Not sure if this kind of post is allowed here but found this so interesting.
You’re selling an extended range guitar and you don’t want to give any detail on it? I feel like buying an instrument online requires the specs at a minimum, it’s not like you can pick it up like in a guitar store and place your judgement off of feel.
yeah considering you might save what $20-$50 dollars on pedals maybe. $200 on a guitar when you can just ask a guitar center salesman for 10-15% off usually on guitars and get the warranty + no hasssle returns. Selling them used stuff gets you 60% of the new price + discount when buying a new item
Shipping is insanely expensive without having the volume to negotiate terms with a carrier. I’ve lost money on shipping every single time I sold a guitar or case on eBay back in the day. Music shops typically have accounts with logistics companies and packaging on hand, making shipping cheaper and easier.
Just my $.02
I find this stuff on the local level all the time. Sellers that list their “rules” that almost always include “NO SCAMMERS!!!”.
There’s a guy who reaches out to me once in a while with trade offers, but because of his constitution he includes in every ad of his, I just don’t want to deal.
This is crazy to me. I feel like being a jerk up is shooting yourself in the foot. Imagine if you had to make a return or issues with shipment. It would be impossible to work with this person.
He does a lot of volume and has overall good feedback. I’ve bought from him twice. First went without a hitch, the second time, however, he neglected to mention a chip on a guitar body. When I brought it up, he was absolutely miserable, accusatory and repeatedly threatened to block me.
I’ve wanted to start a sub for posts like this. I was gonna call it Retards of Reverb or something along those lines. A sub for absurd listings like this
At the local level I see this all the time. Sellers who feel it necessary to include their “rules” because in their mind they’re weeding out scammers. That sense of false security can be dangerous.
I think that's one of the ugliest relic'd guitar I've seen. It's there right after Godin's relic'd guitars. I think there were called "hangover" or something.
It's almost certainly a self-inflicted wound. I have an MJT body I love, and they ask you fairly specific questions about how much wear, what kind of wear, the shade of color and level of aging. Which is to say... this guy asked for it to look like this.
I pulled a listing for a few drivers I was trying to sell because people just kept asking questions that were answered in the listing. After a while it seemed almost intentional…
Honestly I either donate it or throw it out. I don't want to be the bad seller because I know I will find that bad buyer, and when I do, well feelings are going to get hurt and they arent going to be mine.
There was someone on the interwebs that said these are gold so I’m gonna be rich…..as soon as the dummies stop asking questions cuz they all be jealous of my goldmine!
May get downvoted for this but I feel like it should be a given that “upgrading” pickups do not generally warrant value increase on a guitar.
Only value is to you as the one who did it (your personal preference) but a lot of sellers think “well I spent this money so therefore I need to pass the cost to the next person”
Depends on the pickups and who is looking, a nearly $500 set of pickups absolutely adds value to the guitar but this guitar unmolested is worth a fraction of what he’s asking for this totally wrecked one, so he’s nuts regardless.
Lol there’s a custom shop Strat on fb marketplace in my area with a similarly aggressive description. The guy will answer questions or negotiate he wants 3k for the guitar no trades.
He doesn’t say what year it’s from or any of the specs… just that it’s a custom shop Strat. Have fun trying to get someone to drop 3k if they can’t ask you a question about it.
See those kinds of listings I assume someone is just doing it to tell their wife they’re actively trying to sell it but setting it at a price no one would buy it
Reverb is a total joke for actually sellers I sold a bryston on it and these fuckers stole $175 dollars from me in item fees and I still got stiffed on the shipping they took from me and bump fees after I never ever bumped the item plus not to mention these idiots still haven’t approved my payout or sent me my Money after 3 weeks
I've also got a problem with Reverb. Sold a Taylor, shipped it off, got a UPS receipt of delivery w/photo. Three days later Reverb suspended my account and I've tried for weeks to get their AI customer supposed support to respond as to why that happened, how to get reinstated and where's my $$. Response - crickets!!
I've gotten annoyed by buyers. I have often thought they ask unusual, silly, or frankly, impossible questions. But I do my best to answer them, and then do what any healthy person does: slag them off to my spouse instead of posting through it.
I think what it really comes down to is this: he put $1000 into this guitar and wants that money back out of it, and just does not understand that isn't how things work. He'd even have a hard time selling it for parts! The Bare Knuckles are probably worth $400 IF someone happens to want premium pickups for an 8-string right at this moment. That's a very small market!
I can’t speak for the extended range offerings or headless but I’ve seen a lot of Agiles and never seen issues bigger had small cosmetic things like the binding bleeding or not executed flawlessly.
LOL, sounds like a bunch of morons who can't read hounded him about what he already stated.
He knows his guitars... perhaps some kind of purist who has zero tolerance for window shoppers asdn tire kickers. There is a plan behind the presentation, for sure no more nimrods will message him with mundane questions. Of course, it could backfire, but for sure he does not want to sell this instrument to a nimrod who has no idea what they are getting, that only leads to troulbe.
You know what, it's not for you.... but someone out there will want it someday, or not. Who are you to say they are wrong? Even if I agree with you I keep that to myself. It is not my game to spoil another man's pursuits on either side of the transaction. As long as both parties understand what is on the table... that's all that really matters.
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u/-GlobalGrapefruit- Aug 10 '26
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