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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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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.

I didn't even know Epiphone made these before today

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.

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 £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.

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?)

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

That headstock is


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

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

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...

Thinking about making it the final six?

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.

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

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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