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Location: Corvallis, OR | HI
I am ready to sell my Adamas 2080 , and I hope someone here can give me a few details to complete the ad. I bought it years ago, on eBay, but it has been played less than three hours since then.
I bought it because it has the wide ( 1 7/8 ) nut, which is ideal (sez me) for fingerstyle. Also, it has the great tone that I expected (based on my experience with my Ovation guitar)
It is black, carbon fiber, with standard guitar output jack, and also the three pin output jack. It's main identifying feature , outside of the black carbon fiber top and the wider nut, is the single teardrop sound opening near the top of the guitar body.
Questions
1- was it made entirely in the US ?
2- I have been away from music for a few years, and have no idea what to set as a starting price. Is $500
reasonable?
3- Is it a good idea to insure a guitar like this for it's original purchase price? - (if not, how much)
4- is there anything else a prospective buyer would want to know?
5- Other than the model 2080, I can find no serial # - is there one?
Thanks in advance for your answers
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | $500 I way more than Reasonable. I'll give you $600 for it (shipped to PDX). 
Okay... I will spring-for the shipping costs.
Insurance? A new one is over $5,000... You insure it for the "replacement value".
And demand a signature too.
You could start it a 99¢ and allow it to find it's own price.
Or you could just start it at what you really want to get for it.
Edited by Old Man Arthur 2013-10-27 8:42 PM
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Location: Texas | $500? How did you come up with that number? You must have gotten a heck of a deal when you bought it on EBay. I assume it's the original 2080, which sold (new) for substantially less than the current model (with different specs.) It's only worth what someone will pay of course, but, despite the temptation to start a bidding war with Arthur,  I'd say you have under-valued it by a factor of ~2.5. Just my opinion, based on what I paid for mine brand-new a few years ago. YMMV. | |
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Location: Corvallis, OR | I looked again, using a very bright flashlight, and found the serial , rather faintly stamped into the back of the headstock. It's a 2008.
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Adamas 2080 wide nut