Guys, regarding the counterfeits. People came up to me saying they came to this guitar show after watching my videos. Not everyone is a guitar expert. So I feel responsible for relaying information to you. You need to be aware there are a few counterfeits. I did not speak to the sellers about them, and they probably do tell people they are not real. The no name copies, and appropriately branded copies are totally legal. But having the Fender and Gibson logos on the copies is illegal to sell. As long as none of you guys are getting scammed, I don't give a s*** what the sellers do. It's none of my business otherwise.
I appreciate your candid honesty and for calling out the over-pricing ruthless sellers. I can like the person, but not buy from them. I just subscribed and liked. Thank you for taking me along on your flea market trip.
Man, I wasnt going to comment on your video - this being the first one I watched, I didnt want to be negative, but your closing comments put me at ease. I buy and sell gear - have for years - and I was like - what? It initially looked like a gathering of pawn shops trying to sell their old, over-priced inventory. I did see some quality items in the video, but I couldnt agree more about the pricing. The sellers are going to drive business away from the flea market if they dont change their approach to pricing - no one is going to invest time and money into going to a Samick guitar museum next to a dusty parking lot in the Florida heat. If you cant buy anything, you are mainly a spectator and that wouldnt be anything worth my time to browse. Worse yet, it hurts the sellers with good inventory and fair prices - they get washed out in the frustration, or they get caught up in people shooting low offers based on what they are seeing in the over-priced stuff. One last thing, and I make this comment with the utmost respect to the builders and those that customize branded guitars - take the time to learn how to paint or pay someone else to do it for you. So many great builds and customization that is just ruined by crappy paint/finish work; orange peel, drips, waves in the lacquer, etc. Thanks for making the vids. I need to catch up on them. The guitars I though were the most cool were the Gibson Goth guitars. I am a sucker for cool inlay work!
Good video... I collect guitars & "items related to the 2nd Amendment". But you're 100% correct on pricing. Last week, I went to my favorite guitar store/pawn shop & bought a perfect Taylor mini w/gig bag for ~$400. A few months ago, I bought an (Epi) SG (w/ the Bigsby) at a lovely price. The store owner operates on lower margins & higher volume. He does really well, mostly with loyal, return buyers. (Just like Sam Walden & Amazon) These guys (& the smaller gun show operators) need to take the hint... Lugging a bunch of $200 Squires back & forth, hoping a cash heavy buffoon will buy then at $800/each? That is a loser's game.
Just want to say, because of you taking the time to mention prices, and explain what you did at the end of this video, you gained a subscriber. I appreciate your time, videos, and what you had to say.
I want to add, you are correct about Reverb. I frequently go to reverb and ebay, search a product then use filters to find what the item actually sold for. I do not mind paying a fair price and someone making money on that sale but as you mentioned, if they are so over fair price, I don't want to deal with them and will find another seller that will be fair.
Yeah, that sucked. Some people complain about the muting. If I do a background music blend, people will complain about that. I almost left that whole section of footage out of the video.
That was funny man, I always say that kindness is not weakness haha I couldn''t see any prices really but that was no big deal Cause your clear acoss the country. ; )
An Urban guitar!! My local dealer had one used once, and I was looking at it - then he said "That guitar isn't for you" which is his code to me "It's basically junk." When I got home and did a deep dive on them, I saw what he meant. I've been dealing with him for years, so he takes care of me.
Thank you for posting your videos from the flea markets I enjoy them. I have to agree with you that many sellers are overpricing their guitars. Buyers beware of what you are buying do your homework on prices before buying anything!
As a Luthier who has been featured in Guitar World magazine and that largely does unique designs, I must say, the majority of this video I thought boring and a waste of time the FIRST time I watched it... BUT, after watching the final 10 minutes < I RE-Watched the whole thing again !! GREAT! INVALUABLE lessons at the very END!
I hear ya on the price gouging. Even on eBay and Reverb ,I see it. Been playing and buying since early 90's. Have gotten the pricing down pretty well on resale. Great vid. Love the channel. Cheers!!!!
I'm with you sir. At 57, playing since i was 5, I would have been there looking for the exact same type of guitars you were there looking for. I would have walked away with all my money still in my pocket.
