Guitarfinds is correct. I’m one of those people hiding my guitars, keyboards, basses, amps, Lego collections and other valuables away from others so they don’t realize how much I’m actually spending on music equipment. I’ve had this unit for over two years and I finally put my sister and friend on the “just in case of emergency” list. But had something happened to me before that, it all would have gone to the storage unit. I have other family and children I could leave it to, but they all distanced themselves from me, so why should I search for them when they don’t speak to me? It’s a sad reality many people live everyday.
That Roscoe bass is top of the line. The makers name is Keith Roscoe and in in the town I work. Greensboro, North Carolina. He used to make high end guitars. Now only basses. And some cigar boxes.
I have been playing bass for 32 years and owned 50 or so basses over the years. Two of them were Roscoe basses. The first was stolen and the second I still own. Two of the best basses I’ve ever played. Not sure what you paid for it, but that’s a he’ll of an instrument!
11:13 I agree with your response. I back it with the fact that Josh from JHS stores his amp collection in storage units aswell. It's showcased in the video where he plugged a original fender tweed amp with every Klon made, and another video where he plugged a original crate amp with every metal zone made.
I just wish I could find one of these! I know the one they show Storage Wars was a set up of empty cases that was never actually on the show. I think the owner who lost these was a 80s shredder with all the Charvels!
I can't believe the guy got that unit for $8,000, that's insane. There was so much amazing stuff in there. It would be one thing if he found a unit with Squiers, Epiphones, LTD's, etc. He still could have probably made his money back on the unit just on the cases alone. As someone who loves Jacksons, that collection spoke to me. Thanks for sharing,
I agree man! Dude had a 2009 Ibanez Jem Prototype 1 of 5 that still wasn’t the best guitar in that unit. That unit was worth roughly a quarter of a million dollars! The best guitar collection find of all time! That was definitely an abandoned unit find and not the owner just trying to sell his unit! Incredible!
I wonder if any of mine are in there, I had 11 guitars, 2 amps, 1 amp head, and many pedals stolen out of my storage unit about 18 months ago while my house was being built.
Dang sorry to hear that. None were yours as this was filmed in 2021. Do you have a list of what was stolen? And location of theft? Email us. We have a pretty big social media presence and can help get the word out.
If, in fact, this was purchased at a storage auction… it was NOT ‘abandoned’. Nobody would abandon this. Which means you simply benefited from another poor soul’s hard times. Sucks.
@@GuitarFindsits not yours to buy for pennies, only due to the storage units horrible ethics that you take advantage of. Its scummy on both ends taking advantage of the collector that could have had many reasons for their circumstance and would have left that to his kids but didnt read the crooked storage units by laws. Totally unethical and scumbag business both of you.
If it's not him it's someone else. And don't lie and say you wouldn't do this if you knew a locker was loaded with guitars or anything half decent. Of course you would.
@jonbryant2406, you're absolutely right! The G&L Comanche is in a league of its own. The tone, playability, and craftsmanship are unmatched. Definitely a top-tier guitar for those who know! 🎸😎
Would they be cooler if he was drinking coffee and talking in the raspiest voice he can muster up like he was out drinking and screaming all night?????
@@willk.illyouii5583 how cool is that!! The thing is the most of these vintage guitars are yellowed… do you know if there are any guitars outthere that are not yellowed?
Bro the way you hurl those cases as they thud before you open them and the way you have guitars just leaning all around the place gives me mega anxiety. Take it easy with them!
I noticed that too when I was editing the video 😅. It sounded MUCH worse than it looked. Cases are sturdy and the chair is well padded. The guitars laying around the place, I'll give you that one 😅😅😅. But glad to report the operation has changed significantly since that video was filmed. No more guitars hanging around all over the place. 🫡🫡🫡
I think the comments about stolen guitars is obviously not knowing what the original storage unit deceased person may have been doing for a living Covid 2020 & post Covid 2021-present. Just me, where I live I saw the only local music store go out of business in 2021. They were a Mesa Boogie amp dealer for their music store. I live a county & city that is basically between the bigger cities that would have big box music stores like Guitar Center. As that smaller, yet reputable brand music store went out of business, they were selling everything just to get out of the building they were renting before their lease expired. That said, the Mesa Boogie amps he had in inventory, were pretty much last one's Mesa Boogie was going to wholesale to the music store. When I went in there, he said buy what's here, because it's all going, I'm not getting restock. Most of us know that Mesa Boogie eventually folded & Gibson bought them up for the instant amp market Mesa Boogie had. Covid may have influenced that even though people were buying guitars & amps during the 2020 lockdown year. End of the day, if they couldn't sell the inventory at that store, the items could be put in storage, then resold online, because their web page store still existed. I think that's what happened here with this cache of higher dollar instruments & amps. And since the storage unit leasee passed away, this was the perfect storm for scoring $ 250K of music store inventory. That's good for you guys, but it's not like you lack a soul/heart and ripped anyone off, or are fencing stolen merchandise. You simply scored a Mom & Pop music store that isn't Sweetwater/Musician's Friend/Guitar Center/Sam Ash. And speaking of Sam Ash, they went out of business & absorbed by another just the same. Covid and immediately after 2020, the transition to the internet model of retail kicked in. Dealers & Independent music stores were a distribution channel restructure & casualties of the times. Years back I saw Tracfone do the exact same thing, streamline their distribution network for pay for minutes cards & handsets for smartphones. That was 2015/2016. 