Gear shoppin at pawn shops...I love pawn shops.
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Posted on Jan 20, 2012 07:05 am
dbmasters
Administrator Since: Apr 03, 2002
Put down a standing offer at a local pawn shop on an Ibanez Soundgear 506, nice bass, couple little nicks, but plays perfect, Bartolini active pick ups, a thin and nicely contoured body sounds great...and will be a steal if they meet my offer. w00t.
I really hope that thing stays hanging on the wall for a while so they have to consider my offer...same place has a 2003 Les Paul Special Faded which I put a really lowball offer on...
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Dematrixhttp://www.reverbnation.com/2ndgMember
Since: Nov 27, 2007
Jan 20, 2012 07:30 am nice man, yeah thats what i did with my baby, waited round till they had it for ages. this was in a music shop tho.
funny story tho...not sure if told you this one.
got the guitar for X amount of dollars after knocking it down a shipload.
Then after a little while the paint started lifting in areas...so took it back, got offered a repaint, so did that...got it back and did it again the same spots....took it back....
got 500 in cash and 70% off anything in the shop. So said ok i will spend the cash here.
So he then gave me even more discount bla bla...end of the day cant remmeber exactly how much i saved but it i think i mustve paid 900 fr a 1400$ guitar all up, and got a set of monitors for 389 valued at 1200 or something crazy.. man that to this day is the best ive done hahaha. was good.
Jan 20, 2012 08:20 am Wow, nice deal...
When it comes to dealing with pawn shops it takes patience to get the deal, it's gotta hang there a while before they start wanting to move it and willing to take less...on the Gibson, somebody goofed up and told me how much they had into it, so I know that now too...the bass I dunno, but I need to look at the Gibson's price tag and see if I can figure out from the SKU where/how they encode their price in it...then figure it from the basses SKU.
I'd really like the Gibson, not a big Les Paul fan as a whole, but this is a nice guitar, lighter than most LP's and a cool faded finish...and it'd be more of an investment than a purchase.
Dematrixhttp://www.reverbnation.com/2ndgMember
Since: Nov 27, 2007
Jan 20, 2012 08:46 pm nice
Jan 28, 2012 09:47 pm This is an area of my world for sure. I started buying in the pawn shops at about 15/yo I'm in my early 50's now. To my best recollection, it's roughly 18 guitars, 4 basses and 3-4 amps later. not counting the ones that have been traded away or something. Plus I donate a guitar to a kid that starting out every now and then. Parkers, Reverends, Godins you name it, I've had unbelievable finds. And at least several hundreds of other items. But my best finds to date would probably be (1) What turned out to be a 1974 Strat for $350, and (2) What turned out to be a 1975 P-bass for a $150. I say turned out to be in these cases because I didn't know that they were what they were when I bought them. Both of those were in the last 2-3 years. I think I'm addicted. I doubt there is a shop in 50 miles I haven't been in. And several states as well.................I got it bad...
