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You could broadly say a lot of people are short of disposable income in Jan after being hit in the wallet over the festive period.
Or you might find the oppsite someone has received Xmas money and they are looking to buy.
A beginner guitar might sell easier in the run up to Xmas.
However if someone’s looking to spunk five figures or more on a guitar I doubt time of year even comes into play.
Just advertise and see...
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If I’m selling anything on ebay, my auctions always finish on a Friday or Saturday night at 9pm, for the same reason
There is NEVER going to be a time when secondhand prices unilaterally lift 20 % across the board ............ultimately the value is what anybody is prepared to pay at any given time.
It's all swings and roundabouts .........you rarely win on both ...if you are selling and buying other gear then you should get a correspondingly decent bargain when you buy
Sadly not so good if you are selling up and downsizing/ hanging up your guitar strap but putting it away for a couple of years isn't going to make any significant difference other than stop you using the money for something else.Life's too short.
Personally I expect lower priced guitars to hang around in January and February because of peoples cash situation, but higher priced guitars to be less affected because, as I think someone has already said, they tend to get bought by people with more money to spare. So seasonal impact is different for different items.
Having said all this, if a guitar hangs around then it may eventually go for a lower price. So I would have thought March to June was a good time to sell. Christmas debts have been paid off, and holiday saving hasn’t kicked in. Then a shorter window around October.
Just list speculatively on ebay, you never know!
I accept that the market for TAs is a bit niche and may not be indicative of the market generally, but those experiences and the asking prices I'm seeing in general make me think used guitar prices have gone up, at least at the higher end.
I suspect what we've had is a lag period when price hikes on new instruments were not flowing through to the used market, and that that's coming to an end.
I still think the market's pretty sluggish, people are understandably reluctant to buy guitars that were significantly cheaper not so long ago, but when sales are being made they're for higher prices.