Pricing used amps...

just going by the prices you mention, your BT100 sounds like it could go for $160 - $180 ? Maybe ask $180 OBO

New practice amps are cheap as chips, I dunno, $50 . You are the best judge, is $50 too cheap in your eyes? You don't want to sell it for an amount that you think is giving it away.Or....... donate it to a local kid, good karma !

 

How I determine "Street Value"... Go to Ebay. Look your specific item up. Then do an Advanced Search ( http://www.ebay.com/sch/ebayadvsearch/?rt=nc ) and check the Sold Listings box. This will give you all of the sold listings for like the last couple of months. You can get a good idea of the value from that.

 

... aside from the fact that you just advertised that those items are for sale ...

 

Thing is Dave that as a non supporting member you are simply not allowed to ask "What's it worth" questions. Please re-read the forum rules: http://www.talkbass.com/threads/amps-forum-rules-and-a-notice-to-users-bump.856768/

 

Dave, throw the site some coin and be done with it..this is too good a forum not to support ;}

 

I just re-read the rules and I don't see it. Asking what something is worth and offering something for sale are *not* the same thing at all.

If this is the rule, then fine. But it needs to be clarified.

 

The rules of talkbass are that you must be a supporting member to ask what your gear is worth. It doesn't matter if you are planning on listing them are not as it's still a back ended way of potentially selling gear without paying the fee. At one point I had the newest vintage guitar pricing guide and decided to let people post their basses and I would give the book value. I was told by mods that I had to take it down or limit it to paid members and clearly that was not a thread for people selling stuff.

 

I think it should be noted that depending on where you live, you may have to price something lower, just because the market may be smaller with less demand. For instance, if I put up a Warwick on my local Craigslist or music forum, I may not get the same price that I would here or what it would sell on GC's used page. That's because not a lot of people where I live have the money to drop on a bass like that. If I tried to locally sell something kind of exotic like a Sadowsky SA200 amp, it would probably never ever move.

 

Unfortunately Crate is not a desirable brand for some reason (they make awesome amps), so the amps probably aren't worth very much. I got my excellent condition Crate BX-160 for $40 locally. Looking at the ebay listings, the Crate BT-100 seems to be worth less than $150 so if you are selling locally I would price at $100 unless your market is very good. The Crate MXB-10 has sold for between $5.50 and $33 on ebay so probably start at $25 and go down from there.

 

How to price amps:

1: decide how much money you want to have instead of the amp.

2: see 1 for price of amp.

 

Did the mods point you to the rule number? I'm curious because I don't see it represented in the rules, and it seems like an odd policy anyway, particularly WRT your example.

 

I know it's a policy and has been for some time. Again...the reason is that you need to be a supporting member to sell things here and asking what it's worth is an easy way around that. In my example there was NO way I was even kinda selling something BUT it's much easier to say that it applies in ALL cases then it is to police the threads and decide on a case by case basis.