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why is this price so low, or is it just me. I see Mid 70's Fenders for almost $4k?

Maybe the mid-'70s ones are priced too high

This one is nice and light, too.

You can't go by asking price. The $4000 asking price on mid 70's as well as the asking price on this one could both be too high. At what price are things really selling? That is getting really hard to determine especially with online sites. Only the buyer and seller really knows for sure. We are in a high inflation economy in general right now and prices are inflated. The question is how much and what will prices be when the economy eventually returns to a more normal level or worse yet enters into a recession. It goes without saying. Always better to buy low and sell high. IMO I think that the odds right now makes it a better time to sell.

Yep. Amazingly, though, despite the period of COVID and high unemployment rates in 2020/21, guitar prices jumped astronomically and it seemed people were paying them anyway, making me think that people must have been looking at them as some sort of long term investment "nest egg" to sit on.

Fender is now asking nearly $2000 for an assembly line MIA instrument. I think that's fucking insane. So $6k for a '66 P seems more than reasonable to me given the market, even if it's well-played. How many of these are out there?

Didn’t CBS buy Fender in 65? So this would not be pre-CBS… still awesome but not pre…

Although Leo did sell to CBS in 1965 (he thought he was terminally ill and wanted the money for his family)
most of the workers and machinery remained the same at the Fullerton factory.
I owned a 66 Jazz that was just as well made as my 60 and 64 P basses.
The necks were still rough machined and then hand shaped and sanded by the same skilled craftsmen.
My personal experience with post CBS Fenders is that the quality really took a nose dive in the mid-seventies
when Fender started cheaping out on labor cost and quality control became almost non-existent.

Awesome sauce. Thanks for the explanation. Makes sense, and I figured there’d be some sort of “things are the same” transition period for a while…

Nice bass but pricy and the case is not fitting, they have cut a piece out:-)

The bass sold this afternoon. Did anyone here get it?

Talked to the seller, it was sold for 5500 USD incl shipping. In my opinion a very good price.
I couldn't bid on it that high as from Euro perspective exchange rate, shipping and customs killed a deal.
But from US perspective, this was a great deal.
Interested who got it....

$5,500 is a steal. Confused why it was price at $6,500 from the get go?

I hope it was not bought by a shop and will pop up again for sale soon for a moon price then

It magically popped up by my door step yesterday
Thankfully it's all original and everything work well.
I need to start working Sundays now

Paulo, you are a hero - saving us from ourselves Congrats!!

Paulo congrats. Very happy that you got it and that it did not went to any shop or reseller!

By the way, the final price the seller wrote me and I posted above was wrong, so just wanted to correct this.

Thanks NoXX and Bootsy!
And no, you guys won't see parts of this bass floating all over Ebay!