I've had a few Dillion PRS copies. One even had the PRS bird inlays but PRS threatened a lawsuit so Dillion had to change the design. I wish I kept that one. I still have their Fender strat copy and 2 LP copies. They are very well made guitars.
Yeah, some cool stuff though depending on what you're into. Nothing I'd be too interested in buying unless they were nearly throwing it at me, but there was probably a couple good finds there.
It seems like there isn't really much selling going on. It reminds me of the old guys gathering in a parking lot to show off their old cars to each other.
I spotted a Peavey JF 1 semi hollow in red not too far into the video. Funny thing though, the pots are reversed meaning the top two pots are for the bridge pickup, bottom two are for the neck. I own one identical to that. Great player and sounds great!!
Thank you, Mr Coffey, I am a small-time luthier in Canadaland and have found that same thing up here. Over inflated $ for average instruments/builders and astronomical $ for the big names. The main folks buying guitars are musicians. We are broke af people. For ths vid, I happily became a subscriber.
I think used guitar sales pricing are like the tulip market bubble. Remember at heart all electric guitars are partscaster. I shopped guitars through facebook marketplace. I found a of good amount of honest to God private sellers just looking to move a guitar. My Facebook find was the US made Fender American Professional Stratocaster in mint condition.
on Reverb you have to look at price guide, it will give you past sales(sometimes they don't have info on the guitar you're looking at) and most times it's less then what people are asking. I've had bad luck on reverb and only buy guitars I can hold inspect and play first.
Just bought a Gibson Les Paul Supreme from Sweetwater. The quality of the finished product was nowhere near as good as my Trad Pro V or LP Tribute. I sent it back. Gibson better get their shit together or they will go under. I will not buy anything I cannot lay hands on ever again. Schecter is blowing away Gibson on quality.
It was nice running into you, in person at the flea market ! Sure was a hot day, but I did manage to make a few small purchases The wife & I actually spend the entire weekend in Mnt. Dora at an awesome B & B in historical town down. Great weekend ! Big gray beard dude
I always look at what the stuff actually sold for in the reverb graph and I look at how long it has been listed for, although that is not always helpful because of reposting. Great video.
Also - the issue with that Teisco is that when the Teisco Spectrum V’s started hitting $2k, everybody with a wacky-looking multi-pickup Teisco from that era started to try to cash in, asking stoopid money. Kinda like when Harmony H44’s got expensive, everybody with a boat paddle catalog guitar from that era suddenly wants $1500 for it. Sometimes a POS is a POS.
Yeah, it seems the only high $ spectrums I saw sold was collector condition ones with paperwork? The 2 and 4 pickup ETs are very common. This Teisco was a bit heavy and ugly color, If it were a nice solid color, and lighter, I would have tried to negotiate. The guitar sounded great, intonation was trash though, that's why I didn't play it much.
That guy with the Teisco was charging more than the music stores are, yeah people are collecting them, but they are collecting them because they are nice guitars but dirt cheap!
I’ve got over 60 guitars, Fender, Airline, Silvertone, Kay, Supro … really cool, old original gear. I would love to sell them at fair prices but buyers are really,hard to deal with. It makes it easier just to enjoy my gear and just hold onto it.
Almost every flea market I go to the prices on most items are just ridiculous. Every so often you can find a gem that is priced right, but most of the time markets like that are mainly just an excuse to get out of the house.
Yep! the guy started tighter rhythm blues bars... UA-cam's algorithm will put a bunch of claims on my video over that sh. I can't even play covers live here anymore, UA-cam will interrupt my live stream. So if mutes are annoying, complain to UA-cam about it.
That still wrapped tele copy (with a p90 in the neck!!) for $100 would have been mine lol. I’m probably a sucker but that thing would have got me good.
I love Samick built instruments :-) The 349 price on the Valley Arts strat is about on par with market right now. I have a couple Valley Arts 5 string basses branded Samick during the transition and they're basically the Lee Sklar Valley Arts model but in 5 string (which was never going to get built as a signature model) - so I snapped them both up, and they were both 299 each. Nobody wants to pay more for them but I'm not going to sell them - they're gorgeous, sound great, play great, and except for the logo on the headstock, they're 100% Valley Arts quality.
