There's a pawn shop in town that I visit regularly. Like most pawn shops, most of their stuff is worn out and overpriced. However, I HAVE gotten two good bargains there:
1. An Alvarez electric guitar that they clearly could not research well. Not many were made, so they don't show up in a lot of blue books. I got it for $82 and sold it the next day on e-bay for $275 (and that was probably a bargain, too).
2. A Gretsch electric guitar I got for about $275. I still have it, and it's worth about $500, easily.
However, yesterday I noticed a Takamine classical acoustic guitar (nylon strings) with its own built-in pre-amp, an EG128SC. I came home to research it before I bought it. By the time I got back to it this morning, it was gone. They were asking $135 for it, and it was worth over $300. Fooey.
1. An Alvarez electric guitar that they clearly could not research well. Not many were made, so they don't show up in a lot of blue books. I got it for $82 and sold it the next day on e-bay for $275 (and that was probably a bargain, too).
2. A Gretsch electric guitar I got for about $275. I still have it, and it's worth about $500, easily.
However, yesterday I noticed a Takamine classical acoustic guitar (nylon strings) with its own built-in pre-amp, an EG128SC. I came home to research it before I bought it. By the time I got back to it this morning, it was gone. They were asking $135 for it, and it was worth over $300. Fooey.
