napalmdeath
Well-known member
I've been shopping for 2 months for a Les Paul, (Studio, or Classic, primarily), and eventually went for an NOS SG Standard, (2016), at a great price. Always wanted a cherry red SG! People were wanting $900+ for "good" condition studios, and $11- $1200+ used to mint? Please.. $750 should get you excellent, $900 should get mint, in my 30+ years of buying/selling. On the classics, $12- $1400 good, $16-1800 mint? Again, ridiculous.
After returning the Runt 50, I looked high and low for a good deal on a Thrasher, but $1200 used for a Chinese amp, no thanks. $1500 new isn't really justifiable in my eyes, either. No Thrasher 50's to be had, either. I talked a guy into shipping a Diavlo RD45H that was mint, that was local in NY, but got a great deal shipped to Tampa. Killer amp, (my 3rd RD45H, I LOVE these amps!)
Now, for the past week or so, I've been looking for another Pro Mod So-Cal. Again, people are higher than a bus load of mexicans at a Los Lobos concert. $700+ used, when you could probably score new for around $800, at a Sweetwater or other retailer that discounts.
What gives? People bitch about slow markets on gear, but you're asking too fucking much for it! There's a few on here with some way overpriced gear as well, ebay, and Craigslist too. Best prices I've seen have been on GC used, believe it or not. They used to be the worst of the bunch. But, I don't trust their description of excellent or mint are on the same page. That gets me too, people list things as mint, and clearly show damage, bumps and brusies galore. I saw a "MINT" LP Studio on Reverb for $1299, but in the description, "professionally repaired headstock break, otherwise mint", for TOP DOLLAR, when new ones were $1399.
I don't get people.... I just don't. Alot prefer to buy used, for obvious reasons, but anymore, I'm more inclined to buy new. I can rest assured it's factory-sealed, and I can return it.
After returning the Runt 50, I looked high and low for a good deal on a Thrasher, but $1200 used for a Chinese amp, no thanks. $1500 new isn't really justifiable in my eyes, either. No Thrasher 50's to be had, either. I talked a guy into shipping a Diavlo RD45H that was mint, that was local in NY, but got a great deal shipped to Tampa. Killer amp, (my 3rd RD45H, I LOVE these amps!)
Now, for the past week or so, I've been looking for another Pro Mod So-Cal. Again, people are higher than a bus load of mexicans at a Los Lobos concert. $700+ used, when you could probably score new for around $800, at a Sweetwater or other retailer that discounts.
What gives? People bitch about slow markets on gear, but you're asking too fucking much for it! There's a few on here with some way overpriced gear as well, ebay, and Craigslist too. Best prices I've seen have been on GC used, believe it or not. They used to be the worst of the bunch. But, I don't trust their description of excellent or mint are on the same page. That gets me too, people list things as mint, and clearly show damage, bumps and brusies galore. I saw a "MINT" LP Studio on Reverb for $1299, but in the description, "professionally repaired headstock break, otherwise mint", for TOP DOLLAR, when new ones were $1399.
I don't get people.... I just don't. Alot prefer to buy used, for obvious reasons, but anymore, I'm more inclined to buy new. I can rest assured it's factory-sealed, and I can return it.
Bunch of idiots!
