Guitars & amps have disappeared.

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Racerxrated said:
Local craigslist has SOME decent gear but it's all at the current overblown pricing. There's a VH140 Ampeg but they want 800. A 72 Pulsonic cab with a cut in the cone of one and he advertises it was "on purpose"....ok...still wants 2K for it. With that logic my 72 cab is worth 5K. One decent deal is an 83 2204 for 1500. No tolex though.
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Prices on everything are getting really high. I can think of quite a few guitars that were in the 2k to 2500 range that are now 3k and up. And that was just 6 months ago.
 
japetus said:
Craigslist is pretty much dead now. In my area it's the same stuff re-listed over and over for months/years. Most people moved to Facebook Marketplace for that stuff it seems like, which sucks because I have not had a facebook account in 10 years.
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Thus true where I live as well
 
Facebook marketplace doesn’t have much in my area either these days, plus it is such a piece of shit platform. I really dislike it and it’s more full of scammers and tire kickers than CL ever was. However any gear I have sold locally this past year has been through there, with pretty much zero response from my CL ads.
 
Samhain said:
Ive started threads this year about CL guitars and amp drying up but the last 2 months ive been doing 1000 mile searches and guitars & amps have just disappeared.
When i say "guitars & amps" i mean nice Gibson & Marshall type amps.
Plenty of $300 guitars everywhere.
Are people hoarding gear or does it just not exist anymore ?
Lemme guess its reverb or nothing now ?
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I’ve heard Gibson is back ordered. Mesa also not taking orders rest of year apparently either. Don’t know about Marshall but guessing similar story on top of shipping challenges from overseas.

Probably why used market is drying up… just a guess.
 
panhead said:
I put many a band together and bought many marshalls with a fucking newspaper/ rag that had music ads in it with a phone # . No wonder this worlds fucked up. :yes: :hys:
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Even in the late 90’s/early 2000’s we put together bands primarily with photocopied ads that had the tear-off tabs with a phone number on the bottom. Music stores and instrument stores all had bulletin boards to post stuff up on, and you’d even stick them up outside on phone poles and whatnot around the right parts of town.

Back then most people I knew thought I was weird for having computers and using the Internet. Today you’re crazy if you do things in the real world.
 
Bardagh said:
Even in the late 90’s/early 2000’s we put together bands primarily with photocopied ads that had the tear-off tabs with a phone number on the bottom. Music stores and instrument stores all had bulletin boards to post stuff up on, and you’d even stick them up outside on phone poles and whatnot around the right parts of town.

Back then most people I knew thought I was weird for having computers and using the Internet. Today you’re crazy if you do things in the real world.
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I still see those photocopied pages with the tear-off tabs.
 
Nothing but page after page of junk here in the CT/NYC/ Boston area. Same old junk in "nearby areas", WTF?
 
It’s strange fr . I don’t see any used gear really being sold much in any format in my area . No Facebook or Craigslist much even
 
LCW said:
I still see those photocopied pages with the tear-off tabs.
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Maybe if you live in a high population density urban area where people walk everywhere. Otherwise a lot of the kinds of places we used to do that stuff at just don't exist anymore. With some exceptions record stores are gone and brick and mortar instrument shops aren't what they once were. None of these places are the gathering points that they used to be if they do still survive.

I lived in a small city (Louisville, KY) which had no metal scene at the time so it was such a long shot to try and find a drummer. There was one long street that was the main place people went to do anything, which also had the one good record store and a couple musical instrument shops (including the one that did rentals everybody used) as well as the various watering holes. The places to put up ads or meet people was obvious. You'd check the bulletin boards at the record shop and the instrument rental place yourself so you knew other people were too. There is something to it in that it takes nothing to post an ad online, but if you go out of your way to make and put up physical ads with a phone number you're probably more serious about what you're doing.

I did meet a couple real weirdos that way though.
 
the detroit area CL is mostly pawn shop quality gear, with the occasional over priced, higher end piece. Lots of the same ads reposted every day. Lots of ads that are just people attacking other peoples ads, or bitching about stores posting their stuff. CL is the last place i check if i'm randomly online gear hunting.
 
I don't know if other areas have anything like this, but the Atlanta area CL has some piano seller that posts pianos every day with lots of duplicate ads, and they've done it for years and years. Like sometimes you can't just scroll through and browse the Musical Instruments section because you have so many pages of 10 duplicate ads at a time of pianos. I can't imagine they sell pianos this way but maybe they do, because as I said they've done this for years.
 
Bardagh said:
I don't know if other areas have anything like this, but the Atlanta area CL has some piano seller that posts pianos every day with lots of duplicate ads, and they've done it for years and years. Like sometimes you can't just scroll through and browse the Musical Instruments section because you have so many pages of 10 duplicate ads at a time of pianos. I can't imagine they sell pianos this way but maybe they do, because as I said they've done this for years.
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We have a guy like that in STL craigslist but it's violins. Pages of violins haha
 
Bardagh said:
I don't know if other areas have anything like this, but the Atlanta area CL has some piano seller that posts pianos every day with lots of duplicate ads, and they've done it for years and years. Like sometimes you can't just scroll through and browse the Musical Instruments section because you have so many pages of 10 duplicate ads at a time of pianos. I can't imagine they sell pianos this way but maybe they do, because as I said they've done this for years.
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...very similar thing here in NC... like a-hundred pianos for sale :thumbsdown:

FB Marketplace is one fucked up platform, for sure, and it seems every time they update it gets worse. and, i'm sure it's b/c i'm old and don't care to figure it out... :jerkit:

that said, i'm on a couple local buy, sale, trade, (FB) groups. and for the most part that is where the action is. not a ton of gear, but some decent stuff, usually at decent prices. and if someone gets nuts with their asking price, they're usually asked to check themselves, and figure some shit out. i've gotten to know a couple of folks...mostly decent guys to deal with.
 
Bardagh said:
I don't know if other areas have anything like this, but the Atlanta area CL has some piano seller that posts pianos every day with lots of duplicate ads, and they've done it for years and years. Like sometimes you can't just scroll through and browse the Musical Instruments section because you have so many pages of 10 duplicate ads at a time of pianos. I can't imagine they sell pianos this way but maybe they do, because as I said they've done this for years.
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I'm local to Atlanta and see this too.

CL is stupid to not fix this. It makes it really tedious to search for something when people put every tag word in their post. People tend to find alternatives when the one they're using sucks.
 
panhead said:
I put many a band together and bought many marshalls with a fucking newspaper/ rag that had music ads in it with a phone # . No wonder this worlds fucked up. :yes: :hys:
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Man, I started playing during the days when you could do this, and now that you can't, it feels like something is missing.

A Facebook ad for band members seems to always find you beginners or people who don't have the time/energy to actually make music.

It was like the Stranger or Recycler or Pegboard ad had a magical way of filtering out certain types.

It's sad that you're basically limited to your known friend group of musicians now.
 
Where I am it is FB marketplace and then kijiji but the gear isn't all that great. I imagine bigger cities, better gear. In the U.S, best gear available. Reverb is an option of course too but I see people asking more than the price of the item new. Then they tack on some ridiculous shipping fee like 300$ for a 1 U rack preamp or compressor for example.
 
You can buy a Peavey Penta for 1100 dollars now.... lol I'm still waiting for this bubble to burst
 
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