Lots of idiots out there. Of course there are some who think because it’s old, it must be worth 5x what everyone else is asking.
I had a local guy selling a 1969 Les Paul Custom that I REALLY WANTED, but he wanted too much money. He would not come down on the price for months, and I tried to wait him out, but he was too firm on his expectations.
I finally tried to buy a '69 LPC from a store in the Midwest, but the deal fell through when a walk-in customer offered the same amount as me, in cash, without the shipping hassle. I finally decided to offer my 1970 Les Paul Deluxe for sale on CL (I did not have the courage to route it, like I had planned), in order to free up some money, to make an in-person cash offer, to the local guy with the guitar that I wanted. I posted it at 9:30 pm, and later that night, when he returned from a gig at 2 am, the exact same guy frantically emailed, called, and left a voice mail for me. I called him back, and he desperately said that he HAD to have the guitar, and asked me not to sell it to anyone else before later the same morning. He had irritated me for months by being difficult to work a deal with, so I merely told him that I was not holding the guitar, and that the first person that showed up with cash, would walk away with the guitar. He had apparently been looking for a really old Deluxe, with mini hums for a long time........so he drove 25 miles to my driveway, and traded guitars with me, at 3:45 am.
I checked it with a blacklight and went over it thoroughly before making the trade, because after months of lusting after that exact guitar, I was suspicious that the deal was just too easy,
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