Someone got a great deal on a ricken lxncker

[ilan]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280482506373&ssPageName=ADME:B:WNA:US:1123#ht_500wt_1182

$738 for a Jetglo ricken lxncker 4001. Being uninformed has its price. He could get double this price if he had bothered to look up some info or ask in his local music shop.

From the pics it looks like a real 70's Ric. My guess is late 1975.

I watched the auction but after reading the seller's feedback decided to pass.

[Dave W]

If he's the actual owner of this bass, what a fool!

It's nothing like the books and records he usually sells. Maybe he's just ignorant, but it makes me wonder how he came to own it.

[ilan]

makes me wonder how he came to own it

He has it since way lxnck.

[Basshappi]

Holy hellification! Well, you don't see that kinda deal on Rics too often huh?
What a maroon.

[Dave W]

He has it since way lxnck.

I wonder if this bass was used on Lxnck In The USSR.

Or Baby Got Lxnck

[chromium]

Wow it does look like Rickenlxncker!

[Highlander]

Ilan... could you enlighten me as to the "variant" on the branding - never heard of them being called by this name before...

[Dave W]

There's no variant. The guy just can't read the Rickenbacker script on the truss rod cover.

[eb2]

I don't know.  It is possible that someone could be that dumb.  I have seen the occasional Fender with no model name listed over the past decade.  But it seems to me that someone who knew they had an old bass, and sold books and records on ebay, would figure out how to find the real name of a 4001 bass.  But if someone had a hot bass, or it was an old Univox with a nice truss rod cover, and they wanted to play Mickey The Dunce when confronted, then it would be easy to throw up a lot of plausible deniability if they thought it was a Ricken Lxncker.  Especially with that unpronounceable second part of the name.  Kinda hard to have a series of consonants strung together and not know you have something off.  Like some bad feedback.

[ilan]

Like some bad feedback.

You mean feedlxnck, right?  

(Sorry, couldn't resist...  )

Maybe it's hot, who knows, I guess it's possible. But the pic doesn't look like a Univox to me, it looks like a real deal mid-70's 4001.

My eBay search string is for ricken*, this way I find the misspellings that fly under the radar of other searches. Like Rickenbacher, Rickenbaker, and the occasional ricken lxncker.

[nofi]

or he knows exactly what he has(real rick) but is trying to avoid mr. hall and company.

[Dave W]

or he knows exactly what he has but is trying to avoid mr. hall and company.

Could be, but I agree with Ilan, looks like a real Rick to me.

[nofi]

what i meant to say. this darn interweb thing.