2020 was the reinvention of retail for the musical instrument industry. I bought several guitars in summer 2019 before prices got ridiculous during & post Covid 2020. That was when nobody could sell guitars, relatively giving them away new & preowned. There is obviously a glut of new & preowned guitars in the market. The preowned are virtually never played/rarely used. Covid 2020 and everyone that was "non-essential" had time on their hands, so they bought guitars to live their mid life crisis of being a rock star. Could they learn guitar or make music. Forums these days are full of folks flipping guitars, purging their collections because they bought guitars they rarely use. I could be just as wrong as others, but I think that's what you stumbled across the random storage unit full of a dealer music store's unsold Covid inventory. Storage units, unless HVAC maintained for humidity or more importantly dehumidified is not good for instruments or amps. Then there are bugs & rodents. These guitars had cases, so that helps for a shorter term storage. Sometimes the inventory picks you. If that storage unit had computers or whatever else, that's what you'd be selling online just the same. Post Covid, Fender & others completely revamped their product lines. I believe it was either late 2021 or 2022, Fender let 2nd shift production labor go, that included project management for those guitar models that were being replaced in Fender's Product line. Some of these guitars are recent models, but that doesn't mean those music stores are still solvent & part of the new online distribution network. Who knows, as some of those LLC's went out of business, the storage unit lessee may have either snapped up $ 250K of inventory or it may have walked out of the store for an insurance claim of the store being robbed ? Never know when business goes sour what some folks are capable of. But that's not on you as the one buying the abandoned storage unit contents. The storage facility people are into renting space for revenue, not accumulating inventory of what was stored there, they want paying tenants like an apartment complex. The storage unit contents is really just an eviction to the storage facility. they want an empty storage unit to rent to the next lessee, they don't fall in love with the random contents. They made more money unloading the inventory, they undervalued the contents obviously, but that's how you make your money, selling the contents on internet markets.
I currently have 30+ guitars in a climate controlled storage unit while I am waiting to close on my next house. So yes, real people do store guitars in storage units.
When I was starting out selling guitars about 3 years or so into it, I didn't have space in my apartment so I stored my stuff at a Public Storage Facility in Berkeley Ca. Very nice facility and climate controlled. However, it always unsettled me that the tops of each unit were "open" with just a wire cage, so theoretically someone could climb up, peer over the top of the door and "see" what was inside of each unit. I stored guitars there as my main operation for a year or so.
When a storage unit is abandoned, the company has the right to legally look through the stuff. So I guess this storage company just didn't care to look through this unit. I have never trusted storage auctions for this very reason. Because any storage company that really would not look through what they now legally own, can only be described as, well.............there is no need for insults.
@@GuitarFindsperhaps he/orig owner had an adjacent storage place for amps! I had a friend/boss that was a huge amp guy and had his gear holed up in storage in Livermore. He and I used to work on his spreadsheet where he had just about every item he owned documented. When he died, his wife and me went through the spreadsheet and she still had a hell of a time figuring things out. Eventually, she sold his acoustics to Gryphon and his amps and electrics and accessories to Showcase. How long have you been around in Benicia?! My good friend Steve hails from there and I would be surprised if he hasn’t been to your shop. It’s a damn good thing I ended up moving to Costa Rica about 4 years ago (orig. Santa Cruz then Half Moon Bay). I’m the worst kind of gear slut and would have been throwing my money at you incessantly. You on The Gear Page? Best.
I'm trying to imagine a person who would own those types of guitars and store them in an outdoor storage unit. You see the problem there. Dimus is pronounced "Dee-mus".
Originally was in a climate controlled unit. After winning the auction, the storage unit winner moved them to the location shown in the video. They were there for only a day or two before he contacted me. They were not stored there long term.
Are people buying? I need to thin my herd and just keep the first few good guitars I bought as a teen in the 70’s. The rest I bought for gigging guitars until I gave that up 9 years ago. Also a few half stacks need to go.
I’m curious how one person is so lucky to find all this equipment and why there aren’t more people diving into save & sells by the fricken storage unit. I’m not saying it’s fake but I know there’s a lot of reasonable people who are also in this game who will NEVER find one, let alone guitars by multiple the unit. Like people in congress with “investments”, just lucky I guess.
You just have to know where to look. www.storagetreasures.com/auctions/fl/fort%20lauderdale/4626630 It's a lot of behind the scenes grinding that you DON'T see. I'm only showing the massive wins. There is plenty of time spent searching and finding nothing. If you are interested in learning how to do it, email the shop. I'll find you a solid deal in no time just for funzies. For me...it's not luck, it's skill. For Congress....I can't say the same because they always seem to be VERY lucky at JUST the right time 😅😅😅
whats interesting to me is that, normally, when a storage unit is auctioned off, they usually require you to empty it in like 24 hours or less... but apparently this guy won the auction and just kept them in there all this time? ma
I bet you could rent the storage unit month by month until you empty it - BUT you run the risk of the original owner coming by, cutting the lock, and taking “his” stuff - so best to empty it, even if just to put it in another storage unit.
