We've all done it. You see something in the music store you want. You don't take the time to try it out, or do a little research, or think about it, and you wind up selling it and losing money, trading it and losing money, never use it, or just hide it. I bought a new Gibson Faded Brown Mahogany Les Paul when they first came out. I had my tax refund just burnin a hole in my pocket. I played it in the store for a total of 10 minutes, plopped down the change, used it once or twice, traded it off for a Fender Strat with the piezo pickup whatever in the bridge to get that acoustic sound, used it once or twice and put it up for sale , couldn't sell it for months. Needed the cash one day and sold it to the pawn shop for $200 (I was broke!). Funny thing is that I saw that same Strat at Music Go Round about a month later, checked the serial #, it was the same Strat. They wanted $649.00!!

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Life is like a sh*t sandwich. The more bread you have, the less sh*t you have to eat.

I sold my 93 MIJ Telecaster fotoflame for $400 and have regretted it ever since. I liked it better than my Hwy 1 for sure. At the time I needed the cash to fund a Guild acoustic I bought and in hindsight I love the Guild so it was worth it, but damn I would trade my Hwy 1 in a heartbeat to get my old MIJ back. I took a $100 loss on the MIJ and I would gladly pay $100 plus trade my Hwy 1 to get it back.

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Blues with a feeling.

GUILD GUITARS: MADE TO BE PLAYED!

Mine too, bought a Digitech for my bass, it was a real hate-hate relationship.

I've changed my mind a few times, but overall I'm pretty cheap so I've never bought anything that was "too much."

My first guitar was a LP knockoff for $180 used. You could buy it at Target for $90 new. >___________>

There have been other dumb purchases, but that one was probably the dumbest.

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I traded my car in for a microphone.

I absolutely fell in love with an Epiphone Sheraton about 10 years ago. It was a natural wood finish and was one of the most gorgeous guitars I had ever seen. I bought it on a whim.

I had it almost a year before I admitted that it just wasn't comfortable and I couldn't get the kind of sounds out of it that I wanted.

Sold it for a song.

Years ago i bought what people refer to as a Dan Smith Strat (1982)

brand new. Eventually around 1992 i think it was i sold it as i didnt bother

with guitars. Instead of leaving it in a cupboard it went for £250 or so

from memory.

Just been looking at the pics in an old photo album.

Traded a Strat with Texas Specials and Sperzel locking tuners for a Schecter Super strat style guitar because I was on a HB kick...hated it within a day of getting it home and traded it eventually for a Jay Turser LP...which is actually a surprisingly good guitar, but value wise, no comparison to the original strat.

Big regrets on that one.

I have also bought 2 Crybaby wahs and sold both of them after not liking either.

Dumb.

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CREDO ELVEM IPSUM ETAIM VIVERE

Ughhh, i know what its like man, i dont play my SG

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riley

I have been very fortunate in never getting burnt selling a guitar. On the other hand there have been purchases that I may of overpaid a few times on a few guitars. The other day there was a post and gambling came up in it as the guy said he was a handicapper. Well handicapper or whatever I can give him a few lessons in that department, as he left off saying he wanted to parlay his winnings. A parlay is what is known as a suckers bet and any bookie will take every customer who bets that way. Selling a guitar to a pawn shop or even turning it into another store for credit is also a suckers move as you are going to take a loss. Just this week I was going to sell a really hard to find guitar because I wanted to purchase a new one really bad, but after thinking over how long it took me to find that guitar and that the other one is available in any store I came to my senses and nixed the sale.If this was a different point in time it would of been gone. By the way I made my first bet at 13 and my last one at 38 without ever missing a year. It has been 10 year exact that I have not made a bet and I am a lot wiser for it and as my wife would say nicer to be around. By the way that first bet was of course a parlay=sucker.

Same here. Once I got a broken Electro Harmonix Reverb pedal for $25 thinking that I could fix it. I don't even need a reverb pedal, but $25 sounded really good. Well, I couldn't fix and neither could anyone who looked at it. It ended up in a trash bin. I should have bought $25 of music or guitar strings.

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Just think of how awesome a guitar player you could have been by now if you had only spent the last 10 years practicing instead of obsessing over pickups and roasted maple necks.

I try as much as possible to buy only used gear at a price as far below market value as I can... if I can establish that there is in fact a market for it besides me, that is. I'm a bit of a hoarder, but the time is coming for me to let some items go, I think. I like to keep them until I could maybe make a small profit, or until forced to sell for -- hopefully -- what I paid for them. Postage fees and the like are an acceptable loss for getting to play with some toys.

There are a few bits and pieces that I've paid more than the US going rate for, but that's because they're the only examples of their kind I've seen locally in the past year or two. I bought a couple of old B.K. Butler Tube Works pedals because they're the only second-hand 240V ones I've seen, and they take me back to when I was first getting into the guitar.

I've never been burnt on an instrument, but I haven't owned many either. I traded two Ibanez metal sticks for a brand new Strat Ultra in '92, and that was my only guitar for 17 years. Well worth it from my point of view, and the Ultra has appreciated somewhat into the bargain (except that I'd have to sell it!)

I did think I'd made a mistake with a '70s Melos Mini-Fazer pedal a while ago. I set myself a ceiling of whatever the going rate for a reissue '74 MXR Phaser was (the originals are horrendously expensive), and ended up snagging it for only slightly below that amount. It was pretty beaten up, but sounded great... only problem was that it chewed through batteries even when it was unplugged and stashed away! I couldn't work it out; I decided that it would be best just to get one of those battery-snap adaptors and make a small hole in the housing for the cable. Well, now it's just about the best-sounding pedal I own. It's an ugly, moth-eaten little bugger but I love it to bits.

same here! hence why I am stuck with a like new Godin 5th Avenue archtop and a DeArmond M66. I got a great deal on both of them but now I can't find a buyer! I ma tempted to put a humbucker in the neck of the Godin but I really need to sell it! Must sell it!

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Blues with a feeling.

GUILD GUITARS: MADE TO BE PLAYED!

Destroyed two Tom Delonge strats ( one in Graffitti Yellow the other Surf Green ) when I was in my old band. The Surf Green one was the first guitar I saved up for all by myself, the yellow one was a B-day purchace my Grandma got me because I liked Blink 182. Wish I still had those two.