But you would pay fair market value for that Tele bass, no? Because just by keeping it you are admitting that it is worth fair market value. Otherwise you would sell it and use the cash for something else.
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early post CBS vs modern fender quality??
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But you would pay fair market value for that Tele bass, no? Because just by keeping it you are admitting that it is worth fair market value. Otherwise you would sell it and use the cash for something else.
Just thinking...
I see a lot of "separation" in these discussions about the value / merit of the older collectable instruments... like "I'd never pay what they're getting for a vintage..." whatever.
So, just who ARE all these people who are paying upscaled prices for moderately playable / moderately vintage basses? Or is it just the dealers who are stoking the flames? Where is this pricing insanity coming from?
This is why I dropped my subscription to Vintage Guitar magazine. It just seems like a game of Liar's poker out there, and unless you're lucky enough to find an "under the bed" find in Aunt Selma's attic (the only FOR-SURE), you're treading in shark-infested waters, thick with average-to-poor instruments, parts basses, dead-nuts forgeries, and predatory dealers looking for a sucker...
This is just nuts. At some point you have to just step back and say..."Really?" And the price escalation of 70's Fenders is THAT POINT to me.
I see a lot of "separation" in these discussions about the value / merit of the older collectable instruments... like "I'd never pay what they're getting for a vintage..." whatever.
So, just who ARE all these people who are paying upscaled prices for moderately playable / moderately vintage basses? Or is it just the dealers who are stoking the flames? Where is this pricing insanity coming from?
This is why I dropped my subscription to Vintage Guitar magazine. It just seems like a game of Liar's poker out there, and unless you're lucky enough to find an "under the bed" find in Aunt Selma's attic (the only FOR-SURE), you're treading in shark-infested waters, thick with average-to-poor instruments, parts basses, dead-nuts forgeries, and predatory dealers looking for a sucker...
This is just nuts. At some point you have to just step back and say..."Really?" And the price escalation of 70's Fenders is THAT POINT to me.
I see your point with 20k plus 60s instruments, but the average price of a 70s Fender bass has got to be around $1700.00 or so, which in only slightly more than a new one! I doubt there is all that much forgery going on for that market yet, and those prices are not exactly insane!
