Mesa Ebay auction - Is this price even realistic these days?

[Moshaholic]

although it is a very cool amp...

My feeling is no way for $3,150 BIN

Thoughts???

https://cgi.ebay.com/mesa-boogie-dual-re ... 20b4733c43

 

[Mailman1971]

Seems a little steep to me.....unless you were a collector and looking for that low a number....
then money is no object!!

 

[Moshaholic]

Seems a little steep to me.....unless you were a collector and looking for that low a number....
then money is no object!!

so waht your saying is that i should push the BIN???

lolzZzz...

I thinks I can haz dat toanz for less monies...

G.

 

[rlord1974]

Agreed. It's only worth that to someone that wants a really early production run for their "collection".

However, if someone is looking to buy a Recto to actually use live, this would be the biggest waste of money ever. Yeah, I do agree in principle that the early models sound a *little* better (and I mean a little) and have a bit of a different mojo to them (I currently have an early Tremo). BUT, at the end of the day, the new models still deliver the goods for 1/3 of that price on the used market.......

 

[RedB4Black]

although it is a very cool amp...

My feeling is no way for $3,150 BIN

Thoughts???

https://cgi.ebay.com/mesa-boogie-dual-re ... 20b4733c43

Depends if he is the original owner or not.

 

[Mailman1971]

Yeah I played one of the new releases and they sounds pretty decent.
Get Jerry at FJA to mod one....it will blow your mind how good they can sound.

 

[EXPcustom]

I traded a Les Paul custom for number 5 last week, I think another member bought number 24 or 23 for 2100.

I would say the price is on the high side, they can be found for less, I could see someone paying that for one under the number 10.

 

[oldmanmetal]

That seems really high to me. I am not a Mesa fan anyway. That is Waaaayyyy too high.

 

[reverymike]

I have #635 I'd sell in a heartbeat for $1200.

 

[TeleBlaster]

If you're going to ask that kind of coin, post lousy pictures, (and porn on the wall behind the amp), missing footswitch, and have an ebay name of "deathgoth_ss", you obviously must be on drugs.
PA, too. Everything I've bought east of the Mississippi with lousy pictures has had surface rust on the trannies and exposed metal parts, screw heads.

Pass.

 

[Mudder]

If it's one thing I hate it's crappy pics and crappy info on ebay. The whole "if you're looking, you know what this is" is some douche bag bullshit. How hard is it to give a concise description in the same amount of time. Dude is nearly telling me to fuck off.

 

[stefvorcide]

Wtf is up with low serials anyway??? I think it's wayyy overpriced.

 

[glpg80]

Wtf is up with low serials anyway??? I think it's wayyy overpriced.

im no mesa expert, and dont quote me on this, but i believe the transformers of the earlier models use some of the mesa mark series transformers that are sought after.

 

[stefvorcide]

Wtf is up with low serials anyway??? I think it's wayyy overpriced.

im no mesa expert, and dont quote me on this, but i believe the transformers of the earlier models use some of the mesa mark series transformers that are sought after.

Ahh I see, so how much are worth the transformers?

I'd rather buy the cheapest dual rec I could find, send it to Fortin to put the "natas" iron and do some magic, and it would still be cheaper.... and sound a billion times better

 

[Nico]

Wtf is up with low serials anyway??? I think it's wayyy overpriced.

im no mesa expert, and dont quote me on this, but i believe the transformers of the earlier models use some of the mesa mark series transformers that are sought after.

Ahh I see, so how much are worth the transformers?

I'd rather buy the cheapest dual rec I could find, send it to Fortin to put the "natas" iron and do some magic, and it would still be cheaper.... and sound a billion times better

True dat! I don't get the hype for low serial numbers, its just one more freakin mass produced amp for Gods sake!

 

[jcj]

Wtf is up with low serials anyway??? I think it's wayyy overpriced.

im no mesa expert, and dont quote me on this, but i believe the transformers of the earlier models use some of the mesa mark series transformers that are sought after.

Yeah....there's a guy who posts here that has the whole history of thr revisions on his site; if I recall though, the first five hundred weren't the only ones to use the "magic" tranny's

I personally think dude is on crack at that price...I had one of the early serial rack heads, and it was just ok. Only reason I bought it was that we didn't have the nearly as many choices way back in the stone age

 

[Tvd]

That's ridiculous!! In my humble opinion.

If I were going to spend that kind of dough on an amp it wouldn't be on a mesa

I am willing to punt a little more off because there's something different about an amp, such as a revision within the amp or a tone issue, etc. But not because it's a lower number than another of the same revision, saying this, when my rev c arrives, I won't be putting that or the serial number, which is 232 for sake of w/e, in my sig in hopes that I'll be taken more seriously or any non-sense like that
Or number 11 shiva in the classifieds, I mean yeah sick amp, one of the first ones made shweet! But if nothing has changed in the amp up till now then don't go ranting and raving about what number you own. Play it, or sell it, and stfu.

 

[crankyrayhanky]

Only worth it if it was in a "smoke free studio"

 

[again with this]

without footswitch? no way.

 

[Tvd]

Only worth it if it was in a "smoke free studio"