Qvart
Senior Member
So I decided to go cheap for now and wait for the perfect vintage SFIV to find it's way to me at some point in the future. I was able to snag this Newark Street S-100 pretty cheap. I haven't plugged it in yet, but I'm hoping the HB-1 repros are better than the (admittedly decent) mini humbuckers in the '13 model I used to have. And it definitely needs a setup which I probably won't get around to until tomorrow as well as taking some decent pictures. For now, here's the story...
There's this Ebay seller called "acousticsales" who lists what appears to be primarily "B-stock" items. This particular S-100 was listed for $599 OBO (typically they're at least $699 new) because of some black specks in the finish on the back of the neck: "The condition of this S-100 Polara is brand new and has never been previously owned. This item is considered BSTOCK due to small dark specs on the neck finish (see in picture #7)."
Honestly, if the seller hadn't pointed out the specks I probably never would have noticed.
So I made an offer of $350 and they responded with a counter offer of $549 and a note saying "These sell for $699 new!" I figured I offended them and that was the end of it, but then I thought what the hell and submitted another offer of $400 with a note saying "I am well aware of what they retail for however 1) they aren't as sought after as vintage 2) they don't hold their value 3) this particular one has a flaw and 4) it comes with a gig bag instead of a case."
Well, wouldn't you know it...they accepted the offer! And free shipping! So unless I find something really wrong with it tomorrow (and at first glance there doesn't appear to be anything) I'd say I got one helluva deal.
I originally uploaded a bunch of pics from the seller to Photobucket and displayed them here, but since PB is trying to extort $400/year for the privilege of third party hosting the pics weren't visible. I'm not going to fix it all right now, but if you want to see them I uploaded the pics to a FLICKR album.
There's this Ebay seller called "acousticsales" who lists what appears to be primarily "B-stock" items. This particular S-100 was listed for $599 OBO (typically they're at least $699 new) because of some black specks in the finish on the back of the neck: "The condition of this S-100 Polara is brand new and has never been previously owned. This item is considered BSTOCK due to small dark specs on the neck finish (see in picture #7)."
Honestly, if the seller hadn't pointed out the specks I probably never would have noticed.
So I made an offer of $350 and they responded with a counter offer of $549 and a note saying "These sell for $699 new!" I figured I offended them and that was the end of it, but then I thought what the hell and submitted another offer of $400 with a note saying "I am well aware of what they retail for however 1) they aren't as sought after as vintage 2) they don't hold their value 3) this particular one has a flaw and 4) it comes with a gig bag instead of a case."
Well, wouldn't you know it...they accepted the offer! And free shipping! So unless I find something really wrong with it tomorrow (and at first glance there doesn't appear to be anything) I'd say I got one helluva deal.
I originally uploaded a bunch of pics from the seller to Photobucket and displayed them here, but since PB is trying to extort $400/year for the privilege of third party hosting the pics weren't visible. I'm not going to fix it all right now, but if you want to see them I uploaded the pics to a FLICKR album.
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