All these boo-hoo nay-sayers😂😂 Dollars to donuts if THEY bought a unit full of gold they wouldn't think twice about 'making things right'... Keep grinding, Alan👍👍
Born and raised in NorCal. 😔 SoCal names are foreign to me 😅. My Dad grew up in SoCal and I told him how I pronounced San Dimas...he was not pleased. 😅😅
I’ve had a serious conversation with myself, and it was really MY own wish to have one of those guitars. You got them for a steal, but you got lucky and hit the mother load. Then again, you’ve been working your. Butt off to get into the position to get that lucky! I’m sure someone looked for relatives of the owner, and that’s the only hic up my mind has. Then I thought, if NOT you, a guitar lover and dealer, what would become of these beautiful pieces of art? Some knuckle dragger (sorry drummers, but if the glove fits….) wouldn’t know the first step in bringing these art pieces to life. Oh, just another G&L Legacy…I got 5 of them….i’ll break out my tools, soldering iron, and Frankenstein these worthless pieces of wood into an art deco end table? By the way, I love the way you handled the fake MAGA kid, as most of us LOVE PRESIDENT TRUMP, and wouldn’t resolve to stupid comments to get on a video. God Bless your business, and let be known, is old Christian rockers can still jam the oldies and sweat out sweet and wonderful uplifting, METAL EXTORTED MAYHEM! Of course in a very reserved way. I’ve got way to many guitars, but now I have to go look at your site. God, give me strength! Oh, $250k is a low ball here in SoCal.
Not shitting on them but from a business perspective, they don't command prices compared to the Jacksons and Charvels in the same lot. I wish they had higher resell values.
This is real people do use storage units to store thier guitars ive done it when my wife and bought a new house i did it so they wouldnt get damaged,and a few of these guitars are worth around 4 to 4k a piece the charvel San dumas custom shop guitars are high dollar guitars i have one it cost me around 4400 bucks, alot if custom shop guitars can cost 14 to 15k its crazy but true ,just think of the eddie van halen red and white stripped guitar just the entery level model is around 2000 and for the custim shop version 14000 and the real one being worth over a million , yes guitars good ones are worth alot of money i have an original 64 fender strat my parents bought me for xmas when I was 13 its worth around 12 to 13000 i will never sell it though my parents have passed away ,when my mother passed away she left me a large sum of money in an ira 356k my wife and I paid our house off yes I bought a couple of guitars i have a small collection of 27 total and most if them are in a storage unit which has insurance on it as well so yes people use storage units to store guitars
@@allenwebster6329 doesnt watching this video make you want to not keep them in a public storage? Unless yours is private this is like a nightmare scenerio that op took advantage of.
@@Airhead348 no it doesnt bother me because my storage unit is gated with a code to get in plus I have insurance of 75k on it and I pay my storage bill every month it doesnt worry me I have my most valued guitars at home anyway I have a 64 strat hanging on my bedroom wall along with about 15 others, I have jacksons and a couple of wolfgang gangs special in the storage alone with 3 I beleive half stack amps ,but no I have no worries why would I worry if I catch someone trying to break in . unit well lets they probably wont be around in the future the will unalived so to speak,
Under normal circumstances, G&Ls are great and we buy them in regularly. But from a business perspective on this particular deal, the resale value of them were not on par with say the Jacksons USA models or other niche guitar brands from this lot. It feels weird of me to say this but the G&Ls were the least expensive brand out of the lot.
No, the price that the storage unit guy paid "pissed" me off (jokingly). I wasn't upset that someone asked the question? That would be a weird thing to get upset about 🤣.
@@GuitarFindsits wierd you are mad he got a steal while your greedy ass got an even better deal out of it by pinching every penny selling to kids that use the thing. Hypocrisy!
So the abandoned storage cost you how much at auction? The owner of the storage new exactly what was in there! Obviously you didnt pay just the back rent of the unit!
Im incomfortable with how this would or could happen , owner injured , sick or in jail .. dunno but if we care about musicians should we not try to find and help that person …. Should I share my adress now as I have 35 guitars , if your lucky I could get arrested or have a heart attack
Moral of the story...fill out / update those emergency contact cards when you have guitars in storage or tell your friends / relatives about the collection that you have amassed. Otherwise, yes, this will happen.
I hate being THAT guy, but damn you're bad at pronunciation. San Dimas, TrumpMagat (Trump-maggot), and Geoff is another spelling of Jeff. Sorry, it was driving me crazy.
@@GuitarFinds LOL, sorry dude I didn’t mean to make you feel bad. But damn i can’t believe what all was in that storage unit! I’d never pay those kinds of prices for Jacksons or Charvels personally but it’s wild how many were purchased and never even taken out of the box!
Personally this whole thing makes me sick and pissed off.Mainly due to a storage company who auctioned 30 years of touring memories (guitars mostly)even when my credit card was on auto pay.i hired a lawyer and after 2 years i got nothing.i hate storage wars and now this post makes me triggered.unsubscribing your bs channel.🤘🏻👀🤘🏻
I'm sorry to hear that. What happened in your situation doesn't sit well with me, with the fact pattern you described. That's very unjust and straight up wrong and my gut reaction is "wow...how the heck could that have happened and you were left with nothing?!?!?!" That lawyer needed to go back to school if they couldn't win a case for their client with that fact pattern! I disagree with your characterization that this channel is "BS". But you're entitled to your own opinion. We love guitars just as much as the next gigging musician.
