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So, there was a recent thread about having seller's remorse and it got me thinking...do you ever have remorse from NOT selling a guitar?
My Custom guitars usually have a price tag of $3000-7000. Recently a guy was over at my place auditioning for a band I was with. I have several dozen guitars in my rehearsal room and he tried out most of them. He was amazed at how they all played and sounded but he kept coming back to one specific guitar. He loved it so much he wanted to buy it on the spot...cash. It was my personal number one guitar so it had been used quite a bit. I usually sell my used customs for $2500-3500. This one was used, but it was a really fantastic guitar so he offered me $5000. I told him that it was "MY" guitar and it wasn't for sale, so he kept playing several of the others. But he came back to this one and played it again and said he would pay $7000 for it. I explained again that it was mine and it just wasn't for sale. He said he would talk to his uncle (who is quite wealthy) to get a loan for a few thousand and would give me $10,000 for it!
You better believe I thought about it very hard. I told myself..."I have lots of other guitars that sound just as good and look even better". The only reason they weren't my #1 was because the necks were a bit too fat. But then I thought I could easily remove the necks and sand them down to a more comfortable shape and re-finish them and make them perfect (they're all bolt-on necks). But I've got about 10 guitars in the works that still need to be completed and I didn't want to add another project to the list, so I told him "no".
That was a few weeks ago and now I'm thinking, "What the heck was I thinking!!!"
So, I've got non-seller's remorse.
Any of you wish that you would have sold a guitar when you had the chance but didn't?
My Custom guitars usually have a price tag of $3000-7000. Recently a guy was over at my place auditioning for a band I was with. I have several dozen guitars in my rehearsal room and he tried out most of them. He was amazed at how they all played and sounded but he kept coming back to one specific guitar. He loved it so much he wanted to buy it on the spot...cash. It was my personal number one guitar so it had been used quite a bit. I usually sell my used customs for $2500-3500. This one was used, but it was a really fantastic guitar so he offered me $5000. I told him that it was "MY" guitar and it wasn't for sale, so he kept playing several of the others. But he came back to this one and played it again and said he would pay $7000 for it. I explained again that it was mine and it just wasn't for sale. He said he would talk to his uncle (who is quite wealthy) to get a loan for a few thousand and would give me $10,000 for it!
You better believe I thought about it very hard. I told myself..."I have lots of other guitars that sound just as good and look even better". The only reason they weren't my #1 was because the necks were a bit too fat. But then I thought I could easily remove the necks and sand them down to a more comfortable shape and re-finish them and make them perfect (they're all bolt-on necks). But I've got about 10 guitars in the works that still need to be completed and I didn't want to add another project to the list, so I told him "no".
That was a few weeks ago and now I'm thinking, "What the heck was I thinking!!!"
So, I've got non-seller's remorse.
Any of you wish that you would have sold a guitar when you had the chance but didn't?
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