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Cracked Sadowsky

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Low town said:
If the issue is as redundant as people say, there should be at least one buyer happy to stump up the cash and pay full retail price.
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To emphasize what others have said, there's almost zero chance of getting full retail price for that bass -- and that would be true even if it were 100% perfect, and you posted high quality pictures of the entire instrument.

I will give you the benefit of the doubt that you are a beginner and not a troll. To spell it out, you have a second-hand instrument in nearly-mint condition. Why should anyone pay full price for your bass (even if utterly perfect) when they can buy a truly mint one that includes warranty? You will lose money if you sell it, which is why most of us have been politely suggesting that you either keep the bass and ignore the minuscule imperfections, or contact the vendor or manufacturer for replacement or repair. Perhaps you will be kind enough to explain whether you have done the latter, and if not, why not.
 
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fourstringdrums said:
The problem with a statement like this and the same goes for dead spots is that just because it hasn't happened to someone else doesn't change the fact that it's still common and has happened to others. You've had 7 or 8 bolt ons in your life and none of them have had this problem while I bought 8 basses this YEAR and two of them had cracked neck pockets. One was used, one was new. I bought a used bass a few years ago. It was around 2 years old and it didn't arrive to me with a cracked neck pocket. After about 6 months of me owning it, it developed a crack on both sides of the pocket.

Just as some people argue that they've never had a bass with a dead spot when in reality they probably just couldn't perceive it when another person might more easily, you might live in an environment where your weather and humidity levels (even just in your house) are more consistent and the wood of the basses you've owned didn't have time to expand. All those basses could have had looser neck pockets. My point being that just because it hasn't happened to you doesn't mean that it shouldn't happen, especially when there are countless threads on TB that prove that it CAN and DOES happen.
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Yada Yada Yada, shouldn't happen. If people let it go, yes it will continue to happen.
 
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Thats true. The only bass that i have actually seen selling for more used at times than when it new are alleva coppolo basses..
Sadly i think the NYC sadowsky used prices seemed to have diminished when they released the Metro line basses. . That said, every sadowsky that i have owned has been a players dream bass. and i have owned a few NYCs but not a metro

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To emphasize what others have said, there's almost zero chance of getting full retail price for that bass -- and that would be true even if it were 100% perfect, and you posted high quality pictures of the entire instrument.

I will give you the benefit of the doubt that you are a beginner and not a troll. To spell it out, you have a second-hand instrument in nearly-mint condition. Why should anyone pay full price for your bass (even if utterly perfect) when they can buy a truly mint one that includes warranty? You will lose money if you sell it, which is why most of us have been politely suggesting that you either keep the bass and ignore the minuscule imperfections, or contact the vendor or manufacturer for replacement or repair. Perhaps you will be kind enough to explain whether you have done the latter, and if not, why not.
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Fuzzbass said:
To emphasize what others have said, there's almost zero chance of getting full retail price for that bass -- and that would be true even if it were 100% perfect, and you posted high quality pictures of the entire instrument.

I will give you the benefit of the doubt that you are a beginner and not a troll. To spell it out, you have a second-hand instrument in nearly-mint condition. Why should anyone pay full price for your bass (even if utterly perfect) when they can buy a truly mint one that includes warranty? You will lose money if you sell it, which is why most of us have been politely suggesting that you either keep the bass and ignore the minuscule imperfections, or contact the vendor or manufacturer for replacement or repair. Perhaps you will be kind enough to explain whether you have done the latter, and if not, why not.
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OP would say that's just being repetitive, perhaps, but well put and agreed, good calm rational summation.
 
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Low town said:
Even better.

So will you be happy to purchase it, or recommend someone to buy it?
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Hey guy, we tried to help you. No one is forcing you to respond to those of us who tried, but a forum is a place for discussion, maybe you came to the wrong place.

But where you got the idea that your problem is my problem will remain forever a mystery.

Good luck, (I mean it seriously) hope you find some satisfaction.
 
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By now, surely the OP has contacted the vendor and maybe even Sadowsky too and has a resolution pending. He is just acting like a jerk by withholding the results of his efforts because he feels insulted by some of the folks here on this thread.
 
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I find interesting that just because something is common or normal or has an explanation then it must be ok and it's crazy to complain about it. If they expect this to happen then why don't they just not paint that part and be done with it? IMO if it is covered by the warranty then it is an issue. Of course any paint job it's going to wear down eventually and have cracks but 11 days ?

An honest question here: does It happen to all Sadowsky basses? It is an specific type? Why some are free of cracks for years? Maybe one kind of paint / finish is less resilient?
 
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Fuzzbass said:
You will lose money if you sell it, which is why most of us have been politely suggesting that you either keep the bass and ignore the minuscule imperfections, or contact the vendor or manufacturer for replacement or repair. Perhaps you will be kind enough to explain whether you have done the latter, and if not, why not.
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Closest he's provided as answer to that is:

"So, if you desperately need me to answer your question as to why I haven't been to Roger Sadowsky directly, the answer is as follows:
- it is not the correct course of action for this situation."

So there you go.
 
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One Drop said:
Hey guy, we tried to help you. No one is forcing you to respond to those of us who tried, but a forum is a place for discussion, maybe you came to the wrong place.

But where you got the idea that your problem is my problem will remain forever a mystery.

Good luck, (I mean it seriously) hope you find some satisfaction.
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"I can't get no!" :D
 
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I don't get a lot of the people here. He's got a legitimate flaw in an instrument he paid a lot of money for. Yet he's getting crap from so many people here for no reason. Why is it so wrong that he'd be upset that a several thousand dollar bass has a visible problem? I'd be disappointed too if I bought a boutique that quickly had the finish crack in the neck pocket.

If I purchased a hundred dollar microwave that had a dent in it, I'd be annoyed and return it. The same applies for anything else.

EDIT: If Roger was not contacted, then that's a different story.
 
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Long thread, but I would have called Sadowsky and gone from there. As it is, these are so common on guitars that they are usually just called NJFCs, for neck joint finish cracks. Some guitars get them immediately, some not for decades or at all. I once (swear to whomever you believe in) saw one open right before my eyes on an Ibanez RG550 because the owner took it from his cold car where it had been sitting for a day and right out of the case once inside the door of his warm house. So in a used instrument it wouldn't bother me but a 10 day old $2K+ bass I would make that call.
 
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ggvicviper said:
I don't get a lot of the people here. He's got a legitimate flaw in an instrument he paid a lot of money for. Yet he's getting crap from so many people here for no reason. Why is it so wrong that he'd be upset that a several thousand dollar bass has a visible problem? I'd be disappointed too if I bought a boutique that quickly had the finish crack in the neck pocket.

If I purchased a hundred dollar microwave that had a dent in it, I'd be annoyed and return it. The same applies for anything else.

EDIT: If Roger was not contacted, then that's a different story.
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My two cents--the OP was quite dramatic in his description of the issue (maybe in order to get attention?), calling it a "cracked Sadowsky" in the thread title and a "cracked neck" in the first post. Really, it's not hard to see why that provoked a reaction when the photo revealed the flaw to be a tiny finish crack in the body. So he got called on that, and then he still refused to call it a finish crack and became quite combative. Yes, some of the responses were over the top, but this is what happens when you exaggerate.
 
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