Epiphone Moderne's sell for how much?

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Thu Feb 10, 2011 8:15 pm

This one is available locally. The seller wants $925.

When I saw it I was like "yeah,right" and then I look on ebay and saw this
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James · Post by **James** » Thu Feb 10, 2011 8:18 pm

If he sold it on ebay he's end up paying around 10% on fees when you factor in listing cost, final value fee, paypal and whatever else. If it's $950 on ebay 850 privately is more reasonable than 925.

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Thu Feb 10, 2011 8:23 pm

I didn't even know Epiphone made these before today

Billy3000 · Post by **Billy3000** » Thu Feb 10, 2011 8:37 pm

James wrote:If he sold it on ebay he's end up paying around 10% on fees when you factor in listing cost, final value fee, paypal and whatever else. If it's $950 on ebay 850 privately is more reasonable than 925.

Ebay caps the final value fee of 10% at $500. So even if your guitar sells for $1000 you still only pay $50 for final value fees. I sold my stingray in december and paid around $60 in fees between final value, extra pictures, reserve price, and listing fees off of the $860 sale price. Then Paypal takes an addition 3% or something like that. So I think off of that guitar after ebay and paypal fees I wound up with about $780. I didn't factor in fees when I figured it would go for about $850- $900. Had I thought about those fees, I would have just put it up on craigslist for $800 and it probably would have sold pretty quickly.

James · Post by **James** » Thu Feb 10, 2011 8:50 pm

Billy3000 wrote:
James wrote:If he sold it on ebay he's end up paying around 10% on fees when you factor in listing cost, final value fee, paypal and whatever else. If it's $950 on ebay 850 privately is more reasonable than 925.
Ebay caps the final value fee of 10% at $500. So even if your guitar sells for $1000 you still only pay $50 for final value fees. I sold my stingray in december and paid around $60 in fees between final value, extra pictures, reserve price, and listing fees off of the $860 sale price. Then Paypal takes an addition 3% or something like that. So I think off of that guitar after ebay and paypal fees I wound up with about $780. I didn't factor in fees when I figured it would go for about $850- $900. Had I thought about those fees, I would have just put it up on craigslist for $800 and it probably would have sold pretty quickly.

Even with that cap you paid 9.3% in fees if you took $780 from $860. The last time I sold a range of stuff the fees came in at between 12 and 17%, with the items being Â£20-80 or so. It's definitely worth keeping in mind when buying and selling with ebay. There's a noticeable lack of stuff on ebay UK compared to a few years ago before the last big fee increase.

Viljami · Post by **Viljami** » Fri Feb 11, 2011 12:26 pm

Sorry to say it yet again, but...

I WANTS IT!!

(2011 colabonham race to the classifieds! What? You only need 50 posts to get in?)

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Fri Feb 11, 2011 1:56 pm

colabonham wrote:(2011 colabonham race to the classifieds! What? You only need 50 posts to get in?)

Wennnz · Post by **Wennnz** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 8:45 pm

That headstock is
*lolwut*

Otherwise, I'd hit it. Not for $950 though

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 9:59 pm

"The Day I Played The 1950's Gibson Moderne" (link)

Sloan · Post by **Sloan** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 7:11 am

i believe epiphone made these in the early 2000's along with that 'x-series' or what the fuck ever pieces of shit.

there were i think at least two more rare prototype gibson copies too. like an earlier proto of the explorer etc...

JJLipton · Post by **JJLipton** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 1:06 pm

Thinking about making it the final six?

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 8:56 pm

JJLipton wrote:Thinking about making it the final six?

No, It wouldn't be prudent.

Besides,I put one of the "Final 5" up for sale in the classifieds. The one that is worth as much as the other 4 combined.

JJLipton · Post by **JJLipton** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 2:07 am

Everytime you sell a beautiful guitar like that...i die a little inside

. No worries though, ive thought about selling my 58RI plenty of times

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 7:53 am

JJLipton wrote:Everytime you sell a beautiful guitar like that...i die a little inside . No worries though, ive thought about selling my 58RI plenty of times

I'm sad too

.Show me a picture of your R8 too cheer me up.

Actually,I'm not really sad cuz I got 25 Benjamins for it and I still have 4 guitars

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