Why do people bother getting a booth for these? Even the salesmanship of just sitting there and playing ..or sitting like a watchdog. These sellers should know...the prices aren't going to move the guitars for them
Right, and there is a lot of the same gear there each show. They need to have better knowledge of pricing, so they can sell stuff and get fresh stock in.
It’s more valuable than you think. Regardless of body shape/finish, Three pickup models ARE much more rare. You mainly see one or two pup models. I’d value it at $700-800.
@@ColeWheeler4Lyfe Hi Cole, your appraisal is the same method as the seller's $1100. Personal thoughts and opinion. The model is a ET-311... I deep dived into the models sales records. Not one in history has sold for over $500 USD. $350-$400 are the more common sales prices. Being vintage and rare, you can pay whatever you want, if you have to have it. I'm not paying over $500 for this one in the video. And any appraisal over $500 has nothing to back it up.
@@ColeWheeler4LyfeI mean, there’s a nicer looking one, semi-hollow, 3-pickup made in Japan. Under $500, Reverb. Also a Tiesco Mayfair 60s sunburst, 3 pickup - $395
Hank Coffey....go to 21:52 marker in this video. You wanted to know whose signature that is on that black Les Paul ? I can definitely say it's none other than George Lynch from Dokken and Lynch Mob band.
Those fenders also have the wrong trussrod access. It's some sort of reissue so it'd be on the butt but even if it was at the headstock they look nothing like that. Some of these prices on other guitars there were an absolute joke.
What bugs me the most is most of these sellers don't even have a real store front to kinda justify some pf these prices. Its crazy when I work that event Im cheaper then most and I have a store front. Thanks for calling out them.
Hey Randy! Yeah I feel I needed to stay transparent on this show. People are watching my videos and going there. I am bummed that I didn't go to Bradenton. Those were perfect conditions to make a awesome video. Not good for dealers, but great for video and audio, and nobody IN THE WAY! lol
The days of the flea market, pawn shop, yard sale finds are truly over. What a load of shit guitars. And of course the scumbags that buy the counterfeits and sell them at places where there aren't any consequences.
You didn't seem to recognize the famous Rory Gallagher vintage Strat at 26:36 "Here is a relic Stratocaster, Look at it's age" ... 26:45 "Fender copy" or was that a fake? What did the ticket on the neck say? Cheers otherwise, my favorite kind of market walk.
Doesn't surprise me. I've forgotten most of the stuff I used to know about Fender guitars. I could spot a fake in a second. Now days, I have to take a 2nd look. A lot of people can be fooled. I don't want my viewers fooled.
I've watched so many of these type of vids now, like dozens and more, and it's always the same - a ton of guitars I've either never heard of or know better than to buy, and a load of guitars that I would buy except they're priced at ridiculous crazy prices. I honestly just don't understand how these guitar marts keep operating, I mean no one ever buys anything from these stalls, not that I've seen. Some stock seems to get traded between dealers, but the public are just browsing. And the attitude of some of these 'sellers' lol, I mean who wants to deal with someone who starts of making you bristle and gets worse from there. They know they're just basically having a laugh (I'm being nice), and some are darn right nasty. I wouldn't waste my time and money going to these things, and I'm constantly surprised anyone else does. I'm in the UK and there used to be loads of these guitar fairs, but there's almost none left now and it's no surprise at all. Guitars are easy to find - the market is flooded beyond all reason and bargains are plentiful, there's no reason to get ripped off at one of these things. Anyway, just my 2C
Just like the video game market... lots of overpriced stuff that sits forever and then people trying to sell fake games as authentic. Some of those guitars will sit forever...
I appreciate the artistry in making instruments, but I don't know why folks just try re-inventing the wheel (or guitar, in this case!) Gold hardware and fancy wood looks nice, but you can still make great music with a customized el-cheapo Strat copy.
Yeah. Honestly I appreciate the video but you’re right it’s mostly 100 dollar junk. Some interesting acoustic guitars but not s single real gibson tells you all you need to know. Some rude bastards too.
Search for your item. Select "all filters". Go to "show only" on the list. Check the "sold listings" box. You can then set the sort to "most recent first".
