Chords for Top 5 Quality Guitar Brands with HORRIBLE Resale Value

Howdy folks, my name's Shane and I'm here to talk about the top 5 guitars that you can
buy new that don't hold their value on the second hand market. _
Let's get into it!
This particular list reflects my own experience here living in Australia with the Australian
second hand market but also seeing what I notice on eBay both in the US, Canada and so forth.
So if this is accurate and you're part of the world, please let me know in the comments below.
So this is my top 5.
Here we go!
The first company on this list which comes in at number 5 is Reverend Guitars.
These are really tough to move second hand without dropping the price a lot.
They just don't seem to hold their value that well for whatever reason.
I think it could be the fact that most of these are made in Asia now as opposed to the US.
Some are still made in the United States.
They may hold their value a little bit more but I see these come up on eBay all the time
and they're at least almost half of what they would be if you were to buy them new.
That's why shopping on the second hand market can be good but also [D] if you're trying to sell
on the second hand market, you're just basically banging your head against the wall because
you know the value and the quality of these instruments but you just can't give them away.
So Reverend Guitars, as much as I personally like them, [N] comes in at number 5.
So number 4 I see come up on eBay all the time as well as on the Facebook groups and
all that kind of stuff is Music Man guitars.
These are expensive.
If you were to buy a USA made Music Man electric, it's going to cost you a couple of grand,
maybe a little bit more.
It depends on where you live of course but that's just my part of the world down here.
Selling them, it's not worth your time.
People just don't know how good an instrument they are or they're not prepared to spend
much on them in the used market.
It could just be a reflection of the used market in general but some of the best tones
I've ever heard from my good friend Brian were from his Music Man guitar.
The whammy bar works great.
It's kind of like a small bodied Strat in many ways, the one that he's got but it's
a great guitar but he also told me he's not even going to try selling it because he's
[Dbm] just basically done his dough.
He loves it.
It's not worth his time to sell it on the [N] second hand market.
So great guitars, just hard to get rid of.
This next one will no doubt come as a shock but if you've owned a PRS, you probably realised
you have to drop it quite a lot to be able to sell it used.
In Australia, I see these go for under half price of what they're worth new.
I've had so many people shoot me messages saying, hey I'm selling my PRS for two grand,
are you interested?
And I'm like, no I'm not interested.
It would have to be even less for me to want to go buy one than two grand.
And new, they're for $5,000.
So I see PRS guitars between 50 and 60% of their actual value on the used market.
It's pretty crazy when you think about it.
Overall the PRS guitars are beautiful.
I think if you're going to buy one, it's one to keep rather than one you're going to resell.
If you do resell it, you're definitely going to blow your dough.
Just so you don't think I'm a brand hater, I'm actually going to put two of my guitars
into this category as number two.
So Tokai guitars or Japanese guitars in general.
Japanese guitars are beautiful instruments, they're unreal.
I put them up against any Gibson or the higher quality Gibsons and they absolutely hold their own.
The thing is, on the second hand market, people don't want to spend that sort of money on
buying one of these guitars.
So I'll give you an example.
I recently purchased a Les Paul style Love Rock electric guitar from Tokai.
They're about $1,600 to $1,700 _ deal price in Australia.
Brand new, case, hard case, everything.
On the second hand market, if you can find one of these, they're a hell of a lot cheaper.
I'm a lefty so it's hard for me to find stuff sometimes, but I can walk into any vintage
guitar shop or buy, swap and sell kind of joint and they'll have so many Japanese guitars.
You can insert brand name here, Greco, Bernie, Orville.
All of these guitars on the most part don't hold their value that well as in comparison
to what they would be if you were to buy one new.
So if you buy one of these guitars, definitely try and shop on the used market.
You'll get yourself an absolute deal.
Just don't try and sell it on the used markets.
So it's a bit of a double edged knife right there.
[Ab] It's kind of one of those tough situations.
If you're actually shopping for one, you'll get a deal, but if you're actually trying
to sell one, it's going to be tough work.
So number one on this list might come as a bit of a shock.
This is one of those brands that's treated very differently in the US, for example, as
it is in Australia and it's actually G&L guitars.
In the Australian market, you could be losing up [Am] to 70% of the value of the guitar if you
were to buy it new.
I'm going to put this into some perspective that comes from my own personal [Dm] experience.
[F] In the US, G&L guitars are actually revered as being great guitars.
In Australia, most people either don't know about them or they're obviously not as popular
as Fender in most people's eyes.
So they just don't hold their value here.
But I paid $950 US for a G&L Asak Classic.
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I tried my best to really love it, but I didn't.
So I sold it.
I sold it for just over 550 bucks Australian.
I just couldn't get rid of it.
I had it at 700, 800 bucks for quite some time and then I basically did my dough on it.
So that one comes from experience.
In the United States, they hold their value more than they do here.
But in Australia in particular, and maybe in other parts of the world where they're
not actually [D] maybe as well known as Fender stuff, [N] except for the guitar nerds, of course,
they just don't hold their value very well.
And I don't know what it is about them, whether it's that weird headstock or what.
Some people love it, but the headstock [F] looks kind of crappy in my opinion.
But I absolutely dig [Ab] their guitars in terms of quality and tone.
The scale length on the one I had wasn't quite right for me.
It just didn't feel like my actual 52 reissue Telecaster.
It felt like I was reaching too far to get to the same place.
So I ended up flipping it.
I [Eb] have played some other G&L guitars since then that felt amazing to play.
And if I had to do it all over again, [N] I'd know what to look for.
But in terms of the secondhand market here, unfortunately, G&L guitars, man, they just
basically going to lose 70 percent.
If you pay, say, two thousand two hundred dollars for brand new G&L or something like
that, you're going to be losing a lot of money.
If you could sell for six to seven hundred bucks on the used market, especially here,
you'd be lucky.
So that comes in at number one.
Please let me know what you think of this list.
This [Abm] comes from my own personal experience with guitars as well as seeing and sort of
taking note of what's going on online for a number of years now.
And yeah, so this is my list.
We had five, which was Reverend Guitars.
We had number four, which was Music Man.
Number three, which was PRS.
We had number two as Tokai or [F] Greco or whatever.
And [Dm] number one, G&L guitars.
So let me know your thoughts on this list.
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