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How old is this Rotosound packaging?

20basspilots

20basspilots

Aug 25, 2023
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Title says it all but yes i want to know roughly how old is this packaging style.

Apparently this was sold to me by my usual store as they didn't have other strings on stock. And yet despite looking like old stock, they charged me full price! but it's fine i guess because the strings still feels and sounds fresh, albeit with a bi lt of discoloration 😅
 

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20basspilots said:
Title says it all but yes i want to know roughly how old is this packaging style.

Apparently this was sold to me by my usual store as they didn't have other strings on stock. And yet despite looking like old stock, they charged me full price! but it's fine i guess because the strings still feels and sounds fresh, albeit with a bi lt of discoloration 😅
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"They charged me full price!" Nah... AFAIK, that's a pretty old set of Roto 66's. What they charged you, is the collector's price. But, now that you've opened them, and - worse yet - put them on your bass? Now, they're just "old strings"... ;)
 
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"They charged me full price!" Nah... AFAIK, that's a pretty old set of Roto 66's. What they charged you, is the collector's price. But, now that you've opened them, and - worse yet - put them on your bass? Now, they're just "old strings"... ;)
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I see! Well they've got a huge stock of this specific set that appeared to be unsold. This specific store has a lot of old stock aside from these brands of strings.

Yes i've put them on my bass and they're just old strings now haha! But they sure sound fresh and don't sound like dead rounds.

hoping if anyone can pinpoint what era these came from. probably 90s?
 
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20basspilots said:
Title says it all but yes i want to know roughly how old is this packaging style.

Apparently this was sold to me by my usual store as they didn't have other strings on stock. And yet despite looking like old stock, they charged me full price! but it's fine i guess because the strings still feels and sounds fresh, albeit with a bi lt of discoloration 😅
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Is there a url on the back? This would give us a rough timeframe.
[The Rotosound website was established around 1998 (saved by Archive.com's Internet Wayback Machine starting from 11th November of that year
Wayback Machine )]
 
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totally a guess, but i think they had that packaging around the time i first tried them which would have been early 2000s. Just a hunch, i only tried them a few times back then.

Funny how long certain things can sit on a shelf..
 
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Thank you all for your responses!

as roccobass suggested, i should email rotosound..aaand i actually reached out to their instagram page and they said that these would be from the mid to late nineties. The packaging changed to a figure of a bassist around the turn of the millennium and then to foil packs around 2013.

so that's some fun history/backgrounder right there.
i gotta buy more of these from that specific retailer. :D
 
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20basspilots said:
Thank you all for your responses!

as roccobass suggested, i should email rotosound..aaand i actually reached out to their instagram page and they said that these would be from the mid to late nineties. The packaging changed to a figure of a bassist around the turn of the millennium and then to foil packs around 2013.

so that's some fun history/backgrounder right there.
i gotta buy more of these from that specific retailer. :D
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So, internet url on the back yes or no?
 
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20basspilots said:
Title says it all but yes i want to know roughly how old is this packaging style.

Apparently this was sold to me by my usual store as they didn't have other strings on stock. And yet despite looking like old stock, they charged me full price! but it's fine i guess because the strings still feels and sounds fresh, albeit with a bi lt of discoloration 😅
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I’ve never seen that packaging before, but it’s been 50 years since my last purchase of that brand.
 
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