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I assume they were offering me £20, but I didn't bother replying...
And if you list anything on one of the freecycle pages, fucking hell...
For Selling Ebay, then FB & TFB
Facebook is limited to more local purchases (I did once paypal/postage for a pedal) so tends to have more vanilla gear like strats, LP copies and same as Gumtree is full of overpriced stuff.
Some, he does swaps for and some get donated to him.
HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
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I’m aware of the flipper mentioned in the OP - they’re local-ish to me.
The bizarre thing is that in our ultra-connected, cross-platform online world, it’s not exactly rocket science-style detective work when tracing or piecing together things like an instrument’s recent ownership, the sales patterns of bedroom traders, etc, etc.
Firstly, a recent personal example of the above is when it was clearly evident that a particular guitar could be seen being traded/sold across numerous platforms (including here, but primarily Facebook groups/Marketplace). In the space of 3-4 months, it passed through the hands of at least 4, if not 5 serial flippers/bedroom dealers (some more notorious than others), fluctuating (but generally increasing - sometimes eye-wateringly) in price. It’s still for sale now...on multiple platforms, around £500 more than it started at.
Secondly, (talking about “sh*tting in your own back yard”) do the aforementioned flippers/dealers think that no-one knows, notices or can spot this? Guitars/amps whatever are regularly advertised for sale, sold, then immediately reappear - on the same sites - with either:
a. The same pics/description (cheeky/lazy)
or
b. New pics and vastly embroidered/extended description (which of course doesn’t refer to the previous FS ad).
In both cases, it’s obviously accompanied by a varying scale of often over-ambitious mark-up.
Jeez...if some doesn’t buy it at the original price, they’re not going to with another £500 or more slapped on...or maybe they will, I dunno...
While on this subject, there’s also the non-specific Wanted ads from ‘Collectors’...which obviously adds more credence.
Finally, while HMRC obviously have many other (much larger) fish to fry, I do sometimes wonder about tax...some bedroom dealers seem to have more guitars for sale at any one time than Anderson’s, FFS (and this isn’t their day job).
HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
Forum feedback thread. | G&B interview #1 & #2 | https://www.instagram.com/_harry_seven_/
HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
Forum feedback thread. | G&B interview #1 & #2 | https://www.instagram.com/_harry_seven_/
Golders Green - 50 - £91k if you want them all lol
:-)
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