@@GuitarFinds I understand exactly how it works. Storage company unethically auctuins unit for 8k you buy it of him for around 20k then sell for up to 200k over the years unethically. The owner that lost the unit isnt around to contest and probably didnt read the contract on the unit and didnt know how he would be so badly taking advantage of post mortum. And to add insult make a video bragging about making so much money on his blunder and the unethical manner of storage companies. Who do you think runs those companies because in Chicago I can tell you it aint the kind of people you want to mess with(the mob)
@Airhead348 I stand corrected, you DID actually respond *shocked*....but this is just the natural cycle of things, items change hands because, unfortunately, you can’t take them with you when you’re gone. Would you rather those guitars sit in storage forever, untouched and forgotten? The storage company follows a legal process, and the unit was auctioned off because of unpaid bills-no shady backdoor deals or "mob" influence here. If you’re suggesting every item with sentimental value should never be sold, what exactly would you do with them when the original owners aren’t around? This is how things work, like it or not, and it gives these guitars a second life instead of gathering dust in a locked unit.
The TLDR version is don't hate the player, hate the game. 😎 Because your comments were throwing absolute fireballs at the players (me and the buyer of the storage unit). When we're just moving the items along in the circle of life bro.
Hey GuitarlosCarlos, thanks for subscribing! Glad you enjoyed the video with Lamont - it was definitely an interesting experience. Appreciate you tuning in from Highland Park! 🎸🤘
@@GuitarFinds your video is hard to watch with your commentary. You sound like a clown that’s just money grubbing. G&L guitars and basses are really good instruments. Try not to be so greedy. You sound like you’re very greedy and have a lack of intelligence.
This is called projection. 🤣 It's cool bro, this too shall pass. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 I'm sure in real life, we'd be cordial with each other but since this is the internet we just stoop to the lowest form of insulting and name calling. LETS GO!!!! 🤣🤣🤣
We don't delete comments. Not sure if you could tell but our ego isn't that fragile 🤣🤣🤣. It probably was auto censored by UA-cam because possibly a vulgarity was used in your comment? I'll be sure to check and unblock it so you can have your moment of glory.
Guitarfinds is correct. I’m one of those people hiding my guitars, keyboards, basses, amps, Lego collections and other valuables away from others so they don’t realize how much I’m actually spending on music equipment. I’ve had this unit for over two years and I finally put my sister and friend on the “just in case of emergency” list.
But had something happened to me before that, it all would have gone to the storage unit.
I have other family and children I could leave it to, but they all distanced themselves from me, so why should I search for them when they don’t speak to me? It’s a sad reality many people live everyday.
That Roscoe bass is top of the line. The makers name is Keith Roscoe and in in the town I work. Greensboro, North Carolina. He used to make high end guitars. Now only basses. And some cigar boxes.
I have been playing bass for 32 years and owned 50 or so basses over the years. Two of them were Roscoe basses. The first was stolen and the second I still own. Two of the best basses I’ve ever played. Not sure what you paid for it, but that’s a he’ll of an instrument!
11:13 I agree with your response. I back it with the fact that Josh from JHS stores his amp collection in storage units aswell. It's showcased in the video where he plugged a original fender tweed amp with every Klon made, and another video where he plugged a original crate amp with every metal zone made.
I just wish I could find one of these! I know the one they show Storage Wars was a set up of empty cases that was never actually on the show. I think the owner who lost these was a 80s shredder with all the Charvels!
I can't believe the guy got that unit for $8,000, that's insane. There was so much amazing stuff in there. It would be one thing if he found a unit with Squiers, Epiphones, LTD's, etc. He still could have probably made his money back on the unit just on the cases alone. As someone who loves Jacksons, that collection spoke to me. Thanks for sharing,
I agree man!
Dude had a 2009 Ibanez Jem Prototype 1 of 5 that still wasn’t the best guitar in that unit.
That unit was worth roughly a quarter of a million dollars!
The best guitar collection find of all time!
That was definitely an abandoned unit find and not the owner just trying to sell his unit!
Incredible!
This is exactly why my sister and my sons are on the list for my storage unit.
Absolutely. The best thing you can do to avoid a situation like this.
Good stuff. I am still looking for the T40 my ex wife pawned while I was deployed.
Great to see these beutiful guitars find new homes and come to use.
What??? This is so scummy and greedy
Wouldn't complain about gl
When is Pt.2 of the scammer video dropping?
Thanks for share this content. Im from Brazil and really appreciate your videos.
I wonder if any of mine are in there, I had 11 guitars, 2 amps, 1 amp head, and many pedals stolen out of my storage unit about 18 months ago while my house was being built.
Dang sorry to hear that. None were yours as this was filmed in 2021.
Do you have a list of what was stolen? And location of theft?
Email us. We have a pretty big social media presence and can help get the word out.
@6:33 "What do we have here...Charvel San Die-mus"...It's pronounced "San Dee-mus". Great score for the original auction buyer and you.
Haters be hating. Great video. Nice job 😎
Great videos!....subscribed
Hey Mike, thanks a ton for subscribing! Glad you're enjoying the videos. Stay tuned for more, and I appreciate the support! 🎸🙌
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If, in fact, this was purchased at a storage auction… it was NOT ‘abandoned’. Nobody would abandon this. Which means you simply benefited from another poor soul’s hard times. Sucks.
People pass away. So you're correct, that is the ultimate "hard times."
@@GuitarFindsits not yours to buy for pennies, only due to the storage units horrible ethics that you take advantage of. Its scummy on both ends taking advantage of the collector that could have had many reasons for their circumstance and would have left that to his kids but didnt read the crooked storage units by laws. Totally unethical and scumbag business both of you.
