Asking Ain't Getting

[Steve Haynie]

Have fun complaining about the price of a guitar you are not going to buy. 

https://reverb.com/item/66210330-gibson-firebird-x

[DaveL]

Destined to be a long term investment!!!    
 

Because you’ll be stuck with it for MANY YEARS.l!!  

[G Man]

At first I thought this was going to be the $75K+ Standard on reverb, but this guy is just as whack on his expectations.🤪

[JGale]

Nice finish though.

[santellavision]

I think I see it here...
 

 

[robberns]

There is a reason that model only lasted 15-minutes.

[crunchee]

^^^^^A true monument to the vision of Henry J..   

[bruce919]

2 hours ago, santellavision said:

I think I see it here...
 

 

I am sure it was legal reasons they were trashed, no matter what you thought of them its a shame they got destroyed. Some kid just learning would have enjoyed have a Gibson guitar no matte how oddball the guitar turned out. 

[Drew816]

They were destroyed because they were an abomination and threat to humanity; as I understand it from the "Interwebs" which is the keeper of all knowledge. 😉

SOOO, really long term investment, like say, 300-500 years before you could get maybe half of that money out?

[TBP]

Someone has made an offer, anyway. I wonder if it's more than $42.24.

Maybe I would have gotten more attention for the stuff I recently sold if I had listed them like that.  Even a guitar that was 1 of 100 made (and to my knowledge none were intentionally destroyed) didn't get interest.  (The retailer I sold it to flipped it for more than I was asking within a few hours, though).  I'll have to try "investment for the future" next time.

The seller should also put up a video of the automatic tuning in action.  I wonder if those are rare now, as I imagine nearly everyone who had one removed it.

[scottcald]

That’s some Henry J fanboying right there. 

[hamerhead]

On 3/21/2023 at 12:26 PM, santellavision said:

I think I see it here...
 

 

You know they're worth more now that they've been relic'd.

 

[dhuber]

I'm impressed how well those guitars handled the first pass of the excavator.  I also noticed toward the end the excavator was starting and stopping to impact more damage.  It would not suprise me if 50 years from now they bring a high value being they were such a short run.  The fact the Gibson is destroying these is also limiting supply which should also push up future value.  However the seller could move the price decimal point one digit to the left and I think this guitar would still be over priced.

[django49]

On 3/21/2023 at 11:51 AM, crunchee said:

^^^^^A true monument to the vision of Henry J..