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Anyone bought any parts from here? https://stratosphereparts.com/

They appear to have complete guitars which are stripped and re-sold, still appears to work out cheaper than the retail of the guitars, WTF?!??!
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I bought a neck from them but on fleabay ages ago. It was fine, delivered fairly quickly and as advertised.

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jeremyb wrote:Anyone bought any parts from here? https://stratosphereparts.com/

They appear to have complete guitars which are stripped and re-sold, still appears to work out cheaper than the retail of the guitars, WTF?!??!
is that with gst and shipping?

I've bought stuff from them before with no issues, only small bits though.
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.

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Bg wrote:
jeremyb wrote:Anyone bought any parts from here? https://stratosphereparts.com/

They appear to have complete guitars which are stripped and re-sold, still appears to work out cheaper than the retail of the guitars, WTF?!??!
is that with gst and shipping?

I've bought stuff from them before with no issues, only small bits though.
No GST by the looks of it :mrgreen: even with shipping you can land a modern strat in parts for less than off the shelf here!
Slowy wrote: That's the problem; everything rewarding is just such hard work. Regret takes much less effort.

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jeremyb wrote:
Bg wrote:
jeremyb wrote:Anyone bought any parts from here? https://stratosphereparts.com/

They appear to have complete guitars which are stripped and re-sold, still appears to work out cheaper than the retail of the guitars, WTF?!??!
is that with gst and shipping?

I've bought stuff from them before with no issues, only small bits though.
No GST by the looks of it :mrgreen: even with shipping you can land a modern strat in parts for less than off the shelf here!
You should talk to Dave about that at the chch gearfest ;)
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.

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Bought a neck from them. Took 2 weeks to arrive. Expensive but it's a genuine Fender neck. Plenty of fakes out there.
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I've bought necks from them. Fast turn around etc etc.

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Looks like I could land a complete 60s road worn strat in parts from them for ~ $1600... whhheeeee
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jeremyb wrote:Looks like I could land a complete 60s road worn strat in parts from them for ~ $1600... whhheeeee
There is (was?) a cheap alder strat body from Music Gift on TM. Not sure what they are like but, IIRC, they were $150 or so!

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codedog wrote:
jeremyb wrote:Looks like I could land a complete 60s road worn strat in parts from them for ~ $1600... whhheeeee
There is (was?) a cheap alder strat body from Music Gift on TM. Not sure what they are like but, IIRC, they were $150 or so!
Thinking more about resale tho', a proper fender strat will still have some in many years to come :mental:
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jeremyb wrote:
codedog wrote:
jeremyb wrote:Looks like I could land a complete 60s road worn strat in parts from them for ~ $1600... whhheeeee
There is (was?) a cheap alder strat body from Music Gift on TM. Not sure what they are like but, IIRC, they were $150 or so!
Thinking more about resale tho', a proper fender strat will still have some in many years to come :mental:
Do the necks have serials? That’s usually the resale killer (lack there of)

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null_pointer wrote:
jeremyb wrote:
codedog wrote:
There is (was?) a cheap alder strat body from Music Gift on TM. Not sure what they are like but, IIRC, they were $150 or so!
Thinking more about resale tho', a proper fender strat will still have some in many years to come :mental:
Do the necks have serials? That’s usually the resale killer (lack there of)
Yup they sure do, they're even listed with the item and shown in the pictures, so you can select which one you want!
Slowy wrote: That's the problem; everything rewarding is just such hard work. Regret takes much less effort.

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My order has shipped already, they use UPS so it should be pretty quick!

Shall order a neck and tuners on Monday :mrgreen:
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UPS says it should be here next Friday! Faasssssttttttt!!!
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ive bought lots of stuff from them. Their US-NZ shipping rates were pretty hideous, sending to youshop then to NZ worked out much better

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