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06-26-2010, 01:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: O'Fallon, IL | | | The also have a U.S. G&L ASAT listed for less than $900. It's described as a 4-string bass, but pictured as a 6-string guitar. I wonder which one they're really selling. |
06-26-2010, 03:55 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | Warwick $$ *drool*
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06-26-2010, 07:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Happy Bottom, VA | | | Heads up on the Amazon stuff. Having bit twice on these and other "special" deals Ive come to the conclusion they are pushing used/returned items at this price. Some how they get away with new when a lot of the stuff is returned/refurbished...
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06-26-2010, 09:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: under your bed | | | Somehow this led me to see what other sorts of things are that heavily discounted... now I want an Esraj.
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06-26-2010, 09:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Cleveland OH / Guangzhou PRC | | | Amazon
No, it's new stuff. They just have an odd pricing algorithm. I have been watching ASAT bass prices for a while. In the last month they have varied from 1400 to 1000 dollars, earlier today you could pick up an ASAT for 898 dollars, now they are 1400 bucks again. Having just bought a 'Fish, I managed to resist the temptation of a sub-900 dollar ASAT.
Kind of like airline pricing, a mystery to me.
Russ
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06-26-2010, 10:31 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Yonkers, NY | | Quote:
Originally Posted by rrybicki  No, it's new stuff. They just have an odd pricing algorithm. I have been watching ASAT bass prices for a while. In the last month they have varied from 1400 to 1000 dollars, earlier today you could pick up an ASAT for 898 dollars, now they are 1400 bucks again. Having just bought a 'Fish, I managed to resist the temptation of a sub-900 dollar ASAT.
Kind of like airline pricing, a mystery to me.
Russ | Yeah, I used them to buy some Aguilar stuff in the past and the pricing can change minute to minute. There are some great deals to be had with them. |
06-27-2010, 12:08 AM
|  | used to play 5's, then I took an arrow in the knee | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Charlottesville, Virginia | | | Plenty of their stuff is returns or scratch 'n dent, some of the companies they sell have stated this in the past even though Amazon won't. |
06-27-2010, 06:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Happy Bottom, VA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by rrybicki No, it's new stuff. They just have an odd pricing algorithm. I have been watching ASAT bass prices for a while. In the last month they have varied from 1400 to 1000 dollars, earlier today you could pick up an ASAT for 898 dollars, now they are 1400 bucks again. Having just bought a 'Fish, I managed to resist the temptation of a sub-900 dollar ASAT.
Kind of like airline pricing, a mystery to me.
Russ | Convince yourself....Remember youve been warned 
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07-02-2010, 11:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Forest Hills, NY | | Quote:
Originally Posted by LightGroove Convince yourself....Remember youve been warned | I've bought from them before and it was new. Even if it's used, all you are risking is the time it takes to re-package and drop at UPS, Amazon has the best return policy I've ever dealt with.
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07-02-2010, 11:15 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: TX, USA | | | i got a tribute sb-2 for $440...it was not used/refurbed |
07-02-2010, 12:43 PM
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In the past I have owned 2 J&L L-2000 and an L-1000.
The L-2000 I got from Amazon a month or two ago is handsdown my favorite thus far and looked brand new. Came in a new beefier case too. Better than the old style. If someone returned it they sure did not play it long. It's balanced and lightweight, and quiet (no hum) and cost 749.00
free shipping.
Got another bass at 1/2 price too and it looks new.
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07-02-2010, 05:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Mobile,AL | | | Anyone else see the Pnut sig for 3100? talk about gas to bad i just bought a SS2
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07-02-2010, 10:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by rrybicki No, it's new stuff. | Most amazon.com "sale" merchandise of any kind is B-stock in some way or another. Damaged packaging, returns, factory seconds, refurbs, etc. Best you can hope for is "discontinued."
Boy, can I tell you some stories! 
One prestige bass manufacturer has privately advised TBers not to buy their brand basses from the Amazon outlet as they are all defective seconds.
On the other hand, I got a Schecter that appeared to be A-stock and fairly perfect.
But Amazon sells a lot of junk merchandise as first-quality stock...no doubt about it whatsoever!
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07-03-2010, 08:54 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Charleston SC | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Bongolation One prestige bass manufacturer has privately advised TBers not to buy their brand basses from the Amazon outlet as they are all defective seconds. | Why would a 'prestige' bass manufacturer let defective seconds onto the market if they don't want people to buy them?
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07-03-2010, 01:18 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Flint, Michigan | | | A lot of their Warwick basses are actually the new Rockbass models, but they don't say Rockbass anywhere in the description. Heads up! |
07-03-2010, 03:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by deekay911 Why would a 'prestige' bass manufacturer let defective seconds onto the market if they don't want people to buy them? | Good question and they'll ALL deny they do it -- but they're lying. Untold tons of "scratch & dent" stuff from MF was provably factory seconds. Now they sell it as "used."
You don't actually think you're not in an adversarial relationship with your favorite gear companies, do you?
In this instance, the recipient of the email shared it with me in PM and it was real, I know the guy who sent it at X basses and it's totally his style. I bought a marked B-stock one of their import models from MF.
Anyway, I wouldn't mind that Amazon sells this stuff, but it bugs me they sell it as new A-stock when it's not.
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07-04-2010, 06:32 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Inland Empire | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Bongolation Most amazon.com "sale" merchandise of any kind is B-stock in some way or another. Damaged packaging, returns, factory seconds, refurbs, etc. Best you can hope for is "discontinued."
Boy, can I tell you some stories!
One prestige bass manufacturer has privately advised TBers not to buy their brand basses from the Amazon outlet as they are all defective seconds.
On the other hand, I got a Schecter that appeared to be A-stock and fairly perfect.
But Amazon sells a lot of junk merchandise as first-quality stock...no doubt about it whatsoever! | So can you solicit more advice from this "prestige bass manufacturer" and have them tell us where to get their defective seconds instead since Amazon isn't a kosher source?
This is too funny to be dumb. |
07-04-2010, 11:44 PM
|  | Monster Mike | | | | Speaking of the amazon deals, thought someone would be interested in a Carl Martin parametric eq for $90 instead of the usual $260. Sounds like a good deal even if it's secretly b-stock. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...=ATVPDKIKX0DER
This one doesn't really suit me, but I know how many folks here love parametric eqs! |
07-05-2010, 01:12 AM
| | used to play 5's, then I took an arrow in the knee | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Charlottesville, Virginia | | | I just bought one, expect the price to shoot back to usual within 24 hours, grab one now if you want one | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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