What's the best deal you've ever gotten on a bass?

I used to know a stoner kid back in the early 90's. His mom was dead, and his dad gave him a buttload of money at the beginning of every month. He'd blow it on guitars, basses, amps, and a lot of pot. By the second week of the month he was selling off things to pay bills. He needed 5 bucks for gas money to bring his 2 week old crate full stack to a music shop to try to sell it. Afterwards I asked him when I was getting my 5 bucks back. He gave me his 2 week old ibanez exb 504 (the one my wife plays now) and a gig bag in lieu of the 5 dollars!!! about 8 or 9 years later he show's up at a party I'm playing at, and tells me he misses it and wants it back! what a dumbass

 

and yeah, that was an extremely tacky move on the buyers part

 

i got a brand new ibanez artcore bass for 300

 

my singer got an encore bass for 5 pounds.

 

nice, which model? afb or agb 140 or 200?

 

I was working in a music store in 1987...

A guy was in with a '72 P bass, wanting $400 for it, the store wanted nothing to do with it.

I told him it was just an old used Fender, which it was at the time, and told him $250.

Well, that bass has been my main instrument for quite some time and has appreciated a tad...

 

Ovation Magnum IV with OHSC for $50.

 

Hard to say which was the absolute best deal.
Traded a 78 Precision (it was just a 5 year old used bass when I bought it) and a refinished Jazz master guitar straight up for my 64 Precision may years ago.

$500 for a brand new Epi Jack Casady when the typical street price was $700.

$800 for a brand new 08 American Standard Precision, typical street price $1100.

I see stuff selling used for more than I paid for those new.

Gigged the hell out of a $109 SX for over 3 years with just a few minor mods. Kind of hard to beat that deal. More shows than I can remember using that one. Yeah, that was probably the best deal, although I actually paid asking price for that one.

 

$800 for a Fender Custom Shop Jazz.

 

My fretless G&L L2500 for $350. Near Mint Condition.

 

I also have a 1988 HD28 Martin acoustic that I ended up with $0.00 invested.

 

90s MIK ATK300 for $182.00

$212.00 after $30 S/H

 

5 pounds of what?

 

I guess the best deals I've gotten was $80 for a Peavey T-20 and a Yamaha short scale sg/eb-0 copy for free from my guitar class teacher. They were pretty beat up but I've refinished both.

 

A 1962 Fender 3 knob sun burst jazz wrapped in a sleeping bag for $35.00.
It was in 1969 & the going rate used was probably only $125 to $150.Believe it or not it didn't sound that great,good but not great.It played nice though.
Sure wish I had it now!

 

You decide:

$200 for a '75 P,
$250 for an '80 4001, or
$600 for an '83 Jackson Concert Pro V

 

Got a Warwick Rockbass Streamer for $25 at a yard sale, I'm pretty sure the retail is about $700-800 on the newer ones

 

my first "real" bass was a late 90's american p/j bass. best sounding fender i ever had. got it for $600..ended up selling it when i got real into 6 string, about 2 years after getting so into 6 strings i started seriously regretting selling that thing..

thinking about buying a used OLP stingray ripoff for $160..i guess thats not a bad deal either? any working bass for that much is a nice deal..