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With Cash Converters etc I've been luckier although this is years of scouting:
MIJ 1986 57 RI Strat £100
Sennheiser MD421 £110
70's Tele deluxe copy with actual vintage Fender Widerange humbuckers. £150
Boss RE-20 advertised as faulty £30
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it was my summer holidays between primary and secondary (c1990) and i was having a bit of a major autistic moment about the beatles. the story and legend as much as the music.
it stayed on my wall all through my teenage even though i swapped beatles for the dark stuff when i finally found 'my music' as a teen (80s goth & early electro).
i probably paid a couple of pounds for it (i wouldn't have had more than that to spend). when i finished uni i needed a deposit to rent a flat so had to sell it. it went to a collectors shop in brighton for maybe £30-£50? somewhere between those two. pre ebay that seemed good. certainly better than being homeless.
as HarrySeven said, ebay has totally killed jumbles and boots now. dealers are in there with their sharp elbows and bad attitude and it can create quite a horrible atmosphere. not so much a fun thing to do on a sunday morning anymore, as the trading floor of the stock exchange.
am sure most will have experienced those domineering 'first come' sharks huddled over mobiles checking values of anything interesting before they will let anyone else near the stall.
i hope they all have crashes on the way home.
My cousin beats me though. He found a 60’s Vox AC30 in a skip. Worked fine as well.
Never been a boot sale chaser, but I used to live around the corner from a secondhand shop - Cambridge Resale on Mill Road - which was a goldmine in the early/mid '90s, if you checked it constantly. It came with the benefit of a hilariously rude and misanthropic proprietor.
I had a '70s EH Micro Amp for £10, a Memory Man for £25, a Suzuki Omnichord for £15, an Italian Farfisa tranny combo with an amazing squiggly-pattern grille cloth for £40, a silverface Champ for £45 (still have that), a German-made Solton valve head for dunno how much, and a salmon pink Tokai Goldstar Sound for £85... which I speedily traded for the JV P-bass I still plonk today.
About 5 years ago, I got a vintage boss vb-2 from a shop on Denmark Street for £15.
They sold it as faulty. And I didn't get to test it until I got back to nottingham. It worked fine! They must have been testing it while in bypass mode, which essentially does nothing when the pedal is on!
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Had an 80s Guyatone MD2 delay stuck to the speaker cone when I got it home which I sold for £50
Also we were just trying to declutter so had loads of low value items priced rediculosy low. Baby clothes for 20p etc and you still get people haggling I’ll give you 15p or whatever. It’s like mentally they need the win!
If I never sell at a car boot again it will be too soon. Far to much hassle for the £20 or £30 we ‘made’. I’d rather give stuff to charity shops...
Yup.
The bootsales near me are stitched up by brassneck twats who knock on the windows of the cars as they’re driving in/parking up asking if they’ve got x, y or z.
Theres one ebay reseller in particular who deploys this^ tactic - he has absolutely zero idea re. what he’s buying guitar-wise, but buys anything and everything. They then immediately reappear on eBay in the same condition (missing strings, knackered, whatever) with a large markup.
HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
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