What's the most ridiculous lowball/swap offer you've ever received..?

Bogwhoppit

Adam_MD said:

hobbio;921478" said:

stimpsonslostson said:

On the guitar front, I had a guy come round to buy my old acoustic. He offered me the full £250 value!

In weed. With my then 2 year old playing in the same room. I asked for cash instead. He was really nice about it and said he'd give me a ring when he'd sold his stash. Which he did and then gave me the cash.





I'd have taken the green, as long as there was more than 2oz it'd have saved me money in the long run.

I'd probably have gone for some sort of spliff 

Corrected...

randomhandclaps

@Gassage offered me his Cornetto Strat in exchange for naked photos of @Drew_FX... absolute joker.  In the end @Holnrew gave me his left kidney, £4K cash and his entire collection of Razzle for them.

Adam_MD

Bogwhoppit;921490" said:

I'd probably have gone for some sort of spliff 





Corrected...

It would need to be a bloody impressive spliff to swop for a £250 guitar.

Deijavoo

I got offered a Peavey head worth £400 for my amp. Maybe it was my Mark V or Diezel Hagen, I can't exactly remember but I just remember a big deficit. He said he'd chuck in a pedal to sweeten the deal for me. Can't blame anyone trying though and tbh I find it quite funny.

newi123

Lewligan said:

octatonic said:

I told the agent that my reply was to say 'a sphincter says what'.

I'm not sure if my message was relayed or not.

I really, really, REALLY hope that it was.

My reply to the agent`s `what should I tell them?` when a similar offer came on our house was `tell then to go buy a smaller house.......... `which the agent duly relayed with a smile apparently! :-)

chrisj1602

I listed my mint CS LP Custom for sale twice last year, a few months apart. The same guy text me both times... things like "1200 for the les paul"

In the end I asked him if he would accept that for a mint custom shop Gibson Les Paul. He replied... "depends"

I also got offered a Gibson 333 for it.

I also had a guy offer me £275 for a LP '50s tribute, the first edition, when they were actually a limited run and getting decent prices. Not only did he offer me that, he also took the time and advised me what a good deal it was and that I wouldn't get any higher. I think I got almost double.

Stevepage

£300 including money for delivery for my JS1000.

Also, £800 for my custom shop Jackson. 

Gassage

Someone offer me a Spa Weekend for my Mum today.


Bearing in mind she's 75 I couldn't get a better deal so I'll be going to the Spa end Jan.

Gassage

randomhandclaps said:

@Gassage offered me his Cornetto Strat in exchange for naked photos of @Drew_FX... absolute joker.  In the end @Holnrew gave me his left kidney, £4K cash and his entire collection of Razzle for them.

Totally fabrication.

You offered me 3 pics and I played hard ball with you, and you revised it and offered one pic, which I still refused.

I do believe the guy at the Tussard's still has the pics.

Drew_TNBD

I've never been seen naked. You're both liars.

scrumhalf

Gassage said:

randomhandclaps said:

@Gassage offered me his Cornetto Strat in exchange for naked photos of @Drew_FX... absolute joker.  In the end @Holnrew gave me his left kidney, £4K cash and his entire collection of Razzle for them.

Totally fabrication.

You offered me 3 pics and I played hard ball with you, and you revised it and offered one pic, which I still refused.

I do believe the guy at the Tussard's still has the pics.

Way, way, WAY too much information.

thecolourbox

When my nan passed away, we offered the upright piano that was in her house (old and big but worked as it should) for free if people could collect it or get it collected.

Had five people say yes please that'd be perfect for my six year old who's just started and didn't show up, then the final straw was when somebody from York (I'm in Birmingham) contacted me to say they'd have it if I would deliver it....

I got a quote, stupidly, sent it to them saying if they wanted to pay them directly we can sort it out. They went off on one saying they couldn't afford that and they thought the piano was free!

randomhandclaps

Drew_fx said:

I've never been seen naked. You're both liars.

Arrrrrrrr...  Now it makes sense why Mrs FX kept asking @Deijavoo, @Bucket and myself whether it was 'normal' for western guitarist to make love with all their clothes on and whether our wives found it odd.

strtdv

Market for Warwicks is terrible, but I bought a Thumb 5 string for £500 (£2300 new), and a completely mint Markbass CMD121P for £270 (£600 new).

I was offered a no-name 70s Les Paul copy and a Peavey solid state amp for my Orange.

Having said that. I've made cheeky offers and got good deals, so I don't get offended by people asking, but I just don't reply to the silly offers.

frictionfraction

All manner of pointy headstock, sparkle finish, flood rose equipped speed machines for custom shop fenders and gibsons

Paul_C

randomhandclaps said:

Drew_fx said:

I've never been seen naked. You're both liars.

Arrrrrrrr...  Now it makes sense why Mrs FX kept asking @Deijavoo, @Bucket and myself whether it was 'normal' for western guitarist to make love with all their clothes on and whether our wives found it odd.

is it going to be another of those "we always did it in the dark / "he was always behind me" / strap on stories - is all the stubble stuck on ?

digitalscream

I can't beat the "Photos of Drew" story, but I did have one guy offer me "£500 and absolutely no more" for my Soldano Decatone.

After I politely refused, explaining why, he said..."You're dreaming, mate. You should be grateful - nobody's going to pay through the nose for an amp made by a company nobody's every heard of, you're lucky I'm a collector and I'm offering this much."

Right.

meltedbuzzbox

miserneil said:

octatonic;921263" said:

So, so many.

Most recently a trader was posing as a buyer 'with bad GAS' for my Princeton.Offered me something like £300 for it, about half its value.

Eventually worked out he was a dealer- TTony banned him for having duplicate user names and it all came out.

Same guy offered me £1200 for a £2400 Matchless stack.

Also had an offer from a member here to trade a £1700 guitar for some jewellery for my wife. Cash only, she can get her own bloody jewellery!

hah! He has made that same offer to me and @impmann

Lewligan

Yep think I've been offered jewellery off that fella in the past too

IvisonGuitars

@meltedbuzzbox @Lewligan PM me the name, see if it is the same! :-)