The next discontinued pot of gold......

[Earwaxsculptor]

So I always sit around and wonder about what the next effect pedal that you can buy at a honest price now, then it will be discontinued, and all of the sudden everyone in the world is gonna be willing to sell their firstborn for it. I remember when the Unibass and Deep Impact were getting blown out at mf for $99, and I didn't blink an eye at them, that investment could have given real estate a run for it's money............

So what do YOU think is next on the block?

[5stringwonder]

How we would all like to know...

Just off the top of my head, my guess would be the Ampeg Scrambler pedals.

[Rick_no7]

if we could predict it, then everyone would've bought 5 of them, and then it wouldn't be rare, and that means it wouldn't climb in price

[Swimming Bird]

And if we all bought 5, then they wouldn't stop selling them.

[Chronicle]

Tonebenders.

[syciprider]

Folks are asking a bit of money for the Zoom Ultra fuzz. Not quite Meatball class yet but it's about 1/3 more than what the pedal cost when it was in the market.

[fishtx]

Originally Posted by 5stringwonder

How we would all like to know...

Just off the top of my head, my guess would be the Ampeg Scrambler pedals.

You could be right about the Ampeg pedals...they are nice effects and getting hard as heck to find.

[jonpopu]

Originally Posted by syciprider

Folks are asking a bit of money for the Zoom Ultra fuzz. Not quite Meatball class yet but it's about 1/3 more than what the pedal cost when it was in the market.

But the Ultra fuzz is already discontinued.

[Jimbob Jones]

I reckon that a couple of the boss pedals (the more highly favoured ones) will skyrocket if they get discontinued. I'm holding on to my GEB-7!!

[Taylor Livingston]

I really thought the Lexicon Vortex was going to be one of these great investments. I was holding onto it for awhile after I lost interest in it because I thought it would become the next Space Station, but I think there's a definite trend away from rackmount effects towards stompboxes. I managed to sell it for about 1.5 times what I paid, but I don't think it's going to gain much more value than that.

I also had a Premier spring reverb that I sold for about $125 more than I paid. If you see one of those for $200 or so, snag it, because it's one of those under the radar things that few people know about, but the ones that do will pay much more than that for one. I also somehow landed a Tube Works reverb for $150, but I've seen them go for $700 on ebay (I guess Jerry Garcia used one, so there are some people who are really dying for them). I'm holding onto it, not because of the value, but because I really like it.

Although it's fun to flip things for some quick cash, I wouldn't try to anticipate what's going to get big, unless you're friends with Justin Chancellor or Chris Wolstenholme and you can get him to use it. That would guarantee a nice return on your money. Now when is one of those guys going to start a playing a Crate amp, so I can unload my old one for a princely sum?

[Earwaxsculptor]

Originally Posted by conical johnson

.....unless you're friends with Justin Chancellor or Chris Wolstenholme and you can get him to use it. That would guarantee a nice return on your money. Now when is one of those guys going to start a playing a Crate amp, so I can unload my old one for a princely sum?

Haha , thats a good one. You got a marketing degree?

[willsellout]

I think the next discontinued Pot O' gold will be the Lovetone Meatball. They have very few (if any) left. I remember last time they discontinued them they were going for about a grand. Right now they are at about 5 bills...now's the time, who knows when they might issue them again.


Dan

[69nites]

Visual sound's distortion pedals are being changed.

they could very well be next.