Bass was exactly as seen in the thread pictures, shipped in a case, well-packaged and arrived A-OK via FedEx. All we did to make this a stage-ready, audience-eye-candy bass was contact-clean the 29 year old input jack(always done on new-to-me basses), polish the entire bass, add Strap Locs, adjust the pickups' heights, and put on a set of light gauge round wounds. It's on a stand in the music room for a day to let the neck adjust to the new strings. Tomorrow the neck/action gets checked to see how it likes(or not) the lighter strings and then a complete setup. Tuesday night it gets gig tested.
Overall transaction was very smooth and easy with more than a couple of PM's exchanged.