Used gear from private sellers is all but extinct.

Yeah, the price of used guitars has gone up, but have you checked the price of new guitars lately? $1200 for Indonesian made Ibanez RG's and almost $900 for Mexican made Fenders...
Add to that the fact that most manufacturers ran out of good wood back in 2014 or so, and I can see why used guitar prices have gone up. I'm not saying I am going to pay those inflated prices right now, but I am not surprised.
 
GuitarStv said:
Likely there will be a lot of stuff going up for sale (on Reverb and locally) in the next year or two.
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That's what people said 2-3 years ago when the lockdowns started. All the people thinking they want to learn guitar will give up and there will be GUITARS FOR ALL, everybody said.

WELL, WHERE ARE THEY?!
 
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Lucius Paisley said:
That's what people said 2-3 years ago when the lockdowns started. All the people thinking they want to learn guitar will give up and there will be GUITARS FOR ALL, everybody said.

WELL, WHERE ARE THEY?!
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I think the curve just hasn't kicked in but it will. Over the last 9 months, a large number of my COVID driven students have fallen off. Some are back in the office without the luxury of strumming while they were on a conference call when the lockdown was tightist. Others are simply realizing that they're never going to master the instrument but they're stepping down slowly.

But there were a lot of them, and my guess is those unused instruments instruments will go on sale about a year from now.
 
zionstrat said:
But there were a lot of them, and my guess is those unused instruments will go on sale about a year from now.
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People are selling all over the place down here. At outrageous prices similar to those mentioned above, but they're there.

I'd have to do something very stupid to afford one of them, however.
 
NegativeEase said:
Ive been saying for 4 years that Reverb has matured into a completely informed market of mostly dealers and collectors who inflate the used market and sustain the market price on new, so getting "deals" on Reverb is rare now, that doesnt mean you can't buy for a fair price still, but you won't find steals of the past like on other marketplaces.
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I've noticed that you can sometimes still get a good deal on basses on reverb, probably because everyone is mostly interested in guitars on there and they sit around but I've gotten 2 basses of there this year one for 10% off and the other for 15% off good basses a Gibson and a fender. I just put something on my watch list from everyone selling what I'm looking at and after a couple days sometimes you will get an offer depends on how long they have had it in stock. You can also look at how long ago it was listed for leads on ones to watch. It doesn't always work but has worked quite nicely twice for me this year. I've received offers on guitars too but not near as often as on basses it seems like.
 
Mikelamury said:
I've noticed that you can sometimes still get a good deal on basses on reverb, probably because everyone is mostly interested in guitars on there and they sit around but I've gotten 2 basses of there this year one for 10% off and the other for 15% off good basses a Gibson and a fender. I just put something on my watch list from everyone selling what I'm looking at and after a couple days sometimes you will get an offer depends on how long they have had it in stock. You can also look at how long ago it was listed for leads on ones to watch. It doesn't always work but has worked quite nicely twice for me this year. I've received offers on guitars too but not near as often as on basses it seems like.
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Yeah, I'd say Guitars, Pedals and Amps are where the ocean is completely red on Reverb to your point.
 
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