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Was my pawn shop impulse purchase worthwhile?

#62
BurnOut said:
Sweet Score, I wished our pawn shops would wheel and deal. Our pawn shops are more like museums, instruments hanging with firm inflated prices + sales tax. Congratulations!
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That does seem like the norm, but this is a really old-school, family owned pawn shop in a very small city and they are unusually flexible and reasonable with people they recognize.
 
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#65
Chrisk-K said:
It’s amazing that people still sell their basses to pawn shops and buy basses at pawn shops. I thought people did that in the 60’s and 70’s.
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I pawned my Rickenbacker 3000 to pay the rent once - but I then retrieved it in a couple of weeks. But I suspect that most basses that end up in pawn shops were put in with no intentions of being retrieved...
 
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Congrats man! I feel ya....I just bought a 95' SR800 yesterday for $250 at a local music store. (I have been wanting one for a while now). They clearly didn't know what they had...they called it an "Early SR500". I took it and ran. Lol. I also DID NOT need another bass. Lol. It feels good to get a good score.
 
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Hawk99TA said:
Congrats man! I feel ya....I just bought a 95' SR800 yesterday for $250 at a local music store. (I have been wanting one for a while now). They clearly didn't know what they had...they called it an "Early SR500". I took it and ran. Lol. I also DID NOT need another bass. Lol. It feels good to get a good score.
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It does help that it doesn't have the model number on it anywhere. :) When I got mine, I think it was mistaken for one of the cheaper Gio GSR200 which it resembles.

Cutter8 said:
That does seem like the norm, but this is a really old-school, family owned pawn shop in a very small city and they are unusually flexible and reasonable with people they recognize.
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A lot of the pawn shops where I live are similar to yours - the ticket price is not the price they're willing to let it go for, it allows for some wiggle room and negotiation. I just bought a bass over the weekend for $160- listed price was $225 (actually the real used price for such a bass not an inflated one). Never got the kind of half price discount you got though. Good score!
 
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Cutter8 said:
I found this Ibanez a couple of hours ago in a pawn shop near my house (pics below). I didn’t need it, as I just started learning to play a few weeks ago, already have a couple of 4-strings, and was not planning to play 5-string, but... it felt good and has a pretty neck that’s very straight with just a whisper of relief, the frets are great, action is surprisingly low with no buzzing, etc. It was priced at $400, but just for the hell of it, I put $200 in cash on the counter and told the owner that was all it was worth to me, and he shook my hand and said “Enjoy it in good health!” Did I buy something worthwhile? I hope so, because walking into the house with the third bass I bought in four weeks definitely seems to have caught my wife’s attention!
EDIT: I just weighed this bass and I am surprised to say that it is well under 6lbs! That is significantly less than my P-Lyte Deluxe.
CORRECTION: Postal scale was WAY off! Just put it on a calibrated digital scale and it weighs 7lbs 12ozs. Still feels pretty light to me!
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Beautiful. But crawl before you walk. If i had two four strings and a fiver after weeks of playing, this would certainly hinder my learning and technique ! Everyones different i guess.
 
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5teven5trummer said:
Beautiful. But crawl before you walk. If i had two four strings and a fiver after weeks of playing, this would certainly hinder my learning and technique ! Everyones different i guess.
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I think that is good advice. I’m really only playing on my P-Lyte Deluxe at this point. The other two basses were too good to pass up for the price (the EDB555 for $200 and a “32 scale Aria Pro II CSB-380 for $220), but they are for “later”. I have to stick with one instrument while I’m learning or my fingers get “confused”...
 

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