@airhead348 strange take on this...but 👍
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
If it's not him it's someone else. And don't lie and say you wouldn't do this if you knew a locker was loaded with guitars or anything half decent. Of course you would.
@@Airhead348The owner signed the contract. Sucks to be him.
congrats dude. Score!
in the right place at the good moment
cool videos man!
Thank you! Rock on 🎸🎸🎸
Nothing compares to a G&L Commanche
@jonbryant2406, you're absolutely right! The G&L Comanche is in a league of its own. The tone, playability, and craftsmanship are unmatched. Definitely a top-tier guitar for those who know! 🎸😎
You have seriously never seen Bill and Ted's before?! WOW!
The Roscoe SKB 6 string bass lists brand new for 4,500.
You sir,have an awesome job. I must say!!😅
I’m calling total BS, on all the so-called abandoned storages. you’re just buying guitar collections, that happened to be in storage.
yup
hahahaha!yes!
Some good stuff in there
Hell ya! 🙌🙌
San Dimas : "San Die-mas" is San Dee-mas
Geoff: "Jee-off" is pronounced "Jeff"
Some cool guitars
I keep waiting to find a vintage Gibson at a garage sale for $10 and it turns out it's worth $10,000! 🙂 Some people just get lucky I guess.
Your social media rocketship needs to be studied by scientists around the globe 😍
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Love them Fender basses ! Also , is that Tube Screamer pillow for sale...? Thankz Youz !
be honest, were you a little disappointed that in ALL of that stuff, there wasn't a single guitar that was actually cool?
All the guitars were cool. 😎 It's not like this was a lot of beginner guitars haha.
Did NOT expect to see Uncle Larry here!
We arent all blessed with the vintage gear you have so we actually appreciate guitars like this. Must suck for you to be so modest.
Would they be cooler if he was drinking coffee and talking in the raspiest voice he can muster up like he was out drinking and screaming all night?????
@@Airhead348 oh, i'm sorry....was i talking to you?
Where’d you get the Martin hat? I can’t find it anywhere!
eBay!
7:57 Is that an Michael Schenker Flying V in the Background??
It most certainly is my friend...🤘
@@willk.illyouii5583 how cool is that!!
The thing is the most of these vintage guitars are yellowed… do you know if there are any guitars outthere that are not yellowed?
Yup! Greco Schenker model
great show bud
Those were some nice guitars, do you play guitar, you should add a little riff to the end of each video
Did you choose all the guitars or did the seller? Because you seemed surprised what were in a few boxes & not getting "the broken guitar."
Bro the way you hurl those cases as they thud before you open them and the way you have guitars just leaning all around the place gives me mega anxiety.
Take it easy with them!
I noticed that too when I was editing the video 😅. It sounded MUCH worse than it looked. Cases are sturdy and the chair is well padded.
The guitars laying around the place, I'll give you that one 😅😅😅. But glad to report the operation has changed significantly since that video was filmed. No more guitars hanging around all over the place. 🫡🫡🫡
@@GuitarFinds Ok good to hear!
I think the comments about stolen guitars is obviously not knowing what the original storage unit deceased person may have been doing for a living Covid 2020 & post Covid 2021-present. Just me, where I live I saw the only local music store go out of business in 2021. They were a Mesa Boogie amp dealer for their music store. I live a county & city that is basically between the bigger cities that would have big box music stores like Guitar Center. As that smaller, yet reputable brand music store went out of business, they were selling everything just to get out of the building they were renting before their lease expired. That said, the Mesa Boogie amps he had in inventory, were pretty much last one's Mesa Boogie was going to wholesale to the music store. When I went in there, he said buy what's here, because it's all going, I'm not getting restock. Most of us know that Mesa Boogie eventually folded & Gibson bought them up for the instant amp market Mesa Boogie had. Covid may have influenced that even though people were buying guitars & amps during the 2020 lockdown year. End of the day, if they couldn't sell the inventory at that store, the items could be put in storage, then resold online, because their web page store still existed. I think that's what happened here with this cache of higher dollar instruments & amps. And since the storage unit leasee passed away, this was the perfect storm for scoring $ 250K of music store inventory. That's good for you guys, but it's not like you lack a soul/heart and ripped anyone off, or are fencing stolen merchandise. You simply scored a Mom & Pop music store that isn't Sweetwater/Musician's Friend/Guitar Center/Sam Ash. And speaking of Sam Ash, they went out of business & absorbed by another just the same. Covid and immediately after 2020, the transition to the internet model of retail kicked in. Dealers & Independent music stores were a distribution channel restructure & casualties of the times.
Years back I saw Tracfone do the exact same thing, streamline their distribution network for pay for minutes cards & handsets for smartphones. That was 2015/2016. 2020 was the reinvention of retail for the musical instrument industry. I bought several guitars in summer 2019 before prices got ridiculous during & post Covid 2020. That was when nobody could sell guitars, relatively giving them away new & preowned. There is obviously a glut of new & preowned guitars in the market. The preowned are virtually never played/rarely used. Covid 2020 and everyone that was "non-essential" had time on their hands, so they bought guitars to live their mid life crisis of being a rock star. Could they learn guitar or make music. Forums these days are full of folks flipping guitars, purging their collections because they bought guitars they rarely use. I could be just as wrong as others, but I think that's what you stumbled across the random storage unit full of a dealer music store's unsold Covid inventory.
