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I've been trying to sell a PRS Singlecut on and off for a couple of years now and it's not gone. It's priced sensibly - there is currently another one in the shop at £100 more than mine (it was £200 more but has been reduced). I could reduce it a bit more, but I think it will sell eventually at the current price.
Even if I reduced it by another £150, after commission I'd still see £200 more than someone offered me on this forum!
I looked again at the Lesters on ebay and gumtree yesterday and it really is the case that people are trying to shift second hand guitars at prices near enough what a shop would charge for trying to shift new stuff but last year's models.
Who'd be mad enough to buy a new Suhr / Vigier / Tom Anderson / whatever at retail these days? Suhr moderns dropped from 2500 to 1500 over a 6 month period at guitar guitar. Tough to make 70% of new on a used sale if the retailers are blowing them out for 60%...
I suspect times are getting hard for a lot of retailers and that means tough times for private sellers.
I would imagine for a small retailer that this is a bigger commitment than they would wish to make and therefore a small number of big-hitters dominate the market for CS guitars.
I agree - there are too many instruments about, given the level of demand which there appears to be.
There still seem to be unsold 2012 Gibson Historics around. Not too bad if you are Coda Music and it just an odd guitar among a large stock of 2014 guitars. But if all your stock is 2012......???
Should Gibson be stepping in to buy back these guitars? If Gibson then put them on ebay with no reserve I am sure they would recover the trade price and not be out of pocket.
It's not just about the model year is it? It seems that Gibson did up their game in 2013 and the changes ( Different Pickups, truss rod without condom, one piece fingerboard, Hide glue) are arguably significant. I am trying to think what the discount would need to be to shift a 2012 Historic Les Paul and I reckon the answer is: a lot.
There is a NOS PRS Singlecut Trem from 2007 in Peter Cooks