Preparing for Selling...

[Lucius Paisley]

The local pawn shop told me about their service where I take a bunch of photos of the guitars I wish to palm off and they base their prices on the photos. I have no issues taking photos, the stupid phone does all the work, but some of the guitars have "dead" strings. I mean, some damn kid is just going to change the strings as soon as they get it because of the attitude people have towards anything they buy from pawn shops (Then why the hell do they shop there?)

I'm no capitalist. I can use money, but I think they'll give me a fair price, so I'm not concerned with them saying "There's this micro-dent on the back of the neck you didn't tell us about, we can offer you as high as $20." I think what they would give me is what they would have offered anyway, dirty strings be damned.

So, is it worth it to change those first?

 

[beaubrummels]

I wouldn't put new strings on something going to a pawn shop. That's a waste of $5-$10.

 

[Lucius Paisley]

I wouldn't put new strings on something going to a pawn shop. That's a waste of $5-$10.

A quick wipe-down with an old t-shirt it is, then.

 

[Masta' C]

1) You're not going to get market value for your gear from a pawn shop.
2) Clean 'em up, but strings are optional (won't increase what you'd get for them)
3) If you're cleaning them up and taking pics, why not just try to sell them locally and/or through Reverb at that point?

 

[Securb]

Music stores and pawn shops typically give 60% of the Blue Book value. You are going to lose a bit of cash not selling them on Reverb, Facebook or eBay. And I never expect fresh strings on a used guitar. In fact I have seen many guitars in pawn shops missing strings.

 

[Lucius Paisley]

1)3) If you're cleaning them up and taking pics, why not just try to sell them locally and/or through Reverb at that point?

Selling to people is painful. They try and talk to you, they create excuses, tell sob stories, and go into long diatribes filled with words that don't mean what they think they mean, all in an attempt to get something over you.

Pawn shops have something over you already without any of that "conversation" crap.

 

[ehdwuld]

Simple when they give the sob story or whatever

Let them finish and say so you don't want it
Cool. I will put it back up

Alternatively list it 10% higher than you would take
Then discount it 10%

Bamm
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