little things online sellers add to their listings that don't do anything for you.

57Deluxe

throwing-in  2 or 3 iffy used picks...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Guitar_picks-KayEss-1.jpeg

Chalky

Ok, from a sellers point of view, the questions I love:

What's the history of the guitar?

Was it made in Japan?

Its got different (something) to the one I've see/played. Why?

Will you post? (After the ad has made it very clear that I will not post).

Are these as good as/how do these compare to (unrelated guitar)?

Any trades? (After the ad has made it very clear that you don't want any trades)?

Does it have a case? (After your ad and pictures make no mention of a case - do I have to list all the things it DOESN'T include? Case, stand, strap, pick, capo, spare strings, cleaning kit, slide, fretfile...

johnl

"Here we have a great example of" like I'm suddenly watching an episode of the Antiques Roadshow.

SlopeSoarer

Ideal for beginner!

munckee

scrumhalf said:

AllthegearNoidea said:

Sassafras said:

As soon as they call a guitar 'she' I feel so sick I can't carry on reading all the way through whatever else they say.

This

Can you misgender a guitar?

Well imagine if you refer to it as a she and it identifies as a he or a hermaphrodite, then you'd be in trouble!

Dominic

Teetonetal said:

I'm always happy to see pet and smoke free home. Heavy smoking indoors really impregnates everything.

Maybe but I don't get the pet bit ..........If I ever catch our Dachshound plugging my Les Paul into my Lazy J without making sure the valves have had chance to warm up I'll be very pissed off and confiscate her Tubescreamer !
 The bit that annoys me is CASE CANDY .........what a stupid Americanism and how sheeplike the fools that repeat this silly phrase.
 And what is it ?........A worthless paper hang tag,2 plectrums , a case key, An Alan key (in plastic packet ) and sometimes even a pretty crappy tweed/ worsted guitar lead .......................what a load of bollocks

Sassafras

Selling for a friend.

thegummy

munckee said:

scrumhalf said:

AllthegearNoidea said:

Sassafras said:

As soon as they call a guitar 'she' I feel so sick I can't carry on reading all the way through whatever else they say.

This

Can you misgender a guitar?

Well imagine if you refer to it as a she and it identifies as a he or a hermaphrodite, then you'd be in trouble!

My new Les Paul will be raised gender-neutral

ICBM

thegummy said:

My new Les Paul will be raised gender-neutral

It’s lucky that Les is a gender-neutral name, or that might cause problems for him/her later.

thegummy

ICBM said:

thegummy said:

My new Les Paul will be raised gender-neutral

It’s lucky that Les is a gender-neutral name, or that might cause problems for him/her later.

That reminds me actually, I want to see if it's possible to buy a "Lester" truss-rod cover

JAYJO

Brand New Les Paul (not a copy) Gold pick ups ,gold machine heads, real solid silver strings, Makes the tea and puts the bins out. Gives blow jobs like £10,000 an hour prossy

Unwanted Gift!

fandango

Chalky said:

Ok, from a sellers point of view, the questions I love:

What's the history of the guitar?

Was it made in Japan?

Its got different (something) to the one I've see/played. Why?

Will you post? (After the ad has made it very clear that I will not post).

Are these as good as/how do these compare to (unrelated guitar)?

Any trades? (After the ad has made it very clear that you don't want any trades)?

Does it have a case? (After your ad and pictures make no mention of a case - do I have to list all the things it DOESN'T include? Case, stand, strap, pick, capo, spare strings, cleaning kit, slide, fretfile...

Actually, depending on the value of the guitar, a case might be seen as essential.

If you are asking me to pay a fair amount of £££ on a reasonably recent guitar, I expect the original case*. Not “comes without case” or even replacement “cheap Stagg soft case”.

If its a cheapy Squire, Westone or suchlike, its not an issue. If its an expensive PRS, then you can go skwish yourself if that hard case is home for something else.

*Actually, if a guitar came to you with a case (hard, soft, whatever) then at least have the decency to sell it with that case!!!

Wolfetone

I chuckle when the seller says that it's the best guitar he's ever owned or played but he's got too many guitars and it needs to go. Would you sell your best guitar? 

ICBM

Wolfetone said:

I chuckle when the seller says that it's the best guitar he's ever owned or played but he's got too many guitars and it needs to go. Would you sell your best guitar? 

I did.

It was the best, but I just didn't love it or have any reason to keep it.

You have one just like it...

Clashman

Sifned by Peter Andre...still no letter between f and h on a keyboard but there is history to this uitar
he bouht it at a charity auction for £251 and is now tryin to sell it on ebay for £250 if he told you the history of
how he ot the uitar and ave the money to charity he mite sell it ..

Clashman

Hope you ot that..

jonnyburgo

“Selling for a friend, I don’t know anything about guitars” meaning “I’ve played for years and this is my get out Clause for selling you a piece of shit that I wish I’d never set eyes on”.

Rocker

Clashman said:

Sifned by Peter Andre...still no letter between f and h on a keyboard but there is history to this uitar
he bouht it at a charity auction for £251 and is now tryin to sell it on ebay for £250 if he told you the history of
how he ot the uitar and ave the money to charity he mite sell it ..

Use the ASCII codes to print the missing letter, in your case G.  Hold down the Alt key and type 71 [for G] or 103 [for g] on the keyboard numpad.

The full set of ASCII codes:

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/AS2LCR/Flash_10.0/help.html?content=00000520.html

From the dim and distant past when I was part of the IT section supporting users running MS-DOS, UNIX, ZENIX and OS 2....

matt.drink73

Rocker said:

Clashman said:

Sifned by Peter Andre...still no letter between f and h on a keyboard but there is history to this uitar
he bouht it at a charity auction for £251 and is now tryin to sell it on ebay for £250 if he told you the history of
how he ot the uitar and ave the money to charity he mite sell it ..

Use the ASCII codes to print the missing letter, in your case G.  Hold down the Alt key and type 71 [for G] or 103 [for g] on the keyboard numpad.

The full set of ASCII codes:

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/AS2LCR/Flash_10.0/help.html?content=00000520.html

From the dim and distant past when I was part of the IT section supporting users running MS-DOS, UNIX, ZENIX and OS 2....

Or just copy paste one!

matt.drink73

That being said I personally can't stand people online that seem to be a self appointed guitar shop that buy guitars cheap, take some slightly better photos and add a load of stars and stupid stuff to the listing title and then bump up the price.

I had a guy a couple of years ago that was 'interested' on a US Strat I was selling really aggressively fighting me on the price. I only paid £475 for it luckily and I needed the cash so sold it on to him for £425. I then found it listed on gumtree that night for £665 along side another 30 odd guitars with some slightly different photos and the listing saying how it played like a dream etc (it needed a lot of fret work and time putting in, hence me not keeping it). 
The best part is that 2 years later he still has it on gumtree for £665!

Leave the trading to shops