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Selling Gear
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I'm going to be selling some of my old gear soon. I was wondering what would be the best way of going about this. Has anyone had good experiences with guitar center buying old gear? Rule out pawn shops by default. Is eBay, or Amazon my best option? If I can go down the street to guitar center that'd be great. I just don't want to get ripped off. The items are in very good condition.
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I've pretty much sold most of my old unused gear on Craigslist and have had a lot of success doing it that way. I generally check and see what similar stuff has sold for on Ebay and then price accordingly. You just have to be smart and be careful for scams. Guitar Center will most certainly not give you what your stuff is worth. Being a "middle man" they have to make money too.
I have used ebay a lot and not had any problem selling. You have to make sure you get an accurate shipping cost or you can get beat by ebays estimated cost. Most of the time I haven't had trouble buying but once in a while I've gotten a lemon. I don't use craigslist because I don't want strangers coming to my house.
@Philh0954 @anickt definitely won't be using craigslist. I have never used that site and I don't plan to ever. I might give eBay a shot, or who knows maybe guitar center will give me some decent money. Only issue with eBay is the bidding sytem and shipping.
If you set a realistic starting bid you'll be OK. I've had some things bid up a lot but many items went for not much more than the starting bid so you have to keep that in mind. No sense giving stuff away with low starting bids.
I've had only good experiences with Craigslist and I've had scores of them at this point. Meet someplace neutral like a coffee shop if you're concerned about it. When I have people come to the house I meet them in the living room with the item, never in the studio.
Coffee shops, big dogs and a mean woman; never had any problems.
Never had any issues with Craigslist either. Public places is a good idea with it. And like JGy said mean dogs and big women.........Or wait................
many of the police stations here have an official craigslist / online sales meeting place out front that is on camera. I live in an apartment so I just meet people in the lobby, works great. i used it about four times for actual money/trades and tons of times for quick giveaways. Never a problem. the nice thing with craigs is no need to rely on shipping and having to package things up etc.
I just bought a synth on Craigslist. The guy had a couple of friends over and had me test it on the porch. Worked for me.
I did something similar a few months ago when I was looking to get rid of a bunch of stuff. Instead of trying to coordinate sales with a bunch of different people at different times (the worst part of CL selling, honestly) I had a "music yard sale". I posted the yard sale a week in advance with all/most of my items as well as individual postings for the better stuff. Had a couple of friends over for the day to hang out, drink beer and be a presence and told people to come during those hours. First come first serve. Was a lot less hassle and it was a lot easier to sell the $10-$30 bits that would have been hard to move individually on CL or EBay. Had a fun day and sold most of my stuff too!
I didn't give out my address on CL or when people emailed/texted. Instead, I gave the nearest intersection in the ad and had people text me when they were on their way for the full address. Somehow it made me feel better to sort of manage who had the address.
I've sold a guitar at GC before, but you won't get more than about 50% of what they'd sell it for. Check their "used" page on their site to get an idea of their selling prices.
I just sold a guitar to a guy on Craigslist. When he texted me in response to the ad, he gave me his full name. I checked him out on Facebook and found that he was a guitar instructor for kids at a music store, he had his own personal website, and I saw pics of him on his company page. In that instance I didn't mind inviting him to my house to let him try it out. In most cases, though, I wouldn't.
I also sold a Shure 57 mic on Craigslist, and just met the dude at a Starbucks. He was cool with buying it without trying it out first, so it was a quick exchange.
I love craigslist for music stuff. It's kind of proven to me musicians are a better cross section of people than the general public. Bought and sold stuff. I make sure to talk to them on the phone. You get an idea of if you want to deal with people pretty quick when you talk to them. For selling stuff, I make sure to be honest about any issues the gear has, and settle on a price ahead of time. It's so nice to not have to deal with shipping and listing stuff on eBay. Can meet at the coffee shop and bring headphones, to have them test stuff, if you don't want to have people over to your house, but it isn't weird to receive people on your porch, or garage, if that's more comfortable than having them inside.
eBay takes a hefty chunk, 13% last I checked. And there's about 2 hours of your time to list it and ship it. You might check out Reverb.com, it's a website for selling music gear privately, and they charge less than eBay. If it's something specialized or super rare and you want top dollar, eBay still might be the way to go, otherwise you might want to reconsider craigslist, and cut out the middle man.
ebay gets more eyes than CL, guitar center but you pay for that. safest route and you have protection.
CL is immediate. no fees, but you do deal with a lot of people "on the fence" or just fishing around. i personally dont like CL because people are too flaky and i dont have time chasing around meeting up with folks.
guitar center just goes to fleabay and sees what the lowest sold listing was for what you are selling and then chop off 10% or so. the good thing about guitar center is they will take 10% off an item if you sell/trade to them on top of the selling of your gear.
I just offloaded about 4 thousand dollars worth of gear in the last two months on fleabay. i have left a pair of brand new jbl 308s i never used (no box though). i plan to sell these to guitar center for 225 USD for both (practically giving them away at that point) but i do get 10% of on a $3000.00 synth i plan to purchase so, right there thats 525 bux off the cost.
main thing is be prepared to settle for less than what you think your items are worth. be realistic in these economic times...
@JP-08 No matter what it's going to be a profit. I was given this gear by a friend of mine a long time ago. I might sell a few others that I purchased as well, but for the most part I'm just looking to make back some cash for a recent purchase I made.
This is a brilliant solution. I guess, to be fair, a lot of choices will be influenced by exactly where you live in the world. When in Maine I would be dealing (buying or selling) with long distances. Here in South Austin you can throw a rock out the window and find a musician to sell it to before the thing hits the ground...
Reverb.com
thats the right attitude to have brotha!
I have used ebay for a while now - buying and selling- for me it's the best option. Just make sure you time your listing to finish at a time when most folk are likely to be browsing- I find about 7pm on a Sunday is as good as any. Also have several good clear photographs- of your actual item- as opposed to getting a stock photo off the web.
I used to use sound on sound classifieds, reading the responses here I had bad habits, if they came round mine, I'd always bring them in the studio to have a little play, cup of tea and a chat, maybe we'd spark one up, if they were so inclined and travelled far. I was very lucky and had nice experiences, now I'd mainly use ebay, take pictures of the worse parts, scuffs and stuff and use a good courier if it's over a certain amount, I've been lucky buying and selling on ebay too.