The flying W was cool, I like all of your previous videos on these flea markets,nice when you tell us the price of each guitar,you could actually turn this into a business,a buyer service for people seeking used guitars,middle man fee of like $50 to 100 dollars,they pay for all shipping and price of guitar,all you do is set up the deal between the seller and the buyer,do not cover the cost let that be worked out,between buyer and seller,all you do is ship after the deal is complete,claim you won’t be responsible for any shipping damages during shipping.
The Alvarez acoustic is decent. The older Yamaha probably not bad either. This honestly looks like every pawn shop in town shut down during COVID and now they're selling off what they have at the swap meet. I wouldn't pay any more than $200 for any of it personally and half that for anything electric
Got a “chibson” from that swap meet last time I went. Had “copy” sharpied on the headstock maybe that’s how they get passed it. Otherwise great guitar. Hurt a lot less than 3K
It was to avoid a copyright risk. But people comment that I only play a cheesy blues lick, and stop playing. It's because the guitars are OUT OF TUNE! And intonation is off. I'm not embarrassing myself in public like that.
People yacking about the high cost of a good guitar. In the '70s my dad had to pay $300 to get me a decent Yamaha acoustic. Can you imagine? What is that $300 worth now?
Are you OK Hank? Did Hurricane Helene affect you and your family at all? You do seem to get a lot more bad weather than before. We do too, but it's always on a much smaller scale with less devastation than your country. Later alligator 🐊 🎶 🎸 🐻 🍩 Postscript... On a more depressing note... We've had a terrible year so far and it's still very stressful. My biological father died, and then my Stepdad died too, who was the one I grew up with, and my Mum's second husband for the last 50 years. My Mother's Dimensia has gotten much worse and she needs 24 hour care, and there's been a few technical problems selling her house to pay for her care. It's taking ages and many months of solicitors efforts trying to sort it out. It's extremely tiring and I struggle to cope with my chronic fatigue problems and anxiety. Plus I had the flu, followed by pneumonia, and in July a mysterious illness that has left me even more fatigued than ever before. It's a good job I've got Tricia and other family to do most things currently, although Tricia is now getting more stressed as Mum's savings are to run out soon, and the delays selling the house are still a big obstacle. It's mainly to do with a fire in 1999. The company that did the mortgage on the house held everyone's deeds , and other things in a big warehouse which was destroyed by fire. They replaced everyone's deeds, BUT there was 2 big mistakes on the new deeds registered with our country Land registry's, that wasn't noticed at the time. This is currently the main obstacle 😔
Hey JaanJaan, the winds got to about 20 mph for a few hours... nothing big. When the hurricanes aren't on land, there isn't much damage here. They have to be going over us. That is a bummer about your health and house problems. You would think a realtor would be able to expedite what ever process that's going on. I am slowing starting to go live again JaanJaan, it will be at the same time as past. About 10 or 11am my time. But, it has to be based on Twitch. If I stream on UA-cam, UA-cam will interrupt my stream on most of the cover songs. And then I have the copyright claims that come through on the replay after. People are so hard headed about coming to Twitch, that I will probably multi-stream here as well for a while, to bring over viewers... but on a lot of songs, my stream will stop playing here. You will get a frozen screen. All special interactions and chat priority will be on Twitch. I think you might be following me already over there. I hope you are able to get your problems worked out JaanJaan. And hope to see you soon!
