Avoid Overpaying for Buying Guitar or Bass— Price Guide| Music Tech Alliance
The seller’s profit always comes from the buyer’s innocence. If you don’t have any information, you will accept the offer from sellers easily. Except for asking your friends or the staffs of guitar shop. Here are two methods of getting to know the market price of music gear.
1. The Price Guide Magazine of Vintage Guitar
Vintage Guitar is a classic magazine published monthly from 1986. They published the “Price Guide” magazine yearly which includes the low and high price of acoustic guitar, electric guitar, amps and effects.
Take Fender, the world-renowned guitar brand, as example. There are 30 pages introducing the model year and features of Stratocaster. In some guitars, yhey even write down the manufacturer is Japan or Mexico.
How to Get the Price Guide Magazine
The original price of magazine including digital edition is $34.95. If you live in Asia or other place away from U.S.A, you have to pay the shipping fee and tax. Take me as example, I have to pay $60.95 overall. You can save money from buying the second-hand book in Amazon, I spend $35 including the shipping fee.
Vintage Guitar has its own app, you can buy Price Guide and other magazines in app. But the app hasn’t updated for two years and the user interface is kind of old.
Price Guide helps me realize the product series and price gap in a brand. You can’t know the price from their official websites.
2. The “Price Guide” Functionality in Reverb.com
Reverb.com is a global trading platform of music gears, you can buy or sell your guitars there.
In Reverb’s Price Guide page, just search for the music gear you want to know its price.You will see the transaction history and price range of music gear in Reverb. It’s very convenient for users.
I hope the two methods are helpful for you.
