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Location: Columbus, Ohio | Okay, I may be a little anal when it comes to keeping my guitar clean. BUT...when selling a guitar don't you think you'd have a better chance of selling it if it wasn't covered in dust and nasty fretboard. Looking at that guitar makes me wonder if it was ever taken care of, just .02, drives me crazy. This thing needs put in the dishwasher.
What do you guys think?
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Location: Nashville TN. | He sold it for that little???
Must not be able to prove his story |
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| First discussed back in October in this thread . Same consensus: clean the damn guitar before you take a picture of it for sale. Back then he was asking more than double the current BIN. If you don't mind putting in a little elbow grease into cleaning the "Ziggy funk" off of it it could be a fine guitar at a pretty good price.
EDIT: It didn't sell, PEZ. It's been re-listed for the third or fourth time. |
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Location: Columbus, Ohio | Either that or everyone who looked at it had the same impression I did, that being they didn't take care of it. People like that shouldn't be allowed to have nice guitars. |
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Location: Columbus, Ohio | I couldn't take it, I had to send him a "constructive" message. I would have really considered that guitar if it was all perty. |
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Location: big island | yeah...but maybe some of that dust is from the rhinestone cowboy's house. wouldn't that make the guitar more valuable? |
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Location: Nashville TN. | Somehow I think Glen might have enough resources to to afford a cleaning woman. |
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Location: Portland, OR | Think of it this way. It's a little like selling a house that has some obvious flaws of a cosmetic nature. the bargain hunter is going to be all over it, Dust might also indicate that the thing hasn't seen much playing. Skin deep. Doesn't make it better, but maybe cheaper. |
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Location: Vernon CT | Here's another though for the buyer and I've used this to talk a seller down. When a "seller" doesn't clean a guitar It implies lack of care. I inspect the guitar and use the dirt, dust
crappy strings dried out fret and bridge as a way of telling the seller he's asking way too much for a guitar in "poor" shape.. Has worked 3 out of 4 times and got a good 20 to 30% of the original asking price. After I spend a couple of hours cleaning, feeding, tightening restringing and adgusting I have always ended uo with a hell of a deal!! |
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Location: Delaware | That adamas should come with a free tetanus shot thrown in the deal ! |
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Location: New Hampshire, USA | It's not just guitars - I've seen countless items of all varieties on ebay that were filthy and I've never understood it.
It's just common sense: if you want the best price and to increase desirability of an item, why not make it look as nice as possible?
There are some behaviors I'll just never understand, I guess. |
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Location: New Hampshire, USA | Oh, and then there are the craigslist ads that are just brimming with info like this one:
You know you want it! |
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Location: Columbus, Ohio | Here is his response to my message I sent him
"your right the pics suck. the guitar is dusty. other than the dust
it is mint. so if not dusting is not taking care of it. guilty. but i
also didnt play it very much so unless there are pack rats inside
eating the graphite then i think its good to go. ill wash my
guitar and take new pictures" |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Hey, it is what it is. If it bothers you to buy a dirty guitar than don't buy it. If on the other hand you think you can score a guitar below market value because of dust or dirty pictures you may be right. His loss, your gain. I don't feel any responsibility to tell others how to go about selling their stuff, and I'm not above being a bottom feeder pouncing on a nice Adamas erroneously listed as an 'Adams' guitar.
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Location: Vernon CT | Originally posted by Gallerinski:
Hey, it is what it is. If it bothers you to buy a dirty guitar than don't buy it. If on the other hand you think you can score a guitar below market value because of dust or dirty pictures you may be right. His loss, your gain. I don't feel any responsibility to tell others how to go about selling their stuff, and I'm not above being a bottom feeder pouncing on a nice Adamas erroneously listed as an 'Adams' guitar.
Toby +1! Their Loss, Your gain! :) if they do't know enough to clean it, fix it,what ever it take to make it in better condition so they get what they want for it. |
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Location: Columbus, Ohio | I'm not above trying to help someone out. I agree that you may be able to work out a better "deal" if the item looks like crap. On the other hand, what's wrong with trying to help someone? My point is, if he makes the guitar presentable he's going to have better luck selling it. Almost sounds like it's bad to give someone a little helpful advice. |
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Location: Wichita, KS | On a somewhat related point, it drives me crazy when a seller posts photos that are so out-of-focus that it's impossible to see the true condition of the instrument. It makes me suspect they are hiding scratches and blemishes. Ditto for tiny pics that are too small to show any detail. |
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Location: East Tennessee | I would rather buy a dirty guitar with good pictures than a clean guitar with bad pictures. |
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Location: NJ | LOL
this thread makes me laugh
how superficial! |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Personally, I wish I could spare a thousand bucks!
For a dusty ol' Adamas? I own some rags, microfiber cloths and a new set of strings! |
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| I agree, $900 and free shipping isn't bad for this guitar is it? I wish I had the bucks. It's a simple thing to clean it up... |
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Location: NW of Philadelphia | Let them sell it dirty. It makes most people think it wasn't cared for. They walk away. Too bad for them, good for anyone who knows better. |
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Selling dirty guitars...WHY!!!
