I figured they're all in pastures somewhere cared for by bass farmers. Otherwise "thinning the herd" wouldn't make any sense. And that leads me to wonder do bass farts lead to increase in green-house gasses?
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Where did all the basses go?
- Thread starter bassmanrocke
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All unsold basses are eventually ground up into a fine powder, which is then snorted by the Mothman bass.
Once you've solved this mystery can you figure out where the baby pigeons are? I only ever see adult pigeons.
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My friend @armybass has yet another load of basses steaming towards his secret offshore storage facility.....
.. when they finally realised how many we actually had stashed around the house.
I'm currently bogarting 10 basses so I know where they are 
Last one I bought was 3 years ago and it was new. But look how many new bass day posts Talkbass gets in a week. Facebook forums have a lot of people there bragging about their new basses as well. Not every bass sells but many of them do, and many thousands of people buy them in multiples and they buy fairly often. So by and large they're getting sold.
Last one I bought was 3 years ago and it was new. But look how many new bass day posts Talkbass gets in a week. Facebook forums have a lot of people there bragging about their new basses as well. Not every bass sells but many of them do, and many thousands of people buy them in multiples and they buy fairly often. So by and large they're getting sold.
I felt quite ill seeing that pic of charred basses mike...best check my home and contents insurance plus I have separate insurance for all my basses...just hope I never have to use it.
Amazon recently admitted to destroying unsold, undamaged warehouse stock.
What's sad if true, is how they determined scrapping/writing off to be more financially viable than price cuts...would not be surprised if it was to keep market values from declining. I hope no quality, low volume instruments were/are among those.
My thoughts exactly.
This reminds me of how my cousins had a beat up old martin acoustic of their dad's up in the attic they found after he passed. They remembered it, but weren't sure of its value. Luckily my uncle knew it was worth checking out and they took it to Elderly. Turns out it was a pre-war Martin, 1 serial number off from the one Clapton used on "unplugged." It needed extensive restoration but still sounded and felt great all beat up. Elderly's master luthiers restored it and they sold it for $50,000. No joke. Long story short, I don't doubt the landfills, attics/closets, and warehouses bit.
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only aprox. 0,00001% of the human population knows and cares about basses... if they get in the wrong hands.... you'll never know what happens.... only the ones that are in the right hands will survive.
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My guess is that the baby boomers are sitting on them (I'm sitting on a pretty good size collection myself) once we start kicking the bucket the market will be flooded.
I'm sure there are some in there somewhere.......................
