We Prove that every semigroup S Whose quasivariety contains a 3-nilpotent semigroup or a semigroup of index more than 2 has no finite basis for its quasi-identities provided that one of the following properties holds: S is finite; S has a faithful representation by injective partial maps on a set; S has a faithful representation by order preserving maps on a chain. As a corollary it is shown that, in an asymptotic sense, almost all finite semi-groups and finite monoids admit no finite basis for their quasi-identities.