Selling my San Dimas Charvel vs. parting it out

[rupe]

I spoke with a vintage dealer, and he said that the fair market value for a last year authentic San Dimas Charvel HSS with a Kahler Pro (if the guitar is as clean as the pictures indicate) is between $1800.00 to $2200.00 USD! He also said; "Do yourself a favor, and stay off the internet..."

TrueTone500 signing off!

So it's supposedly worth a minimum of $1800, but you can't move it at $1300...and yet you believe the "vintage dealer"???

I know quite a few of the vintage dealers as I used to be one myself and did all the big shows...which one did you talk to?

Before you have some reason as to why you can't tell us who it is, you have several people in this thread who are far more connected to the vintage Charvel market than any dealer I know of...most of them are absolutely clueless if it isn't Gibson/Fender/Gretsch/Rickenbacker/Martin/Guild.

 

[rupe]

He's delusional.

Steve

He's imaginary

 

[Chris O]

He's delusional.

Steve

He's imaginary

..and UN-F'ING-BELIEVABLE!! Wow.

 

[Chris O]

I spoke with a vintage dealer, and he said that the fair market value for a last year authentic San Dimas Charvel HSS with a Kahler Pro (if the guitar is as clean as the pictures indicate) is between $1800.00 to $2200.00 USD!

If Warren Demartini owned it, maybe...

He also said; "Do yourself a favor, and stay off the internet..." .

I support this. You can't play nice.

 

[pstar]

who is this dealer
Share the hit, revolate the grander
Want 1300, got 1100 than 1600 than 9 here, than vintage dealer 2200,
Still holdin on to it, but u want to sell it.
Extra digit on those figures
Please pass one of those yellows
Bought 7 for 95 each and used them as stage props and smashed them to hundreds of pieces.
much desire as a Hyundai pony in the north hemisphere. Blue will do

 

[Chubtone]

Ooof..... that made me dizzy pstar. That's what you were trying to do wasn't it?

 

[tfridgen]

I understood him right away... friggin yanks....

 

[Shawn Lutz]

You are either in complete denial on all of this or you comprehension problems. There are several folks in this thread giving you accurate information but ignore them but listen to collector who is equally out of touch on these guitars as you are. These folks have been part of the Charvel/Jackson world since the 80s. Many of us bought and sold them over the years. We've seen market deviations over the years too. None of us will give you what you are asking for it today for a pointy head HSS kahler Charvel.

Yes it is a custom shop guitar but not anything custom or rare about it. I could go out and find probably 4-5 exactly like yours. Get over the custom or anything else you THINK is adding value to this instrument because it is not...its a nice used USA Charvel worth between 800-900 TODAY and probable in the next couple of years. In fact most folks don't want the Kahler. I've bought these in the 600-800 range

 

[Chubtone]

My feeling as a guy who has owned in the high double digits of original Charvels since 1984 is that the value on the original pointy ones will not go up much at all over the next several years. There was a couple year period after Randy Rhoads Jackson V came out that people preferred the pointy heads, but that faded quickly. The only thing that kept the pointies rising in value is that you couldn't find strat head Charvels at anything approaching decent prices. The high values of the strat heads dragged the pointies up with them.

Now there are lots of new Custom Shop Charvels with strat heads and IMO they are as good as and consistently better than the original ones. When a guy orders a custom shop guitar and specs it out with a pointy head, I always delicately approach that as an option that will probably hurt his resale value down the road. If he really wants it, by all means get it. But if he is on the fence, a strat head protects his investment more.

 

[AndyK]

To each his own, especially when it comes to guitars.

If this was pearl white, with a Floyd, and an ebony board, I would buy it for $1100 - because I used to have one. Traded it in at Sam Ash in NYC for $400 towards a crappy Strat. Yup, $400. The next day, it was on the sales floor - for $895. That was 1993, when you couldn't give away pointy looking headstocked guitars!

 

[rupe]

"To each his own" is singular...it has no relevance in a discussion about overall market preferences, conditions, and values.

 

[Anonymous]

"To each his own" is singular...it has no relevance in a discussion about overall market preferences, conditions, and values.

Why does this seem so hard for some folks in this thread to understand?

Steve

 

[rlord1974]

Can a group of us pool, like, $10 each to buy this POS guitar from him for his $1,100 fantasy price?

Then we could burn it into a pile of ash so no one would ever have to behold its hideousness ever again.

 

[Chris O]

There's a flaw in your logic...it's FAR from a POS. IT's FLAT-OUT AWESOME. It's just isn't pulling the price it did when he bought it, and now, butt-hurt ensues.

NOT hideous. Pretty awesome as a matter of fact.

 

[rlord1974]

It WAS awesome until he started this thread. Now it's ruined.

 

[the rossness]

Why don't you spend some money making the guitar into a real player again? Get a refin with a cool graphic, get the frets dressed, address any other issues and try to sell the guitar for more money.

 

[Anonymous]

There's a flaw in your logic...it's FAR from a POS. IT's FLAT-OUT AWESOME. It's just isn't pulling the price it did when he bought it, and now, butt-hurt ensues.

NOT hideous. Pretty awesome as a matter of fact.

Hey, I'd write a check for it for $900 right now. I dig that guitar!

Steve

 

[Chris O]

There's a flaw in your logic...it's FAR from a POS. IT's FLAT-OUT AWESOME. It's just isn't pulling the price it did when he bought it, and now, butt-hurt ensues.

NOT hideous. Pretty awesome as a matter of fact.

Hey, I'd write a check for it for $900 right now. I dig that guitar!

Steve

I wouldn't accept a check from you though...

 

[dfrattaroli]

I spoke with a vintage dealer, and he said that the fair market value for a last year authentic San Dimas Charvel HSS with a Kahler Pro (if the guitar is as clean as the pictures indicate) is between $1800.00 to $2200.00 USD! He also said; "Do yourself a favor, and stay off the internet..."

TrueTone500 signing off!

So why didn't he buy yours?

 

[Anonymous]

There's a flaw in your logic...it's FAR from a POS. IT's FLAT-OUT AWESOME. It's just isn't pulling the price it did when he bought it, and now, butt-hurt ensues.

NOT hideous. Pretty awesome as a matter of fact.

Hey, I'd write a check for it for $900 right now. I dig that guitar!

Steve

I wouldn't accept a check from you though...

PayPal?

Steve