Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: jibidy on May 28, 2010, 07:45:33 PM
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I'v sold a fender deluxe strat 2008 model to someone over facebook.
He received the guitar and it appears that something has been damaged during transit. He took it to his guitar tech and he said it would cost him £125 to replace the switch. Is that true?? how can it cost £125 to replace a switch. I can find an all parts switch for £10 and I am capable of fitting it myself.
Is he trying his luck???
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maybe it's made of solid platinum and was forged by blind tibeten virgins, if not then I would say yes, he is taking the piss.
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Ask to see a written estimate and pictures of the damage.
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A decent switch is £10-15 and fitting it is a half hour job - £25 at most
Did it have an S1 switch on it too?
Dont know what price they are , but not £125
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Regardless of his perception on cost, surely it's the company doing the transporting that he should pick it up with?
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^ my thoughts exactly...
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He and/or his guitar tech are taking the piss.
But if there is a claim to be made against the courier company, I'd have thought that's down to you since you were the sender. Was it insured?
(And to fair to eBay and its users, this bloke isn't an awkward evil bayer, he's an awkward facebooker!)
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I'm happy to act as an independant /professional 3rd party
If he can photograph and detail the damage I will give you both an honest assessment as far as I can from a distance
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Every chance his guitar tech is his mate and they're just after a few quid for a night out, not a rare ploy.
The claim with the courier is always the sender's responsibility, insofar as I've ever experienced.
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sounds like a case of serious buuullllllllllllllshiiiiiiiiiiiiteeee! :shock:
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Yer cheers for the info guys, he has agreed for a refund of £60 as the Fender S1 switch is about £30 to buy.
Im refunding him outta my own pocket and im gonna try claiming it back from the courier.
Tis a bugger its the only bad ebay experience I've ever had.
That said its not really ebay its the courier. *cough* parcel force *cough*
Supposedly the Fender S1 switches are a load of cr@p and they break all the time anyway. So he'll just get another one fitted and it'll break again.
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£30.00 for the switch and £30.00 again to fit it STILL seems like a piss-take.
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Sounds very much like he's regretting spending his money!
When I'm buying or selling guitars, I don't think I'll trust delivery to any courier company any more. I've had strats go missing for 6 weeks and turn up back with the seller, all kinds of grief with someone fobbing me off with a Korean strat described as Mexican.
I'll collect in person, they can do the same. If they don't want to travel then the deal's off.
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When I'm buying or selling guitars, I don't think I'll trust delivery to any courier company any more.
I'll collect in person, they can do the same. If they don't want to travel then the deal's off.
That's the ideal-world situation, but it's hard finding guitar buyers at all just now, never mind people who are prepared to travel.
(Should say I've just sold some necks and bodies and got very decent prices for them, but "whole" guitars just aren't shifting!)
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What we all need, is for ( Twinfan ) Dave to go freelance as our community 'Estate Agent'.
'Offering you this rare opportunity to aquire' .... 8)
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What we all need, is for ( Twinfan ) Dave to go freelance as our community 'Estate Agent'.
'Offering you this rare opportunity to aquire' .... 8)
and he'd have to shift the old sh*t before he got the Glengarry leads...
Blake: You got leads. Mitch & Murray paid good money. Get their names to sell them. You can't close the leads you're given, you can't close sh*t, *you are* sh*t, hit the bricks pal, and beat it, 'cause you are going *out*.
Shelley Levene: The leads are weak.
Blake: "The leads are weak." The f*cking leads are weak? You're weak. I've been in this business fifteen years...
Dave Moss: What's your name?
Blake: F*ck you. That's my name. [Moss laughs]
Blake: You know why, mister? 'Cause you drove a Hyundai to get here tonight, I drove an eighty thousand dollar BMW. *That's* my name.
:lol:
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What we all need, is for ( Twinfan ) Dave to go freelance as our community 'Estate Agent'.
'Offering you this rare opportunity to aquire' .... 8)
and he'd have to shift the old sh*t before he got the Glengarry leads...
Blake: You got leads. Mitch & Murray paid good money. Get their names to sell them. You can't close the leads you're given, you can't close sh*t, *you are* sh*t, hit the bricks pal, and beat it, 'cause you are going *out*.
Shelley Levene: The leads are weak.
Blake: "The leads are weak." The f*cking leads are weak? You're weak. I've been in this business fifteen years...
Dave Moss: What's your name?
Blake: F*ck you. That's my name. [Moss laughs]
Blake: You know why, mister? 'Cause you drove a Hyundai to get here tonight, I drove an eighty thousand dollar BMW. *That's* my name.
:lol:
:lol:
-So you've actually met Dave too ! :lol:
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What we all need, is for ( Twinfan ) Dave to go freelance as our community 'Estate Agent'.
'Offering you this rare opportunity to aquire' .... 8)
and he'd have to shift the old sh*t before he got the Glengarry leads...
Blake: You got leads. Mitch & Murray paid good money. Get their names to sell them. You can't close the leads you're given, you can't close sh*t, *you are* sh*t, hit the bricks pal, and beat it, 'cause you are going *out*.
Shelley Levene: The leads are weak.
Blake: "The leads are weak." The f*cking leads are weak? You're weak. I've been in this business fifteen years...
Dave Moss: What's your name?
Blake: F*ck you. That's my name. [Moss laughs]
Blake: You know why, mister? 'Cause you drove a Hyundai to get here tonight, I drove an eighty thousand dollar BMW. *That's* my name.
:lol:
:lol:
-So you've actually met Dave too ! :lol:
nope, ain't had the pleasure.
was also gonna change the last bit to this...
Blake: You know why, mister? 'Cause you play a Westfield Strat, I play an eighty thousand dollar PRS. *That's* my name.
:lol:
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(http://api.ning.com/files/Stf6YswJmTlJ6cikT8Pkq15oNNLzd9NEF9zva32QwNI_/RickyRoma.jpe?width=300)
"$%&# you, Dave. You know you got a big mouth. You buy a guitar this whole place stinks with your farts for a week - how much you just ingested. Oh, what a big man you are! "Hey, let me buy you a pack of strings. I'll show you how to play it." Whoof! You're pal buys a guitar, and all that comes out of your mouth is bile. Ooh, how $%&#ed-up you are!"
:lol: :lol:
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"All music venues smell vaguely of shite. It gets so you don't mind it. That's the worst thing that I can confess. You know how long it took me to get there? A long time. When you die you're going to regret the things you don't practice. You think you're a cork-sniffer? I'm going to tell you something: we're all cork-sniffers. You think you're a collector? So what? You get befuddled by a middle-class morality? Get shut of it. Shut it out. You cheat on your wife? You did it, live with it. You $%&# little girls, so be it. There's an absolute morality? Maybe. And then what? If you think there is, go ahead, be that thing. Bad people go to hell? I don't think so. If you think that, act that way. A hell exists on earth? Yes. I won't gig in it. That's me. "
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Maybe it's just me then, I enjoy a day out to trek across the country to pick up a bargain. Good to get out in the fresh air once in a while.
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(http://api.ning.com/files/Stf6YswJmTlJ6cikT8Pkq15oNNLzd9NEF9zva32QwNI_/RickyRoma.jpe?width=300)
"$%&# you, Dave. You know you got a big mouth. You buy a guitar this whole place stinks with your farts for a week - how much you just ingested. Oh, what a big man you are! "Hey, let me buy you a pack of strings. I'll show you how to play it." Whoof! You're pal buys a guitar, and all that comes out of your mouth is bile. Ooh, how $%&#ed-up you are!"
:lol: :lol:
f*ck the machine?