Ever buy a bass back?

[Mike Vee]

I was just wondering if any of you have had the chance to repurchase a bass that you regretted selling???

About a year ago I sold my 2006 Stingray in natural because I secured a Sabre Classic. That was fine, the Sabre was amazing. I then wound up selling the Sabre Classic because the only tone I really liked or needed was number 5, the "Stingray" position, and it was worth a lot of money.

After selling the Sabre, I tried and tried to find a Stingray that I liked, going through about 7 Music Mans & Sterling ray 24/34s. I like VERY low action, and every single one wouldn't setup low or had some sort of neck/fret issue where they would buzz with low action. The only one that ever felt right was my 2006!! At the time, I swore off Stingrays and concentrated on my Fenders (which always setup perfectly).

Lucky for me, last week I was browsing Reverb and saw a really nice natural Stingray, a 2006. After checking it out for about 15 second, I realized it was the same bass! My bass!! The guy still had it, and it was still in the same condition. Of course, I bought it back right away (had to stretch some funds for sure) and it's on the way to me right now.

SO LUCKY!!!

 

[DWBass]

I bought back a bass I sold to a friend. She fell on hard times and asked if I would buy it back so I did. Kept it for a few years and recently traded it for another bass I sold to a different friend. Go figure.

 

[bholder]

Not the exact same bass but every bass I've sold for budget reasons, I have since replaced at least twice over.

 

[Wyrdlow]

I sold a 1975 Fender Telecaster bass to a local music shop in '84 when in dire financial straits, went back at the end of the week to buy it back and it was gone. I went so far as to put an advert in the local paper to try and get it back, but to no avail. I still think about it forty years later! ☹

 

[pingvuiini]

I sold this Jazz bass and later on saw it on eBay for almost half the price I sold it for. I was sorely tempted because the epoxy fingerboard and tapes felt and sounded really good. But at that point in time I was having pain issues with 34" scale basses and thus gravitated towards uke basses, so I ultimately passed.

 

[John Stephen]

I had a chance but didn't, and I still regret it. I sold my Epi Rumblekat short-scale bass and had a chance to buy it back later on, but I didn't. Somebody else bought it, and I've regretted it since.

 

[five7]

Sold a stealth bingo 5/

 

[mikeswals]

I was able to buy 3 back that I had sold. I still have one, but the other two were sold off again only to cover the cost of others that were incoming.

 

[ajkula66]

Sort of...

Many moons ago, a '69 P-Bass. I've traded it back and forth with a good friend of mine four times I believe.

The last time around it stayed with him.

Probably the best "regular" Fender Precision I've ever owned - and I've owned many - and the one that convinced me that I'd never be truly happy with a P-Bass.

 

[Kubicki Fan]

I make my basses fit my requirements, if they lack in any way.
I find it difficult to part from my basses, so I have not sold any.
I'd definitely buy one back if I saw it listed for less than I sold it, provided, there was no modification to it.

 

[lunarpollen]

I recently bought my first bass back from the guy I had sold it to abut 5 years ago.... A Hondo HRB-2N.... Needed a bit of work -- neck shim, nut shim, solder joint fix, a more appropriate set of strings (Optima RB flatwounds), and a basic set-up. This bass has more sentimental value than actual usefulness for me right now, but I don't plan to part with it again.

 

[burgerdj]

I have dreams/nightmares of letting this one go, but I’ve moved to 5 strings exclusively and selling it make my purchase of a unicorn possible.

 

[HowieD72]

Yes. My 1995 Warwick Fortress Masterman. Owned it for 16 years and then sold it. After 2 months I had to get it back. Thankfully the guy I sold it to didn't gel with it and just hung it on his wall. So I traded it back with 2 Modified Bacchus Jazz Basses, $200 & a coffee.
Now after getting it back, my jazz & p-basses are ruling the roost and my Fortress Masterman is now back up for sale!

 

[MIMike]

I sold this P-Bass to@guitar player friend many years ago. He told me about 10years later that he really didn’t use it any,pre and wondered if I was interested in buying it back. I did, and now it’s the only P-Bass I have anymore.

 

[Salem6127]

You know what's worse than regretting selling?

I traded in one of my more expensive axes for a better amp at my local music store a year ago. It sat in their showroom for a few weeks before someone picked it up. Fast forward until present, strolled back into the same store and I couldn't believe it!

No really, I could NOT believe it...

My $3000 bass (secondhand to me) was just butchered. Huge dings and chips of paint all across the instrument, the headstock logo was completely removed from an impact that looked like a potential guitar swing straight into a concrete wall. The Labella gold tapes on it literally had cores exposed on many spots, and the tuning pegs were all indented (presumably from the aforementioned theoretical concrete collision).

Seeing my bass like that was literally like watching Faces of Death. I was so appalled that someone could treat an instrument like this. I borderline interrogated the staff about how it was returned in such condition and what on earth happened to it, but they wouldn't spill.

 

[muggsy]

I have never regretted selling a bass. I’ve sold some really good ones, including one a couple weeks ago, but I am fortunate that I’ve never been forced to sell for financial reasons. Every one I’ve sold was not being used enough to justify keeping it around, and for a long time I’ve followed the “one in, one out” rule.

 

[2saddleslab]

Not yet.

 

[Bass Guitar]

I just did this. Not the exact same bass but the same type. Decades ago owned a Yamaha TRB6P (single truss rod version). Sold it after a few years. Regretted it. Bought another one (double truss rod version). Sold it again after a few years. Recently decided to play more bass and missed it. So I just bought a TRB6PII.

 

[Lowend65]

Nah - by the time I sell em, I'm done with em.

 

[Watchootognbout]

Due to a bank overdraft in 2008,I was forced to pawn a bass that I had.
It was on the pawn shop wall for two years.


I went in to buy it back in 2010
They wanted a thousand for it.
I haggled it down to $750.00.


Several months later I defretted it.