@@HankCoffey we will be lucky if the Land Registry does their stuff before Christmas , and the buyer we have keeps on getting the price he pays dropped. He is getting a house worth around £320k, definitely at least £300k for £275k now, and our legal fees are probably around 10k. And that's with thing's sped up because of my Mum's health too! Her personal GP[general Practitioner] has written letters which weve sent to the various places including Land Registry. We're probably going to have to get a short term loan to pay for my Mum's care. Tricia and me have excellent credit ratings and we now own our house and have no mortgage or any other loans, so in theory it should be straightforward. I still have Twitch loaded onto my old Tablet, which is slowly dying because it stopped being supported by android updates last month, and many things have stopped working. But I also have twitch on my smartphone, which I loaded just in case I spotted you live! And i bought an Apple Mac laptop , not the basic one but one up from basic with a terribyte of memory, which i need lessons to get into doing things, including using GarageBand. Plus I need an appropriate thing to connect my guitar. All of the current stuff about my Mum comes through one of my email accounts, and maybe you could send a quick email the day before you definitely intend to go on twitch? Otherwise I would forget as my brain isn't great, becauseof my CFS being worse. I recently got referred to a new specialist organisation helping people with CFS[Chronic Fatigue Syndrome] and fatigue problems from "Long Covid". My Problems started after having Shingles followed by Glandular Fever nearly 20 years ago now, and the 3 significant illnesses I've had this year have made my brain worse. I will send you an email from the email address I see daily. It will be nice to see you again and interact with a live stream like before. Thanks Hank, Later Alligator
@@The1stMrJohn Hey JaanJaan, yes I got your email and I will definitely let you know when I am going live. I shot a UA-cam video today, so I am tied up editing that and doing other stuff. After this video upload, I will be going live. I can send a multistream feed here as well, but my stream will be paused on UA-cam for some covers. I am definitely basing my stream on Twitch.
Oh, there were definitely over priced items. That camo Peavey though... you should've snagged it. That green Teisco was way over priced and the action was WAY too high.
@@HankCoffey To be fair, Florida humidity is a bit different from Oklahoma humidity. I mean, we're pretty wet, but Florida is a lot wettter. But still, do a simple set up.
Guys, regarding the counterfeits. People came up to me saying they came to this guitar show after watching my videos. Not everyone is a guitar expert. So I feel responsible for relaying information to you. You need to be aware there are a few counterfeits. I did not speak to the sellers about them, and they probably do tell people they are not real. The no name copies, and appropriately branded copies are totally legal. But having the Fender and Gibson logos on the copies is illegal to sell. As long as none of you guys are getting scammed, I don't give a s*** what the sellers do. It's none of my business otherwise.
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I appreciate your candid honesty and for calling out the over-pricing ruthless sellers. I can like the person, but not buy from them.
I just subscribed and liked.
Thank you for taking me along on your flea market trip.
Hey, thank you Susan!
Man, I wasnt going to comment on your video - this being the first one I watched, I didnt want to be negative, but your closing comments put me at ease. I buy and sell gear - have for years - and I was like - what? It initially looked like a gathering of pawn shops trying to sell their old, over-priced inventory. I did see some quality items in the video, but I couldnt agree more about the pricing. The sellers are going to drive business away from the flea market if they dont change their approach to pricing - no one is going to invest time and money into going to a Samick guitar museum next to a dusty parking lot in the Florida heat. If you cant buy anything, you are mainly a spectator and that wouldnt be anything worth my time to browse. Worse yet, it hurts the sellers with good inventory and fair prices - they get washed out in the frustration, or they get caught up in people shooting low offers based on what they are seeing in the over-priced stuff. One last thing, and I make this comment with the utmost respect to the builders and those that customize branded guitars - take the time to learn how to paint or pay someone else to do it for you. So many great builds and customization that is just ruined by crappy paint/finish work; orange peel, drips, waves in the lacquer, etc. Thanks for making the vids. I need to catch up on them. The guitars I though were the most cool were the Gibson Goth guitars. I am a sucker for cool inlay work!
Good video... I collect guitars & "items related to the 2nd Amendment". But you're 100% correct on pricing.
Last week, I went to my favorite guitar store/pawn shop & bought a perfect Taylor mini w/gig bag for ~$400. A few months ago, I bought an (Epi) SG (w/ the Bigsby) at a lovely price. The store owner operates on lower margins & higher volume. He does really well, mostly with loyal, return buyers. (Just like Sam Walden & Amazon)
These guys (& the smaller gun show operators) need to take the hint... Lugging a bunch of $200 Squires back & forth, hoping a cash heavy buffoon will buy then at $800/each? That is a loser's game.
Just want to say, because of you taking the time to mention prices, and explain what you did at the end of this video, you gained a subscriber. I appreciate your time, videos, and what you had to say.
I want to add, you are correct about Reverb. I frequently go to reverb and ebay, search a product then use filters to find what the item actually sold for. I do not mind paying a fair price and someone making money on that sale but as you mentioned, if they are so over fair price, I don't want to deal with them and will find another seller that will be fair.
