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*Official* MF MID Rickenbacker Sale thread

How Satisfied Are You With Your New Rick?

  • Very Satisfied

    Votes: 47 45.6%

  • Satisfied

    Votes: 18 17.5%

  • Neutral

    Votes: 19 18.4%

  • Unsatisfied

    Votes: 7 6.8%

  • Very Unsatisified

    Votes: 12 11.7%
  • Total voters
    103
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#581
A-Step-Towards said:
Seriously ?!



As i have said before , there shipping NEW basses , they cannot sale a returned bass as new they can only send a used bass out as a scratch and dent model , all these basses sold were brandnew.
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Totally untrue. I have returned numerous basses to MF and saw them resold as new. And, yes I have a for instance. Sometime ago Gibson issued a zebra wood Thunderbird bass bought had flaws sent it back and I saw the exact bass posted right here on TB and that person bought it as new. It happens all the time. Especially since MF and Music 123 use the same warehouse. Think about it. What you guys should do is record serial number of all returns then check to see if someone gets it again.
 
#582
Xavier Zed said:
Totally untrue. I have returned numerous basses to MF and saw them resold as new. And, yes I have a for instance. Sometime ago Gibson issued a zebra wood Thunderbird bass bought had flaws sent it back and I saw the exact bass posted right here on TB and that person bought it as new. It happens all the time. Especially since MF and Music 123 use the same warehouse. Think about it. What you guys should do is record serial number of all returns then check to see if someone gets it again.
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I have had the same experience. They at least used to sell returns as new.
 
#583
cassius987 said:
I know dude. Please don't interpret my post as skepticism directed at you or disrespect. If you had issues with the bass, that's your business and yours alone ultimately. The thing with your nut just sounds bizarre. Then again I'm also frazzled by also this glue/buffing compound stuff people are finding--what the heck? Finally, people keep saying the necks are bigger than a P Bass, which does not jive with my experience whatsoever. Just a lot of stuff I didn't expect to hear but the primary source is the primary source, so yeah. I'm still enjoying watching this unfold and seeing some happy owners, sad to see some are struggling though.
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Oh I was not mad at you , the things lost on the internet you wouldnt see in real life. I just see some big fanboys getting all Pissed off that i didnt keep a f'ed up bass. The nut was very weird another poster had something similar but his looked repaired, honestly I almost kept mine to , i really debated it , as i loved the sound, but i just couldnt get over the defect.

My new one is here in a little over a day , if its identical to my other one but with a good nut , meaning the binding is yellow and it has some fetboard glue , I am keeping it. I just need something that is solid playablity wise , looks are not as important at this price.


Ok the necks are HUGE , I love big wide necks , I love the 1.75 inch fender vintage style P necks. Well these feel as big and also thicker. They are big ass necks , I love it tho , its like holding half a one liter bottle. I do see that most people like jazz width necks and if you do , this is not the bass for you.


I hope my new one is a good one , I want a good bass to keep for a long time.
 
#584
Xavier Zed said:
Totally untrue. I have returned numerous basses to MF and saw them resold as new. And, yes I have a for instance. Sometime ago Gibson issued a zebra wood Thunderbird bass bought had flaws sent it back and I saw the exact bass posted right here on TB and that person bought it as new. It happens all the time. Especially since MF and Music 123 use the same warehouse. Think about it. What you guys should do is record serial number of all returns then check to see if someone gets it again.
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Well I know how MF operates , that could have been a mistake, The guy could have messed up on what he thought was new, which woul be untouched in a box.

If they do that its very rare not with a whole freaking batch of basses, plus these are not selling so how would they have 50 used/returned ricks sitting around?


In summary i disagree so i wont bother arguing
 
#586
I took these photos really fast on my way to return the bass, you know what the photo is horrible i get that all the time when i am selling parts on here, but what we have here is a gap, my guess is the glue was not dried and the strings were installed and tuned forcing the e string side down , totally flush and looking good and rasing the G string side, leaving a gap that i was able to fit the tip of a .73mm pick in , this then caused the paint to lift in that area. On the side of the neck you are able to see in the photo a white area, thats bare wood from this paint lift, then there was a tiny chip , where i think someone was using maybe a screw driver to try and force the nut down , it slipped and chipped the bass.

