knucklehead G here. Hold the tomatoes, at least for the moment. This might take a while.
First off, I sincerely, humbly apologize for my past behavior. Selling the bass several of you helped to purchase and quitting the forums was in exceptionally bad form, and while I have been lurking in guest mode off and on I do fully agree with those describing that as a "d-bag move." I understand an explanation was posted, copied from Facebook chat, but removed. This is a truncated version, and if you aren't comfortable reading into my personal life you may stop here.
I have bipolar type II, and I am not on medication. Through a support group of highly understanding friends and family, I manage to lead a fairly steady life, most of the time. I have trouble holding jobs but I'm not on any drugs or anything like many self-medicators and I can usually get by. Occasionally, I slip. When I do, its in one of two ways. If its a depressed phase I usually start drinking, but on the manic mood swings, I either buy buy buy or sell sell sell. Murphy was victim of a sell mode.
In that short time frame I sold off nearly everything I owned. I wasn't supporting some bad habits or about to be homeless or anything, I just got in my head that I needed to sell regardless of loss and I couldn't focus on anything else. Last time was a buy phase, and I took out a high-interest signature loan for $3000, paid in full for a motorcycle I didn't know how to ride and totaled it on the way home from the dealership.
As far as quitting the forum, at the bad times I really can't cope with people questioning what I'm doing. I just shove that person away and keep doing it. Online, that is extremely easy - I deleted my account and the bookmark to the forum, and let you guys have your way with my reputation. Which was justified on your behalf.
Max has asked me a few times about returning to the forum, and as I was doing a long slow crawl back onto stable grounds I kept declining as I didn't think it would be wise. I'm still not sure if this is wise, but I've been okay for a few months and owed you guys an explanation (and money).
On the money front. I have finally, through fifteen months of persistent annoyance, gotten to where I am having regular correspondence with Patrick Sims again. I got all that I am going to get in way of apologies, which was basically a thirty minute, "Its not my fault," phone call where I got maybe five words in edgewise. The end result is that my bass is not returnable due to an accident at the shop. ORCHRiST was lucky, and his Aces High Strat apparently was delivered after the problem happened, whereas my lava pearl P showed up just in time to get destroyed.
Sims is offering me $500, the cost of the body plus the paint job. He says he is still working through paying off customers who suffered property damage, and it will be about two months until I can expect my refund. At this point I have no reason to doubt him, as he has been extremely forthright in answering every single question I have offered, and even tried to return a pocket dial (forgot to lock my keys) twice today. This is not redeeming the guy for horrible business practices, but it is giving me hope.
Once I get the money back form Patrick (not in a position to do it before), I will be issuing refunds to each person who PayPal'd me money for Murphy. Call it an apology, an attempt to re-balance my karma, another d-bag move or whatever makes you feel better, but I feel I owe this to you people who contributed. I ask you to PM me if you did with your PayPal email address, as I only have my PayPal records and not all of them contained screen names.
Besides this update, if I'm not welcome I will gladly pack my bags and move on along again, and just come back to send out the money when I get the chance. If I am, I'm no longer in possession of any bass at all, or guitar, or even a kazoo or something, but I'd be equally glad to slip back into the forum and try to be a productive member of society again.
Whatever is right by you.
First off, I sincerely, humbly apologize for my past behavior. Selling the bass several of you helped to purchase and quitting the forums was in exceptionally bad form, and while I have been lurking in guest mode off and on I do fully agree with those describing that as a "d-bag move." I understand an explanation was posted, copied from Facebook chat, but removed. This is a truncated version, and if you aren't comfortable reading into my personal life you may stop here.
I have bipolar type II, and I am not on medication. Through a support group of highly understanding friends and family, I manage to lead a fairly steady life, most of the time. I have trouble holding jobs but I'm not on any drugs or anything like many self-medicators and I can usually get by. Occasionally, I slip. When I do, its in one of two ways. If its a depressed phase I usually start drinking, but on the manic mood swings, I either buy buy buy or sell sell sell. Murphy was victim of a sell mode.
In that short time frame I sold off nearly everything I owned. I wasn't supporting some bad habits or about to be homeless or anything, I just got in my head that I needed to sell regardless of loss and I couldn't focus on anything else. Last time was a buy phase, and I took out a high-interest signature loan for $3000, paid in full for a motorcycle I didn't know how to ride and totaled it on the way home from the dealership.
As far as quitting the forum, at the bad times I really can't cope with people questioning what I'm doing. I just shove that person away and keep doing it. Online, that is extremely easy - I deleted my account and the bookmark to the forum, and let you guys have your way with my reputation. Which was justified on your behalf.
Max has asked me a few times about returning to the forum, and as I was doing a long slow crawl back onto stable grounds I kept declining as I didn't think it would be wise. I'm still not sure if this is wise, but I've been okay for a few months and owed you guys an explanation (and money).
On the money front. I have finally, through fifteen months of persistent annoyance, gotten to where I am having regular correspondence with Patrick Sims again. I got all that I am going to get in way of apologies, which was basically a thirty minute, "Its not my fault," phone call where I got maybe five words in edgewise. The end result is that my bass is not returnable due to an accident at the shop. ORCHRiST was lucky, and his Aces High Strat apparently was delivered after the problem happened, whereas my lava pearl P showed up just in time to get destroyed.
Sims is offering me $500, the cost of the body plus the paint job. He says he is still working through paying off customers who suffered property damage, and it will be about two months until I can expect my refund. At this point I have no reason to doubt him, as he has been extremely forthright in answering every single question I have offered, and even tried to return a pocket dial (forgot to lock my keys) twice today. This is not redeeming the guy for horrible business practices, but it is giving me hope.
Once I get the money back form Patrick (not in a position to do it before), I will be issuing refunds to each person who PayPal'd me money for Murphy. Call it an apology, an attempt to re-balance my karma, another d-bag move or whatever makes you feel better, but I feel I owe this to you people who contributed. I ask you to PM me if you did with your PayPal email address, as I only have my PayPal records and not all of them contained screen names.
Besides this update, if I'm not welcome I will gladly pack my bags and move on along again, and just come back to send out the money when I get the chance. If I am, I'm no longer in possession of any bass at all, or guitar, or even a kazoo or something, but I'd be equally glad to slip back into the forum and try to be a productive member of society again.
Whatever is right by you.