I really do need to get my head examined. I had been watching a 30th Anniversary Taylor on eBay, and it's a damn good deal. I was a little leary of buying without playing, but hadn't played a bad Taylor yet. So I decided to look up annother Tayor dealer, and found one about 45 minutes east of Charlotte. I walked in and asked if they had a 30th I could play. The intention was to see how I liked it, and then watch the eBay acution.
The guy asks if I like it after a while and I say, yeah...it plays like a dream. So he says what would it take for you to take it home with you. I told him honestly that I was watching one on eBay that was brand new and the asking price was $1350 (opening bid is actually $1300, BIN is $1500, so reserve falls somewhere in the middle more than likely). He went and got his handy dandy calculator and starting doing the math. He damn near matched the price, and since I'd played the guitar and loved it, I snapped.
I had to pay tax on this one, which was about $90. I would have had to pay shipping from an eBay auction of around $30-40. So it cost me a few more dollars in exchange for being able to hold, inspect and play the guitar before plunking down my $$. That's worth a few dollars to me. Besides that, I got to spend my $$ locally, in a small mom and pop store that will service the bejesus out of me should I ever require it.
Now if some one could just point me towards a free mental health evaluator! I really do have to sell one of these, and it will more than likely be the 02' on the right.