Storage units, unless HVAC maintained for humidity or more importantly dehumidified is not good for instruments or amps. Then there are bugs & rodents. These guitars had cases, so that helps for a shorter term storage. Sometimes the inventory picks you. If that storage unit had computers or whatever else, that's what you'd be selling online just the same. Post Covid, Fender & others completely revamped their product lines. I believe it was either late 2021 or 2022, Fender let 2nd shift production labor go, that included project management for those guitar models that were being replaced in Fender's Product line. Some of these guitars are recent models, but that doesn't mean those music stores are still solvent & part of the new online distribution network. Who knows, as some of those LLC's went out of business, the storage unit lessee may have either snapped up $ 250K of inventory or it may have walked out of the store for an insurance claim of the store being robbed ? Never know when business goes sour what some folks are capable of. But that's not on you as the one buying the abandoned storage unit contents. The storage facility people are into renting space for revenue, not accumulating inventory of what was stored there, they want paying tenants like an apartment complex. The storage unit contents is really just an eviction to the storage facility. they want an empty storage unit to rent to the next lessee, they don't fall in love with the random contents. They made more money unloading the inventory, they undervalued the contents obviously, but that's how you make your money, selling the contents on internet markets.
I currently have 30+ guitars in a climate controlled storage unit while I am waiting to close on my next house. So yes, real people do store guitars in storage units.
When I was starting out selling guitars about 3 years or so into it, I didn't have space in my apartment so I stored my stuff at a Public Storage Facility in Berkeley Ca. Very nice facility and climate controlled. However, it always unsettled me that the tops of each unit were "open" with just a wire cage, so theoretically someone could climb up, peer over the top of the door and "see" what was inside of each unit.
I stored guitars there as my main operation for a year or so.
Wowza.
When a storage unit is abandoned, the company has the right to legally look through the stuff. So I guess this storage company just didn't care to look through this unit. I have never trusted storage auctions for this very reason. Because any storage company that really would not look through what they now legally own, can only be described as, well.............there is no need for insults.
How much for the Flying V with the black and white pick guard ?
What was in the tweed case?
Wow that’s hitting the lottery
Holy Motherlode Batman! Did you buy the whole unit and how much did you pay? Or did the owner of the facility sell the guitars himself to you?
My cases in my home are dustier that those cleanest storage ever
Put a sheet over the cases. That'll help with the dust. That's what happened when these were found. A sheet was covering most of them to conceal them.
Man what a dream. Did you get any amps?
I wish! Surprisingly no amps were in that storage unit (only that one Fryette amp that I know of). Just guitars in that lot. Cheers!
@@GuitarFindsperhaps he/orig owner had an adjacent storage place for amps! I had a friend/boss that was a huge amp guy and had his gear holed up in storage in Livermore. He and I used to work on his spreadsheet where he had just about every item he owned documented. When he died, his wife and me went through the spreadsheet and she still had a hell of a time figuring things out. Eventually, she sold his acoustics to Gryphon and his amps and electrics and accessories to Showcase. How long have you been around in Benicia?! My good friend Steve hails from there and I would be surprised if he hasn’t been to your shop. It’s a damn good thing I ended up moving to Costa Rica about 4 years ago (orig. Santa Cruz then Half Moon Bay). I’m the worst kind of gear slut and would have been throwing my money at you incessantly. You on The Gear Page? Best.
Wait, why didn’t you want the g&ls?
They're great guitars but they don't command prices compared to the Jacksons and Charvels in the same lot. I wish they had higher resell values.
Hi..How much is the 2009 G and L Relic white?
Sorry! That one sold.
I'm trying to imagine a person who would own those types of guitars and store them in an outdoor storage unit. You see the problem there.
Dimus is pronounced "Dee-mus".
Originally was in a climate controlled unit. After winning the auction, the storage unit winner moved them to the location shown in the video. They were there for only a day or two before he contacted me. They were not stored there long term.
Are people buying? I need to thin my herd and just keep the first few good guitars I bought as a teen in the 70’s. The rest I bought for gigging guitars until I gave that up 9 years ago. Also a few half stacks need to go.
nice guitars
I’m curious how one person is so lucky to find all this equipment and why there aren’t more people diving into save & sells by the fricken storage unit. I’m not saying it’s fake but I know there’s a lot of reasonable people who are also in this game who will NEVER find one, let alone guitars by multiple the unit. Like people in congress with “investments”, just lucky I guess.
You just have to know where to look.
www.storagetreasures.com/auctions/fl/fort%20lauderdale/4626630
It's a lot of behind the scenes grinding that you DON'T see. I'm only showing the massive wins. There is plenty of time spent searching and finding nothing. If you are interested in learning how to do it, email the shop. I'll find you a solid deal in no time just for funzies.
For me...it's not luck, it's skill. For Congress....I can't say the same because they always seem to be VERY lucky at JUST the right time 😅😅😅
whats interesting to me is that, normally, when a storage unit is auctioned off, they usually require you to empty it in like 24 hours or less... but apparently this guy won the auction and just kept them in there all this time? ma
Auction won in S.F., then hauled to different location.
I bet you could rent the storage unit month by month until you empty it - BUT you run the risk of the original owner coming by, cutting the lock, and taking “his” stuff - so best to empty it, even if just to put it in another storage unit.
