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Is this guy smoking crack?
- Thread starter Rocinante_x1
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It says Squier on the headstock.
It is not uncommon for regular citizens to do craigslist deals at/in front of a police stations, to minimize potential for muggings/grab-and-run/other such behavior. Folks get nervous standing in the parking lot of a closed Arby's with $1500 cash in their hand.
Yup, doing a CL deal in front of a police station is a wise move. But $1500 for that bass? Not for me in front of a police station or anywhere else.
Took me a while to figure out a bass was a P or a J not by the pickups but by the shape of the body. That being said, you can buy a Yugo and invest in really expensive parts and repairman but it is sill a Yugo. The seller would have been money ahead to have invested in a better / higher quality bass.
It doesn't say anywhere that the seller is a policeman. The seller wants to meet prospective buyers in the lobby of a police station. Offering Craig's List sellers and buyers the option of completing their transaction in a police station lobby, and being video taped the entire time has become a very common way of offering protection to buyers and sellers. My community recently announced the same service for residents.
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Ajapses
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There used to be a magazine, along the same lines as Mad Magazine, called "Cracked". Looks like he rolled an old issue and Bogarted it.
I get a little fed up with guys advertising their Squiers as Fenders.
No one EVER advertises an Epiphone as a Gibson.
I don't tell people I drive an Acura, because I drive a Honda.
No one EVER advertises an Epiphone as a Gibson.
I don't tell people I drive an Acura, because I drive a Honda.
No, but the bill from Lull almost certainly was much higher than the original cost of the bass. That makes this something like a pimped out Chevy Aveo.
Or, optionally, the the seller is making the whole "Mike Lull did the work" thing up.
Some people put basses up at rediculous prices just to make the wife happy. If you really wanted to sell something you price it competitively. This looks a defetted Squier to me. Even with the upgrades I wouldn't spend more than a couple hundred on it
Could be crack, more probable though that he has been reading TB and based his price on the number of people who claim that their Squires are better than American made Fenders.
TBF though, a lot of recent Squiers also have the Fender name on the headstock and Squier themselves are commonly branding themselves as 'Squier by Fender' in their advertising material
It's even on their Invalid Link Removed, which is what turns up in Google results:
<title>Squier Guitars & Basses | Squier by Fender®</title>
So it's hardly surprising that people advertise them the same way when selling second hand.
Epiphone don't do this with the Gibson name, it's just an Epiphone.
!. Maybe this is one of those basses that by chance turned out
to be way better than it has any right to be.
2. Maybe he thinks the above and thinks because he spent
a boatlaod of money to mod it, he should get all that back.
3. Most likely, his wife said he has to sell one of his basses
and he put that price on there so it won't sell,
but he can still claim ' look honey, I tried to sell it, but no one wants it'.
to be way better than it has any right to be.
2. Maybe he thinks the above and thinks because he spent
a boatlaod of money to mod it, he should get all that back.
3. Most likely, his wife said he has to sell one of his basses
and he put that price on there so it won't sell,
but he can still claim ' look honey, I tried to sell it, but no one wants it'.
