Antiques Roadshow last night

[60bass]

Originally Posted by john turner

wow, that guy sounds like a cool, rare bird in that business. most of the vintage dealers i've ever interracted with were no better than used car salesmen.

i just thank god i don't jones for vintage gear heh.

John

I actually put most vintage dealers below the level of a used car salesman LOL

My friend Roy has always been a straight up guy. Met him back in 69 and have been buddies ever since. The added benefit is that he's also a superb guitarist with a killer blues rock style that I've had the pleasure of playing and jamming with all these years

The old saying "Honesty is the best policy" still has meaning. at least for some of us out here.

Keep Low

[Bassmickeyd]

The old woman with the old guitar is just an example NOT a real story. ......
What is in question is wether the Road Show Expect knew what he was talking about when he said the serial number confirmed that this was the 47th. Fender Strat made. .... Which is very unlikely because Fender had manufactured thousands of instruments using the same serial number system before 1954.

[JAUQO III-X]

Originally Posted by Bassmickeyd

What is in question is wether the Road Show Expect knew what he was talking about when he said the serial number confirmed that this was the 47th. Fender Strat made. .... Which is very unlikely because Fender had manufactured thousands of instruments using the same serial number system before 1954.

I agree.

[Munjibunga]

Originally Posted by ggunn

Well, the extremes are easy. If a 90 year old woman is asking $100 for a Strat worth tens of thousands, I would feel obligated to tell her that it is worth a lot more than that. If she is asking $100 for something worth $200, I wouldn't. Where the line is, I agree, a tough one.

So how far do you go? If it's worth $10K, do you tell her that, or just "it's worth a lot more than $100" and give her $1,000? It gets down to how much can you take her for and still sleep at night.

[Smokin' Toaster]

I'm highly amused at all of you guys on your high horses, knights in shining armor coming to the defense of a "helpless old lady". I'd like to see what you'd do in real life with the little old lady asking $200 for YOUR PARTICULAR $25K "Holy Grail" bass. I bet the shining armor would become tarnished in the blink of an eye and you'd go home $200 lighter with your dream bass. And a little old lady would be happy to have $200 in her pocket. And she might just be slapping her thigh and laughing at the dumbass who just paid her the same thing she paid for that old guitar 50 years ago.

I KNOW more people in this world talk the talk but don't walk the walk, and Talkbass posters are no different.

Business is business. Sellers ask a price and haggle and take what they feel they can get. Buyers make offers and pay what they must in order to get what they want. Sometimes the buyer wins, sometimes the seller wins, and sometimes it's a draw. Or, if you want to get mushy, everybody wins.

[Zooberwerx]

I would have given her the $100 and then mowed her lawn, cleaned out her attic, etc. She'll shuffle off this mortal coil thinking "my, what a nice young man!".

Riis

[HolmeBass]

Originally Posted by Munjibunga

So how far do you go? If it's worth $10K, do you tell her that, or just "it's worth a lot more than $100" and give her $1,000? It gets down to how much can you take her for and still sleep at night.

Yep, before I read your post I actually decided I'd give her a $1000 for it. I still get a *smoking deal* and she thinks I'm a bit light in the smarts giving her 10 times what she asked, although she may wonder who much it is really worth, if she already offered it to me for $100 then it wasn't worth that much to her. Also after already giving an offer she would probably then take the $1000, even (especially?) old folks understand caveat emptor (even when it runs in reverse, so to speak). Anyway I think everyone would be pretty happy after an exchange like that.

And I was thinking for myself, personally. I don't make as much money as an anesthesiologist either, that's what seems fair to me.

[troyad]

I know this is an old thread....but that guitar is not the 3rd strat made. It's at least the 154th if we're counting only stuff that got a serial number.

[two fingers]

Originally Posted by SelenaBassGirl

I remember one episode of that Pawn show, there was someone selling an ejector seat out of a military plane! I was like who the (*#& is gonna buy that???

A friend once told me something that has turned out to be very true. There's a dork for everything. I don't mean dork in a harsh way. I'm a dork for several things myself that most would find useless.

You go into your garage and pull out the most ordinary thing you can imagine. Do a google search. SOMEBODY has a collection of them.

[4dog]

If that happened to yalls poor old mama,, youd be p***ed ,,now for goodness sake please

[Kmonk]

A friend of mine has a Telecaster from early 1951. It was left to him by his late uncle. You don't see things like this very often. Its even more amazing when you actually see one in person and get to play it.