The Used Guitar Market Update

[JMP/HBE]

 

[metlking]

I have sold 2 Gibson guitars in the last 10 days. I got decent money for them but they both sat for more than six months before a buyer came along!

 

[Mincer]

My last 2 guitars sold at average market price on Reverb in less than 2 days.

 

[Securb]

We are lucky to have a bunch of Mom & Pop shops and pawn shops in the area. The Mom & Pops have that 3rd-tier yard sale gear he is talking about. Along with plenty of vintage stuff. The pawn shops are carrying guitar gear less and less, saying they can not move it. That is where I got my Carvin 4x12 for $150, the guy was sick of looking at it and wanted it out of the shop. I am lucky to have 3 music stores and a pawn shop on the same strip. There is also a GC if I want to take a 15-minute drive.

 

[Chris Pile]

That YouTuber has made at least 3 vids on the state of "the market". I see a lot of videos on the same subject on YT, and for me - they are simply making "content" in an attempt to get clicks and make some money. Right now the entire guitar market (used, vintage, and new) is so muddled no one person can view it all with clarity and make definite statements. The best we can do is simply keep at it in whatever corner of the world we sit on. If you quit, don't complain or explain. Make room for the next guy, and hope for the best.

 

[JMP/HBE]

The used market is flooded with $1300 squires & epi's.
Every 20's / 30's something is convinced they got a $1500 guitar b/c of reverb.

 

[Chistopher]

I appreciate anything that helps me stay out of the used guitar market. I don't need any guitar gear, at this point I'd rather just play my instrument.

 

[jeremy]

same. i should really offload some stuff i got. too many unused pedals, too many pups sitting in boxes, guitars that havent been out of a case in years, and amps that havent made noise in as long. oh, not to mention a damn good pa system that takes up a ton of space

 

[Securb]

a damn good pa system that takes up a ton of space

PAs are hard to get rid of today. There are less people playing live music and even fewer places to play it. Add to that, PAs are getting lighter, smaller, cheaper, and more powerful because of class D. I just turned down two free passive Carvin 2x15 speakers with horns. They ended up in the dumpster because no one would even take them for free.

 

[Mincer]

PAs are hard to get rid of today. There are less people playing live music and even fewer places to play it. Add to that, PAs are getting lighter, smaller, cheaper, and more powerful because of class D. I just turned down two free passive Carvin 2x15 speakers with horns. They ended up in the dumpster because no one would even take them for free.

I am always trying to get our PA to be smaller. Speakers and poweramps are 1/10th of the weight they were 20 years ago, and sound a whole lot better.

 

[jeremy]

PAs are hard to get rid of today. There are less people playing live music and even fewer places to play it. Add to that, PAs are getting lighter, smaller, cheaper, and more powerful because of class D. I just turned down two free passive Carvin 2x15 speakers with horns. They ended up in the dumpster because no one would even take them for free.

yeah, mine is a passive setup. four 1x15" for mains, four 1x12" and two 1x10" for monitors, monitors get class d power, mains get old school crown. i can definitely hear the difference. its bulky and heavy, but man it sounds great. it would be a good installation in a club. we almost never haul pa anymore, either the club has it or the festival hires sound. it does get used once or twice a year, and as you said, it isnt worth much if anything.