That guy playin g in the background was driving me nuts, glad you used mute !
Yeah, that sucked. Some people complain about the muting. If I do a background music blend, people will complain about that. I almost left that whole section of footage out of the video.
It always seems like the guy in the background always sucks😂
Average day at Guitar Center be like:
Yeah the strumming jackasses no bueno.
What do you mean by playing g? Playing g chords?
The guitar market is flooded..and nothing is rare
true u can always go on reverb and find more than one (rare one of a kind) listing lol
About 10yrs ago I got a Kalamazoo epiphone thunderbird for 300$ at this swap meet. Makes me feel like johnny winter!!!
I won't go to flea markets anymore for that same reason: overpriced items that I get cheaper else where.
I saw very few deals here.
Autograph on the Black GIbson is George Lynch
Yep, we have pretty much confirmed that. Thanks for the info man.
I thought the same but then again - looks easy to repro.
COOL VIDEO!
That was funny man, I always say that kindness is not weakness haha I couldn''t see any prices really but that was no big deal Cause your clear acoss the country. ; )
I like the shape of the Jay Turner double cut Les Paul better than Gibson. Reminds me of a Gretsch Double Jet. I don’t own one.
An Urban guitar!! My local dealer had one used once, and I was looking at it - then he said "That guitar isn't for you" which is his code to me "It's basically junk." When I got home and did a deep dive on them, I saw what he meant. I've been dealing with him for years, so he takes care of me.
Thank you for posting your videos from the flea markets I enjoy them. I have to agree with you that many sellers are overpricing their guitars. Buyers beware of what you are buying do your homework on prices before buying anything!
Yeah, there's seller opinion values, and there is actual market values. Seller's opinion values aren't selling well.
As a Luthier who has been featured in Guitar World magazine and that largely does unique designs,
I must say, the majority of this video I thought boring and a waste of time the FIRST time I watched it...
BUT, after watching the final 10 minutes < I RE-Watched the whole thing again !!
GREAT! INVALUABLE lessons at the very END!
Your completely right , about prices and I really like what you do , and the time you take to make quality content ❤
Hey, thanks Nicolas 😎
I hear ya on the price gouging. Even on eBay and Reverb ,I see it. Been playing and buying since early 90's. Have gotten the pricing down pretty well on resale. Great vid. Love the channel. Cheers!!!!
Thanks man, yeah, them people on Reverb are gouging pretty good. Everything is basically 10% off new prices there. Well used gear.
Love the content! ...for some reason where I am in MA., no guitar shows/tag sales
I'm with you sir. At 57, playing since i was 5, I would have been there looking for the exact same type of guitars you were there looking for. I would have walked away with all my money still in my pocket.
And that is what I did, lol.
I've had a few Dillion PRS copies. One even had the PRS bird inlays but PRS threatened a lawsuit so Dillion had to change the design. I wish I kept that one. I still have their Fender strat copy and 2 LP copies. They are very well made guitars.
I didn’t see anything special,most were every day low end guitars.
Yeah, some cool stuff though depending on what you're into. Nothing I'd be too interested in buying unless they were nearly throwing it at me, but there was probably a couple good finds there.
That Alvarez Yairi is super nice. You must not know guitars brother
It is like a flea market no?
@@edmundblackaddercoc8522 yes
It seems like there isn't really much selling going on. It reminds me of the old guys gathering in a parking lot to show off their old cars to each other.
The Silvertone @4:00 looks similar to the one Eddie Van Halen had when he took a picture with his mother, Eddie was 10 years old I think.
Yes ........ Whatever the situation is it's always good to see guitars....... Thanks bro ....keep doing what you doing
I spotted a Peavey JF 1 semi hollow in red not too far into the video. Funny thing though, the pots are reversed meaning the top two pots are for the bridge pickup, bottom two are for the neck. I own one identical to that. Great player and sounds great!!
Thank you, Mr Coffey, I am a small-time luthier in Canadaland and have found that same thing up here. Over inflated $ for average instruments/builders and astronomical $ for the big names. The main folks buying guitars are musicians. We are broke af people. For ths vid, I happily became a subscriber.
