Pieman Posted February 23, 2009 Posted February 23, 2009 The Artist Custom is a nice guitar and worth well over $1000. I would not get worked up over ebay policy because this will go north of $1K. At least he was honest and told the HFC his plans and rationale. Nathan, maybe another approach would have been to start your bidding at $1K - - or does ebay charge a fee based on starting bid?Do you have a reserve on the Echotone?I'll bet the guy whose Studio Custom sold recently for next to nothing thought he'd get at least a grand too.I think it costs something like 50 cents to add a reserve. I forget what it is, but it's dirt cheap. No reason not to.THIS ONE? FOR $920?http://cgi.ebay.com/Hamer-Studio-Custom-20...A1%7C240%3A1318
atquinn Posted February 23, 2009 Posted February 23, 2009 The Artist Custom is a nice guitar and worth well over $1000. I would not get worked up over ebay policy because this will go north of $1K. At least he was honest and told the HFC his plans and rationale. Nathan, maybe another approach would have been to start your bidding at $1K - - or does ebay charge a fee based on starting bid? Do you have a reserve on the Echotone? I'll bet the guy whose Studio Custom sold recently for next to nothing thought he'd get at least a grand too. I think it costs something like 50 cents to add a reserve. I forget what it is, but it's dirt cheap. No reason not to. THIS ONE? FOR $920? http://cgi.ebay.com/Hamer-Studio-Custom-20...A1%7C240%3A1318 No. This one, for $836: http://cgi.ebay.com/2003-Hamer-USA-Studio-...31273QQihZ007QQ If I didn't have Studio Customs coming out my ears, I would've bought that on principle alone -Austin
DavidE Posted February 23, 2009 Posted February 23, 2009 The Artist Custom is a nice guitar and worth well over $1000. I would not get worked up over ebay policy because this will go north of $1K. At least he was honest and told the HFC his plans and rationale. Nathan, maybe another approach would have been to start your bidding at $1K - - or does ebay charge a fee based on starting bid? Do you have a reserve on the Echotone? I'll bet the guy whose Studio Custom sold recently for next to nothing thought he'd get at least a grand too. I think it costs something like 50 cents to add a reserve. I forget what it is, but it's dirt cheap. No reason not to. THIS ONE? FOR $920? http://cgi.ebay.com/Hamer-Studio-Custom-20...A1%7C240%3A1318 No. This one, for $836: http://cgi.ebay.com/2003-Hamer-USA-Studio-...31273QQihZ007QQ If I didn't have Studio Customs coming out my ears, I would've bought that on principle alone -Austin That's the one I was thinking of.
Pieman Posted February 23, 2009 Posted February 23, 2009 How about that orange Newport that's been sitting at $499 for days?http://cgi.ebay.com/HAMER-NEWPORT-PRO_W0QQ...A1%7C240%3A1318
harryjmic Posted February 23, 2009 Posted February 23, 2009 You should have just listed te guitar for the lowest price you would been willing to accept, they would have hit you with a couple bucks in fees but then you would know you would at list get the minimum. I usually always do this instead of a reserve when listing an item for sale.
rooster69f Posted February 23, 2009 Posted February 23, 2009 How about that orange Newport that's been sitting at $499 for days?http://cgi.ebay.com/HAMER-NEWPORT-PRO_W0QQ...A1%7C240%3A1318Yeah, that color just won't sell. I have seen others in the same color and they go for REALLY low prices.
atquinn Posted February 23, 2009 Posted February 23, 2009 How about that orange Newport that's been sitting at $499 for days?http://cgi.ebay.com/HAMER-NEWPORT-PRO_W0QQ...A1%7C240%3A1318Yeah, that color just won't sell. I have seen others in the same color and they go for REALLY low prices.Not so fast. There's more than a day and a half left. I'm sure it'll do fine in the end.-Austin
cmatthes Posted February 24, 2009 Posted February 24, 2009 Ditto - that's the color I'd want, actually.
DavidE Posted February 24, 2009 Posted February 24, 2009 That's the color I have (if it has the sparkle) though I have the phat cats and bigsby. In my opinion, it's the best color for a Newport.
rooster69f Posted February 24, 2009 Posted February 24, 2009 How about that orange Newport that's been sitting at $499 for days?http://cgi.ebay.com/HAMER-NEWPORT-PRO_W0QQ...A1%7C240%3A1318Yeah, that color just won't sell. I have seen others in the same color and they go for REALLY low prices.Not so fast. There's more than a day and a half left. I'm sure it'll do fine in the end.-Austin"Fast" got nuthin' to do with it. I'm just saying that the past few that have been on there in that color have not done well, IMHO. Went for well under a grand (or did not hit reserve and did not come close to a grand).Not that it would bother me to be proved wrong....
