Flippers…(not the Dolphin kind)

jacksonunited · July 26

Now when selling things, we all know they could well and truly be flipped but a sale is a sale yada yada

However, this one is extra special

I sold this Custom Shop Strat to a guy on Facebook for £2300. The guy was desperate for it, being a big Mike McCready fan like myself. After low balling me for a deal, I agreed to let him have it as it was his dream guitar (plus it was a Friday so I was in a good mood).

Now, a couple of weeks on he’s flipping it for £3500 AND using my photos! I’m not sure if I’m angry or flattered

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/166885605673

However, I take comfort in the fact it came from the same home as the DGT with the melting finish (thread on here) and stank so badly of cigarette smoke, I had to keep it in the garden for a few days to avoid a divorce. The original owner also added to the relic job I hear, so ha.

Irritating all the same

Dumodal · July 26

I hate when they come with a sob story, it's ok to haggle a little but at least be straightforward about it, to be honest knowing how bad the market is, I doubt he will sell it for that price or near that price.

lovestrat74 · July 26

Wonder how much he paid for the... "Cooper Discoverer Att 265/60/18 All Terrain Tyre"

TimmyO · July 26

It would be entertaining if a bunch of people all got in touch to point out the same 'obvious' things that revealed this wasn't a real CS and waited for him to try to flip it back on you in a panic. But nobody would be that mean.

TDubs · July 26

lovestrat74 said:

Wonder how much he paid for the... "Cooper Discoverer Att 265/60/18 All Terrain Tyre"

That’s for all the tyre kickers that are going to turn up to his house and say ‘how much?’ when they se the asking price

Philly_Q · July 26

lovestrat74 said:

Wonder how much he paid for the... "Cooper Discoverer Att 265/60/18 All Terrain Tyre"

Dunno, but I'm sure he'd desperately wanted one for his entire life up to that point.

BobHillman · July 26

lovestrat74 said:

Wonder how much he paid for the... "Cooper Discoverer Att 265/60/18 All Terrain Tyre"

Or, more importantly, why is there only one - for an off-road wheelbarrow, perhaps?

duotone · July 26

Nice photos!

bluecat · July 26

If you were happy to sell for £2300. Then don't worry, it is his now. He will more than likely come unstuck trying to sell it for the money he wants.
There are some real Bumtwistlers out there. They should be shot with shite at dawn.

jacksonunited · July 26

duotone said:

Nice photos!

Feel free to use them, everyone else does

fretfinder · July 26

I was quite tempted to buy this guitar when you advertised it on Facebook, except I’m wary of dealing with people on Facebook when I don’t know them at all. I don’t why you didn’t advertise it on here tbh.

soma1975 · 6:08AM

I once had someone tell me they were at film school and a poor student so could they buy my camera for like a tenth of what it's up for?

I was like 'mofo if you can afford film school...'.

I hate these people so much. They are like slum landlords, taking affordable things off the market from people who really wanted them and stopping people from having access to them unless they pay a large markup for no added value whatsoever.

Blah blah blah it's a free country etc. Blah blah capitalism yadda yadda. I don't care. It's parasitical.

OilCityPickups · 7:28AM

My rules of selling personal second hand guitars:

1. Unless you specifically know the buyer personally they are almost certainly a dishonest chiselling Cnut who probably has three 'granny's funerals' a year to get one over on their boss, is two timing their wife and kicks their dog (or possibly visa versa).

2. Lo balling makes me wet me strides ... bring it on ... you will be told to go forth and reproduce in jerky movements like all the other no hopers.

3. I never get emotionally attached to guitars ... if I do I keep them. Emotion should never be involved with selling your gear.

4. So long as you pay me what I ask then you can say the guitar belonged to Nigel Tufnel and charge a million pounds for it, use my photographs - and I won't give a shit - it's your property now and life's to short to get bent out of shape about 'things'.

Fishboy7 · 8:42AM

£3500 for a 13y old CS Strat in the current market is extremely optimistic

OilCityPickups · 8:46AM

Fishboy7 said:

£3500 for a 13y old CS Strat in the current market is extremely optimistic

The thing is ... if he gets it ... good luck to him. It's entirely his property to be optimistic with.

chrisj1602 · 8:50AM

Should ask him for a photo of the guitar next to today’s newspaper to prove its real, but really just to make him go through the process of taking the photo and uploading it.

guitars4you · 9:54AM

Nothing wrong with the simple rules of capitalism - Buy for a £1 and sell for £2 - And I'm a proud capitalist pig

The issue is when they come to buy it from you with all the associated sob stories - By all means if you feel £2300 is a tad optimistic to buy it, then maybe suggest, that as a dealer, £2200 might be more akin to your thought pattern - But no need for the sob stories and/or bull shit - Be up front and honest about why your offer is £2200

With that spec, after viewing it on e-bay, I'd say £2200/2300 is a good price for a dealer and would attract a potential selling price in excess of £3k - Regular p/ups and not hand wound plus slimmer frets are maybe its only negatives, to attract a bigger price - The additional 'relic' wear n tear would need to be examined, in the flesh, before I could comment on any +ve or -ve factors with regards to the price - It is a factory heavy relic so on the pics alone it doesn't look OTT, but would need to see if any additional wear is genuine or 'hacked'

victorludorum · 10:18AM

It says £4,200 on the ad now. Is it the same guitar?

Philly_Q · 10:42AM

victorludorum said:

It says £4,200 on the ad now. Is it the same guitar?

Still says £3,500 when I look at it. Seems like your eBay view is adding 20% VAT...?

razorbill · 11:04AM

That’s frustrating, but you kind of just have to close your mind to it and move on. I think your point of frustration was giving into the lowball and not getting the price you were happy with in the first place.

I pretty much refuse to deal with in-person haggling unless there is something wrong found with the guitar that would subtract from the price, or at least set an absolute bottom price ahead of time. Almost every time I gave in I undersold the guitar and regretted it…and it’s more often than not the hagglers that quickly flip

JJ72 · 11:22AM

Don't know much about these things and know that the pictures aren't copyrighted but can you stop him/then using your pictures and make them upload their own?

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