I emailed a seller about an older model Squier Standard Jazz bass in walnut. I noticed the SN had been removed so I asked him what was up with that.
This was his response,
"Hi, thanks for the email - I had honestly forgotten all about that serial number thing - I play this guy (and bass in general) infrequently enough that it totally didn’t even come to mind when posting the ad.
The bass came to me exactly as it’s pictured in the ad, and my best guess would be that the previous owner did that for reasons that he himself probably couldn’t explain very coherently. I bought the bass from a curmudgeonly older guy a few years ago, the kind of guy that basically made it pulling teeth just to get him to send me his address to come pick the bass up and hand him money for it.
Once he was satisfied that I wasn’t some sort of cyborg sent by the deep state to take his guns away and perform unholy genetic experiments on children in the basement of Domino’s Pizza, we proceeded pretty normally, but he definitely did a lot of “Sovereign Citizen” type insinuating and he had that certain sort of vibe about him that screams “of COURSE I *sanitize* my jazz bass of traceable markings and identifiers, let alone serial numbers, you think I was born yesterday? I do it the same way no matter what, just like I do with a new Glock, or just like I did with my new Nissan Pathfinder.”
This is all speculation but my money is on something like that being the case above any other possibility. The previous owner was definitely that type."
This hilarious and bizarre email combined with the fact that the pictures of the bass looked like they were taken in an abandoned RV just made me nope out.
This was his response,
"Hi, thanks for the email - I had honestly forgotten all about that serial number thing - I play this guy (and bass in general) infrequently enough that it totally didn’t even come to mind when posting the ad.
The bass came to me exactly as it’s pictured in the ad, and my best guess would be that the previous owner did that for reasons that he himself probably couldn’t explain very coherently. I bought the bass from a curmudgeonly older guy a few years ago, the kind of guy that basically made it pulling teeth just to get him to send me his address to come pick the bass up and hand him money for it.
Once he was satisfied that I wasn’t some sort of cyborg sent by the deep state to take his guns away and perform unholy genetic experiments on children in the basement of Domino’s Pizza, we proceeded pretty normally, but he definitely did a lot of “Sovereign Citizen” type insinuating and he had that certain sort of vibe about him that screams “of COURSE I *sanitize* my jazz bass of traceable markings and identifiers, let alone serial numbers, you think I was born yesterday? I do it the same way no matter what, just like I do with a new Glock, or just like I did with my new Nissan Pathfinder.”
This is all speculation but my money is on something like that being the case above any other possibility. The previous owner was definitely that type."
This hilarious and bizarre email combined with the fact that the pictures of the bass looked like they were taken in an abandoned RV just made me nope out.