Cary Posted February 24, 2009 Posted February 24, 2009 I'm not out to screw anyone, just want to make sure I don't get raped.But didn't you buy that guitar with the idea you were going to flip it and make a huge profit?http://www.hamerfanclub.com/forums/index.p...c=31538&hl=
Nathan of Brainfertilizer Fame Posted February 24, 2009 Author Posted February 24, 2009 I'm not out to screw anyone, just want to make sure I don't get raped.But didn't you buy that guitar with the idea you were going to flip it and make a huge profit?http://www.hamerfanclub.com/forums/index.p...c=31538&hl=Originally. Ya'll set me straight on that, so I lowered expectations. Now I just don't want to lose money.But if it doesn't get bid up high enough, I accept that I will.
Cary Posted February 24, 2009 Posted February 24, 2009 I'm not out to screw anyone, just want to make sure I don't get raped. But didn't you buy that guitar with the idea you were going to flip it and make a huge profit? http://www.hamerfanclub.com/forums/index.p...c=31538&hl= Originally. Ya'll set me straight on that, so I lowered expectations. Now I just don't want to lose money. But if it doesn't get bid up high enough, I accept that I will. got it. If I was you though, I think I'd keep the Studio and the Artist and dump the rest of those guitars. By the way, take care in Iraq and come back in one piece.
Nathan of Brainfertilizer Fame Posted February 24, 2009 Author Posted February 24, 2009 I'm not out to screw anyone, just want to make sure I don't get raped. But didn't you buy that guitar with the idea you were going to flip it and make a huge profit? http://www.hamerfanclub.com/forums/index.p...c=31538&hl= Originally. Ya'll set me straight on that, so I lowered expectations. Now I just don't want to lose money. But if it doesn't get bid up high enough, I accept that I will. got it. If I was you though, I think I'd keep the Studio and the Artist and dump the rest of those guitars. By the way, take care in Iraq and come back in one piece. But I have emotional connections to some of the crap guitars!!! To tell the truth, I'm really starting to like my little stable. I'm going to hold on to the Studio until I see prices creep up a little more, but I promised my wife I was buying it for investment. She responded by letting me buy 3 guitars for Valentine's Day!! Woot! I'm still trying to make guitar #2 be a Hamer USA Chaparral, but the guy is still considering. He wants to sell locally, doesn't want to ship. Guitar #1 was a Vandenberg, so no matter what, I have a good USA-made shredder, I'd just like two of 'em. It's possible I'll someday decide to get rid of the Sledgehammer, and maybe even the Carvin and the Stellar 1. But I'll never sell the import Cali or the XT SATF. Those are my two favorite guitars right now.
BubbaVO Posted February 25, 2009 Posted February 25, 2009 got it. If I was you though, I think I'd keep the Studio and the Artist and dump the rest of those guitars. By the way, take care in Iraq and come back in one piece. +1 & +100
marshal Posted February 25, 2009 Posted February 25, 2009 I would give u 150 for the echotone if that helps you outsal
Nathan of Brainfertilizer Fame Posted February 25, 2009 Author Posted February 25, 2009 I would give u 150 for the echotone if that helps you outsalToo late, it's already in auction.
velorush Posted March 1, 2009 Posted March 1, 2009 Congratulations, Nathan OBBF. $1,100 for the Artist seems in line with what you were wanting. Kind of sketchy there until the last minute what with that 0 FB bidder in the lead! Good auction.
Nathan of Brainfertilizer Fame Posted March 1, 2009 Author Posted March 1, 2009 Congratulations, Nathan OBBF. $1,100 for the Artist seems in line with what you were wanting. Kind of sketchy there until the last minute what with that 0 FB bidder in the lead! Good auction.Yeah, you nailed exactly what I was thinking! A 0FB bidder?!?!?But $960 was okay, I would only have lost about $30.You know what's interesting?Someone in Japan bought up the Alvarez, and the email says they are buying things off of eBay en masse. I read through their email, and it doesn't sound like any sort of scam...But the interesting thing is that the Alvarez was made in Japan 32 years ago. They've been around for pretty cheap, $200 is about all I was expecting to get for it...but having a Japanese company buy it up and ship it to Japan to sell there really reminds me of the part of the Hamer story when they talk about crating up used guitars and shipping them to Japan and Australia because those places had realized the value of "vintage" when we were still calling them "second hand". I don't regret selling the Alvarez at that price, but I wonder if they are going to start disappearing out of the US market?Another mildly interesting part is that I earned about $190 in 40 seconds. There was about 20 seconds left when someone jumped in and raised the price of the Echotone by $50, and about 20 seconds left when the bidder jumped in and raised the price of the Artist by $140. Man, those guys were taking chances they didn't have a temporarily slow connection!!!! I didn't realize snipers were getting that daring. Even though all the guitars had bids in that I wouldn't have canceled even without my public promise here, seeing the prices jump that much with that little time left, I will never again consider canceling an auction because it isn't bid high enough. I'll trust the snipers will get it up to where it should be in time.
Feynman Posted March 1, 2009 Posted March 1, 2009 I didn't realize snipers were getting that daring. People rarely sit and snipe anymore. It's all automated sniping systems. There are many to choose from.These days all the excitement comes in the last 3-5 seconds. Happy to see you end up okay with the auctions.
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