Honestly I was about to just live with it , i dont mind visible body wings , most basses have em unless the paint is super thick , the yellow binding is going to be there now or it will be in 6 months, a few light scratches , i feel the same about , but this would require removing the nut , the old glue , reseating it and then i still have a chip on my bass , i dont put those on my basses , there babied so i am not to hot about that.

If the next one doesnt have nut/neck or fret issues, its a keeper.

if your some fanboy and want to say I am a lair , keep walking I am not in the mood for that , go rub John Halls back


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I have yet to see a box photo , so here was the box

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#589
Enough with the BS, guys. John already gave a warning about this. If you're not buying one of these or have positive feedback to add, move on. Any more trollish/nit-picking/negative comments will result in infracations.
 
#591
Bryan R. Tyler said:
Enough with the BS, guys. John already gave a warning about this. If you're not buying one of these or have positive feedback to add, move on. Any more trollish/nit-picking/negative comments will result in infracations.
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Thank you. It gets tiring people telling us we're psuedo Ric owners because we have Blue ones
 
#592
A-Step-Towards said:
Here we go , i bet I am missing people who bought one or returned one , if so add to the list and repost it.
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1. BrentSimons
2. SubSectorSucker
3. James_E
4. Martinmcfly-Returned
5. Tumeni Notes
6. Crankee Yankee
7. Medford Bassman
8. WalWarrior
9. SOB
10. Toastfuzz-Returned
11. A-Step-Towards-Returned
12. kevinmoore73-Returned
13. GeezerDeacon69
14. PMagers
15. smaynor
16. rizzo9247-Returned
17. ctbass
18. paganjack
19. cr250_977
20. silverburst
21. Spectrum
22. OnlyJerry
23. whoapower
24. CBRXJ
25. Aceonbass
26. Fair Warning
27. deeptubes
28. Bitterdale
29. MtJam
30. diptixon
31. gumbystuff-Returned
32. Toshibajoe
33. Bthrem
34. BookMDanelectro
35. Bitterdale
36. Premierbass
37. JoshuaTSP
38. BIGEJ2-Returned
39. Seans
40. Nuke bass
41. StereoPlayer
 
#594
Aceonbass said:
For those who couldn't stick it out, what did you stick with?
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Nothing. I always wanted a RIC but never wanted to pay sticker price. It always seemed that they were on order whenever a sale came around making it even more difficult to get deal on one. I was strictly motivated by the sale price because I thought I'd never be able to get a new one again for that price. I could have lived with the cosmetic issues but not the maxed truss rod. I would love to give another go at owning a RIC and probably will in the future.
 
#596
cassius987 said:
I still like EBMM and so do the rest of us I assume. Is this a double standard?
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I have owned many Rics and never had any problems as have been explained/pictured here. There was/is? obviously a QC problem at Ric. As for EBMM, I canceled a Ric order last week for a StingRay BEFORE I was aware of this sale. Black/maple. It is flawless. No lines down the two piece body. EBMM also had its fair share of QC problems some years back. It did not stop me from buying another. This current Ric situation, won't stop me from buying another Ric in the future.

As I have said before, I hope all of you guys get the bass you like and this all works out.
 
#597
Quickie said:
I have owned many Rics and never had any problems as have been explained/pictured here. There was/is? obviously a QC problem at Ric. As for EBMM, I canceled a Ric order last week for a StingRay BEFORE I was aware of this sale. Black/maple. It is flawless. No lines down the two piece body. EBMM also had its fair share of QC problems some years back. It did not stop me from buying another. This current Ric situation, won't stop me from buying another Ric in the future.

As I have said before, I hope all of you guys get the bass you like and this all works out.
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Yeah, this does make me sad.
And all the more proud to keep my '03 Ric.

The neck is stable as a rock on it, and it's never had a single issue.

I could probably never sell that one anyway though, as I used my late father's money to purchase it. I found out years later, it was built the same week he passed on.

P.S. - I hope I'm not perceived as the "Rickenwaffen"(!)
 
#599
Mine gets back to MF on Thursday. I'm going to call today and bring up the order and get them to overnight it so I can hopefully get mine by Saturday, or Monday at the latest.

Updates to follow... its really getting hard to follow this thread, big thanks to the mods for keeping some level of civility, but reading through this thread makes me want to go to a random EMBB/Fender thread and spread random hate and misinformation, just out of spite.
 
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