You sold your guitar for how much????

Wolfetone

Have you ever looked back over the years and realised you sold your gear far too cheaply because you didn't know what it was worth???

I have and here are some of mine;

1991 early Squier Silver series (MIJ) - £140 (2009)


Immaculate double bound Tokai Breezysound with ash tray - £210 (2009)   


1991 Squier Tele (MIJ) - £160 (2009)


1982 Gibson (Lucille) £925 (2008)

Philly_Q

I sold a 1964 Gibson SG Special for £750.  

maltingsaudio

A guitar is only worth what someone will pay for it

Heel

maltingsaudio said:

A guitar is only worth what someone will pay for it

Are you being deliberately contrary?

Strangefan

Saying that tho have you tried to sell a decent guitar recently! It's bloody hard work,, if it's not afender tele /strat or gibson lp, you're in for the long haul.


Some of your sold prices are madness tho!  

digitalscream

No - I've been on the other end of a couple, though. Most notably my green 2006 Washburn N4, for £650 in about 2008.

Bit of a bargain, that.

ArchtopDave

You need to adjust for inflation. So, to get a reasonably decent idea of those sale prices at today's monetary value, you need to increase your quoted sale prices by 35%.

Fuengi

Got anything in the classified section at the moment @Wolftone ;

Wolfetone

Here's the one that had me crying my eyes out in later years......

In 1985, I swapped a 1962 fawn AC30 combo with blue speakers..........for..... (wait for it)........



....a small crappy Pignose combo and £40.....

 

Wolfetone

ArchtopDave said:

You need to adjust for inflation. So, to get a reasonably decent idea of those sale prices at today's monetary value, you need to increase your quoted sale prices by 35%.

Both those Jap Squiers often sell for between £280/320 but the Vox AC30 is worth about £4/5K.

bgmartinsbridge

I sold a super rare tuxedo white with black trim 1968 Tele for two grand ten years ago. Gutted.

chrisj1602

I remember really struggling to try to get £1500 for a mint 2009 black Les Paul Custom, ended up taking a Ric 360 in part ex with nowhere near enough cash my way. I also sold a custom shop NR Firebird for about £900... bad times.

LastMantra

I could have got much more for my guitars. 
An ibanez gio I gave to my aunts charity shop.
A squire strat I gave to a neighbour to learn on.
A mex strat I just gave to my nephew to learn on. 

To much hassle trying to sell them. 

tony99

Wolfetone said:

ArchtopDave said:

You need to adjust for inflation. So, to get a reasonably decent idea of those sale prices at today's monetary value, you need to increase your quoted sale prices by 35%.

Both those Jap Squiers often sell for between £280/320 but the Vox AC30 is worth about £4/5K.

Still, that's a nice pignose

maltingsaudio

Heel said:

maltingsaudio said:

A guitar is only worth what someone will pay for it

Are you being deliberately contrary?

No not at all just pointing out that owners tend to have an unrealistic  and usually optimistic idea of what there Guitar is worth,on the general guitar buying market, and when you decide to sell your guitar at a given moment in time you will only get what someone is willing to pay for it at that moment in time. It’s up to you whether you go through with the deal.

just look at the guitar selling sites at the amount of guitars which simply don’t sell for years due to their price being too much for the market .

The other point is due to the internet we are more aware of relative values of kit and desirability but it still comes down to finding the buyer who will pay the price your asking. If you can’t do that you have two options keep the guitar and try later or drop your price

John_A

Swapped my ‘74 strat for a Hohner G3T

Danny1969

I've made my mistakes on amps over the years rather than guitars. 

1986 sold a HiWatt Custom 100 for £100
1993 sold a Marshall silver Jubilee 100 watt for £200 and the matching cab for £140
1994 sold a Marshall  100 watt valve head for £100 

But at the time your lusting over something else ... old Hiwatts and Marshalls weren't that popular in the late eighties and early nineties. People wanted a  more processed sound like Gallien Krueger, Kitty Hawk, Mesa rack etc 

Vibetronic

Same as @digitalscream , been on the other end - Ibanez UV MC for £500 

SquireJapan

Vibetronic said:

Same as @digitalscream , been on the other end - Ibanez UV MC for £500 

That sound you just heard was me screaming, then sobbing

Vibetronic

SquireJapan said:

Vibetronic said:

Same as @digitalscream , been on the other end - Ibanez UV MC for £500 

That sound you just heard was me screaming, then sobbing

For your peace of mind, I did tell him it was worth more and he was aware - he was just a very nice man who wanted it to be played more!! Interestingly (or more likely, boringly), it was the (only) Universe I'd tried at a jam night about 20 years before, and we just happened to end up working at the same place many years later. 

monoamine

You guys are doing it wrong... I've only ever broken even and often made a bit of money on my sales.

The best was a 2003 Murphy painted Gibson R9 Les Paul I bought from Japan for £2500 and only paid £75 in customs, don't know why it was so little and I had factored in a lot more to the purchase.... A year later I posted it to the owner of a guitar shop in Holland for £4500 and he was happy with that price!!! Before anyone accuses me a flipping a guitar for profit, I played it for a year but fell in love with an original '59 junior, so it had to go! Not my fault the market in the EU is different to that in Japan