Musicman, new for $140?

[SuperBassSam]

I've just read a copy of my local freeads and in the instrument section there is an ad: "Bass Guitar, music man, played once, with bag, £70." I had a search on google and I can't see any Musicman basses sold new for that low. Can anyone suggest what this is likely to be?

Cheers

 

[Moving Pictures]

If it's too good to be true....

 

[Bobster]

I'd guess an OLP Stingray. They used to be licensed by EBMM.

Bob

 

[lonote]

Stay away, it is nothing you want.

 

[Woofer]

I'd check it out. Might be nothing, but what have you got to lose? Take cash just in case.

 

[lowphatbass]

Price is missing a zero maybe?

 

[DeanT]

Three possibilities:

1. The seller doesn't know what he has, so he's selling it cheap.
2. It's an OLP and that's an OK price for it.
3. He's trying to scam people.

I'd bet it's #2.

 

[TRichardsbass]

Could also be the Esses/SX version, which is very available on your side of the pond.

 

[DeanT]

Could also be the Esses/SX version, which is very available on your side of the pond.

Could be, but they wouldn't say MusicMan on them anywhere. Unless he's just describing it as a MusicMan and it doesn't say it anywhere on it.

The OLP will say somehting like "Licensed by EBMM" on the back of the headstock.

 

[totallyfrozen]

I'd check it out. There are a number of reasons why someone might do that. DeanT has the right idea in my opinion.

Divorce and inheritance make peope do silly things sometimes. Could be some "leftover junk" from a divorce. Could be some "leftover junk" from an inheritance/someone's death and the current owner doesn't want it and/or doesn't know anything about it.

Can't hurt to look into it.

 

[circlechange]

Forgot a zero.

 

[SuperBassSam]

Well, I just rang the number and started chatting to the owner, and I asked for a bit more info and she said that she'd bought it off a friend who'd only played it once, and that all the invoice said about it was that it was a Musicman, made by a company called Vintage.

It was worth a go though, hey.