10:44 is that another one???
I have a custom Shop G&L INVADER you might be intrested in its aqua Blue
Contact us. We might be interested.
@GuitarFinds I emailed you and sent 2 pics the G&L and a Mike Lull guitar
What’s that dime Washburn selling for?
Why don’t you like the G&L’s ?
They're great guitars but they don't command prices compared to the Jacksons and Charvels in the same lot. I wish they had higher resell values.
All these boo-hoo nay-sayers😂😂 Dollars to donuts if THEY bought a unit full of gold they wouldn't think twice about 'making things right'... Keep grinding, Alan👍👍
POV: "When you are not good at playing the guitar at all, but you have a taste of design and amount of money to buy for collection." 💀💀💀
Could hold the camera up???😮
Yes. 💯💯💯
Damn not one Gretsch or Rickenbacker!
It’s the “know what I mean guy!” 😁
🙌🙌🙌☺️
i swear every time he says SAN-dime-us i want to scream...its pronounced SAN-DE-Muss
Born and raised in NorCal. 😔 SoCal names are foreign to me 😅.
My Dad grew up in SoCal and I told him how I pronounced San Dimas...he was not pleased. 😅😅
Something def seems off about this situation.
Like...?
Cool!! ❤ MAGA❤
I’ve had a serious conversation with myself, and it was really MY own wish to have one of those guitars. You got them for a steal, but you got lucky and hit the mother load. Then again, you’ve been working your. Butt off to get into the position to get that lucky! I’m sure someone looked for relatives of the owner, and that’s the only hic up my mind has. Then I thought, if NOT you, a guitar lover and dealer, what would become of these beautiful pieces of art? Some knuckle dragger (sorry drummers, but if the glove fits….) wouldn’t know the first step in bringing these art pieces to life. Oh, just another G&L Legacy…I got 5 of them….i’ll break out my tools, soldering iron, and Frankenstein these worthless pieces of wood into an art deco end table? By the way, I love the way you handled the fake MAGA kid, as most of us LOVE PRESIDENT TRUMP, and wouldn’t resolve to stupid comments to get on a video. God Bless your business, and let be known, is old Christian rockers can still jam the oldies and sweat out sweet and wonderful uplifting, METAL EXTORTED MAYHEM! Of course in a very reserved way. I’ve got way to many guitars, but now I have to go look at your site. God, give me strength! Oh, $250k is a low ball here in SoCal.
Don't shit on g&l alot of people own them and love them.
Not shitting on them but from a business perspective, they don't command prices compared to the Jacksons and Charvels in the same lot. I wish they had higher resell values.
This is real people do use storage units to store thier guitars ive done it when my wife and bought a new house i did it so they wouldnt get damaged,and a few of these guitars are worth around 4 to 4k a piece the charvel San dumas custom shop guitars are high dollar guitars i have one it cost me around 4400 bucks, alot if custom shop guitars can cost 14 to 15k its crazy but true ,just think of the eddie van halen red and white stripped guitar just the entery level model is around 2000 and for the custim shop version 14000 and the real one being worth over a million , yes guitars good ones are worth alot of money i have an original 64 fender strat my parents bought me for xmas when I was 13 its worth around 12 to 13000 i will never sell it though my parents have passed away ,when my mother passed away she left me a large sum of money in an ira 356k my wife and I paid our house off yes I bought a couple of guitars i have a small collection of 27 total and most if them are in a storage unit which has insurance on it as well so yes people use storage units to store guitars
@@allenwebster6329 doesnt watching this video make you want to not keep them in a public storage? Unless yours is private this is like a nightmare scenerio that op took advantage of.
@@Airhead348 no it doesnt bother me because my storage unit is gated with a code to get in plus I have insurance of 75k on it and I pay my storage bill every month it doesnt worry me I have my most valued guitars at home anyway I have a 64 strat hanging on my bedroom wall along with about 15 others, I have jacksons and a couple of wolfgang gangs special in the storage alone with 3 I beleive half stack amps ,but no I have no worries why would I worry if I catch someone trying to break in . unit well lets they probably wont be around in the future the will unalived so to speak,
Hey if you find some lefties let me know
Second time you’ve overlooked the Nash case smfh
I hope you can give me some electric guitar
You got money, I got guitars. 😎
@@GuitarFinds I don't have any money
Im just poor
Why would you not want the G&Ls.
Under normal circumstances, G&Ls are great and we buy them in regularly. But from a business perspective on this particular deal, the resale value of them were not on par with say the Jacksons USA models or other niche guitar brands from this lot. It feels weird of me to say this but the G&Ls were the least expensive brand out of the lot.
“Abandoned”… clearly this is how some of the sponsored artists sell their unused/unwanted gear that is given to them by the companies. Not a new story
Poor guy lost his guitars. Maybe someone should see if he's OK. 🤔
Why did it piss you off that somebody asked you how much the storage locker was bought for???
No, the price that the storage unit guy paid "pissed" me off (jokingly). I wasn't upset that someone asked the question? That would be a weird thing to get upset about 🤣.
@@GuitarFinds gotcha 👍🏼
Wonder what happened that someone left all those guitars? Never he answered that near the end of the video.
@@GuitarFindsits wierd you are mad he got a steal while your greedy ass got an even better deal out of it by pinching every penny selling to kids that use the thing. Hypocrisy!
have the police ever confronted you over stolen items?
