What was your worst buying or selling decision.

ToneControl

I sold a pair of Tannoy Ardens (very large main monitor / hifi speakers) for £550 in 2004, when we had moved to a modern house with smaller rooms.
I think I paid ~£400 10 years earlier

I checked recently, they have now reissued these at £8500 a pair, and I saw some second hand at £4500 I think

WYNIR0

Sold a Korean Peavy Wolfgang about 12 years ago which I wish I'd kept. Had a lovely neck but I didn't get on with the Floyd Rose and it didn't suit what I play, but still. If I ever see a stop tail US one for a reasonable price, it's coming home with me.

TheBigDipper

Let's add a pedal into this...

Worst: In the early '80s, I sold the first effects pedal I'd ever owned - bought it in 1978/9 I think. It was a bit unreliable, and I'd had it repaired twice before giving up on it. A mains-powered (no wall wart) EH MemoryMan Deluxe. And I've never quite had that sound since, although a T-Rex Reptile came close and the Line 6 model of it is also pretty good. 

OilCityPickups

I sold my JTM45 head when I was short of money in my 20s an original perspex Marshall logo one ... for about £50 if my memory serves me ... sold an all valve, tweed Copycat for 25 quid ... 

Traded my 1975 black Telecaster for a Manson ... then flogged the Manson down the road a bit ... all lovely gear. 

Absolute biggest selling regret? My 1974 Les Paul Special ... it was absolute magic ... but the band I was in wanted pointy widdly guitars ... 


Biggest buying regret? 
Probably my Laney LC30 ... not because it was really a bad amp ... but it was so effing heavy I did my back in ... and the dirt channel was, weirdly, miles darker than the clean channel, so all that weight and I still had to hump a large pedal board and use the clean channel as a pedal platform.  Don't get me wrong, lovely clean channel and super loud, but as a practical gigging amp it was a bit pants. 

stickyfiddle

Honestly I don't think I have any real regrets. 

I still have a niggling want for my old '03 SG Faded but I sold it at the time for the right reasons, and missing that guitar taught me not to make rash decisions on selling great instruments. And honestly if I had it back now I don't think it would get much use. 

Wazmeister

Buying a Suhr Jim Kelley - brand new, loud as hell, legendary amp (apparently)…

A bit meh, and lost a fortune

welshboyo

Swapping a JCM800 halfstack and a Hiwatt Custom 100 head (an early one too and owned/used by Larry Wallis of Motorhead/On Parole) for an 8080 Valvestate combo.

WYNIR0

Oh, picked up an original Marshal Guvnor for £30 and sold it for £60. Should have kept it.

SquireJapan

OilCityPickups said:

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Biggest buying regret? 
Probably my Laney LC30 ... not because it was really a bad amp ... but it was so effing heavy I did my back in ... and the dirt channel was, weirdly, miles darker than the clean channel, so all that weight and I still had to hump a large pedal board and use the clean channel as a pedal platform.  Don't get me wrong, lovely clean channel and super loud, but as a practical gigging amp it was a bit pants. 

I forgot … that’s the first proper amp I bought. Replaced it with. JCM900 master volume 100W (used - utter bargain at the time)

The poor LC30 could not keep up with my Indie Band. Bought it new too, so took a big hit on it. 

I just blindly believed the magazine reviews, of maybe didn’t understand them. 

Gassage

 So many- but selling my Vibroverb irks me in many ways, despite making 7k on the deal.

My 72 Norlin LP with Bigsby- loved that guitar although it weighed as much as Belgium
A 1957 Strat that was Clive B refinished

MartinBush

I traded an AC30 (transistor model) in to get a Marshall JCM900 which I no longer have.

I also once chucked a Yamaha CS-5 in a skip as one of the keys wasn't working properly. I paid £10 for that...

ICBM

MartinBush said:

I traded an AC30 (transistor model) in to get a Marshall JCM900 which I no longer have.

Those transistor AC30s are quite remarkable amps - almost uniquely for solid-state amps they use a very similar circuit to the valve models, but adapted for solid-state components, and they have the same alnico speakers as the valve ones of the time. They have an interesting sound - recognisably AC30-like, but fuzzier. They're not that loud compared to the valve ones even though they claim 40W output. Status Quo apparently used them quite a lot in the studio in the mid-70s, and I think you can tell once you know what they sound like when you listen to the albums. I don't know if they're valuable or not, beyond the speakers being desirable enough that a lot will probably have been taken out.

ElectricXII

My worst buying decision was a 2001 Gibson Les Paul Standard Goldtop. It was too heavy (10.5 lbs), the top string used to get caught in the binding nibs, and it had a horrible 498T pickup in the bridge position.

My best selling decision was getting rid of the aforementioned LP at a £200 loss. It put me off LP Standards for life.

MartinBush

ICBM said:

MartinBush said:

I traded an AC30 (transistor model) in to get a Marshall JCM900 which I no longer have.

 I don't know if they're valuable or not, beyond the speakers being desirable enough that a lot will probably have been taken out.



I think the speakers were Fane if that's meaningful. Although both they and the amp are long gone.

Lestratcaster

The amp I regret selling was my Marshall JCM2000 (though I did get a Peavey 6505+ from it).

Apart from that there's no real other regrets selling anything else.

fretmeister

I bought a Marshall AFD100 head on release for £1200.

They are now hitting more than double that. Sometimes closer to triple with all the box candy and T-shirt etc.
Not a bad amp those! But even with the built in attenuator, completely pointless for home use.

If I still had it I would have got a modern thing like a Fryette PS2 to go with it.

I recall it had a very low noise floor. That appealed to me greatly!

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Other than that, I do miss my old Explorer and Les Paul but I couldn't put up with the weight of them anymore so they would probably just be sitting in my rack covered in dust.

ICBM

Lestratcaster said:

The amp I regret selling was my Marshall JCM2000 (though I did get a Peavey 6505+ from it).

Regret? You should be dancing with joy . The 6505 is significantly less likely to set fire to itself.

Lestratcaster

ICBM said:

Lestratcaster said:

The amp I regret selling was my Marshall JCM2000 (though I did get a Peavey 6505+ from it).

Regret? You should be dancing with joy . The 6505 is significantly less likely to set fire to itself.

Lol the Marshall sounded great for all things rock, the Peavey is the go to for metalcore and only does that style very well (for me anyway). 

DartmoorHedgehog

Probably my worst-timed sale was a Roland SH101 synth - sold it in the late 80s for less than £100, just before shitty old mono synths became trendy with the dance music folks and values shot up.  I sold it to buy a drum machine, which I've still got now (but is almost completely worthless). The current going rate for an SH101 looks to be about a grand.  Arse.

But having said that, the drum machine has been far more use to me than the SH101 would have been.

Greatape

Regret: buying a Laney vc50 that I absolutely didn't need. Regret 2: losing my shirt p-exing for a Trademark 60. (A decent amp). Regret 3: losing rest of shirt p-exing TM60 against a Traynor. (A decent amp after a few mods but wish I'd kept the TM)