The Last Bass Outpost

 I need some advice,
   I am an ex roadie who now works as a carer/rock n roll coach at a small charity run special needs unit.
I still do a bit of local crewing when it fits around my school shifts, and when I do I often hit up the backline guys  for skins/sticks/strings etc. for my kids.
  when Status Quo last came round I gave my pitch to their drum tech, and he apologized that he had just changed skins yesterday and was low on sticks but how would I like a signed drumskin to ebay to raise money for music equipment. 
 while the auction was running a collector from Australia contacted me to ask if I would ship to Australia, he also asked if I had any  photos etc to prove it was genuine. I told him the story of how I got it.

  When he won the auction at  £75 he contacted me and asked me if I would hold off sending it til he had emailed me a letter of provenance paraphrasing my story which he wanted me to print, sign and include in the package, we also went back and forward a bit with the postage cos he wanted it sent surface mail so I had find out the  options for that including insurance etc. for him. When we had agreed on the new postage he paid me by paypal

  so then when a few weeks had gone by and no provenance letter was emailed, I emailed him to check I was still supposed to be waiting to send it. ... no reply.
 
  a few weeks later I tried again, both through email and ebay messaging....still no reply

fast forward 8 months and having again had no reply to email(i could now no longer call it up in my ebay cos it had gone over time) I tried to contact ebay through their arbitration section, after an hour of trying to find a category in the multiple guess hell that covered my issue I gave up and phoned ebay.
 
I then had a very frustrating chat with a guy in a call centre who's English just wasn't up to the job of understanding what I was saying: he obviously couldn't access the details because of over-time either, and kept talking about a different sale i had done of a drum shell.
    when I had finally (I think) got him to understand what my dilemma was he told me he couldn't cancel the auction because it was too long ago, He advised me against just sending it to the guys address as his "non responsiveness means he may not receive it "  and that I should just hold on to the item and wait and see

 I have tried to see if I can track him down online, but he as a really common name and Melbourne is a big city, and because it has dropped out of my ebay history I no longer have  his address so can't write a letter

what should I do?

I can only think that the guy has passed away or skipped town or something so I'd really like to re-sell the thing, especially as the school PA has blown a channel and I'm currently fund raising to try and sort that out

I made bass of the week at
 http://www.bestbassgear.com/ebass/bass-of-the-week/bass-of-the-week-twin-tele.html

Finished it  
http://imgur.com/a/gNDLp#0

 

it was a bad bass

Not far... near Kingston if you get into trouble and same conditions as Scott, although certainly not to his level of craftsmanship...

Kenny

much appreciated Kenny, I'm game for having a go myself, but if i have no joy I'll take up your kind offer
Thanks
 Red

Thanks guys, and especially big heartfelt thanks to godofthunder for your generous offer, even if there is an Atlantic ocean in the way 
I'm gonna give it a go,
Ive never had cause to mess with a truss rod before so any glaring do's and don'ts?
I am guessing that I have to loosen it up as at the moment it's pulling the peg head towards the body by the width  of the (missing) nut
should I count the number of turns I loosen it and tighten it up by that much again at the end? I guess my learning curve is gonna include how to set up a neck with the truss rod 

Also the fretboard has come away down to about the 4th fret, should I attempt to remove it, fix the neck then reglue it? or just do the whole thing in one go

At first I thought this was going to be about Police songs!

  oops

Sorry if we derailed your question wellREDman. Hope your enjoying that fiver.

not as much as I was expecting to
thanks for all the suggestions,
what I was after was not so much new music, as a riff that I already knew, just hadn't learned to play, that would take advantage of the Low B. I did find it elsewhere though, wipeout sounds fantasticly  dirty in the lower register

Now you can fret E on the 5th fret of the B string instead of playing it open for instance.

Brilliant advice cheers, had fun reworking the fingering on Higher Ground.