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My Guitar Center is abut an hour away so I was hoping someone who works at one can give me a GENERAL idea. I have a mesa Boogie F-50 combo in excellent condition. I want to trade it in for/toward a VOX AC30 CC1 or 2 that goes for 999.00 . I am curious about how much should I expect my trade in value to be? Thanks!
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My Guitar Center is abut an hour away so I was hoping someone who works at one can give me a GENERAL idea. I have a mesa Boogie F-50 combo in excellent condition. I want to trade it in for/toward a VOX AC30 CC1 or 2 that goes for 999.00 . I am curious about how much should I expect my trade in value to be? Thanks!
You might have a tough time getting anyone to admit it. My experience with GC tells me that they go for minimum Blue Book wholesale, which is about 60% of retail. If your amp would sell for $500 on the street (this is just an example) then GC would try to calculate your trade-in at about $300. You’re usually better off selling it yourself, depending on how you calculate the amount of brain damage involved in managing it. Chuck
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My Guitar Center is abut an hour away so I was hoping someone who works at one can give me a GENERAL idea. I have a mesa Boogie F-50 combo in excellent condition. I want to trade it in for/toward a VOX AC30 CC1 or 2 that goes for 999.00 . I am curious about how much should I expect my trade in value to be? Thanks!
Not me, but you can always look up stuff on Ebay to get an idea: http://search.ebay.com/mesa-Boogie-F-50_W0QQfromZR40QQsatitleZmesaQ20… Those represent an approximation of what you could expect to sell it for to another guitar player. Expect less when trading in as GC (or any other retailer) is going to want to make a profit when they sell it to someone else.
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – My Guitar Center is abut an hour away so I was hoping someone who works at one can give me a GENERAL idea. I have a mesa Boogie F-50 combo in excellent condition. I want to trade it in for/toward a VOX AC30 CC1 or 2 that goes for 999.00 . I am curious about how much should I expect my trade in value to be? Thanks! Not me, but you can always look up stuff on Ebay to get an idea: http://search.ebay.com/mesa-Boogie-F-50_W0QQfromZR40QQsatitleZmesaQ20… Those represent an approximation of what you could expect to sell it for to another guitar player. Expect less when trading in as GC (or any other retailer) is going to want to make a profit when they sell it to someone else.
I’d guess you should expect as much as 40% less than that when trading it in, assuming you have a good price on the item you’re buying. Don
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My Guitar Center is abut an hour away so I was hoping someone who works at one can give me a GENERAL idea. I have a mesa Boogie F-50 combo in excellent condition. I want to trade it in for/toward a VOX AC30 CC1 or 2 that goes for 999.00 . I am curious about how much should I expect my trade in value to be? Thanks!
I don’t work for any store, but assessing values I always go by these rules: 1 – ‘normal’ used gear is at best about 70% of its original value 2 – stores will offer you 10-20% less the street value you’d get by selling it yourself 3 – if you need to ditch the gear quick, you never get the 70% value for ‘em anyway
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My Guitar Center is abut an hour away so I was hoping someone who works at one can give me a GENERAL idea. I have a mesa Boogie F-50 combo in excellent condition. I want to trade it in for/toward a VOX AC30 CC1 or 2 that goes for 999.00 . I am curious about how much should I expect my trade in value to be? Thanks!
I don’t work at a music store, but I asked the store manager at MusicGoRound for an approximation of what I could get for something. His explanation was that they price things by what they think they can get for them on ebay. And they’ll give you about 1/2 that much. That’s probably very similar to what GC. Just because GC pretends to sell things for insane high prices on ebay, doesn’t mean you’ll get 1/2 that amount. Pete
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My Guitar Center is abut an hour away so I was hoping someone who works at one can give me a GENERAL idea. I have a mesa Boogie F-50 combo in excellent condition. I want to trade it in for/toward a VOX AC30 CC1 or 2 that goes for 999.00 . I am curious about how much should I expect my trade in value to be? Thanks!
