Sennheiser BF521 (MD421 without the roll-off switch) - £25 off ebay.
Nobody knew what it was.
I only share this because I've been checking on a daily basis for 2 years and I haven't seen another one come up.

I got a box of nine microphones including a boxed AKG d19 c for £16 - roughly $30. Not bad. I bought a box of eleven mics from Germany two days ago for £35 - its got an MD421 and an early Beyer as well as a few other bits and bobs. Great.

i traded a sansamp bassdriver di that i got second hand for a traynor ts-50b. i just won an auction on ebay for a ts-120b. the auction ended at $152.50. not too bad, certainly not great, but not bad either.

Dave-Sidca - I tried to bid on that BF521! It was a year or two ago wasn't it? My computer crashed at 1 minute to go. I was totally gutted. The listing didn't have a picture did it.

i just got a D112 on ebay for $87 including shipping


then i fucked it up by accidentally paying with the wrong account on paypal, resulting in a $22 overdraft charge from the bank.
so, i got a D112 for $110 on ebay

it was cooler before i fucked myself out of that $20

hmmm everyone i know seems to stumble on great deals just not me....
here are some examples...

Micro Moog $60 (pawn shop)
Traynor yba1 head and (2) 4x12 garnett cabs $50
Sunn 4x12 cab $25

Several are tied:
1. Late '70s aluminum-neck Kramer bass. $190 from a crackhead.
2. Yamaha E-1005 analog delay. Best delay ever. $40 on e-bay, listed in "consumer electronics"
3. '80s Riverhead Steinberger-clone headless bass that I built a new body for. Bass $140. Wood $45. Sound and playability? Priceless.
4. 18" 400 watt Madison woofer. $35
5. JMF 1x15" bass combo. $150
6. (The kicker) I found a '72 Fender Super Reverb (with James B Lansing speakers) leaned up against a trash dumpster. Took it home, spent 2 hours cleaning it. Found a ground short. Fixed the ground short. Plugged it in and everything worked. $0. Eventually sold it for $800, an Electro-Harmonix bass microsynth, and a crate of jass records.

Nice hauls!

My tied winners:
- 76 Kramer 650G for $270 that I intend to talk about at a guitar show (see ya there steve!) - from a pawn shop
- Rocktron Pro G.A.P. guitar pre and a Peavy Max bass pre for $11 each at one of the old school Guitar Center invite only blowouts-when-they-were-actually-sales things
- Arp 2600 grayface with a single digit serial number for $100 (no keyboard - the rock dude turned preacher that sold it to me used to set it on fire)
- Carvin 300 watt tube head traded outright for a broken Fender Montreaux solid state combo amp

Two beat-up poorly spray-painted drum kits at a tag sale last Fall. One was an early 70s 3-ply Ludwig with an 18" floor tom. Someday I'll get around to replacing the heads...until then, it sounds great. $40.

Rodabod wrote:Dave-Sidca - I tried to bid on that BF521! It was a year or two ago wasn't it? My computer crashed at 1 minute to go. I was totally gutted. The listing didn't have a picture did it.

It was about then, I'm a bit sketchy on the details. Think I just stuck in a bid several hours early and hoped for the best. Ah, the good old days of ebay. Now, everyone seems to pay 80% of retail value for beat-up crap.