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'nother ebay sham

jonly

jonly

Oct 3, 2005
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Springfield, il
#1
Someone has bid on this, hopefully no one here.
if everyone posted one thing wrong with this bass, we could hit a second page, or we could just say that it is a vintage neck for $900 with some free parts attached.
 
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#3
Not exactly a sham. Now if this seller was from Indonesia or some funky unfamiliar location and wanted money sent via. Western Union, then yes, it would be a sham. However, it seems to me that this seller has enough creidible positive feedback to dispell any intentions of riping someone off. As far as the price, might be a bargain?
 
#9
yea but he could have added the neckplate.. It looks like the bass was once trashed and an owner rebuilt it.. new bridge, tuners, neckplate..etc.. Just by going with his feedback score, I'd honestly say that it's legit.. just rebuilt. I'm not saying it's worth $3k.. but I don't think I'd call it a sham.
 
#10
Looks like this was once repainted by a genius for whom a scredriver was beyond comprehension. Unless it is a shadow, the screws on the neck plate clearly show sights of paint around them, and that, along with the paint line on the neck, and scratches on the plate where the paint appears to have been sanded off, make me think that an idiot painted it without taking anything off.
$900? Hardly. MAYBE if it was pristine, original. But not for a 3 year old's paint work and numerous hacks and dings.

- Tim
 
#11
tadawson said:
Looks like this was once repainted by a genius for whom a scredriver was beyond comprehension. Unless it is a shadow, the screws on the neck plate clearly show sights of paint around them, and that, along with the paint line on the neck, and scratches on the plate where the paint appears to have been sanded off, make me think that an idiot painted it without taking anything off.
$900? Hardly. MAYBE if it was pristine, original. But not for a 3 year old's paint work and numerous hacks and dings.

- Tim
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I thought of that.. but if you look at the rest of the body the paint job looks good. I find it hard to believe that the type of person that would make those mistakes, would have a body come out like that. I could be wrong though! around the screws maybe tarnish that didnt come off when he Never Dull'd it.
 
#12
Or, it was repainted twice - once by the hack, and then again to salvage it. The headstock pictures are pretty clear to me that something was beat to death with this bass at some point. It looks like it clearly lived a hard life at one time or another.

- Tim
 
#16
That thing's a mess. I can't imagine getting it and the finish looking good. looks like maybe it got a brush job at some point in time plus lots of replacement parts.

It probably is worth about 900 if the body, neck and pickups are original. What are late 70s jazzes going for these days? 1.5K or so?
 
#17
the paint job on the body looks great. I couldn't imagine spending the time or money on the body and not taknig care of the back of the neck as well, and then mounting it with 4 screws on top of all else. It would take quite a bit to convince me that this is the original body at all.
 
#20
SnakeAnthony said:
Looks to me like an eairlier Geddy Lee with a vintage neck thrown on. There is no finish fading, which any '76, beat up or not, would have, so the body at least is new. The Badass come stock on the Geddy which is why I assume thats what it is.
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Just because it has a badass bridge doesn't mean it was a Geddy Lee. You can put a Badass on any MIM black jazz body & it'll look like a Geddy.
One sure way to tell.......a Getty has that pickguard screw just above the neck pickup......this one does not.
 

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