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Post subject: Re: Guitar investment
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 7:47 am
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The heck you say..My guitars are worth bezillions!

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Post subject: Re: Guitar investment
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 8:12 am
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Monalst wrote:
The heck you say..My guitars are worth bezillions!

Ha! I like your style, Mona. 8)

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Post subject: Re: Guitar investment
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 10:10 am
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And now, in a nice circular way, we've once more made our way from guitars to guns.

Gotta love it. :shock:

How about #4 shells for my Remington 20 gauge pumps?

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Post subject: Re: Guitar investment
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 10:16 am
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TheKingofPain wrote:
As has been pointed out, this is a very bad idea. NOW, that's not to say that real property isn't a "hedge", because it is. However, the reality is that a guitar is a luxury. It's not a durable, or a rare asset in terms of it's existence. Not a particular model, just a guitar in and of itself.

So, much like comic book, or baseball card collecting, they are very fair weather investments. The only way to get "in" on things like this is BEFORE they become collectible. Buying an overpriced vintage guitar and holding on to it for another 50 years will likely make it worth more in fiat currency.

HOWEVER, that's only IF the market persists. If at some point, and it MAY happen, the younger generations of players simply begin to value things like Fender CS guitars more then beaten only originals, then you're left with a HUGE loss.

Even if the collector market persists, it's a commodity that has such a tiny market in terms of the population, that it's a madman's gamble.

Things like Gold or other precious metals should only be bought when the worthless paper you are forced to use is high. That way when it is purposely devalued on a mass scale again either through market manipulation or the "printing" of more currency the value of your real assets increases. Now it will always fluctuate as that's the nature of fiat currency. Since it's value is not real, but prescribed. It's very malleable. Just not by those forced to use it. :?

Mark Twain said... "Buy land. It's the only thing they aren't making any more of."

Short of floating business locations that are being built off shore, or a real life Lex Luthor trying to "grow" a continent from alien crystals, I'd say it's pretty sound advice. Though, the empire can still strip that from you via their court system.


Soooo...yeah... Good luck. :(


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Post subject: Re: Guitar investment
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 10:43 am
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Guns don't shoot people.
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Post subject: Re: Guitar investment
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 10:46 am
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BMW-KTM wrote:
Guns don't shoot people.
People who have guns shoot people.



We should outlaw people...

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Post subject: Re: Guitar investment
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 10:55 am
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TheKingofPain wrote:
We should outlaw people...

Well, the pro gun people love to say:
Guns don't kill people. People kill people.
They love to say it in that particular way because they hope to take the blame off guns but it actually does more than that. It identifies that it's people with guns that are killing people. So the gun owners didn't do a damned thing to help their own cause in the long run by coining that phrase. All they did was draw even more attention to the fact that people are being killed with guns. That's why I word it that way because it's the only true way of looking at it.

Guns don't shoot people.
People who have guns shoot people.

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Post subject: Re: Guitar investment
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 11:17 am
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classic cars are a guaranteed investment, as long as they're in decent nick.


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Post subject: Re: Guitar investment
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 11:42 am
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Cars kill people! :(

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Post subject: Re: Guitar investment
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BMW-KTM wrote:
TheKingofPain wrote:
We should outlaw people...

Well, the pro gun people love to say:
Guns don't kill people. People kill people.
They love to say it in that particular way because they hope to take the blame off guns but it actually does more than that. It identifies that it's people with guns that are killing people. So the gun owners didn't do a damned thing to help their own cause in the long run by coining that phrase. All they did was draw even more attention to the fact that people are being killed with guns. That's why I word it that way because it's the only true way of looking at it.

Guns don't shoot people.
People who have guns shoot people.



As one of those "gun people" you are missing the argument's point. Which isn't really surprising. The fact is that people are murdered every day with all sorts of objects. Knives, cars, frying pans, swords, medication, hunks of wood, rocks, chainsaws, axes, ect. To say that we should outlaw frying pans because people get intentionally (and they do lol), or even accidentally killed by them is a ridiculous statement. It's no less ridiculous to make that argument for gun control.

You are vilifying an object, not the people doing it. People aren't going to stop getting killed because you outlaw guns. That's a fact backed up by years of scared pathetic people who run to the government to hide behind it's skirt only to leave people unable to defend themselves against criminals. Who, by definition, don't give a damn what laws you pass. Or worse, by the criminals in their own government.

