Seller's Blues

Bod1

So, I've got a couple of fantastic guitars I want to sell and being a serial lurker here, decide to place them on adverts. Have to say it's a frustrating experience. I'm realising Ireland is a small place. There seems to be a small band of people interested in buying / selling / trading but it IS a small group.

I've spent a small.......well large fortune on guitars this year. I want more, but can't till I sell some gear. Seriously if my other half sees another guitar case in the house I'm in the sh1ts big time.

I presume e-bay is my only recourse. Maybe it's the credit crunch, maybe it's the colour of the bodies. Maybe I should hide two in the attic and spend more cash....rant over

Dord

Maybe you should choose your gear more carefully.

Voodu Child

Sometimes gear takes ages to shift, other times ive had things sold within a couple of hours of putting the ad up. Other times, you'll have something for sale for ages, and be convinced it'll never go, and then bang! a fella comes along who has been looking for that exact thing for ages.

You've just got to be patient, and price fairly. If it doesnt go, it doesnt go. I don't agree with Dord above, that's a pretty boring way of living life ;)We've all bought something cool, and then had something even cooler:pac: pop along a few weeks later, and one thing has to go to pay for another.

If something's not selling, drop the price, or sell it elsewhere, or keep it, or be patient.

This thread should be in the off-topic section also, its not really worthy of a thread of its own

Bod1

Dord wrote: »

Maybe you should choose your gear more carefully.

I do, and life's too short to worry about resale when choosing.

boycey

Hang in there Bod1- like voodoo said stuff can sit on there for an age till the right buyer comes along. The guitars you have on there are quality- Ive actually been trying to talk a friend back home in Donegal into taking the G&L tele off your hands!!

Dord

Bod1 wrote: »

I do, and life's too short to worry about resale when choosing.

I wasn't talking about resale value.

Bod1

Dord wrote: »

I wasn't talking about resale value.

Er, I seem to recall you had a similar experience recently with a Tele......!?!


Cheers Boycey, I restrung it and set it up yesterday. The neck is just too chunky for me.


In case I was misunderstood, I think it is an on topic thread, as somebody that's passionate about guitars, I want to be able to own / play all of those instruments I spent years reading and dreaming about. As the pot of money is finite, I need to be able to move gear on. My experience to date has just brought home what a small community is out there buying and selling high end gear. Unlike UK / US shops, it's impossible to get a realistic trade here.

Fingers Mcginty

ebay?

Doctor J

It's just a bad time to sell. It's coming up to christmas and there's a recession. People are reluctant to drop a grand on a guitar right now. It's the same all over the world, going on the FS sections of a lot of instrument forums. G&Ls going for €600, EBMM Stingrays and Sterlings going for $700, you can ever get Warwicks for about €600 from the UK now.

Vim Fuego

I hear ya Bod1. From trying to sell various pieces of kit myself, I know it's a slow process.

I feel bad for whoever has their Marshall DSL 100s on adverts right now. There's loads of them on there and it took me about 6 months to sell my own dsl head and 1960A cab when it was one of the few, at a really low price.

The most common experience is that the people who would like to buy the gear don't have the cash or want to trade their gear to upgrade. It's hard enough to shift my own gear, let alone become a part-time instruments dealer trying to get rid of a load of part-traded squires or whatever

It sucks, but f**k it. I haven't regretted a gear purchase yet and I would gladly hang on to any of my stuff on adverts. Still, it works both ways. I've made some great deals ons adverts exactly because of the same market conditions where sellers are constantly bringing down their prices.

Essentially, we all need to win the lottery. Boards.ie Instruments Forum lotto syndicate anyone?

darrenw5094

I also bought a rake of guitars and gear.
A minor fortune, in fact. I just discovered after all the guitars that i own, the super thin Ibanez Prestige neck is the one for me. At least something good has come from this experience.

I have a clatter of PRS that will have to go, and they are big money. But selling is a slow process too. And even now i am looking at a new Ibanez RG1570 from gak.co.uk for under €600. Very tempting and a xmas present for me. After this, i promise, no more.

Ebay is tough too. I sold a PRS CE24 to a guy in Spain.....Paypal stung me for €54 and ebay $80. Really annoyed me.

Just have to be patient though and weather the storm for a while.

Has anyone noticed that the Buy and Sell has been slow to post up adds and the B&S paper is bare for musical intruments etc.????

fish-head

Bod1, you should keep the Gretsch anyway. If I had the money I'd be sorely tempted.