you need a whole new top? |
05-17-2005, 08:47 AM
| | | here a better pic of it  |
05-17-2005, 08:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Netherlands | | You have to remember that basses in the Netherlands are MUCH cheaper here than in the states. I`ve already seen fool wooden (meaning non laminated (geen triplex !) basses for a little bit more than 1000 euros. Sure they sounded awful but than again who says this one doesn’t, have you played it ? My advice : look around a little bit more and go to some GOOD Luthiers, maybe even ask their advice. If you want I can e-mail you some good addresses. |
05-17-2005, 08:55 AM
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Originally Posted by emielow who bids most, can have it. but if i have a agreement with the guy who is selling it for 900, i can have it. and if someone bids 2000, it's a pitty, i allready have it.. | Is that legal? Doesn't the site have rules about that kind of thing - could the seller be "sued" or accused of fraud,by any higher bidder, who could claim they had paid the money "in good faith" and then the goods haven't been provided!!
I know there was a guy in the UK who was selling stuff he didn't have, on UK eBay and got sent to prison, recently!! 
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05-17-2005, 08:55 AM
| | | | yes please...
heb je mn emailadres? |
05-17-2005, 08:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Netherlands | | | Nope.. give ! |
05-17-2005, 09:03 AM
| | | | to Bruce Lindfield,
the Netherlands are not the US.. within 2 hours, you are every corner of the Netherlands, so if you're selling something expensive, you will go and get it..
but yes, there is a risk, if you pay before you get the product, and the guy don't send it, you do have a problem. it is happened with concerttickets once, some guy selling lots of front-row tickets for a dutch artist, inning the money from lots of people and not sending the tickets ... |
05-17-2005, 09:05 AM
| | | | istar,
pm send... |
05-17-2005, 09:15 AM
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