Not playing anymore with expensive bass

[brianrost]

If the Spector is your only bass and you can’t get a really high price for it, I'd just keep it.

A $4000 bass will not get you that much when you sell it. My NS Radius CR5 sells for about $3600 new. I have bought two of them (a 4 which I swapped out for a 5 later on) for only $1800 each.

Spectors are not in such high demand that you can expect to get much more than 50% of what you originally paid for it new. If you bought it used you might be able to get close to the me money for it. That’s why I’d keep it unless the money is vital right now, like paying off a high credit card balance, covering unexpected medical bills, etc.

I can guarantee you that after playing your Spector for a number of years you will not be happy with a budget bass. I can go into a store and play Squiers, Sterlings, low-end Ibanez, etc. and while some will be good basses, they will never match what I’ve experienced owning high-end basses.

 

[edwinhurwitz]

That's a red herring. You own it already. It's costing you nothing to keep it. There is nothing to justify. There is a lot more justification needed to explain a sale and replacement with a lesser quality instrument and the unknowns that come with it than there is standing pat with a known good instrument

That assumes a lot. We don't know their economic circumstances. I had to sell an amazing Alembic that I thought I was going to keep for life after my son was born with a traumatic brain injury and I was out of work.

 

[JeezyMcNuggles]

I forgot to say, I'm from Canada so yeah it is more expensive here

It equals out the same. 60% ish on the sale, more money to buy a replacement.

 

[Gluvhand]

That assumes a lot. We don't know their economic circumstances. I had to sell an amazing Alembic that I thought I was going to keep for life after my son was born with a traumatic brain injury and I was out of work.

nah, everything is taken care for but it is flush, no room for something going bad

What's that about assumptions?

 

[edwinhurwitz]

What's that about assumptions?

No room for something going bad. That's along similar lines. You never know.

 

[Neon Blues]

If the Spector is your only bass and you can’t get a really high price for it, I'd just keep it.

A $4000 bass will not get you that much when you sell it. My NS Radius CR5 sells for about $3600 new. I have bought two of them (a 4 which I swapped out for a 5 later on) for only $1800 each.

Spectors are not in such high demand that you can expect to get much more than 50% of what you originally paid for it new. If you bought it used you might be able to get close to the me money for it. That’s why I’d keep it unless the money is vital right now, like paying off a high credit card balance, covering unexpected medical bills, etc.

I can guarantee you that after playing your Spector for a number of years you will not be happy with a budget bass. I can go into a store and play Squiers, Sterlings, low-end Ibanez, etc. and while some will be good basses, they will never match what I’ve experienced owning high-end basses.

In the end, a Spector wasn't the bass for me but easily the best made and sublime bass I ever bought. So many cheap and decently priced basses were a disappointment after that.