stratacus Posted March 24, 2012 Posted March 24, 2012 No affiliation. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hamer-USA-Chaparral-12-string-ultra-rare-/200733438083?pt=Guitar&hash=item2ebca53083
specialk Posted March 24, 2012 Posted March 24, 2012 Looks good and the price seems fair. White Hamers rule!
Joe G Posted March 25, 2012 Posted March 25, 2012 That looks like a HFC'er is selling it - Nathan of Brainfertilizer fame
Nathan of Brainfertilizer Fame Posted March 25, 2012 Posted March 25, 2012 Yeah, it's me.I bought it for $900 2 years ago.I want to get as close to $900 as possible.With the guitar market as weak as it is, I didn't feel comfortable posting it here asking for $900...why ask any of you to overpay just so I don't lose money?But if I'm wrong about the market, this way it allows the market to set the price, instead of my ignorance. I don't want to be low-balled, I don't want to be foolishly stubborn on an unrealistically high price.
Nathan of Brainfertilizer Fame Posted March 26, 2012 Posted March 26, 2012 Update:Well, someone asked me if it was jangly like a Rickenbacker.So I actually took the time to plug it in and play it...and fell in love with it all over again.Since no one had bid on it yet, I raised the starting bid and the buy it now price. Probably to a point far beyond what anyone is willing to pay...but better than just cancelling the auction, right?
Nathan of Brainfertilizer Fame Posted March 26, 2012 Posted March 26, 2012 ...since that is a ridiculously high price now on eBay, I'll still sell it here on HFC for $900 + shipping costs.PM me if you want it.
django49 Posted March 26, 2012 Posted March 26, 2012 That is around the price I paid for one some months ago on eBay. Certainly a lot of fun and great sounds for that sort of price, Someone here should jump on it if you have any use for a 12ver at all.
Nathan of Brainfertilizer Fame Posted March 26, 2012 Posted March 26, 2012 ...well, the other choice was to cancel the auction and not even offer it HFC members for $900 (what I paid for it).[shrug]No one had bid, so it isn't like anyone was biting even at $600. If they were trying to snipe to get it cheap, that's the risk you take in not bidding early. Had anyone bid, I would have had no choice but to honor the implied contract and sell it for whatever the bidding process resulted in.
serial Posted March 26, 2012 Posted March 26, 2012 Or you could've done like every other seller on eBay and cancelled the auction if the bid wasn't where you thought it should be.
Nathan of Brainfertilizer Fame Posted March 26, 2012 Posted March 26, 2012 Or you could've done like every other seller on eBay and cancelled the auction if the bid wasn't where you thought it should be.Really? I've *always* hated it when someone cancelled an auction without any explanation at all.This way, at least people know why, and it is still available if someone simply has to have one right now no matter what....and if someone goes for the new price I set, the other 19 or so people who own Chaparall 12-strings all owe me a beer.
django49 Posted March 26, 2012 Posted March 26, 2012 "...and if someone goes for the new price I set, the other 19 or so people who own Chaparall 12-strings all owe me a beer."You are ON!
tobereeno Posted March 27, 2012 Posted March 27, 2012 yeah, I just saw this NOW. At $600 I would have bit. Just bought that Ovation doubleneck though for a second 12 string, and the Jimmie Vaughan project is still ongoing. Any guitar I get requires an investment of work and parts.Those are the same pickups in my blonde TLE. They sound so good that I did not automatically rip them out and replace with Seymour Duncans - the first guitar I've had to keep its stock electronics.
Nathan of Brainfertilizer Fame Posted March 27, 2012 Posted March 27, 2012 yeah, I just saw this NOW. At $600 I would have bit. Just bought that Ovation doubleneck though for a second 12 string, and the Jimmie Vaughan project is still ongoing. Any guitar I get requires an investment of work and parts.Those are the same pickups in my blonde TLE. They sound so good that I did not automatically rip them out and replace with Seymour Duncans - the first guitar I've had to keep its stock electronics.Tobereeno,Sorry dude...I truly am, but after actually seriously playing it again (just about the first time in 2 years...it has been in a case the whole time, as I forgot how much fun it was to play), I decided that regardless of what it is worth on the open market, it is worth more than that to me.$1500 is an offer I couldn't refuse, so that's where the starting bid is. $2500 is only in case there is some rich individual with money burning a hole in his pocket who doesn't want to risk me cancelling the auction.But until the auction ends, I am still offering it to HFCers only at what I paid for it, $900. While I admit that is probably higher than the going rate, at least it stays within the HFC family, and even after the auction ends, anyone who wants it knows I have it and can open negotiations with a new offer at any time. Who knows? Maybe there's a MIK shredder you have sitting around that would sweeten a cash offer...I'd take a chunk off the price for a MIK S series Ibanez w/ the Zero Resistance trem (depending on which level S5xx would make me happier than S3xx)
crunchee Posted March 27, 2012 Posted March 27, 2012 $900 ain't bad, all things considering. Hamer USA resale values for the most part suck compared to other comparable USA made guitars...a HFC lament since forever. BUT, if you're planning to get some use out of it vs. buying it to look at it for awhile then flip it, then I don't think it's bad. Even though I have no disposable income at the moment, it's just my 'two cents', figuratively speaking.
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