Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

Can anyone tell me if you have had any experience using the Vintage Guitar Price Guide? Thanks

Yes, and it is generally not very reliable when it comes to current market prices of vintage Rickenbacker instruments.

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Checkout Rickresource pricelist at http://www.rickresource.com/register/pricelist.php
It represents actual sales of specific instruments during 2009-2010 period. Instruments that have a high sampling rate (more than 10 or so) are pretty well represented as these are actual deals on ebay.

eBay as turned the market into a price war.

That's a simple way of describing what has been a much more complex issue.

What eBay and the internet have done is expanded the market a thousandfold. It's done this by opening up the blinds on what's available and what's rare and desirable by showing a better selection of what's out there, that use to be sold in private (thus was invisible to most).

It's brought wider--often worldwide--competition into the buying and selling of new and newer (non-collector) items--not just guitars, of course--and gotten rid of false representations of the rarity of collectibles. "Where you gonna find another one?" was a game often played by dealers and sellers, and the question seldom had an answer, allowing prices to escalate on rarer items, often beyond intrinsic worth.

Now the answer to the question, is, "eBay", and if a specific item doesn't turn up in a search on that site or the web in general, chances are that it truly is irreplaceable, and depending upon demand, would merit a higher asking price. This has helped everyone to establish real-world values and eliminate pie-in-the-sky asking prices being actually paid.

Newer items are now often the subject of cutthroat competition among dealers and sellers. This is because dealers seldom bring added value to a new item for sale, so low price becomes their point of difference. This is especially true of Rickenbackers, on which no dealer can offer after-sale service (usually a dealer's only added value). However, I wouldn't typify this as a "war" as much as a skirmish, as new Rick prices aren't advertised, except as retail, and dealers can sell at whatever price they wish.

gibsonlp wrote:Checkout Rickresource pricelist at http://www.rickresource.com/register/pricelist.php
It represents actual sales of specific instruments during 2009-2010 period. Instruments that have a high sampling rate (more than 10 or so) are pretty well represented as these are actual deals on ebay.

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