Lost and found

NelsonP

Love this story....
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/26993575/sir-paul-mccartney-fee-family-guitar/

robgilmo

6 figures on 10 million? Come on Paul, 7 fugures begining at least with a 1 or a 2 would have been my ball park had I have been Paul.

chrisj1602

robgilmo said:

6 figures on 10 million? Come on Paul, 7 fugures begining at least with a 1 or a 2 would have been my ball park had I have been Paul.

He only paid £30 for it though.

InactiveX

She was lucky to get anything. Imagine how successful the Beatles could have been if Paul hadn't had his bass nicked.

robgilmo

chrisj1602 said:

robgilmo said:

6 figures on 10 million? Come on Paul, 7 fugures begining at least with a 1 or a 2 would have been my ball park had I have been Paul.

He only paid £30 for it though.

Well he didnt have to have it back either, it was valued at 10 mil though, I would have thought he may have been more appreciative of someone handing him a guitar worth 10 million, had it have been worthless might he have actually wanted it back enough to pay 6 figures?

Dumodal

robgilmo said:

chrisj1602 said:

robgilmo said:

6 figures on 10 million? Come on Paul, 7 fugures begining at least with a 1 or a 2 would have been my ball park had I have been Paul.

He only paid £30 for it though.

Well he didnt have to have it back either, it was valued at 10 mil though, I would have thought he may have been more appreciative of someone handing him a guitar worth 10 million, had it have been worthless might he have actually wanted it back enough to pay 6 figures?

It is his bass nonetheless that was stolen, he could have paid nothing at all and still legally claim it back.

Offset

I very much doubt the value of his bass even crossed PMcC's mind.  £10m is a drop in the ocean to him.  He'd doubtless  have given her the six-figure sum if the guitar had only been worth a few grand.

He wanted a treasured bit of his past back.

robgilmo

Dumodal said:

robgilmo said:

chrisj1602 said:

robgilmo said:

6 figures on 10 million? Come on Paul, 7 fugures begining at least with a 1 or a 2 would have been my ball park had I have been Paul.

He only paid £30 for it though.

Well he didnt have to have it back either, it was valued at 10 mil though, I would have thought he may have been more appreciative of someone handing him a guitar worth 10 million, had it have been worthless might he have actually wanted it back enough to pay 6 figures?

It is his bass nonetheless that was stolen, he could have paid nothing at all and still legally claim it back.

Could he? apparently, from what I read, they entered into negotiations and settled on the sum of money, I could be wrong but it didnt seem like he could legally claim it back.

robgilmo

Offset said:

I very much doubt the value of his bass even crossed PMcC's mind.  £10m is a drop in the ocean to him.  He'd doubtless  have given her the six-figure sum if the guitar had only been worth a few grand.

He wanted a treasured bit of his past back.

I am sure he did, however, was Cathy obligated to return it? Weeks of negotiations suggests to me than she was under no obligation to return it, so it was worth a lot more to her financially than it was to him. 10m is a drop in the ocean to him yet to him his treasured guitar was worth a very small fraction of that, it doesnt seem like he held its worth above its financial value , it wasnt worth that much to him.

Offset

I guess it depends if that six-figure sum was a reward for offering up the guitar, or the price required to have it returned.  I must admit I'm not clear now which it was but the Scum headline suggested the former.