Buying back an old bass

[NickyBass]

There are a few that I'd buy back, but I don't regret selling them.
It's like when I clean out the basement and later on I think "oh man, I wish I didn't donate that blender." But, I'd rather live without the blender to have a clean basement.

 

[ArteK]

I sold a 90's Gibson Les Paul bass: cherry finish, ebony fingerboard, passive T-Bird pickups, three-knob vol, vol, master tone controls (very rare). I knew I'd regret it when I sold it. (I just didn't play it for several years leading up to the sale.)

The bass played and sounded just like a Pedulla, which came out many years later (for a lot more money, of course).

I sold it here, and hope it'll go back on the market at some time, but alas, ...

However, that's the only one I've sold that I'd want back.

Addendum: I just realized that's the bass I'm playing in my avatar picture.

 

[Shepsdad]

I’ve never sold a bass, but I did sell an early 90s Gibson flying V that I would buy back in a second if the chance came up.

And I actually did buy back a Fender M80 2x12 that I sold in 94 or 95. It was partly because of nostalgia I guess, but I had regretted selling since the day of, then, almost 30 years later, I found it. I will never let that amp go again.

 

[Matt-J2]

I've considered trying to find and buy my first bass again. Not the exact one I owned, but a copy.

Thing is, apparently I'm not 100% sure what that was. I bought it at a pawn shop in...2002 I think. Maybe 2001. It was definitely black. I thought it was an Ibanez 5 string, and when the RGB305 was out a couple years ago I thought that was the modern reissue or whatever, but I can't seem to find that RoadGear basses came in 5 string. So maybe it wasn't a 5, but I have a memory of the guy I sold it to wanting it specifically to get a 5. Oh and I thought it had PJ pickups, but the next closest I seem to find is just J pickups. Which maybe, it definitely had two pickups.

Anyway, maybe someday I figure it out, buy one, and disappoint myself. Otherwise, I don't tend to think about re-buying something that I sold once unless I sold it due to financial need. If I do think about it, I tend to remember fairly quickly why I sold it in the first place.

 

[Dr. Cheese]

I had nostalgia about my first bass (a Ric 4001) for years. Then I played one in a store. Noisy, pokin' me in the wrong places, the silly pickup cover in the way - it was a less than stellar experience.

Our memories of things past are usually much better than the reality.

True, memories can be better than the reality.

 

[red_rhino]

Been there, done that. A buddy and I sold the same bass back and forth to each other, twice. I finally broke the cycle by selling it to someone else. I voted "Think about it."

 

[micguy]

True, memories can be better than the reality.

Part of it is the naïveté of youth - your first bass, your first girlfriend…you have no basis of comparison, so anything half decent is literally “the best thing ever”.

 

[mikeswals]

Yes. if was a bass you liked, I go with yes.

 

[jimmydean]

I have 3 or 4 basses that I would love to have back , an early Villete-Citron , 62 Fender PB , 69 Fender PB and a Travis Bean .

 

[beatdatthang]

I’ve sold basses in order to fund other basses because I was sure I’d like the new bass more only to be disappointed. Everyone is sure that a new/different/better/more expensive bass will be “the one” at times.

We’ve probably all had some buyers/sellers remorse. If you know you’ll like/play a bass you’ve previously sold, buying it back shouldn’t be an issue.

 

[LadyLoveStingRay5]

I would only buy it back if there was nothing else I wanted more.

If I wouldn’t or haven’t lost any sleep over not having it , I wouldn’t bother .

 

[DJ Bebop]

I just want the general consensus on getting back with an old flame.

I've done this. Not buying back the same bass, it was kinda generic the one I sold, but I bought the same type of bass, better example of the one I let go.

So I can see it, if there's still love there, I think.

 

[brianrost]

Once it’s out the door, that’s it for me. Wanting an old bass back is just a nostalgic urge.

 

[P. Aaron]

I've owned good basses but nothing that I truly regret selling off. I could bemoan this or that bass but, the one's I use are easily replaceable and not too extraordinary. I think I like it like that because, my ability to make music is only limited by my own drive to so.

 

[logdrum]

I got the Buzz back that way. I did not hesitate.

 

[lowfreqgeek]

Depends on the bass and why I sold it. There are a few that I'd take back in a heartbeat. I sold them for reasons unrelated to the instrument itself. Those are the ones that I remember fondly and wish I still had, even 25 years later.

There are plenty of other basses I sold for various reasons that I would not buy again, either the same or one like it.

 

[getBAK]

By the time I sell an instrument, I'm done with it. Meaning it's probably sat around for a year without being played. Doesn't mean it's a bad instrument, generally quite the opposite, just means I've taken all I care to from it

 

[Tom Bomb]

Sounds like a plan. "Pull out all stops." (Or, find one that's even better.)​

 

[Bar Band Bassman]

I can't recall any I'd want back because I loved playing them. Some I had have become quite valuable so I can become wistful about that but that's a different story. I'm covered and then some as far as basses I love to play.

BBB

 

[Thumpin6string]

When it comes to my basses, I don't want anything but what I currently have.