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On the other side of the coin, I sold for £50 BIN a delay pedal that I won in an ebay auction a year or two back for £ 25.
Frankly selling is a ball-ache right now - everywhere you sell, you get wallies low-balling you left right and centre. Farcebork is the worst - lots of twonks on there with "give you £xxx and will collect tonight" offers. Piss off. Everyone is an 'expert' and this expectation that as a seller you will move heaven, earth and everything else to ship something for with full insurance, packed to perfection and in better condition than listed for sums that its physically impossible to do so pisses me off. And when you don't offer shipping you get the whinges that you live "X hours away"... its not my fault where a buyer lives.
Anyway back on point - the issue is often that if you are an early adopter of something and you buy something new, then try to sell it for a reasonable sum, you find that the retailler/manufacturer has dropped the price massively in the mean time to shift the last of the stocks of the unit.
Rarity factors in this - the Sherwood Green Marr is a case in point. These are massively in demand in Offset circles and they didn't make many - IMHO its one of the best looking Jags of all time - and so the prices may be higher for this colour than the more common white. If colour doesn't bother you, then the pricing looks daft, but if it does...
Bottom line is - don't want to pay that much, move on and look at something else.
I wouldn't do that with something valuable, but I wouldn't sell anything valuable on Feebay anyway.
Another site I occasionally check is cashconverters but their prices are stupid.
I assume they make money just buying in store on impulse.
I've seen beat up second hand guitars about £50 less that you can a new one for. and their pedal prices are stupid too. and the occasional fake
It's a shame as years ago these sort of shops were exciting to go to years ago. Well not exciting but you never knew what you might find.
That's why my last 2 purchases were on here. reasonable prices and good people to deal with.
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youAround 15 years I bought a Daion Acoustic for £55 including a hard case that was worth close to that on it's own. The guitar needed some work, but it was an absolute steal.
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For everything.
I take it from that you are looking for a MIJ Jazzmaster, then? I think the days of £500 for one may be numbered, mate.
A friend of mine just asked for almost full retail price on a guitar that he only bought six weeks ago. He just realised that he did not need really that guitar. I was with him when he originally decided to buy the guitar. I knew THEN that he did not really need it but it would have been bad form to say so out loud in the shop. (The proprietor is also a friend.)
Okay, so the guitar in question is a 2016 short run limited edition. "Find another one." Or not!
Struggled all the way to the train station with it.
Turns out it was a bass amp. I mainly used it in my room to put drinks on.
Think they are stupid, yes, but get annoyed? No, that's way over-reacting.
Chill, man!
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This happened to me recently with my Super Reverb. A guy had sold an immaculate one on ebay for £700 about a month before I advertised mine at £900. I then had several punters quoting and offering me £700 as the "going rate" for this amp.