worth $100?

Gord_oh · #1 11-03-2009, 02:11 PM

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=STRK:MEWNX:IT

this was accidentally clicked and i won the auction with 10 seconds left. should i just get it for parts? i freaked out when it said i won it, this wasnt planned. i can still contact seller if i need to...

roschmbo · #2 11-03-2009, 02:14 PM

Sure, why not?

Gord_oh · #3 11-03-2009, 02:15 PM

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Originally Posted by roschmbo

Sure, why not?

i have the money for it, but it would be tight..

Gord_oh · #4 11-03-2009, 02:18 PM

someone make me feel better about my unplanned purchase...

jlane72t · #5 11-03-2009, 02:20 PM

part it out.

RickenBoogie · #6 11-03-2009, 02:21 PM

I wouldn't bid on stuff willy-nilly, unless I actually needed, or wanted the item. I'm sure that 100 bucks could've been spent better, but at least it's not alot of dough, and the bass is a bass.

yellofury · #7 11-03-2009, 02:22 PM

heck yeah
You can hold on to it for awhile and mod it

save a few more bucks and slap a Mighty Mite fretless neck on it
and you got a nice looking fretless if you want to test those waters
or you can just use it as a beater for some "mojo"
let it get banged up etc,.

I recently bought a Squier and trasnformed it from this
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showth...t=#post8186447

mcapote · #8 11-03-2009, 02:23 PM

that's about the average price on that item used, my question is how do you accidentally bid on an item on ebay? its not like you bid and it goes through. It asks you to confirm the bid. To be honest it sounds to me like you were messing around with pricing hiking on people who honestly wanted to buy it and it bit you in the butt.

mileszs · #9 11-03-2009, 02:23 PM

It could be a really fun project bass. Sand it down, paint it yourself, learn to level frets, file nuts, solder wires.

Here's how I decide whether to pick up a cheap bass on eBay or CL, et cetera: How does this compare to the cheapest SX of the same type? That can be subjective, but I think there are enough objective observations that can be made that it's a worthy benchmark. I'll leave that to you, though, because I'm afraid I've already harshed your mellow. (Not to mention the SX cliche. Sorry.)

amimbari · #10 11-03-2009, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Gord_oh

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=STRK:MEWNX:IT

this was accidentally clicked and i won the auction with 10 seconds left.

ACCIDENTALLY CLICKED ???

you can't accidentally do anything on ebay.

what the others said, you bought it now you own it play it as-is, or dump a couple hundred more into it and make it truly a nice unit you will keep for a while.

Gord_oh · #11 11-03-2009, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by mcapote

that's about the average price on that item used, my question is how do you accidentally bid on an item on ebay? its not like you bid and it goes through. It asks you to confirm the bid. To be honest it sounds to me like you were messing around with pricing hiking on people who honestly wanted to buy it and it bit you in the butt.

no, what happened was it had 1 minute left when i came across it with 1 bid. i bid thinking i wouldnt win it and i did.

i think ill just do it. this was going to be my next project anyway:
http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/2...dtortpbass.png

i have an SX PJ with quarter pounders in it I could use and part off the SX.

bassophil · #12 11-03-2009, 02:27 PM

W T F ?! Don't bid if you don't want to buy!

nortonrider · #13 11-03-2009, 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by mcapote

To be honest it sounds to me like you were messing around with pricing hiking on people who honestly wanted to buy it and it bit you in the butt.

Yeah, That what I think happened too.
What's up with that?

**Thunderitter** · #14 11-03-2009, 02:28 PM

I hate it when you click the buy button and then the confirm button by mistake.

Good job the wife always believes me that it's an accident!

I will add that I had an idiot do this to one of my auctions recently. He had a similar excuse "I didn't think I would win it". Come on, what sort of excuse was that: "I didn't think the gun was going to go off when it was pointed at the bank tellers head"!

I will say that the bloke offer to cover my fees/etc. if I let him out of it, which I did (nice guy!). Of course the next fellow who bought it was the 'customer from hell' who asked about 100 questions post sale and then paid with a PayPal check and complained that I wouldn't send the guitar to him before the check cleared! He then complained the action was high when he got the guitar - seems he didn't know what a truss rod was for, etc., etc., etc.

Anyway, enjoy your new bass!

mcapote · #15 11-03-2009, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by bassophil

W T F ?! Don't bid if you don't want to buy!

my point exactly. people that bid just to bid ruin it for those of us who look for decent equipment on the budget.

mcapote · #16 11-03-2009, 02:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Thunderitter

I hate it when you click the buy button and then the confirm button by mistake.

Good job the wife always believes me that it's an accident!

your wife also ask why you need more than 1 bass? I get that one alot. She isnt buying the 1 4 string in e tuning 1 4 string in drop D 1 5 string in B and 1 5 string in F story I tried to use last week. haha

**Thunderitter** · #17 11-03-2009, 02:37 PM

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Originally Posted by mcapote

your wife also ask why you need more than 1 bass? I get that one alot. She isnt buying the 1 4 string in e tuning 1 4 string in drop D 1 5 string in B and 1 5 string in F story I tried to use last week. haha

Off thread, but I tell her I'll stop buying basses/guitars "that I don't need" when she stops buying shoes "that she doesn't need".

I'll be buying for a while for sure!

Gord_oh · #18 11-03-2009, 02:37 PM

ok, so it wasnt an accident but it was unplanned.
yeah ill bite the bullet on this one.
boredom is dangerous on ebay.

Gord_oh · #19 11-03-2009, 02:39 PM

anyone able to help me decipher the serial?

CN206083

i know its korean made, but what year?

Gord_oh · #20 11-03-2009, 02:41 PM

1992?