I don’t work at GC. But a caution about your plans. It is always best to work your best cash deal BEFORE mentioning any trade in. Otherwise, they may THINK that they are giving you more for your used item, but it’s really just some of the pad on the price that they would’ve come down on if offered cash. A retail store will never give you true full value on a trade in (it may SEEM that way, but see the above). They have to factor in the time it’ll take to sell the item, the room it takes up on the floor displacing other items for sale, etc. My suggestion is sell it yourself, then work a cash deal. And even if it’s the "lowest price guarantee" nonsense, offer LESS. Most items can be had for less than GC’s "sales prices," IF you bargain with them.
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It is always best to work your best cash deal BEFORE mentioning any trade in. Otherwise, they may THINK that they are giving you more for your used item, but it’s really just some of the pad on the price that they would’ve come down on if offered cash.
Some dealers play the "what you paid for it against LIST PRICE" game. AVOID that like the clap. Dealer cost is often 50% off LIST price. ..or less. And the longer it’s on the floor against the current issue of GP/etc, against how bad the dealer wants what you got, bad sales, how bad YOU want it, can he sell a service plan? Think New cars..and how they are sold. You NEVER win… A retail store will never give you true full value on a trade in (it may SEEM that way, but see the above). They have to factor in the time it’ll take to sell the item, the room it takes up on the floor displacing other items for sale, etc. My suggestion is sell it yourself, then work a cash deal. And even if it’s the "lowest price guarantee" nonsense, offer LESS. Most items can be had for less than GC’s "sales prices," IF you bargain with them.
Yes, $$ talks, and you 99% of the time U get more selling it your self. If ya must trade, get a cash price 1st. THEN the dealer will have to explain WHY the trade price he has to give you now sucks. It’s so easy to ’sweat out’ those GC ’salespeople’. They drop like flys. JJTj I am frolicsome, I am easy, Good tempered and free, And I don’t give a single pin’ me boys What the world thinks of me.
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – It is always best to work your best cash deal BEFORE mentioning any trade in. Otherwise, they may THINK that they are giving you more for your used item, but it’s really just some of the pad on the price that they would’ve come down on if offered cash. Some dealers play the "what you paid for it against LIST PRICE" game. AVOID that like the clap. Dealer cost is often 50% off LIST price. ..or less. And the longer it’s on the floor against the current issue of GP/etc, against how bad the dealer wants what you got, bad sales, how bad YOU want it, can he sell a service plan? Think New cars..and how they are sold. You NEVER win… A retail store will never give you true full value on a trade in (it may SEEM that way, but see the above). They have to factor in the time it’ll take to sell the item, the room it takes up on the floor displacing other items for sale, etc. My suggestion is sell it yourself, then work a cash deal. And even if it’s the "lowest price guarantee" nonsense, offer LESS. Most items can be had for less than GC’s "sales prices," IF you bargain with them. Yes, $$ talks, and you 99% of the time U get more selling it your self. If ya must trade, get a cash price 1st. THEN the dealer will have to explain WHY the trade price he has to give you now sucks. It’s so easy to ’sweat out’ those GC ’salespeople’. They drop like flys. JJTj I am frolicsome, I am easy, Good tempered and free, And I don’t give a single pin’ me boys What the world thinks of me.
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My Guitar Center is abut an hour away so I was hoping someone who works at one can give me a GENERAL idea. I have a mesa Boogie F-50 combo in excellent condition. I want to trade it in for/toward a VOX AC30 CC1 or 2 that goes for 999.00 . I am curious about how much should I expect my trade in value to be? Thanks!
If your not an eBay’r, I’d try the Craigslist in your city to sell your Mesa. You’ll get MUCH more than trading at GC. If that applies; http://www.craigslist.org I sold a Mesa Lonestar special to a local buyer for just a bit less than I paid for it. He showed up and paid in green dollars and took it away. Both happy. I did the same with a Nomad head. All good. Some cautions though if you live in a metro area IE: San Francisco, CA., Seattle, etc… There have been some bad action with craigslist sales, not too much with the music categories from what I remember. Check out the website for details. Although when I was in the SF Bay Area I sold a ton of gear on craigslist without one problem. Good text, good pics does the deal, just like eBay. regards – DJ
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