Talked into buying?

[bholder]

What's your impression of this, Dr.?
I'm sorry, my field of expertise is Psychiatry. I don't do impressions.

Great guy.
(He'll Shirley be missed.)

...stop calling me Shirley!

 

[bumperbass]

NO! It is not ethical to sell anything to anyone. Leave them alone!

 

[BurnOut]

What Do You Think This Is?



Anyway??!?

 

[bholder]

NO! It is not ethical to sell anything to anyone. Leave them alone!

 

[Afc70]

If a seller sells a bass, but there’s nobody there to buy it, did the sale actually happen?

 

[jamro217]

I've spent most of my adult life alone. Is it really ethical to just let them be alone? Hmmmmmm?

Could be worse. You could've just spent most of your adult life period.

 

[DavC]

death of a salesman ..??

 

[jamro217]

Let me guess...you got this?

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Is that good at what the name suggests?

Cause you planted an egg of course! lol..

Unless of course, the egg you tossed is the famous Mr. Ed.

 

[mcnach]

not ethical to sell it to someone at all... or let them be alone?

I think I need another paragraph or two as background... I can't figure out what you're talking about.

 

[Cutter8]

I was a fantastic salesman when it came to musical gear. I never talked anyone into anything. But I was a champ at guiding the conversation in a direction that helped my customers talk themselves into buying what I was selling.

I sold a ton of pianos. Usually dad would come in looking for one for his daughter to take piano on. I would give him some stats and figures. (That's what dads want.) But then I would encourage him to bring the wife in because this kind of purchase is too large to make without both of them involved.

When she got there, she would almost always have the kid with her. I would sit the kid down and teach him/her a song. They would freak out (in a good way) because they had just learned a real song.

While they were practicing, I would talk to mom. I would simply telk her stories avout sitting around the piano at my grandmother's house singing Christmas carols (which actually did happen). And I would just tell her that, for me, a piano just adds "warmth" to a home.

Between memories of grandma's house and her kid actually playing a song, that piano was SOLD. And I never said "You should..." or "Don't you want.....".

I would sit a play a few chords while the kid played melody. Mom n dad were a few feet away talking and watching me and the kid laughing it up.

Dad would walk up and say "We'll take it if you throw in delivery." Of course, I threw in delivery.

It worked pretty much every time.

And the moral of that story, kids, is “Keep your wife and daughters the hell away from two fingers!”

I actually didn’t intend to make a pun, but suddenly there it was, and it was too late to change course...

 

[diegom]

I just got talked into buying something...
Just what I wanted, at a price I was willing to pay!
So...

 

[Lance Bunyon]

I once sold a bass to a bi-polar buddy. It was a Korean made Vester. I had it set up with vintage flats from the 60s (no joke my luthier had a bag full of them). Sold it to him for $155.
A few months later he wanted to get a refund. Told me I tricked him before he "healed his brain on Effexor".
I told him no deal. He called me 17 times per day, mostly in the middle of the night for 2.5 years until I changed my cell number.

 

[Element Zero]

If can’t not ethical, then how come won’t not if he can’t then shouldn’t he? I mean, if you can’t not unable to confused if won’t not can’t, then how? I say don’t want for fear of not, then say yes to not sell on your fault. Yes?

 

[Liam Wald]

This is why you should stay off TalkBass when you're drinking.

But if you are drinking all alone because you have no other friends what should a person do? Isn't that what the internet was invented for?

 

[cazclocker]

If can’t not ethical, then how come won’t not if he can’t then shouldn’t he? I mean, if you can’t not unable to confused if won’t not can’t, then how? I say don’t want for fear of not, then say yes to not sell on your fault. Yes?

Because Buddy Ebson had a big head. Otherwise, what if?

 

[B-Lo]

The smallest weird number is 70. Its proper divisors are 1, 2, 5, 7, 10, 14, and 35; these sum to 74, but no subset of these sums to 70.

The number 12, for example, is abundant but not weird, because the proper divisors of 12 are 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6, which sum to 16; but 2+4+6 = 12.

A weird number is a natural number that is abundant but not semiperfect. In other words, the sum of the proper divisors (divisors including 1 but not itself) of the number is greater than the number, but no subset of those divisors sums to the number itself.

However, this thread is in no way weird

 

[MattZilla]

I think we are going about this all wrong. The title of the post is an obvious anagram for "detonability nug"

OPer is wanting to explore the possibility of playing an of out tune bass then roasting enough "nugs" to get to the point where the bass is in tune. Therefore, let's start with the basics:


Is the pickguard the optimal color to hide burn marks from exploding seeds?

Will wearing shorts while playing create a cooling effect that will distort the subjects respiration and ciculation, thus skewing the results?

Four string or fiver?

This is real science, people. Let's get this answered pronto!


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seeds?! He's in cali. There's no reason for anyone there to be dealing with popping seeds. No picguard necessary for that purpose, but he may want one as a place to stash picks.

The only thing better than shorts is a kilt. Utilikilt, ideally.

Five strings at least- need to get Leshy.

 

[cazclocker]

Does anyone else wonder if we completely scared off the original poster? I just drank a bigger jigger of Jack Daniels, so my empathy has dwindled to nearly nothing.

 

[bholder]

However, this thread is in no way weird

Well, give us a chance, we're still workin' on it.

 

[ahc]

Merely a case of hit and run aixelsyd.