Yup.
Somebody with money died??😢
Yes 🙁 along with unfortunately not having next of kin or a friend on the emergent contact list with the storage unit facility.
Do you know who the owner was
I know the name of the gentleman. There were several invoices all in the same name. So I assume it was his collection
So the abandoned storage cost you how much at auction? The owner of the storage new exactly what was in there! Obviously you didnt pay just the back rent of the unit!
The storage unit winner paid $8,000. I paid much more to him.
I didn't see one I liked
Uncle can you give me a guitar am from India ❤🥺
Im incomfortable with how this would or could happen , owner injured , sick or in jail .. dunno but if we care about musicians should we not try to find and help that person …. Should I share my adress now as I have 35 guitars , if your lucky I could get arrested or have a heart attack
Moral of the story...fill out / update those emergency contact cards when you have guitars in storage or tell your friends / relatives about the collection that you have amassed. Otherwise, yes, this will happen.
Dude... you sure have a LOT of gear for not knowing jack about guitars.
They are in there so your wife doesn't know about them, just sayin.
THIS 😁
Plz one guitar give me bro I have on electric guitar love from India 😢
We inherit money.
Pig out on drugs. Fie.
All our shir in storage locker
Collect, never play them.
A lot of them Chinese replicas.
No Chinese replicas. They were the real deal.
For some reason are you embarrassed to tell people what you paid for a unit?
Probably a failed music store 😂
Individual. Lots of invoices from various stores with only one consistent name on the invoices.
I hate being THAT guy, but damn you're bad at pronunciation. San Dimas, TrumpMagat (Trump-maggot), and Geoff is another spelling of Jeff. Sorry, it was driving me crazy.
Ain't been no good with them words. 😔 Words is hard four me.
@@GuitarFinds LOL, sorry dude I didn’t mean to make you feel bad. But damn i can’t believe what all was in that storage unit! I’d never pay those kinds of prices for Jacksons or Charvels personally but it’s wild how many were purchased and never even taken out of the box!
Stolen?
Staged?
Scripted?
Conspiracy theorist?
Meh
Yee
What's a maga trolls doing there
jobless AF😂
Dishing out conspiracy theories, of course.
You fucking libtards don’t want AMERICA to be Great? Must be college-educated
Personally this whole thing makes me sick and pissed off.Mainly due to a storage company who auctioned 30 years of touring memories (guitars mostly)even when my credit card was on auto pay.i hired a lawyer and after 2 years i got nothing.i hate storage wars and now this post makes me triggered.unsubscribing your bs channel.🤘🏻👀🤘🏻
I'm sorry to hear that. What happened in your situation doesn't sit well with me, with the fact pattern you described. That's very unjust and straight up wrong and my gut reaction is "wow...how the heck could that have happened and you were left with nothing?!?!?!" That lawyer needed to go back to school if they couldn't win a case for their client with that fact pattern!
I disagree with your characterization that this channel is "BS". But you're entitled to your own opinion. We love guitars just as much as the next gigging musician.
Totally unethical business by op and the storage company.
Please explain? I don't think you understand how business works. But I doubt you'll respond as your username is very telling. Lol
@@GuitarFinds I understand exactly how it works. Storage company unethically auctuins unit for 8k you buy it of him for around 20k then sell for up to 200k over the years unethically. The owner that lost the unit isnt around to contest and probably didnt read the contract on the unit and didnt know how he would be so badly taking advantage of post mortum. And to add insult make a video bragging about making so much money on his blunder and the unethical manner of storage companies. Who do you think runs those companies because in Chicago I can tell you it aint the kind of people you want to mess with(the mob)
@Airhead348 I stand corrected, you DID actually respond *shocked*....but this is just the natural cycle of things, items change hands because, unfortunately, you can’t take them with you when you’re gone. Would you rather those guitars sit in storage forever, untouched and forgotten? The storage company follows a legal process, and the unit was auctioned off because of unpaid bills-no shady backdoor deals or "mob" influence here. If you’re suggesting every item with sentimental value should never be sold, what exactly would you do with them when the original owners aren’t around? This is how things work, like it or not, and it gives these guitars a second life instead of gathering dust in a locked unit.
The TLDR version is don't hate the player, hate the game. 😎
Because your comments were throwing absolute fireballs at the players (me and the buyer of the storage unit). When we're just moving the items along in the circle of life bro.
@@Airhead348wow….this is whole new level ignorance here…
are your parents as totally clueless as you are?
This is absolute bullshit
? Gotta expand on that one, bud.
i call bullshit.
Ok.
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Are you calling me a clown? 😭😭😭😭 That hurts my feelings.
@@GuitarFinds your video is hard to watch with your commentary. You sound like a clown that’s just money grubbing. G&L guitars and basses are really good instruments. Try not to be so greedy. You sound like you’re very greedy and have a lack of intelligence.
This is called projection. 🤣 It's cool bro, this too shall pass. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 I'm sure in real life, we'd be cordial with each other but since this is the internet we just stoop to the lowest form of insulting and name calling. LETS GO!!!! 🤣🤣🤣
We don't delete comments. Not sure if you could tell but our ego isn't that fragile 🤣🤣🤣. It probably was auto censored by UA-cam because possibly a vulgarity was used in your comment? I'll be sure to check and unblock it so you can have your moment of glory.