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Post your awesome trade stories!

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bassplaya614

Oct 24, 2009
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#1
Post your stories of the trades you've made and in the long run ended up with something worth many times more than the original trade!

Does not have to be "traded X for 2X" or anything, maybe you kept trading until you ended up with something incredible! Just post your great stories. I wish I had some...

**NOTE**
Try to only post stories where NO money was involved. Just basses, amps, etc...
 
#2
I've made a couple trades for basses, but I've always felt dissatisfied afterwards and wish I'd kept my original bass. Value-wise, the original basses have always had considerably better re-sale values.

You win some and lose some, I guess.

However, there is some TBer lurking around with a Conklin GTBD-7 that is probably working more magic with it than I ever did, so for the sake of music, I can't be upset. :)
 
#4
I just traded an Ibanez Artcore bass for a Fender Ultimate Chorus guitar amp. This was a Craigs list deal. Makes me wonder if it was stolen or something as I definatley made out on the money side of things. The Ibanez was sitting unused for quite a while as I have 3 Fenders and an Epi 5 string that get all of the play.
 
#12
My only really awesome trade was a Torq Xponent controller (it's a MIDI DJ controller thingy) that was collecting dust for a pair of Crown amps, an XLS 802 and XLS 402. The 802 is in my band's live rig and the 402 is sitting at home. The guy I traded it to was going to use it as some kind of awesome lighting controller. More power to him I guess, it was certainly a case of my trash being his treasure, and vice-versa.
 
#13
my best trade-

in 1997, i traded a used marshall solid state 2x12 combo for a mint.. and i mean mint fender super 6 combo (twin head and 6x10 combo) freshly retubed by a amp tech.

this kid got the super 6 from his dad (it must of been in a closet since the 70s) to start a metal band, but he couldn't make it sound "metal" enough, and he took it to the shop to get all new preamp and power amp tubes. that's where i saw it.

the amp tech there said the kid was complaining that he couldn't make this amp sound like slayer and it sounded like surf music. (lightbulb) i went home, grabbed my marshall and took it to the shop. i left a note that i would trade the marshall for the fender.

done deal, the kid was extra happy with is $200 mid scooped combo, and i was sure happy with my mint fender super 6.

i bet his dad was not to pleased.

- i also traded $375 cash (in 1992) to the local stoner for a 1977 fender pbass, yorkville 8x10 cab, soundtech pa head, sm58 and a microphone stand. doing drugs is bad m'kay... they make people sell me vintage gear. i still have that pbass.
 
#14
Traded a Gibson SG gu**ar for this Fender Bullet Deluxe and a like new Fender Bassman 25 amp. Here is a picture of it next to a Squier Bullet from Japan. :hyper:

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#15
origami said:
my best trade-

in 1997, i traded a used marshall solid state 2x12 combo for a mint.. and i mean mint fender super 6 combo (twin head and 6x10 combo) freshly retubed by a amp tech.

this kid got the super 6 from his dad (it must of been in a closet since the 70s) to start a metal band, but he couldn't make it sound "metal" enough, and he took it to the shop to get all new preamp and power amp tubes. that's where i saw it.

the amp tech there said the kid was complaining that he couldn't make this amp sound like slayer and it sounded like surf music. (lightbulb) i went home, grabbed my marshall and took it to the shop. i left a note that i would trade the marshall for the fender.

done deal, the kid was extra happy with is $200 mid scooped combo, and i was sure happy with my mint fender super 6.

i bet his dad was not to pleased.

- i also traded $375 cash (in 1992) to the local stoner for a 1977 fender pbass, yorkville 8x10 cab, soundtech pa head, sm58 and a microphone stand. doing drugs is bad m'kay... they make people sell me vintage gear. i still have that pbass.
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I don't mean to be atroll or anything, but you outright ripped that kid off didnt you? That's a really bad thing to do to someone just getting into music.

I just recently traded my USA G&L L2k for a mint Spector NS2-JA-R. I probably got a little less $ value on teh deal, but I could not be happier. It's my new main bass!
 
#16
i may of unknowingly tip toed into be in the wrong. i was only like 23 and the kid was like 19, both of us really didn't know the value of either amp until later. i just ended up on the lucky side of it.

anyway ... the kid got exactely what he wanted (and needed for his type band), a loud amp that made scooped solid state metal distortion and said marshall on it. an open back fender combo with 10's wasn't going to be his best bet at all.

for a while, i was actually thinking i was making a crappy choice, carring around a 6x10 amp in a geo storm was no joy compared to a 2x12 combo.
 
#17
I have a trail of trades that got me back into playing bass again after over thirty years… In the early 80’s a friend in California gave me a 1965 Fender Mustang that was unused and had sat in his closet since it was given to him as a high school graduation present - he didn’t really want it. I played it a few years mainly around the house. In 1986 I moved to the east coast and had a friend who had a vintage guitar store in New Hope, PA. I traded the Mustang for a 60’s Gretsch Single Anniversary guitar – Lime green the color I always wanted. After playing it about a year I traded it for a Gibson Firebird mid 60’s non-reverse guitar and a Gibson Grabber bass. I didn’t have a bass amp so I sold the bass. My ex-wife didn’t like the noise from the electric guitar so after a year or so I went to a guitar show and traded the Firebird for a really great Gibson CF-100 acoustic guitar. So far I have not spent a penny and actually made like $300 selling the Grabber Bass. About three years ago I decided I wanted to play bass again so I sold the CF-100 (sadly) and with the money I made from that guitar (and selling Fender news sheets and a 1965 catalog that came with the Mustang) over the next year or so, I bought, tried and sold a couple of inexpensive basses and amps. Then with much thanks and help to Talk Bass’s knowledge, discussion and reviews I ended up with Lakland Skyline DJ4 and a Duck Dunn, a Dipinto Belvedere, Genz Benz Neo-Pak and Genz Benz NeoX-212T with just spending the money I made from selling that Gibson CF-100. I just went over “budget” buying a wonderful 1981 G&L L-1000. This gas thing though is very… you all know.
 

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