Faded White or Refin?

wints · Post by **wints** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 12:59 am

Cool bass, but never worth what he paid for it.

markbass99 · Post by **markbass99** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 1:42 am

Yea, bidding wars get pretty crazy on Ebay when a rick has a perceived value generated by the frenzy around it. When I sell on Ebay I try to eliminate the bidding wars by using a good starting price at the low end of the value and a BIN at the high end. The 97 4003 white/BT that I sold last year had a $1499 starting bid and a $1899 BIN and it took about two days for somebody to hit the BIN. Of course if you're talking about a 60's rick the sky is the limit.

woodyng · Post by **woodyng** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:29 am

anybody else here notice how unnaturally high the bridge pickup cover looks? other than that,as the owner of a similar 74 4000,these are great basses!they do sound somewhat different to the neck-throughs,but just barely...

sloop_john_b · Post by **sloop_john_b** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:38 am

Yep, it's not mounted correctly.

mikeylc · Post by **mikeylc** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 1:33 pm

No offense but why would you want to eliminate bidding wars? Isn't evil-bay an auction site and isn't that what happens at auctions. Don't get me wrong I hate over paying but if I'm selling something I'd like to get top dollar. Yeah this bass went for too much in the last auction. I was baffled. Two weeks earlier I bought a 4003s on e-bay for 1100.

markbass99 · Post by **markbass99** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 3:15 pm

Mike, I can definitely see your point if you're trying to squeeze the ultimate amount of money out of a bass(like a vintage 60's model) but I'm not trying to do that with most of the basses I sell. Most people aren't rich and I would like to have some of the basses I discard have a chance with the general public. I just set a high and low price in the range I feel is appropriate for the particular instrument, one advantage to having a BIN is almost all of my auctions have been over in about two days.