My Pawnshop/Ebay/"RIC PROM" bass find

[sinisterick]

Yup, that's my long lost baby stolen December last year. John and I are working it out as you can see on the other thread. I just got off the phone with John and it seems I may just have to bring the "lefty prom bass" to the next gathering.

[leftybass]

John, the story of you purchasing this bass will remain one of the highlights of my recent trip. John Koelling and I saw the bass on eBay and I immediately came running down Pascoe's staircase shouting your name.

I knew you were hooked once you moved from a standing position in front of the computer to the driver's seat. It was a pleasure to watch you dissect every detail about the bass from top to bottom (especially when those of us with a more excitable nature would have just whacked that ol' BIN button with a degree of recklessness. As we all gathered around to chant "Buy It, Buy It" you still maintained a steely perseverance in the face of extreme peer pressure. For a while.

Once you hit that magic button, it felt like we ALL purchased the lefty Ric Prom bass!

Well done, mate. I'm glad you're so happy with the bass

It's ALL your fault, Darren.

".....it felt like we ALL purchased the lefty Ric Prom bass!...."

HEH HEH HEH Let's talk about this....

I am pretty optomisitic that I'll get my $$$$ back, but I'm having to jump through some pretty big hoops...The main thing is that Abbott will get his bass back....I must say it's a great bass, and all of this happened for a reason and purpose.

[sinisterick]

I may be getting a little too old to be the life of the party these days but my bass is just starting to hit it's prime. A great story in so many ways. I just can't begin to imagine though what it would have been like if I was there-I think we all know given the seller and the bass that I would have clicked the BIN in about 5 milliseconds. I can see it now- "THATS MY BASS...QUICK PULL UP THE REGISTRY...GET AWAY FROM THAT COMPUTER!"

[sinisterick]

Just as much the "main thing" from where i'm sitting is that Bob's Pawn shop be sent a strong enough message to convince him to never engage in this kind of activity. I think about the heartache, even possible injury or worse he has caused others beside me by enabling the property thieves. People like him are a larger problem than any one thief. I know my sense of security has been reduced ever since the break in and I bet there are many other's in Charlotte here that feel the same way thanks to Bob's pawn. By the way, I now have I.P. based motion sensor cameras that send e-mails of photos immediately if motion is detected. The bad guys can even steal my computer and I will still have the pictures in my hotmail.