I'm really down right now. a guy from southern CA contacted me with a nice burst. Actually i had been talking to this guy on-and-off for 6 months. but he got motivated and took it to guitar center and they offer a low 6-figure amount for the guitar. i told him, 'hey i can beat that offer'. but he wanted to shop around a bit, because he really didn't know the value. so he did, which is fine, and the prices he was getting, at least to me, still seemed very reasonable (affordable to me). he told me, "wednesday i'm seeing one last guy, then we'll talk wednesday afternoon, and you can buy the guitar." great! so that call never came yesterday, and instead i got the "i sold it to guitar center" email.
i guess sometimes it's all about location location location. me being in detroit and he in CA, well, i guess it makes things more complicated than he wanted to deal with (though i told him i would fly out and buy it in whatever payment form he wanted). but looking at this guitar, MAN i'm just sick about it. and the guy really wanted to sell it to me too, at least so it seemed. And what a killer guitar too. I mean yea the knobs are wrong and the tuner buttons are wasted, but man, what a beautiful thing. *sigh*
i guess sometimes it's all about location location location. me being in detroit and he in CA, well, i guess it makes things more complicated than he wanted to deal with (though i told him i would fly out and buy it in whatever payment form he wanted). but looking at this guitar, MAN i'm just sick about it. and the guy really wanted to sell it to me too, at least so it seemed. And what a killer guitar too. I mean yea the knobs are wrong and the tuner buttons are wasted, but man, what a beautiful thing. *sigh*