Wake up. People will get murdered. Every. Damn. Day. No matter what you outlaw.The fact that you are trying to insinuate that by taking away guns from people who would commit murders will stop them from committing murder is ridiculous and shows you have no grasp of logic or critical thinking skills. The gun doesn't initiate the murder. The person does. So until you are ready to outlaw people. You'll continue to fail to find your utopia, and simply make people easier targets for those who don't follow the laws enacted by your failed policies and ideology.

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Post subject: Re: Guitar investment
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 11:50 am
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mhowell wrote:
TheKingofPain wrote:
As has been pointed out, this is a very bad idea. NOW, that's not to say that real property isn't a "hedge", because it is. However, the reality is that a guitar is a luxury. It's not a durable, or a rare asset in terms of it's existence. Not a particular model, just a guitar in and of itself.

So, much like comic book, or baseball card collecting, they are very fair weather investments. The only way to get "in" on things like this is BEFORE they become collectible. Buying an overpriced vintage guitar and holding on to it for another 50 years will likely make it worth more in fiat currency.

HOWEVER, that's only IF the market persists. If at some point, and it MAY happen, the younger generations of players simply begin to value things like Fender CS guitars more then beaten only originals, then you're left with a HUGE loss.

Even if the collector market persists, it's a commodity that has such a tiny market in terms of the population, that it's a madman's gamble.

Things like Gold or other precious metals should only be bought when the worthless paper you are forced to use is high. That way when it is purposely devalued on a mass scale again either through market manipulation or the "printing" of more currency the value of your real assets increases. Now it will always fluctuate as that's the nature of fiat currency. Since it's value is not real, but prescribed. It's very malleable. Just not by those forced to use it. :?

Mark Twain said... "Buy land. It's the only thing they aren't making any more of."

Short of floating business locations that are being built off shore, or a real life Lex Luthor trying to "grow" a continent from alien crystals, I'd say it's pretty sound advice. Though, the empire can still strip that from you via their court system.


Soooo...yeah... Good luck. :(


Ludwig Von Mises couldn't have said it better.



Thanks!

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Post subject: Re: Guitar investment
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 2:58 pm
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King, I have only quoted part of your lengthy post because quite frankly most of it had absolutely nothing to do with me or my post.

TheKingofPain wrote:
The gun doesn't initiate the murder. The person does.

Agreed.
TheKingofPain wrote:
So until you are ready to outlaw people.


Whoa. Stop right there. Nobody said anything about outlawing people here except you. You've actually done it twice now; both times I assumed you meant to attempt to put those words in my mouth and failed to do so. You are the one who does not have any grasp. How do you expect to do well in a debate if you mistakenly assume what your opponent's argument is and jump all over the wrong argument? All you do is make a fool of yourself and lose credibility. You just assumed. You jumped without looking. I made no insinuation. You made an inferrence. There's a difference and the fault is yours, not mine.

My only intention was to illuminate the misleading nature of the saying; guns don't kill people; people kill people. I assumed we all understood that the statement, both the original and my modified version were referring to gun related deaths. I assumed we all knew it would be stupid to talk about guns in a discussion about knife related deaths. I guess I was wrong on that count. My bad.

Here is my statement again:
Guns don't shoot people.
People who have guns shoot people.


I assume you are able to figure out that a person who is not in possession of a gun is unable to shoot anyone with a gun ... because he doesn't have one. So then you can agree that technically, only people who actually have a gun can use a gun to kill someone. Please for the love of all that is true, tell me where there is a flaw in the logic of my statement above. Tell me WITHOUT making assumptions about what I am implying because I am not implying anything. I simply reworded it into something that makes sense without allowing any clouding of the issue. People can make up their own minds on issues but only if they understand them properly. The gun debate has nothing to do with frying pan related deaths. I'm sorry. The gun debate is about guns. It only illuminates ignorance to point to knives when discussing guns. The issue is not murder. The issue is gun murders.

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Post subject: Re: Guitar investment
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 3:02 pm
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Here we go again :roll: .....

...why does this keep happening....



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Post subject: Re: Guitar investment
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 3:12 pm
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It happens because we're all out of things to say about guitars. All of the rosewood/maple, tonewood, humbucker/single coil, cheap/expensive debates have already been hammered to death a zillion times. It happens because USA is in an election year and political hot topics are on people's minds. It happens because the economy is not what it was and as a result people are thinking about serious matters more often than they did when they were feeling flush.

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Post subject: Re: Guitar investment
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 3:53 pm
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I totally get that but we know how this goes, you won't change someones mind and it'll descend into a mudslinging contest where everyone just gets pissed at each other and fights for 10 pages, then we get topics on how the board sucks, rinse and repeat.


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