CL Offering. Seriously?

[Dana R Gregory]

Please check out this Craigslist ad. I think the price is outrageous. I know someone will pay it because it is a true vintage USA Fender but $5,000, Seriously?

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[AGCurry]

$5k for a pre-CBS Precision would be reasonable for a collector. I don't think collectors are all that interested in 1970... but I've been wrong before.
It would be interesting to know what the actual selling price will be.

 

[micguy]

OK, so maybe the saddle screw and spring the the G string aren't original (or even the right part), but everything else, inside where you can't see it, is obviously original. 5K for a bass from Fender's worst era. Sure, let me get out my checkbook. ;-)

 

[Killing Floor]

Considering just 4 years older and in worse condition the going rate is well over $10,000 that's not out of line at all.

 

[ajkula66]

That's a fairy clean '70. Given how much the prices have gone up over the past two years, the seller is likely to get very close to their asking price, IMO.

 

[s_wood]

Agreed. The prices for Fenders from '65 through '72 have really shot through the roof in the last couple of years. We've gone from "only pre-CBS is desirable" to "pre-CBS plus '65 and '66 is the good stuff" to "I'll take anything with a four bolt neck."

 

[metron]

OK, so maybe the saddle screw and spring the the G string aren't original (or even the right part), but everything else, inside where you can't see it, is obviously original. 5K for a bass from Fender's worst era. Sure, let me get out my checkbook. ;-)

I think the extra long G saddle screw is correct too. At some point in the 70s that was added. Not sure when but I recall reading about in the Fender book.

I personally have no interest in vintage anything. Thankfully! What others pay for dirty old instruments is insane to me.