List any gear that you bought and later sold for a profit...

[Tone Zone]

...or at least broke even on. (or thereabouts)

After reading the "I'm done paying Fu*kin Retail !!!!" thread, where some shared their experiences of losing money on purchases (as we all have done)....I was curious of what stories were out there where people made money on the purchases that they later sold....rather it be new or used? In my case.....

Back in '98, I made an impulse buy on a brand new Ibanez JPM P4 for a clearance price of $750 on eBay from dealer Rich @ ibanezrules.com. Used it as my #1 for 4-5 years. As everyone knows, JP left Ibanez in favor of EBMM in '99-'00 and the prices of used Ibanez JPM's increased substantially. Well, I later sold it for $1400....which is by far the best I've ever done.

Besides that, in 2001 I bought a brand new Mesa/Boogie Mark IV head for $1499 and later sold it for $1400 in 2007.....which is a loss I'd take everytime compared to some of the other losses I took on amps I've owned in the past.

 

[Capulin Overdrive]

Foxrox TZF payed 360ish, sold for over a grand.

 

[thiswaythatway]

Bought an old TS808 for $100 back in 1992 or 93. Sold it for close to $500 a few years ago. Thanks to SRV gear pics and Eric Johnson interviews.

Bought a Mesa IIC+ for $1400 in 2000 and sold it for $3000 in 06. Probably should have kept it though.

 

[thiswaythatway]

Oh yeah, I also bought a bunch of cheap toy at garage sales, painted them up with Zakk Wylde graphics, pretended to be Zakk's friend and came up with a scam to sell Epiphone guitars really cheap if they bought one of the toys. I made thousands.

 

[Tone Zone]

Bought a Mesa IIC+ for $1400 in 2000 and sold it for $3000 in 06. Probably should have kept it though.

WOW! Incredible price for a IIC+.....amazing profit!

 

[Les Zombie]

shit man i sold alot of gear and made money.. heres a few examples.

gibson custom shop slash les paul aged by tom murphy= i bought 4 of these guitars and sold 3 of them to help pay for the one i kept. i made 1700 on the first, 2000 on the 2nd and 1500 on the 3rd one and i still have the 4th.

gibson slash goldtops= i paid 2000 and sold it to a guy in england for 3k when they first came out, i had another one that i sold last year and made 200 on.

marshall slash jube= i sold one 4 yrs ago and made 450 on it.

gretsch brian setzer hotrod= paid 900 for it and sold it for 1500

prs tremonti= i had a couple of them and i sold the black one and made 500 and i sold my tribal and made 700

esp jh2= paid 3200 for it and sold it for 5000

esp jh1= paid 1475 for it and sold it 2 weeks later for 3000

gibson john sykes vos les paul= made 700

gibson custom shop jimmy page number 2 vos= paid 6200 and sold it for 8000

charvel evh art series= paid 1300 and sold it for 1600

 

[thiswaythatway]

Bought a Mesa IIC+ for $1400 in 2000 and sold it for $3000 in 06. Probably should have kept it though.

WOW! Incredible price for a IIC+.....amazing profit!

IIC+ were selling for normal prices before Petrucci and Hammet shot their mouths off about them.

 

[pstar]

marshall major bought in 83 for $1,500, sold in 2009 $6,200. 71 es 345 pd. $1,200 in 86 sold in 2004 $ 4,700., 66 strat pd. .$3,500 in 89 sold $9,000 in 2006. 63 delux brown pd $600. in 1997 sold in 2005 $2,300. 64 super pd. $900. in 2003 sold in 2006 $2,500., 83 mark 2c pd. $1,600. sold iin 2004 $3,000. a few that i can remember, but there were many more.

 

[chunktone]

I got a Laney GH50L for $164 out the door. Sold it for $500.

 

[headlessdeadguy]

none.

 

[mboogman]

I recently had two profitable instances.

I bought a Damage Control Timeline for $300 at a music store. Sold it on eBay for $475

Bought a Rocktron Prophesy II sans power supply off ebay for $300. Bought a power supply for $20, sold it for $425.

 

[Loudness250]

ESP KH 2, I bought for 800$ at my local store. Turned out to be a 95' or something. Sold it for 1200$ on ebay.

 

[wulf]

I always try to break even reinvest what I spend into future purchases. I picked up a korg x5d for 250 in some sketchy part of town and when I didn't need it anymore it sold for 400+ on feebay.
Also made 75% on my engl e530 which the proceeds went straight into buying my e570 preamp.

 

[university81]

man i wish, pretty much none except:

a rickenbacker 480 - bought for 1200 sold it for 1299

 

[racerevlon]

I bought some toilet paper--got shit for it...

 

[Lord Toneking]

Mna, I want you guys to sell my stuff I seem to always lose money

 

[Les Zombie]

Almost everything i make money on is usually sig model guitars, they are usually limited and have better resale than the regular stuff. I will admit i dont sell much sig models on rigtalk but i do sell alot on ebay or some of the other forums.

I lose money on a prs singlecut but if its a limited tremonti tribal i can make alot of cash.
I sold my brothers tremonti tribal that he paid 2200 and got him 3700 for it 4 months later.
Most rig talk people wont buy a sig model but for some strange reason i like alot of sig models and i dont care about playing gigs with them or what people think.

The gibson tradtional goldtop sold for the same price as the slash goldtop but in the used maket it is worth $500 or more.

 

[guitarmike]

1981 Gibson v - paid $400 in 1984, sold it for $1400 in 2001
1974 Marshall 50 watt head, paid $500, sold $1200
1976 Marshall 50 watt head, paid $500, sold $950
Lee Jackson XLA 500, bought off Ebay for $325 shipped, took it out of box, cleaned it up, sold it on Ebay for $525.

 

[johnpace2]

I usually break even or lose a little bit, but I did buy a 1986 PRS Custom 24 in Vintage Yellow for $1,200 and sold it about 8-10 years later for $5,600.

 

[Atropos_Project]

Grabbed a used Tascam US-2400 control surface a few years back, and made a few hundred on resale.