in 2000 I bought (for the store I worked at) a 69 Les Paul, I paid 750 for it, it priced at a minimum for 1500 marked for 2k...I left before it did sell though...I'm justamazed it's blown up this quickly all of sudden and I wonder how much of this fueled by big business. Ebay is easy to manipulate.ew wrote:Oh yeah; I wish I kept my old baseball card collections from when I was a kid.
You see the same thing happening with vintage synths. You have a finite number of items and an expanding potential owner base. Add to that the fact that a lot of the rare birds ended up overseas and will probably stay there (the Japanese collectors were the prime movers behind the market in the late '80s/early '90s when the prices started skyrocketing), and the US collectors market becomes more than happy to pay ridiculous amounts of money
ew
This whole collectibles mentality eludes my puny intellect. You collect stuff that increases in value, but you can't even touch it, let alone use it because it devalues it. But at least owning it impresses other people and makes them envious of you, so there's a plus...I guess. It's worth lots of $$$, but you don't have the $$$ to spend unless you sell it. If you sell it, you have the $$$, but you no longer have the envy of others for owning something that you can't use anyway.Hink wrote:taijiguy wrote:Let's see now...$18,000+ for an old, beat up Strat or $1200 for a brand new American Deluxe Strat that probably sounds and plays better? Tough choice.or even perhaps 500 for a standard strat.
@ew, you're right but it's still surprising...remember when baseball cards went nuts? It seems too me judging by the success of businesses around here that the value boom destroyed the whole shebang for many...I just hate to see that. Meanwhile the big guitar companies start over charging for stupid "collectors series" or "signature models" tapping into a craze that in twenty years because of the flood of such things now might not exist.
thanks dude, I'll have fun watching this one...I saw an old les paul that was the guitar players from nazareth (sp?)..I think it was a 1960...you get the guitar plus a gold record for 115k...his flying v was 85ktaijiguy wrote:Starting bid is now 22k with no reserve:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-1963-Fender ... dZViewItem
a fool and his money soon partynuffink wrote:There's a CS80 for sale on Sound on Sound at a fiver under 4 grand if you can't quite run to the strat.
Hink, man - I'd never buy an old Strat online, particularly in a ring like eBay. As you know, a lot of the older Strats get mixed up. More specifically, the necks don't always match the body. One could buy a '63 neck on a newer body, etc... This is very common for the older ones. Sometimes it's a factory thing; most of the time it's a scam, simply put.Hink wrote:am I the only who thinks 17,000 is a riot?...not too mention the write up...I wonder if anyone will bid?
Germ777 wrote:Hell. This is ridiculous.
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