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08-20-2010, 02:47 PM
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In your experience, what is the "best" place (cost, shipping speed, customer service, etc.) to buy parts for Fender basses?
I'm asking about online sites only--not local shops.
Thanks for your help.
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08-20-2010, 02:55 PM
|  | Signed, Sealed, Delivered | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: NY & MA | | Don't know if they're the "best", but I've ordered from them before and it all went well. http://www.guitarpartsresource.com/ |
08-20-2010, 03:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Calabash, NC | | | +1 on guitarpartsresource.com. I've only ordered a nut and a couple of tuners, but everything went flawless, and I had my stuff in a couple of days. Quick and easy.
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08-21-2010, 05:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Chester, Pa.,USA | | | +1 on guitarpartsresource.com.
You might want to go directly to the basspartsresource.com page.
Save yourself two seconds. (heh)
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08-27-2010, 10:29 AM
| | Now 10% Less Offensive! | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Anchorage, Alaska | | Awesome! All this help from you folks and I order the wrong parts anyway. 
Well, I don't think a return/exchange will be a problem.
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08-27-2010, 11:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Oregon | | Quote:
Originally Posted by totallyfrozen Awesome! All this help from you folks and I order the wrong parts anyway.
Well, I don't think a return/exchange will be a problem. | When that happens to me, I just go looking for a neck and body to match the errant parts.  |
08-27-2010, 11:49 AM
|  | Horse getter back onner | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Fredericton, NB Canada | | | guitarpartsresource
Have ordered from them twice. No problems and delivery is quite quick. Postal rates across the line to me in Canada are a bit killer, but that's the way it is.
But a heads up, they are not so hot on customer service as far as replying to your questions, Especially when asking them about a return/exchange of purchased parts-no reply after 4 emails. Maybe they were just real busy, or I just smell real bad. |
08-27-2010, 01:35 PM
| | Now 10% Less Offensive! | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Anchorage, Alaska | | | Well, the parts are still new/unopened and I said as much in my Return Authorization request. If they don't respond to my satisfaction, I'll just sell the parts.
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08-27-2010, 01:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Olympia, WA | | | I've gotten a wrong order from them and 0 response regarding my need to return. That was a couple years ago. I've done business since because their prices are decent and shipping is cheap and fast. |
08-27-2010, 01:41 PM
| | Now 10% Less Offensive! | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Anchorage, Alaska | | | Sounds like they like to sell the parts but not to help customers with mistakes. I guess that means that if I deal with them in the future, I'll have to pay close attention and be very careful not to make any mistakes.
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08-27-2010, 01:53 PM
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08-27-2010, 02:02 PM
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08-27-2010, 07:48 PM
| | Horse getter back onner | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Fredericton, NB Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by THand | Yes, BBP is where I will make my next purchase for their mounted Area J's. Prices are also very reasonable. But they have fewer "bits and pieces" type of parts.
ALSO, look here www.buzzardsbass.com I sent him a question and immediately got a very practical, knowledgeable and easy going no bull$hit style of reply. Name is Brian Cornwell. Check out the site and give him a shout. He has everything you'll ever need. |
08-27-2010, 07:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: FL-Central | | | Bass Emporium great people. I bought from Kyle , knows his stuff ,honest,ect...
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08-28-2010, 11:22 AM
| | Now 10% Less Offensive! | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Anchorage, Alaska | | | Not too cool
Well, guitarpartsresource actually did respond to my request for a Return Authorization for the 2 pots that I bought.
This is what they said: "We do not take back electrical components. Very sorry.
JB"
Understandable, I guess, but maybe they could make that info a little easier to see on their website. After all, they sell ELECTRIC guitar and bass parts! Sounds a little shady to me.
Well, I won't ever buy anything from there again. 
Guess I'll put 'em on eBay since I don't need 'em. There's no way I'll recoup my loss since I paid shipping too.
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08-28-2010, 11:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Chester, Pa.,USA | | | Well, I guess I've been lucky so far. no problems yet, haven't needed to use customer service with them. I suppose I'll just have to be extra careful when ordering from them. That, and try some of the other sites reccomended here.
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08-28-2010, 11:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Daytona/Orlando | | | A few months ago, I ordered a MM bridge pickup from basspartsresources . They sent me a MM bridge. I called them, the problem was taken care of quickly and they even let me keep the bridge. Aside from that, I've placed a few other orders with them with no problems.
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08-28-2010, 08:22 PM
|  | Quatre-cordes | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: New Orleans, LA /El Paso TX | | Quote:
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ALSO, look here www.buzzardsbass.com I sent him a question and immediately got a very practical, knowledgeable and easy going no bull$hit style of reply. Name is Brian Cornwell. Check out the site and give him a shout. He has everything you'll ever need. | wasn't that the guy who nobody could find last year or something? |
08-29-2010, 09:14 AM
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Originally Posted by joeyl wasn't that the guy who nobody could find last year or something? | LOL, that's what I thought to!
That would be about the last place I would order from online...a dude that disappears with people's money and moves thousands of miles away without a word to his customers.
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08-29-2010, 10:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Central NH | | I have been buying alot of parts from Angela Instruments lately...good people and great prices...they sometimes will have NOS stuff at good prices... http://angela.com/
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