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Topic: Gruhn's Fairy Tales? |
Alan Kirk
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Scotia, CA, USA
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Posted 24 Oct 2005 3:31 pm |
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There is something obviously self-serving about a vintage guitar dealer publishing a price guide. My experience is that Gruhn's prices are usually always higher than the going rate on the open market (eBay). The GCREP dorks also cite Gruhn's when they are called to account for their outrageous eBay starting prices.
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Keith Cordell
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San Diego
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Posted 24 Oct 2005 4:23 pm
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| I have always had issues with that conflict, as well as the inherent service Vintage Guitar magazine does its advertisers by publishing some very high prices in it's monthly mag- many times the super rare stuff in the price guide just happens to be stuff that popped up in the full page ads by one of their paid sponsors. It's all a crapshoot, but they have really hurt the players, IMO. |
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA
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Posted 24 Oct 2005 4:59 pm
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Gruhn's Guide to Vintage Guitars contains no pricing information whatsoever. Perhaps you're thinking of the Vintage Guitar Price Guide books, which have been published yearly to give people an idea of what instruments are selling for. They use a series of dealers nationwide to establish pricing.
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Mark van Allen
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Watkinsville, Ga. USA
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Posted 24 Oct 2005 11:12 pm
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While it does seem self-serving for a high-volume dealer to publish a pricing guide, who better would have access to all of the variables in guitar-trading bucksville?
Bottom line, pricing guides may influence things like (dang it) pawnshop and ebay pricing, but in the end the market will sort itself out. How many people actually buy at those super-inflated GC vintage store/ebay prices anyway? Watching the going rates for various guitars, it seems the market takes care of it's own.
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Dan Sawyer
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Studio City, California, USA
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Posted 25 Oct 2005 9:48 am
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| Gruhn does not publish a price guide. |
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Bob Knight
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Bowling Green KY
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Posted 25 Oct 2005 12:04 pm
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| Gruhn does publish prices on their web site........ |
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Drew Howard
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Posted 25 Oct 2005 12:35 pm
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Gruhn Guitars, Elderly Instruments, and a few other dealers help establish pricing trends in part by the sheer volume of their inventory and sales, not to mention their long-standing reputations in the business. No need for a "pricing guide", just go to their websites.
Drew
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Drew Howard - website - Fessenden guitars, 70's Fender Twin, etc.
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Keith Cordell
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San Diego
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Posted 26 Oct 2005 6:24 am
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| The real culprit in bad pricing judgement in pawn shops and GC is the Orion Blue Book. Yikes, it's bad. |
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Willis Vanderberg
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Petoskey Mi
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Posted 28 Oct 2005 6:11 am
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| There are also some folks out there giving written appraisels of instruments that are way off base. I saw a ShoBud Maverick that had a written appraisel of $ 1400.00 by some dude in Nashville. I don't recall his name but the appraisel certificate was a very impressive looking document.The seller was very dissapointed when the highest offer he got was $ 350.00. |
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