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NBD Yard Sale Find!!!!

#62
selowitch said:
I personally have zero problem with buying something for what the seller asks. I *might* choose to say something if I think the item is seriously undervalued, but I have no ethical obligation to do that and I might choose to keep my mouth shut.

In this era of the Internet, there is no excuse for not doing your research before offering something for sale. All you gotta do is Google “Fender Precision Bass Active Korea” and you’ll instantly know it’s easily worth around $450. The seller either doesn’t care or is more interested in getting rid of the thing than in getting close to market value.

Anyway, in this case it’s water under the bridge and the OP behaved perfectly within the bounds of acceptable yard-sale buyer behavior as far as I am concerned.
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I agree.
What is more, you say $450, someone else says $300. Maybe I'm running a yard sale cleaning out someone's stuff. Right now my neighbor is doing this because her old bf (she happened to live with, with her husband too - yeah, I know...) died. It clearly has no sentimental value to me. Now I go online and see $300 and $450. It cost me nothing and I don't know if $300 or $450 is right but I'm feeling skeptical and suspect maybe I'd get $250 on ebay after fees and then I gotta ship the thing and I have a whole garage full of stuff and don't feel like being a regular haunt at the UPS store or Post office because I want to move on with my life.

$15 to make it go away beats a trip to Goodwill to drop a truckload off.
 
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#63
And this is a good example of my worst fear when I pass away. (Although the price here is rock bottom). Whoever is in charge of my gear and other possessions will have a yard sale and be done with it. Rather than deal with researching the market value, and moving them piece by piece, to get the most out of my investments. My wife has flat out said she won't eBay or Reverb them. And my kids are not musicians. Therefore, leaving them in a will is out. I'll have to get my brother to be in charge of selling everything.

But back to the original posting... you win the best deal trophy. I bought my Squier PJ for $100 and I thought that was a bargain. But I had to add Duncans, so now the cost went up another $90.

Now, if you want to talk best non-gear deal, I answered a Craigslist ad by a guy cleaning out his basement (a Honey Do chore, no doubt), and got an Amiga 2000 computer (minus the monitor) for FREE. Told me the first responder flaked out on him. Came with a huge box of misc programs. Opened the A2000 up when I got home, and it was maxed out with video editing cards and upgrades and peripherals. Video Toaster, etc. Belonged to the guy's Dad who worked in broadcasting.

P.S it boots up fine (I had the monitor already). Yeah, it's purely nostalgia for me, as you can run circles around what it does these days. But back in the late 1980's, something like this would cost as much as a used Corvette. It was a wet dream only. Now I finally got one, and it didn't cost me a penny. (Old Amiga stuff is not cheap today, either, as collectors still drive the market up wildly). I'd rather have a free Alembic bass, though. :D

Fun fact: Dire Straits Money For Nothing MTV video animation was done with the Amiga.
 
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Syd Rayne said:
And this is a good example of my worst fear when I pass away. (Although the price here is rock bottom). Whoever is in charge of my gear and other possessions will have a yard sale and be done with it. Rather than deal with researching the market value, and moving them piece by piece, to get the most out of my investments.
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My brother is my executor, and he gets everything when I die. But he has to do two things; find good homes for my dogs, and sell off the valuables. I have a file on my server that has photos, descriptions and est prices for all of them. If he can make another $20k by basically copy pasting what I have into ebay, Reverb etc, he will.
 
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Syd Rayne said:
And this is a good example of my worst fear when I pass away. (Although the price here is rock bottom). Whoever is in charge of my gear and other possessions will have a yard sale and be done with it. Rather than deal with researching the market value, and moving them piece by piece, to get the most out of my investments. My wife has flat out said she won't eBay or Reverb them. And my kids are not musicians. Therefore, leaving them in a will is out. I'll have to get my brother to be in charge of selling everything.

But back to the original posting... you win the best deal trophy. I bought my Squier PJ for $100 and I thought that was a bargain. But I had to add Duncans, so now the cost went up another $90.
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Make a list with value of each one and amend to from time to time
 
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#73
Quite a score. It's nothing I would keep, but you can definitely make a fair bit of money on it. That pickup set alone I have sold for $100 on the used market. Sell the body and the neck separately, probably at least $100 each, maybe more. Good score with a little work parting it out. You just stumbled on 3 or 4 hundred bucks, basically.
 

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