R8 Peach Deal

heavyrocker

dbphoto said:

The one at £2950!?

The one that’s “strictly new” and a “great price”?

lp59boy

Yes I am open to offers 

lp59boy

Heavyrocker 
if all the R8 deals are gone then I is a good price for a 3 week old Unplayed guitar, especially if your now looking a paying up to 4K 

lp59boy

Might be up for a trade also

dbphoto

lp59boy said:

Heavyrocker 
if all the R8 deals are gone then I is a good price for a 3 week old Unplayed guitar, especially if your now looking a paying up to 4K 

http://www.peachguitars.com/guitars/electric-guitars/gibson-custom-58-les-paul-standard-m2m-washed-cherry-vos-87273.htm

AlexO

Just back from the first proper rehearsal with mine for a new band. I was having second thoughts about the R8 as I wasn't sure on its sounds at home practice levels, glad I waited to play it in a full band environment as for me that's where it shines. 
Switched to my 330 for a song and switched straight back to the LP.

Fortheloveofguitar

Went upstairs at 10pm for an early night. Then I picked up the R8 for ‘5 mins’. Well that quickly turned into nearly 2 hrs 

Just sounds so so good 

terada

Fortheloveofguitar said:

Went upstairs at 10pm for an early night. Then I picked up the R8 for ‘5 mins’. Well that quickly turned into nearly 2 hrs 

Just sounds so so good 

Nice! The same has been happening to me. These are such good guitars.

terada

AlexO said:

Just back from first the proper rehearsal with mine for a new band. I was having second thoughts about the R8 as I wasn't sure on its sounds at home practice levels, glad I waited to play it in a full band environment as for me that's where it shines. 
Switched to my 330 for a song and switched straight back to the LP.

Can't wait to hear mine in a similar setting. That is definitely something to look forward to.

Fortheloveofguitar

terada said:

Fortheloveofguitar said:

Went upstairs at 10pm for an early night. Then I picked up the R8 for ‘5 mins’. Well that quickly turned into nearly 2 hrs 

Just sounds so so good 

Nice! The same has been happening to me. These are such good guitars.

Find it astonishing at how good they are 

hyperben

lp59boy said:

Heavyrocker 
if all the R8 deals are gone then I is a good price for a 3 week old Unplayed guitar, especially if your now looking a paying up to 4K 

GLWTS

crunchman

lp59boy said:

Heavyrocker 
if all the R8 deals are gone then I is a good price for a 3 week old Unplayed guitar, especially if your now looking a paying up to 4K 

You will have to wait for all the R9 deals to finish.  No-one in their right mind will buy an R8 for £4k when they get an R9 for £3.5k.  By the time some of them have been returned and resold 3 or 4 times then you could be waiting a while.

hyperben

crunchman said:

lp59boy said:

Heavyrocker 
if all the R8 deals are gone then I is a good price for a 3 week old Unplayed guitar, especially if your now looking a paying up to 4K 

You will have to wait for all the R9 deals to finish.  No-one in their right mind will buy an R8 for £4k when they get an R9 for £3.5k.  By the time some of them have been returned and resold 3 or 4 times then you could be waiting a while.

That's true. I'm putting my R8 up for sale shortly too (keeping the R9s). I'm going to ask £2399 for it with free courier, which I think is a great price for a brand new guitar, even cheaper than the deal.

Boromedic

Except it's not brand new?!

hyperben

Boromedic said:

Except it's not brand new?!

Haha. Yes sorry. No it’s obviously not brand new. I mean brand new condition 

lp59boy

Guys

just because the guitars are/ were on a deal doesn’t mean the are worth 2nd hand price from the £2500, only a few months ago before all this someone would of happily paid £2700-3k for a 5.6.7 year old R8 so WHEN these deals end they will be worth more.

many of my other les Paul’s are worth more than I paid

2008 slash vos - paid £2200 going for 5-7k
2008 slash goldtop- paid £1500 going for 3k
2018 slash signed anaconda paid £5300 going 10-12k

etc

Brize

lp59boy said:

Guys

just because the guitars are/ were on a deal doesn’t mean the are worth 2nd hand price from the £2500, only a few months ago before all this someone would of happily paid £2700-3k for a 5.6.7 year old R8

Rubbish. Second-hand prices for R8s - especially pre-2013 models - were in the range of £1,800 to £2,200.

Boromedic

hyperben said:

Boromedic said:

Except it's not brand new?!

Haha. Yes sorry. No it’s obviously not brand new. I mean brand new condition 

Only messing dude, sorry!

Modellista

^ yes, *when* the deals end we’ll see where the used market ends up. Yours is up for sale now for more than the new price which clearly doesn’t make sense at all. 

Not to mention the fact that the market has been flooded. Can there really be anyone who even vagely wanted a nice LP that doesn’t have one now?

Youve done well on the Slash sigs but that’s apples and oranges. Limited edition with a wider collector appeal. 

I’m not denying that the R8s may be worth slightly more than we paid in the future. But it will take a while for the market to refresh. 

hyperben

lp59boy said:

Guys

just because the guitars are/ were on a deal doesn’t mean the are worth 2nd hand price from the £2500, only a few months ago before all this someone would of happily paid £2700-3k for a 5.6.7 year old R8 so WHEN these deals end they will be worth more.

many of my other les Paul’s are worth more than I paid

2008 slash vos - paid £2200 going for 5-7k
2008 slash goldtop- paid £1500 going for 3k
2018 slash signed anaconda paid £5300 going 10-12k

etc

Don’t let others here put you off. You can ask whatever price you like, it’s your guitar. If that’s what you think it’s worth then go for it. Personally I wouldn’t have paid more than £2200 for a Plaintop R8 before the deal, but maybe others would have.