I hate moaning about prices...but !

TTBZ

BloodEagle said:

I remember buying one of them brand new for £450 about 11 years ago

I really regret not buying one when they were at these prices! I liked the Lite Ash teles they did as well, again they're pretty pricey to buy used these days too.

drofluf

Tannin said:

I like the way that Reverb helpfully prints a price guide:

Fender Classic Player Baja Telecaster

Price Guide Estimated Value

£396.98 - £495.28

Probably the US Dollar “going rate” which will be a round number directly converted to Sterling using their internal rate. 

Greatape

Maybe we should all just stop buying guitars for a bit. Like, a year or three. Everyone. And see how these people feel about their 'amazing prices' after that. 

But seriously: are people still paying high prices for commonplace, low- end guitars? Or have the appropriate price signals yet to make it through? 

I do find it amusing to read some of the sales spiel people create to try and sell low-end guitars. For example, the descriptions on the website for Life Guitars, Exeter. 

Kittyfrisk

TTBZ said:

BloodEagle said:

I remember buying one of them brand new for £450 about 11 years ago

I really regret not buying one when they were at these prices! I liked the Lite Ash teles they did as well, again they're pretty pricey to buy used these days too.

Having compared them both back to back, I'd take a Lite Ash over a Baja anytime.

Tannin

drofluf said:

Tannin said:

I like the way that Reverb helpfully prints a price guide:

Fender Classic Player Baja Telecaster

Price Guide Estimated Value

£396.98 - £495.28

Probably the US Dollar “going rate” which will be a round number directly converted to Sterling using their internal rate. 

Sure. But the point here is that Reverb themselves state, on the very page which contains the listing, that the going rate is half the advertised price.