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#45
What a deal! Congrats!

I love/hate it when people don't know what they have. I scored an '83 Elite P for a ridiculously low amount and still paid buddy more than he wanted for this instrument he knew nothing about...

Then on the other hand there's the guys that sell their "guitar/bass starter kits" for 400$ on the local classifieds. LOL.
 
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fiveoffour said:
The other Corvette is a 98 as well. The FenderView attachment 1081535 is a Jazz Deluxe V from 96. Paid 750 for that baby in the ninth grade.
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Congrats first on the craigslist steal, and second on a '96 USA Deluxe that isn't used for archery. Mine was a nightmare. I was just out of high school and taught lessons at a music store, and bought mine from there before I knew how easy working on truss rods was, or really even knew what good action was. I always knew the neck was kind of bowed, and as I went through Jazz school I was feeling a lot slicker action on my friend's basses. A couple years after purchase I finally have a guy at the store look at it, and he's like "uh oh..." nowhere to go with truss rod, at least 1/8" relief. No big, under warranty, Send neck back. 6 shagING MONTHS later, I get it back with '98 neck, defeating the purpose of owning a '96 50th anniversary piece, wouldn't you think? What, Fender worry? About a worker at their own dealer? Ha! And the kicker? THE shagING '98 NECK WAS NO BETTER. Sold that dog for $500, felt as good as that crackhead to be rid of it.

Still have the Schack I replaced it with. That was a great era for German basses! Nice score!
 
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#53
I know why it was sold for $300. Drugs may not even be an issue.

That bass was about $700 new back then, long before prices shot through the roof. The "GLP" price at guitar center for one in 2000 was $749 or $799 iirc, dudes with "bro deals" probably paid $700 otd.

Many people assume used = half of what it cost new, and don't research what they are going for currently. I actually saw a corvette pro line 5 on Craigslist for $300 several months ago, but someone beat me to it. That bass was far from mint, but it was also more around $1600, around 2x what a standard 4 bubinga passive went for. THAT guy got the ultimate steal.

So this guy probably paid around $750 for it, wanted to sell it faster, so he listed it for a little less than half what he paid. And his mission was accomplished. If he had it listed for $600+ it would have taken longer to sell it.

Good score, no shame in that. The same flawed logic scored me my 2000 fna5 for $500 in 2001. Guitar center made a mistake, priced it at $999 (the price of a corvette standard 5 active) and had it listed as a corvette standard (the fna5 was around $1600 iirc). This guy bought it for $999 and used the "sell for half" logic.

I remember seeing that bass on the wall priced at $999, it was in the same shipment that had my FNA I bought from the same store, which was also marked as a std (FNA 4 was around $1300) and I got it for about $750 otd! The same day my friend who worked there got a fretless corvette (same as this thread), and his cost around $600 with employee discount. Mine ended up being WAY below cost! This was 2000, and in less than a year that 5 string was on Craigslist so I ended up with both.

The one in this thread would normally sell around 6-700, but I have seen active 5s sell for that too. Apparently bubinga basses have started to climb in price too. It is a good score. I don't really like the pickups though, personally.
 
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ubernator said:
I know why it was sold for $300. Drugs may not even be an issue.

That bass was about $700 new back then, long before prices shot through the roof. The "GLP" price at guitar center for one in 2000 was $749 or $799 iirc, dudes with "bro deals" probably paid $700 otd.

Many people assume used = half of what it cost new, and don't research what they are going for currently. I actually saw a corvette pro line 5 on Craigslist for $300 several months ago, but someone beat me to it. That bass was far from mint, but it was also more around $1600, around 2x what a standard 4 bubinga passive went for. THAT guy got the ultimate steal.

So this guy probably paid around $750 for it, wanted to sell it faster, so he listed it for a little less than half what he paid. And his mission was accomplished. If he had it listed for $600+ it would have taken longer to sell it.

Good score, no shame in that. The same flawed logic scored me my 2000 fna5 for $500 in 2001. Guitar center made a mistake, priced it at $999 (the price of a corvette standard 5 active) and had it listed as a corvette standard (the fna5 was around $1600 iirc). This guy bought it for $999 and used the "sell for half" logic.

I remember seeing that bass on the wall priced at $999, it was in the same shipment that had my FNA I bought from the same store, which was also marked as a std (FNA 4 was around $1300) and I got it for about $750 otd! The same day my friend who worked there got a fretless corvette (same as this thread), and his cost around $600 with employee discount. Mine ended up being WAY below cost! This was 2000, and in less than a year that 5 string was on Craigslist so I ended up with both.

The one in this thread would normally sell around 6-700, but I have seen active 5s sell for that too. Apparently bubinga basses have started to climb in price too. It is a good score. I don't really like the pickups though, personally.
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That bass was $1000 new in 98, not $700. I bought one. And I shopped around (and haggled) a lot at the time. Remember $1000 being the lowest I could get, but managed to work a case into the deal.

Warwicks, however, never having had any resale value for reasons unknown, also re-sold dirt cheap up until the late 2000s. I picked up a Fortress One for $440 around 2006. I remember seeing Corvettes go for $500 and less regularly - though that doesn't happen much any more. I'm gonna guess whoever sold it got a great deal, and then and then either just passed that deal along, or never followed up on the bass's worth.

My biggest Warwick score was as Stremaer Pro M at Guitar Center for $500. It was new, brand new but needed strings, batteries, and the knobs needed tightening. Whoever ran that store was an idiot. I bought it, and immediately resold it for $1000.

Great score! Congrats!
 
#56
Hey hey. We can't just let OP enjoy the warm feeling of scoring a decent bass for little scratch... dig out your truncheons, for it is time for the TB Tenuous Morality Police (TBTMP) to leap into action!! Achtung!!! I'm going to dox OP under the cover of darkness, and work out where he lives and then make veiled threats about maybe knowing a big dude that could sort him out if he doesn't do the right thing (right thing to be decided at a later date via mob mentality). Then I'm going to try and track down the seller and tell him how much he got hosed and/or perform a citizens arrest for shifting obviously stolen goods and/or for being under the influence of independently procured pharmaceuticals. There is a crime here, lads. I can smell it. We aren't done here until OP feels decidedly less enamoured with his new bass and feels a vague sense of guilt for something. Anything.
 
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#57
Congrats! I have the 2007 version of that same bass. For whatever reason the resale value of them is complete crap. I've seen them sit on ebay and craigslist and go unsold even with the seller asking only $400. I'm not even gonna say what I paid for mine new.
 
#59
fiveoffour said:
Wow. Just saw all of these replies.
The bass plays like a dream, and sounds amazing. The neck is just out of this world.
For those wondering what that is on my humidor, it is a horse head mask. You filthy perverts.
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Nothing wrong with a horse head mask. Folks round here wear them all the time.

:)
 

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