Buying gear back.

stimpsonslostson

We often discuss guitars we've sold & maybe shouldn't have: gear we miss etc. 

Who's actually gone the whole hog & bought back something they once sold? 

I sold my Bad Monkey pedal 18months ago to "upgrade" to something "better" (more expensive), but quickly realised my mistake & bought another. 

As I've mentioned several times in other threads I used to have a Raygun Relics SG Jr clone that I miss... While resetting my old phone I found the contact details of the guy who I sold it to. I'm sorely tempted to get in touch with a view to buying it back. 

What would you buy back if you could?

octatonic

I bought this back.



I sold it to a forumite a few years ago and always regretted it.
He sold it on to someone else so I had no idea where it was.

Saw it on eBay about 2 years ago and negotiated with the new owner to buy it back for pretty much the same money as I sold it.
It was a special guitar for me as it was the first one I put together (Warmoth build), did all the fretwork and electronics.
I play it from time to time but I'm never selling it.

Stevepage

No luck with 3 guitars I sold. An RG1550fm-rbt, 1990 Prs Standard 24 and an Ibanez/Feline Universe.

Treewig1

I bought my first Fender Stratocaster in 1979.  Stupidly sold in 2002. Tracked it down and bought it back last year (it had gone from Wiltshire to Worcester to Lincoln).  I really looked after it down to carefully preserving the original hang tags, ashtray etc and they were all still there in the plastic bag I kept them in. It was like I'd just left it under my bed during the intervening 13 years! So lucky. And the person who sold it took me took a really, really reasonable price. It's going nowhere now.

firepaulmusic

I had a Shaftsbury Les Paul Custom for Christmas when I was around 11 years old. It was in perfect nick with a really nice Gibson style Les Paul case.  I sold it when I was 18 for £40 to buy a real piece of crap Strat copy. Always regretted it because it was a poorly judged 'upgrade'. I saw the guy 32 years later (around 3 years ago) in the street and he offered to give it back to me for free. It was very tired looking and a bit beaten up but I polished it up and now it's back with me where it belongs. Not a great guitar but it's my original one.....

John_P

If I ever see my old blue ibanez jem, I'll buy it instantly.  

grungebob

Yep I sold a PRS CE 22 in solid black and bought it back again two years later, was a cracking guitar. sold it again since though when bills stacked up but I'd buy it back if I could. 

stimpsonslostson

firepaulmusic said:

I had a Shaftsbury Les Paul Custom for Christmas when I was around 11 years old. It was in perfect nick with a really nice Gibson style Les Paul case.  I sold it when I was 18 for £40 to buy a real piece of crap Strat copy. Always regretted it because it was a poorly judged 'upgrade'. I saw the guy 32 years later (around 3 years ago) in the street and he offered to give it back to me for free. It was very tired looking and a bit beaten up but I polished it up and now it's back with me where it belongs. Not a great guitar but it's my original one.....

That's awesome! We need pictures! 

So I tried the phone number I had... No luck the number is dead.  
Time to search my old emails to see if I have his full name/email address, I fear the deal was done  via gumtree so I doubt this is going to end well. 

DrJazzTap

I've had three 18v Q Trons, two mt2's, two electro harmonix hot tube fuzz pedals, three big muffs, two boss cs3's, two Ibanez ts9s.
Specifically a wampler ecstasy drive pedal which I sold on eBay and managed to buy back a year later for twenty quid less. 

Adam_MD

Yup sold a deluxe players strat body when I lived in Belfast to a fellow forumite from Ely.  then saw it for sale a few months ago on gumtree and had to have it back.  Thankfully as I now live in England I only had to drive 30 miles to go get it.

IvisonGuitars

Sold a Top Hat Club Deluxe combo and bought it back 5 years later only to sell again with proviso that I get first dibs.

Sold a CS Esquire for £1400 only to buy it back 8 months later for £1100! 

flyman

A tale from the other side...
A few years agoI won a jap '68 reissue strat on the 'bay for a good price and all was good.
However, never really got on with it,thought about selling, chopping in but as usual, too bone idle to do anything,
  Had an e-mail out of the blue from the previous owner wanting to buy it back. I agreed but before I could do anything his wife contacted me 'cos   she wanted to   buy it as a christmass pressie  .
  Deal was done and everyone happy, especially as she insisted on paying a little more than I did cos "these things always go up in value".
  Shows how long ago that was...

Kylef

Yes, got this back last week.

Matsumoku Riviera. Traded it for a '63 ri 335 plus some cash. Regretted it after a fortnight, sold the 335 (great guitar) and after initially saying no to selling it back to me, the buyer (thankfully) changed their mind. It won't be going anywhere now.

http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p437/Kylefarrell/Epiphone Riviera Matsumoku/C7816664-7CC9-4DB4-9C3A-3F0A6964CE2F_zpsni5z2rqq.jpg

Gassage

Undoubtedly at some point in the future I predict merciless pisstaking as I sell everything to buy some more Cornish....but I'm not there yet.

A few....My custom shop tele I sold to @aaron76 is one that springs to mind but Aaron is a mate and uses it regularly so no issue there. My Lowden LSE1 too. Incredible, even by Lowden standards. My 1997 R8 with the crazy top that came up about a year ago on here or on eBay.

skaguitar

I had a Les Paul Classic from around 2004 ish give or take a couple of years in honeyburst....upgrade it with a set of Joe Bonamassa Seymour Duncan pick ups...RS Guitarworks harness...grover aged tuners and had the snot green inlays replaced with a nice vintage set from Crox Guitars and changed the pickguard and truss rod cover too.... done all that then sold it ( tw*t ) ...immediately regretted it.
I saw it on ebay earlier this year and was just getting the funds together to buy it back then it sold again and I missed it...I was in discussion with the seller.
I would buy it back in a heartbeat if it appears again and I always keep an eye out for it on ebay.
Maybe someone on here recognises the description and it's laying under their bed or in a cupboard somewhere not getting played..?
I live in hope...

shaunm

My OCD pedal that I sold to a fellow forumite. As it happens I asked to buy it back last week, luckily for me he said yes.

Philly_Q

I bought back a PRS Standard 22 Satin, for the same price I'd sold it for, give or take a few quid in eBay fees.  And in the meantime the guy had had it set up and the frets dressed, so that felt like a good deal.  

I ended up selling it again though.  Between the two purchases and two sales I only lost about £60 in total, which is bloody good by my standards.

Paul_C

My approach is to sell things to a friend of mine and then borrow them back.

Currently I have a Rickenbacker 330 and a Crafter mandolin that belong elsewhere, though as I've had the Ric for ages (a couple of years at least) and have tried to give it back a few times without success, I suspect that he's told his missus that he's sold it

impmann

I sold my Shergold 12 string to a fellow forumite and instantly regretted it.
Nearly a year later, like a true gent he sold it back to me for the same price.

:-)

fields5069

I would buy back my US-made Reverend Commando GT and German-made Hofner Verithin with the fill-sized HBs. At the time, around 10 years ago, I had a young baby daughter, a massive overdraft, and very little ability on the guitar. It seemed crazy, and indeed almost certainly is, to be playing those 2 guitars through a Behringer V-Amp.

Teetonetal

Gassage said:

Undoubtedly at some point in the future I predict merciless pisstaking as I sell everything to buy some more Cornish....but I'm not there yet.

Haven'y you already done that at least once?

I'm lucky in that I've never needed to sell anything, so once sold, it really is because it didn't do it for me. No regrets so far.
Saying that, I am having another go with a clusterflux, but really that's because I'm convinced I missed the point first time around.