The price seems good to me (or at least, I'm willing to pay it), and the photos, while not perfectly descriptive, seem to indicate pretty good condition.
CAR Jags aren't hard to come by, but I prefer a bare maple headstock and those are harder to find (before this year's AVRI, anyway). I plan on making an offer on this immediately (so please be a buddy and don't snipe me! but I wanted to know if anyone can spot any red flags first:
1) The serial number isn't clear in the photo and I would have preferred to look it up beforehand.
2) The production year isn't specified.
Nothing seems drastically wrong or suspicious beyond those two points. Any thoughts?
The serial number looks to begin with a Q and the "Crafted in Japan" decal is of a later style using a bigger/clearer font (it was previously smaller, more italicized and bold). Both of these point toward it being made between 2002-2004 and being part of the limited non-matching-stock LPB/CAR import run in the US during that time.
So yes, it seems totally legit.
Aug wrote:which one of you bastards sent me an ebay question asking if you can get teh kurdtz with that 64 mustang?
robertOG wrote:fran & paul are some of the original gangstas of the JS days when you'd have to say "phuck"
You guys have better eyes than me! I couldn't make out that "Q" for the life of me.
Anyway, thanks! My guess was the 2002-2004 as well, which would make this the exact model I'm looking for. Due to the somewhat hard-to-find nature of this particular model, I'm very much in favor of making the purchase.
Is your surprise over the $999 price tag that it's too high or too low, though? I've wanted to get a Jag forever but this will be my first so I'm still not an expert on pricing.
I did some digging of my own and it's looking now like $999 is way beyond what a CIJ Jag from 2002-2004 is worth. I Googled my way to a LPB version of the same model (in excellent condition) for sale at $550.
On the other hand, I so rarely see these particular models on eBay, so I'm still weighing it. We'll see.
In the meantime, any more perspective from the more experienced Jag players would be appreciated.
dragnet99 wrote:I did some digging of my own and it's looking now like $999 is way beyond what a CIJ Jag from 2002-2004 is worth. I Googled my way to a LPB version of the same model (in excellent condition) for sale at $550.
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Whut? Your google skills far exceed mine, ya still got that link?
If you go to the Ishibashi U-Box site (click for link) and search "OCR" on the left, you will find an OCR MIJ Jaguar for ¥59810 ($600) used. It has a matching headstock though. They will ship it to you for $100-$150 and are fantastic with customer service. Once there was a problem with an instrument I bought used and I argued it with them - they refunded me $100 and went to a lot of trouble to do that.
but I wanted to know if anyone can spot any red flags first:
