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Location: Flahdaw | If something is for sale in a pawnshop for $500, (which happens to be about normal retail), how much do you think they really have into it....$100?? |
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Posts: 1017
Location: Budd Lake, NJ | Not a pawn shop, but my blue-eyed carpenter once paid $25.00 for a Yamaha acoustic that the guy was going to put out with the garbage--my husband was doing some repair work on the property and spotted the case in the garage; the homeowner said it "didn't play right." Jack figured it'd be a good beater, if nothing else, so he offered him the cash and brought it home.
The reason it "didn't play right"? The strings weren't tuned up to pitch, and were just kinda flapping around against the frets. Once the neck was adjusted a bit, it turned out to be a fairly nice guitar, and it ended up going to a college kid from church who needed a decent guitar to start out on.
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April 2008
Posts: 2985
Location: Sydney, Australia | Originally posted by dark bar:
If something is for sale in a pawnshop for $500, (which happens to be about normal retail), how much do you think they really have into it....$100?? For 2nd hand goods in Australia, they charge GST (tax) on the mark up. When they introduced the GST it was a simple calculation to figure out that they were selling things for 3 times the price they paid. So about $166 would be a good guess. |
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Posts: 3736
Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Just under 30 years ago I snaffled a 1972 Fender P bass for $50. At the time, that would have been less than $40US.
It was pretty trashed, but I bought back to life and I've still got it today. |
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December 2003
Posts: 13997
Location: Upper Left USA | Not a Pawn shop but one of those "antique" shops in Port Townsend. Bought my Wife an Engagement Ring... best mistake she ever made was marrying me... |
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November 2003
Posts: 214
Location: Stratford, Connecticut | My 1st pawn shop prize was a Deacon 12 string for $25.00!
I had no clue what kind of guitar it was. It wasn't marked anywhere, but had the serial number plate. The backplates was original but not engraved, beveled, whatever it's called....
I played it for about a year before putting it up for sale... by then I was told what it was but they were so NOT in demand at all back then. Yet I got a kid out of a local paper to come over and give me crazy money for it at the time... maybe it was 97'? And he paid me $850 for it.
I missed it almost immediately! Anyone know who came and bought it from me here in Stratford CT? I'd love to know if he kept it! It played and sounded sooooo good.
Within a year I had gotten another one and now I have 4, all the colors I believe... that I love dearly to death! Never again! Such great guitars!
Other pawn shop prizes through the years include so many guitars... Les Pauls, Strats, ES330s, ES35s, 345s, 355s... I was making such great $$$ back then! Before all the shops got "internet savvy" that is! Hahahahahaa! |
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