If you don't want it, consider getting it anyway and selling to someone on here who needs a solid bass cheap.
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Something seems off with this bass
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Not to sound like a Donny Downer, but I'd totally pass at $199.
Face it, it's been hacked on. It is now a "project bass" that needs work.
If it was a more valuable Fender model, then maybe.
If it were me, I'd give the wife a hug for thinking of me, and move on.
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Face it, it's been hacked on. It is now a "project bass" that needs work.
If it was a more valuable Fender model, then maybe.
If it were me, I'd give the wife a hug for thinking of me, and move on.
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Arguments for talking the price down, but the truth is, it's (apparently) perfectly functional as is. Fixing the fingerboard is purely cosmetic.
Definitely ammo for negotiating price. Knocking the price down is a must for whomever buys that bass, just to avoid way overpaying.
YMMV, but as I see it $199 is at the absolute top of the price range for that model in that condition (and I feel that I'm being generous with that number). And that's only if everything else on the bass is okay.
I'm certainly not as up to speed on current market value as you or lots of folks here, so I'll defer, but seem decent to me. I've seen project basses in worse shape go for more quite a few times (just bought one myself, quite possibly ill-advisedly).
I made my account in '06 but couldn't get it to work at the time, I lurked for years til this past November when I finally started posting, now I have 640 posts in a little under 4 months...
I understand what you're saying and I agree. We all have our criteria for determining "value" vs "price".
I've been a member here for a very long time, but I was pretty much inactive from about '94 until this past December - been making up for lost time since, though.
Echo2112 - only 8 posts since you joined TB in 2013?
You need to check in more often!
I have 183 in 12 years. I don't think I checked at all from 2004 to 2013.
It's a project bass, you can't just rip the frets off and fill the slots with epoxy and expect it to be in playing condition. The strings are now going to be waaaaay off the fretboard since it was designed to be played with frets. I would offer $100 and maybe pay up to$130 or so if they wanted to haggle. Project bass for sure
If the case is in good shape its worth $50 itself, that body is worth $150 so the defretted neck is essentially free. I dont think I would grab it at $200 because of the fret issue, if it had frets then yes. I think I would be looking to pay $150.
Tough call. I'd be tempted to put frets back in it, but that would kill the deal aspect.
I see these in good shape for $400 - and not sell. The body looks dinged up, the frets yanked and left with open slots... You gotta really love the look of this bass to buy it. Even then, something about the horns of the body look too short to me - could just be the angle.
I bought a similar no-pickguard P bass, but a Squier II version, for $90. It also had the output jack on the side. The Squier was made in Korea, with poorer hardware and usually a plywood body.
I'd only buy that bass if you want something to work on. No telling if the body or pickup is original without tearing in to it. But at $199, its priced properly.
I see these in good shape for $400 - and not sell. The body looks dinged up, the frets yanked and left with open slots... You gotta really love the look of this bass to buy it. Even then, something about the horns of the body look too short to me - could just be the angle.
I bought a similar no-pickguard P bass, but a Squier II version, for $90. It also had the output jack on the side. The Squier was made in Korea, with poorer hardware and usually a plywood body.
I'd only buy that bass if you want something to work on. No telling if the body or pickup is original without tearing in to it. But at $199, its priced properly.
That is the original pickup, see how big the poles of the pickup are? thats original for these and Jazz Bass Specials.
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A real good thing about being an Old Guy like me . .Is that you remember when Fender put these out onto the market and you said to yourself then " What are they thinking?"
It looks Legit to me and they turned out to be a pretty OK bass overall
It looks Legit to me and they turned out to be a pretty OK bass overall
One of the few advantages to becoming one of the Old Fart brigade!
