mavuser
Enlightened Member
how someone can figure out enough online/on a computer, to post a FS w pictutes and all, be it ebay, craigslist, reverb, etc....and not take an extra 30 seconds to google how to find the date/year the guitar or amp was made. I have always been facinated by this. just chose today to share this random thought with the group. someone selling a Fender amp lists it at 1976 and its actually 1972. someone selling a Guild guitar says 1971 and its 1975. some stuff i know is tricky to date, but most stuff can be pinpointed in less than 5 minutes online. its like, you are selling what you think is a $1,000 guitar. would it be worth an extra five minutes to find out if maybe its worth $1,500? or $1,200? or even $1,050??? an amp with a tailed fender logo cannot be from 1976, its just not possible. that is literally a one second check. A D-25 from 1971 cannot have an arched back, another one second check. sure u have to get the information first, but thats like 5 minutes. i could understand if you didnt know how to use a computer at all whatsoever, but if u are on ebay, reverb, craigslist, etc, and u have made it that far...
some people just dont get it. I was once in a GC and this employee said "please play this guiitar, check it out we cleaned it up and set it up for this guy, and his debit card got declined I really need to sell it." It was actually a really nice Fender Lead guitar. I asked her "do you know what year its from?" she said "its 1971." now Im standing there with 3 other people, and this is actually a really nice USA Fender guitar, but i look at the young lady employee (maybe 20 years old) and say "that sounds like a mix up, you may need to double check that or run the serial number again, because, there is no way on earth this guitar is from 1971." she went and checked and of course corrected herself "I'm so sorry, it is 1981!". now this made me feel old because all along I knew her mistake was an innocent one, and at that moment I realized, she was young enough, that in her mind...there was little, if any, difference between 1971 and 1981 (generally speaking). she was polite but at the same time sort of like "does that really make a difference?" and in essence, really it should not, if the instrument speaks to you, it was still USA etc...but we all know it does. She actually did a great job on the guitar, and someone did buy it that day, but I just feel like, you work in a guitar store, and you are focusing on this one specific guitar...get it together! I was cool about it, but some other people may have given her a hard time.
ok /end rant.
some people just dont get it. I was once in a GC and this employee said "please play this guiitar, check it out we cleaned it up and set it up for this guy, and his debit card got declined I really need to sell it." It was actually a really nice Fender Lead guitar. I asked her "do you know what year its from?" she said "its 1971." now Im standing there with 3 other people, and this is actually a really nice USA Fender guitar, but i look at the young lady employee (maybe 20 years old) and say "that sounds like a mix up, you may need to double check that or run the serial number again, because, there is no way on earth this guitar is from 1971." she went and checked and of course corrected herself "I'm so sorry, it is 1981!". now this made me feel old because all along I knew her mistake was an innocent one, and at that moment I realized, she was young enough, that in her mind...there was little, if any, difference between 1971 and 1981 (generally speaking). she was polite but at the same time sort of like "does that really make a difference?" and in essence, really it should not, if the instrument speaks to you, it was still USA etc...but we all know it does. She actually did a great job on the guitar, and someone did buy it that day, but I just feel like, you work in a guitar store, and you are focusing on this one specific guitar...get it together! I was cool about it, but some other people may have given her a hard time.
ok /end rant.
