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Regarding actual haggles, my mate's dad got a good deal on an amp which surprised me as I didn't think bartering in big chain stores was still a thing so I'm looking forward to the replies on this thread.
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
What kind of guitar is it?
Was it seriously "over" priced initially or do you think you stuck a good bargain?
It reminds me of one time I was in Vintage & Rare in Bath and as I was idly perusing the walls the guy behind the counter was on the phone to someone who it seemed had an instrument in there on consignment which had had an offer on it. The staff member sounded at his wits end apparently explaining to the instrument's owner that it didn't matter how long he was prepared to wait it wasn't going to sell when so over-priced and that the 3 offers he'd had were all reasonable and more normal lol.
£3250 for a Martin 000-28EC marked £3575
£1199 on a USA Firebird marked £1399 (that was a price match).
All online in past 9 months, all kept.
I told them to keep looking for it, and 20 minutes later they found it in their pedal cabinet. They still gave me the £5 off for having to wait.
I'm not a good haggler but I usually give it a try because it seems to be the done thing in guitar shops.
I've managed to get 50 or 100 quid off in store a couple of times. With a telephone purchase it's usually pretty easy to get free delivery even if they won't budge on the actual base price. That's about it.
When I bought my Gibson SG-X years ago I asked for a "horrible colour discount" and I think they gave me £25 off.
It was a 1962 335, stunning it was.
Vintage N Rare is where I got it from lol might have been the same guitar.
It was a dream guitar and value was only hurt by the after market bigsby and the fact it had 2 sticker paf’s with the pat number on the sticker usually this era would at least have one paf without the number and these are more sought after. I sourced an original case and it needed a refret then I sold it on a year later for about £8k which I think is probably about right for it maybe £9k with the case.
I had another experience with a different store who accepted around £300 off the asking price of a guitar. By pure luck I found the owner and discovered they were skimming the difference off him without his knowledge. Promoted me to post my first thread on this very forum. We got the cash back from the store and I dealt direct with the seller
I'll give you x for that guitar?
Me and my mate were looking in a guitar shop window and my mate said, " Look at that sunburst Les Paul, I would love to be able to buy that."
Then I noticed a vintage butterscotch Tele at the back of the shop. I pointed at it and shouted to my mate, "Look, there's the one I'd get." At that point a fucking huge Cyclops came running out of the shop and punched me straight in the face.
Also got offered a Parker Fly for something like £200 off just by asking to play it in No Tom the other day. I forget the exact figures involved but the owner was there and shouted from the other room as the assistant handed it to me, "I offered that to someone for *x price* the other day so you can have it for that." Quite the wheeler dealer, given I don't think he knew it was a quite rare pre-refined with no trem.
~20% off (Taylor seem to have very sticky RRPs), and with a free set of strings too, naturally.
Turns out that they sent it in the wrong gigbag, so Taylor then sent me the correct one FOC, and the original one is now housing another guitar.
Damn fine guitar too (it wasn’t a demo or dinged one).
Happy me.