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Argh, the GAS!

If you go back to the link in the original post, it takes you to the sale page. https://www.adorama.com/evh108005539.html?emailPrice=t

While I totally agree with you (and take offense to the Eruption point), that has never stopped Fender, Gibson and the like from over-pricing objectively ugly "signature" models from artists we've never heard of. It could just be a case of them having too fucking many of them clogging up their warehouses. If I were still playing I would snatch one up, drop the EVH logo (and replace it with a FACKYO-based custom logo), throw on a relic'd pickguard and... well... leave it in the case like the rest of the guitars I've owned. But I would be a good starting point for a project/time waster.

These are $699 now!

Yup - was thinking the same as Kiz (except for the Fackyo logo - that would be a nice touch - I was just thinking of sanding off the logo...) But, the basswood body is a deal breaker.

Might be price drops because that guitar is so associated with a moment in time, and that moment is now a memory only for people with AARP cards. I'm the age group that remembers the impact of Eruption, but the number of people who want a very distinctive and objectively ugly guitar from 45 years ago is dwindling. It's like if you were trying to sell Woody Herman signature model clarinets in 1990. The target demographic are more worried about the RMDs from their 401(k)s and Medicare than rockin' like Eddie.

Perhaps they were just overpriced to begin with.