Warwick $1300 for $499.99

[Yolly111]

Sorry, cannot copy link from my iPad.

Amazon.com

Enter "Warwick Streamer Standard bass guitar" in search box.

 

[froghat]

Amazon.com: Warwick Streamer Standard Bass Guitar (4 String, Oil Finish, Natural): Musical Instruments

Sold by Music123 through Amazon. Seems to run $499 - $549 at most places.

 

[Dominic D]

That's the Chinese-made Rock Bass model, not German-made.

 

[Yolly111]

Not a Warwick specialist, sorry if the deal is not as good as it looks!

 

[steelbed45]

Not a Warwick specialist, sorry if the deal is not as good as it looks!

The % off looks great at first until one matches up the specs to the Chinese Rockbass and then realizes the list should be more like $729 instead of $1300.

I went through all the pdf's currently listed for Warwick under every "made in" category and could not find one streamer with a $1300 list.

Good eye, though!

 

[Yolly111]

Thx

 

[BillyIVbass]

Still a cool bass, but the truss rod cover makes me pretty sure it's a Rockbass.

 

[ole Jason]

Maple neck w/ rosewood fretboard so not a real German Warwick

 

[Bongolation]

An Amazon example of this exact bass qualified as the single worst new instrument I have ever seen in working on gear for over forty years, and by a substantial margin. Stay away at anything but scrap, part-out price. The body is made of cheap framing spruce, too soft to keep the screws that hold it together, and that's if you get a good one, which is pretty unlikely.

 

[MarkoYYZ]

I'm pretty sure the bodies are Paulownia, which some of the offshore builders seem to use as an alternate to basswood for light bodies.

As mentioned above, a lame example of a falsely inflated MSRP in order to make it look like a real deal. The street price on these is $500ish, so this is no special price at all.

 

[Bongolation]

I'm pretty sure the bodies are Paulownia

Wrong.

Check the description, "Carolena," which turns out to be nothing but utility-grade, Home Depot Carolina spruce, reeking of turpentine, looking and smelling like random scraps from a construction site burn pile. The abortion I got was made up of pieces with radically different saw angles, sanded down grossly wrong with a grain-eroded surface, then dipped in a tub of drippy orange goo, the "oil finish," which had giant runs all over the front and back. Obviously, the one I got was made up of all reject/damaged components just to ship a unit (QC tag OKing it, of course ), but even the "good" replacement with a real finish was junk thanks to the soft body and bad CNT settings.