Seller’s Remorse ... Sort of.

[gtrguy]

I miss my 1971 Telecaster that I bought new for $283 bucks. Not because it was a great guitar (it wasn't) but because today I could sell it for $3,000 bucks!

[cozmik_cowboy]

I miss my 1971 Telecaster that I bought new for $283 bucks. Not because it was a great guitar (it wasn't) but because today I could sell it for $3,000 bucks!

As I may have mentioned here before, I learned my first chords & the pentatonic scale (in '79) on a '66 Tele - which was a great guitar - that the guy teaching me had bought from a mutual friend* 2 years before for $300.

A few years later, he was married and the bills were piling up, so he sold it for $600.  To this day he tells me what a bad idea that was:  "Man, the next month the bills were there again, but the Tele is gone for good."

'66 Teles are going for about $15,000 last time I looked (but I've never heard him bemoan the loss of the monetary value; just the loss of a great guitar).


*Who had discovered that being a college student was even less remunerative than being a folkie multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter.  After that he had to make do with his 1917 Gibson A-15 mando, 1953 Les Paul, and 1953 D-28...........

Peter

[edwin]

I just sold a Blackface Pro Reverb today.   I’d had it for about 40 years.  It was loaded with JBL D-120s.  It was my only amp for 20 years, but I hadn’t played it much since the turn of the century (that’s fun to say).  We recently moved to a place with less storage and I’m trying to thin the herd a bit and make some room.   I plugged it in and played it some before the buyer arrived. WOW! does this amp sound sweet!   I started having second thoughts about selling it but, given that it probably weighs at least 75 lbs., probably more, I realized I would never actually use it again. 


But the universe often works in unexpected ways.   It turned out the buyer is a Deadhead and a really good player.  We wound up jamming for awhile and will be playing together again, so I’ll still get to hear the amp!  But it sure was tough to let it go.




Bill, tgo

I ran into the guy who bought it on a FB GD group! By his description, I knew it was you that he bought it from.


But I'm still gigging this:

[lbpesq]

Yea, I put in a request to join.  Still awaiting a response. And he’s coming over to jam.  Here’s my “big rig”, though I usually stack it vertically.

Bill, tgo

[cozmik_cowboy]

I ran into the guy who bought it on a FB GD group! By his description, I knew it was you that he bought it from.


But I'm still gigging this:

Nice tie-dye!  Does look a little a tad heavier than the fEARful rig, though.........

Bi-Sonics or Dark Stars on the EB-3?

Peter

[bigredbass]

I've lost enough things over my life I really prefer to enjoy things while they're around.  After a while, the relationship is fulfilled for both of us, and it's time to go our separate ways.  In that time, I know what it takes for me to sound like me, so I just don't stay up nights about the one that got away, or even worse to me, having to have this, this, and that, without which I'm really floundering.  Ain't gonna happen. 

No argument, I sounded like a best me on the Alembics, but I sound like me on most anything else, and that's what I'm after.  They're all wonderful tools I'm careful with and enjoy, but I quit being attached to them a long time ago emotionally.  I have the memories of what they all taught me which are huge, but I don't miss them or regret moving them on, I got broke from that the hard way.