doing the morning interweb scan before putting my nose to the grindstone, saw this pop up on reverb:

https://reverb.com/item/36112043-alembic-epic-fretless-right-handed-1996-brown

for a person looking to make the leap to fretless, this is probably a pretty good way to get there for not too much money.  the big money part comes later when you realize how cool a fretless sounds and now you realize that it would be even cooler if it was neck-through with LED position markers, purple-heart stringers, a 7-layer laminated body and stereo electronics.