Selling your guitar to a store?

[Matt Wildman]

Do you guys think that most guitar shops (commercial and private) would buy a guitar back from you that you bought at their store? I’m thinking about selling the epiphone LP to get a Schecter.

 

[John Setzler]

Of course. They’d just look at the Blue Book of Guitar Values to determine how much they’d give you for it.

 

[Richard O'connor]

They will but I tried to do this with my mesa boogie
I bought it from them for £1500 and when I tried to sell it back to them they tried to give me just 500. So be careful

 

[Jake Young]

Stores will..but most will try to low ball you..big chains usually give an in store discount on top of their offer. But try reverb.com they do take a percentage but it’s not huge..just depends on what it ends up selling for. Cool story…I put my 02 Tremonti PRS on reverb and the tour manager of Alter Bridge/Tremonti ended up buying it for Mark to use for his B-rig in Europe!! I was pumped and it made the pain of selling it a little less painful! Hah he said Mark said there’s something special about the 02/03 models of his signature

 

[Matt Wildman]

That’s cool! I’ll be careful, hopefully I can get at least 100 out of it. I bought it for 130 last year at the same store

 

[Ed Seith]

If you bought it new for $130 last year, you will not get more than maybe $40 for it. TOPS. You might get $75 if you try to sell it privately, but it will take longer and be more hassle.
Anything you buy new will lose a significant part of it’s value the minute the return period is over. Selling to a store will always be trading money for convenience.

 

[Matt Wildman]

So I should just keep the guitar and buy the other one I want. I mean it’s not a bad guitar

 

[Markus Nick]

It’s good to have a couple of guitares. Just tune them differently I would keep it. Depends on your income.