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05-02-2010, 04:45 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: California | | | Warwick "RockBass Corvette Basic" 199.95, Shipped
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Black only, one day only. 
For my sins, after dissing Warwick for years for that disturbingly penile upper horn, I actually bought one of these.
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05-02-2010, 10:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Covington, WA | | | Not seeing the $199; shows up as $349.
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05-02-2010, 10:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by byoung  Not seeing the $199; shows up as $349. | Make sure you have the black one checked.
Clear your cookies or something. It did that to me one time, then it worked properly.
Or call. I did the first time I had trouble with it and they said try again. If not to call back and they'd do it for me by phone.
Good luck!
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05-02-2010, 11:03 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Durham, NC | | | dang it not having any luck.. when i call they ask where i saw the $199 price to begin with... seem like a good deal if i can convince these folks. Bongo, where did you first run across this deal?
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05-02-2010, 11:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Durham, NC | | | nevermind-- got it.. need to go to "deal of the day" button
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05-02-2010, 01:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: California | | I ordered it, but I think I may cancel. I don't have room for more instruments.  It has to be a worthwhile and somewhat distinguished instrument to warrant the space nowadays. I should be selling, not buying. 
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05-02-2010, 04:05 PM
|  | (No Longer) Tradin' My Hours for a Handfulla Dimes | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Boston | | | This is an old rockbass....not as hot a deal as a new one....if headstock says Rockbass instead of the Warwick W it's an old one.
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05-02-2010, 05:58 PM
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Originally Posted by lowendfriend This is an old rockbass....not as hot a deal as a new one.... | Looking at the new one, all I can find different in appearance is the headstock graphic and the bridge. Street's $649 on them.
According to the sites, the new one has the same MEC pickups, but is passive -- this old one is supposedly active 2-band.
Strange.
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05-03-2010, 08:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: California | | | They didn't sell out, so the price is still good today.
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05-04-2010, 04:36 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Flint, Michigan | | | Seems the main difference between the new ones and the old ones is the finish, bridge, and neck finish as well as the headstock logo. I had one of these a while back that I got from Guitar Center for $99. Not bad for the price. |
05-04-2010, 01:16 PM
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Originally Posted by RFord04 I had one of these a while back that I got from Guitar Center for $99. Not bad for the price. | For $100? I should think not! Wow.
What was the story there?
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05-04-2010, 07:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: California | | | Hey, I just got this a while ago. A MUCH nicer bass than I was expecting! See my brief rundown in Basses.
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05-05-2010, 09:29 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Flint, Michigan | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Bongolation For $100? I should think not! Wow.
What was the story there? | It was back when Guitar Center's "List Event" was actually worth going to. I showed up, and low and behold, they had one 4 string in blue and one 5 string in black. I bought the blue one within 5 minutes of entering the store, and like an idiot, I went home and went back to bed, only to wake up a half hour later to my brain screaming at me to go back and get the 5 string before it's gone. I called up the store to see if anyone had bought it yet, and they hadn't, so I had them hold it and bought it. I sold it a week later on ebay for about $220, so it pretty much paid for the 4 string that I kept and played regularly for about 6 months.
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05-06-2010, 12:34 PM
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Originally Posted by RFord04 I sure do miss the days when GC really had smokin' deals at list events | They occasionally do, still, but it's not like the old days. I was the king of that. First one in line, moved fast, didn't hesitate, cleaned 'em out. 
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05-06-2010, 01:48 PM
|  | used to play 5's, then I took an arrow in the knee | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Charlottesville, Virginia | | | Got the Rockbass yesterday, thanks Bongolation. I like how it came with the wrenches and a set of straplocks. |
05-09-2010, 01:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: California | | | I have to say that this is probably the most impressive deal on a bass I've seen in a long time.
Even at MSRP, it got "Best Value of the Year" in Bass Player, I think it was.
It has the same MEC Gold pickups and preamp module as in the German Corvettes, Schaller-made German machines, the Warwick straplocks, two-piece alder body, laminated neck, etc.
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05-09-2010, 06:56 PM
|  | Will work for groove | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Middletown, OH | | | The new Rockbasses have a thinner neck too. Played one at Sam Ash a few days ago next to the old version and there's a very noticeable difference.
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07-28-2010, 06:18 PM
|  | The ever-so-useless | | | | Much thanks to the OP!!! The bass is in my lap this very second and it hasn't really been neglected since it came in. The features that came with this thing are friggin great for $199. Now if I could just find a Thumb for about 400$  | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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