Most Overused Cliche Terms When Selling A Guitar

[kramer.geetar]

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“Just installed a new set of strings”

Which in itself is nice, the seller wants you to have it ready to rock. Fair enough. I just think it’s overused or you can sense the over importance some put on a $5 pack of strings that I will probably take off and put my set in.

 

[PFDarkside]

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“One of the good ones!”
“Good Wood years!”
“Best guitar I’ve ever played, got to go!”

 

[skyydogg01]

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"Fender Strat" for $250 ... Its a Squier Bullet

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[kramer.geetar]

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Everyone calling their LTD an ESP LTD. Drives me nuts, cause when I wanna check out ESP’s, a real Japanese ESP, I’m bombarded with 95% of them being LTD’s. That’s the same as saying Fender Squire Strat.

 

[ItsaBass]

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"Fender Squier"

"Gibson Epiphone"

 

[PFDarkside]

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Oh yeah, ruining search results!

 

[Oldskewl808]

Most Overused Cliche Terms When Selling A Guitar

“Lots of Mojo”
“Thinning the herd”
“Sustain for days”
“Never thought I’d sell this one”
“Getting harder to find”
“Honest play wear”
“Priced to sell”
And my favorite... “If it doesn’t sell I’ll just keep it” duh.
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[kramer.geetar]

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“Lots of Mojo”
“Thinning the herd”
“Sustain for days”
“Never thought I’d sell this one”
“Getting harder to find”
“Honest play wear”
“Priced to sell”
And my favorite... “If it doesn’t sell I’ll just keep it” duh.
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Yes haha!! Forgot about the lots of mojo line and sustain for day. Yea ok simmer down there Nigel. Classic :lmao:

 

[beaubrummels]

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I love Brian May and have a BHM Special, but this was too funny...

"I’m using a Mini May in the show now, too - it seems to work just fine straight out of the box... Honest!"

Brian May • One Voice Tour • February 2016

https://shop.brianmayguitars.co.uk/brian-may-guitars/brian-may-guitars-mini-may-antique-cherry.html

 

[Gtrjunior]

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Everyone thinks that just because something is old, that makes it valuable.

It’s “Vintage”...

 

[ICTGoober]

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A vintage Hannah Montana guitar...

Yeah, they will be vintage... some day.

And you probably don't care, but the electric solidbody Hannahs are actually cool little guitars. I bought a boatload of them, never paying more than $45 for one, changed out the tuners, did a setup - sometimes a fret level, and then they are fun. The Tele style pickups actually sound good, and the humbuckers are weak suck - you put a set of Bill Lawrences in them, and BANG. Tiny rock machine! Have redone a bunch of them for players here in town.

Also - as to the different spellings of Squier versus Squire.... Fender actually changed the spelling early on. I have no idea why.

 

[Powdered Toast Man]

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The one that always bugged me was "it's my favorite guitar, but it's gotta go".....

"Best guitar I've ever owned."

Um, then why are you selling it?

Others I enjoy:
"Fresh setup"

"Just had checkup from tech"

"Mint condition!" (On a factory relic finish)

"Cost of the mods = $X so that's why I feel it should be worth more than retail price for this guitar."

Oh and if we could stop listing Squier guitars as Fender because it says "by Fender" in tiny writing next to the Squier logo that would be great.

 

[zizyphus]

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Anything with the unstated assumption that "this is how it was done 60 years ago, so it has to be perfect"

 

[mojosman]

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I love the “Epiphone SG custom shop” with made in Malaysia sticker right over the Epiphone custom shop sticker.

Plus everything is “super rare” limited edition. Yes limited to how many they could sell.


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[Chistopher]

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It really grinds my gears when someone advertises a pickup as a "PAF" when you can clearly see in the picture that it has a patent number, even worse when it's a T-Top. They're not the same thing, don't pretend that they are.

 

[vmbarrera]

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Minty

 

[Gtrjunior]

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Minty

God how I hate that word. Lol

 

[Larioso]

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Not a cliche but a bit funny

An ad from seller
- good guitar but out of tune
- it was like that when I bought it

Talk about innosense and new to guitar.

 

[d2718]

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How about "lightning-fast [# of frets / type of wood] neck"?

Yeah, like that neck is going to cure my tendonitis or the fact that I'm too lazy to practice scale patterns all the time.

 

[Clint 55]

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How about "lightning-fast [# of frets / type of wood] neck"?

Yeah, like that neck is going to cure my tendonitis or the fact that I'm too lazy to practice scale patterns all the time.

Lol! Yeah