Jumpin' Josephat!!!
You young Whipper Snappers have all the luck!!!
With a bass like that, and your luck, what's next, this?
Happy Birthday!!!
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NBBD - They sent me the wrong bass!
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Jumpin' Josephat!!!
You young Whipper Snappers have all the luck!!!
With a bass like that, and your luck, what's next, this?
Happy Birthday!!!
057912
Happy birthday red_rhino!
I, too, bought myself a 5-string for my birthday this week (my 60th... birthday, that is, not bass) and have fallen victim to a seller's misleading description.
It was listed as being in very good condition despite being almost half my age, but upon receiving it I couldn't help noticing that it had missing parts.
No headstock and half the body has gone AWOL! You can't trust anyone these days...
I, too, bought myself a 5-string for my birthday this week (my 60th... birthday, that is, not bass) and have fallen victim to a seller's misleading description.
It was listed as being in very good condition despite being almost half my age, but upon receiving it I couldn't help noticing that it had missing parts.
No headstock and half the body has gone AWOL! You can't trust anyone these days...
so this makes me think of a question of ethics..lets say you order a bass that is lets say a squire of whatever model and you get a modulus or something of far more value...do you ship the bass back telling them they made a mistake or do you keep and thank your lucky stars for the good fortune that has been bestowed upon you and keep the bass and write it off to good karma for something you did for someone else sometime in the past...
I had a friend that ordered a bose wave radio cd player back when they were hot and the new thing..well he waited and waited and it never came..so he called up bose and told them he never got it...they said hmmm well we will send you another one. So while the new one was being shipped his neighbor called him up and said hey I think there is a package that belongs to you on my porch..its a downstairs neighbor in a duplex...he goes down and there is his bose radio...then the second one arrives...I told my buddy well hey, you wanna sell me one of those cheap. lol he says I can't..I sent one back to bose...I was like no way..you did? he said yeah...I couldn't believe it..but that was the kind of guy he was, honest and had integrity...I can't say I would of shipped it back..in fact I'm pretty sure I would of kept it justifying it by thinking, bose makes these things for a fraction of what they sell for, and this is just a write off anyway...lol...
I had a friend that ordered a bose wave radio cd player back when they were hot and the new thing..well he waited and waited and it never came..so he called up bose and told them he never got it...they said hmmm well we will send you another one. So while the new one was being shipped his neighbor called him up and said hey I think there is a package that belongs to you on my porch..its a downstairs neighbor in a duplex...he goes down and there is his bose radio...then the second one arrives...I told my buddy well hey, you wanna sell me one of those cheap. lol he says I can't..I sent one back to bose...I was like no way..you did? he said yeah...I couldn't believe it..but that was the kind of guy he was, honest and had integrity...I can't say I would of shipped it back..in fact I'm pretty sure I would of kept it justifying it by thinking, bose makes these things for a fraction of what they sell for, and this is just a write off anyway...lol...
Have an amazing birthday!
New Birthday Bass Day!
Sooooo, I ordered a bass for my birthday; 65 this weekend (first person to call me a Senior Citizen gets a silver sneaker up their a$$). Everything seems okay, at first. I mean, you can see from the picture that it clearly says "Fender" on the box, right?
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But when I open it up, I find this inside!
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That's right, they sent me an MTD 535 instead! I'm outraged! Outraged, I say! I mean, I guess in hindsight this does explain why the bass was more expensive than I expected, but I figured it was because shipping has gotten so pricey lately.
And then I read the description and it gets even worse! Mahogany body, tiger myrtle top, maple neck with morado fingerboard, new proprietary MTD bridge, pickups, and preamp. Ugh!
I guess I'll have to keep it.
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Seriously, it plays, sounds, and feels amazing! I'm pretty darn happy.
As one senior citizen to another (see what I did there?) I would send it back for a whole heap of reasons:
- It's not a Fender
- There is a spare string on there and an extra tuner
- The wood on the front is just stuck onto the body
- There are way too many knobs on there
- They forgot to paint it!