I think used guitar sales pricing are like the tulip market bubble. Remember at heart all electric guitars are partscaster. I shopped guitars through facebook marketplace. I found a of good amount of honest to God private sellers just looking to move a guitar. My Facebook find was the US made Fender American Professional Stratocaster in mint condition.
That guitar builder at 8:53 has a Jerry Garcia wolf guitar kinda vibe. Very nice.
on Reverb you have to look at price guide, it will give you past sales(sometimes they don't have info on the guitar you're looking at) and most times it's less then what people are asking. I've had bad luck on reverb and only buy guitars I can hold inspect and play first.
Just bought a Gibson Les Paul Supreme from Sweetwater. The quality of the finished product was nowhere near as good as my Trad Pro V or LP Tribute. I sent it back. Gibson better get their shit together or they will go under. I will not buy anything I cannot lay hands on ever again. Schecter is blowing away Gibson on quality.
I stopped buying off reverb when they started charging sales tax on used guitars
It was nice running into you, in person at the flea market ! Sure was a hot day, but I did manage to make a few small purchases
The wife & I actually spend the entire weekend in Mnt. Dora at an awesome B & B in historical town down. Great weekend !
Big gray beard dude
Hey Kyle, I'm glad you guys had a nice weekend! I am awkward in public, but nice to see you 👍
6:06 - That’s an Alvarez / Yairi. Nice. 👍
And 27:54 Another one. $$$ 😣
I just sold a double neck Alvarez Yairi DY87
I always look at what the stuff actually sold for in the reverb graph and I look at how long it has been listed for, although that is not always helpful because of reposting. Great video.
eBay sold listings is usually more accurate for actual value. But I think their listing history only goes back 90 days now.
@@HankCoffey I vote with my wallet, try to stay far away from the bay.
Also - the issue with that Teisco is that when the Teisco Spectrum V’s started hitting $2k, everybody with a wacky-looking multi-pickup Teisco from that era started to try to cash in, asking stoopid money. Kinda like when Harmony H44’s got expensive, everybody with a boat paddle catalog guitar from that era suddenly wants $1500 for it. Sometimes a POS is a POS.
Yeah, it seems the only high $ spectrums I saw sold was collector condition ones with paperwork? The 2 and 4 pickup ETs are very common. This Teisco was a bit heavy and ugly color, If it were a nice solid color, and lighter, I would have tried to negotiate. The guitar sounded great, intonation was trash though, that's why I didn't play it much.
Best thing at the guitar show....a Slingerland gold sparkle drum set? Not much else
What you have here is The Poor Man's NAMM Show. I love it!
Except everything costs 2x what it should be
Mostly lower end pawn shop guitars.
Before watching, I have ONE major prediction, Gibons and Fenders galore
I am shocked actually, some cool stuff here
That guy with the Teisco was charging more than the music stores are, yeah people are collecting them, but they are collecting them because they are nice guitars but dirt cheap!
The Silvertone with the hatchet head stock would've came home with me, those are great guitars when set up properly.
It looked pretty cool
I didn't see a single Conn CS series Stat copies from the 70s. Rare as hens teeth, and I got one.
I’ve got over 60 guitars, Fender, Airline, Silvertone, Kay, Supro … really cool, old original gear. I would love to sell them at fair prices but buyers are really,hard to deal with. It makes it easier just to enjoy my gear and just hold onto it.
Almost every flea market I go to the prices on most items are just ridiculous. Every so often you can find a gem that is priced right, but most of the time markets like that are mainly just an excuse to get out of the house.
What's with the muting? Potential copyright strikes on somebody plunking out generic 12-bar blues?
Yep! the guy started tighter rhythm blues bars... UA-cam's algorithm will put a bunch of claims on my video over that sh. I can't even play covers live here anymore, UA-cam will interrupt my live stream. So if mutes are annoying, complain to UA-cam about it.
Rogue guitars are an in-house brand from Musician's Friend
That still wrapped tele copy (with a p90 in the neck!!) for $100 would have been mine lol. I’m probably a sucker but that thing would have got me good.
I love Samick built instruments :-)
The 349 price on the Valley Arts strat is about on par with market right now. I have a couple Valley Arts 5 string basses branded Samick during the transition and they're basically the Lee Sklar Valley Arts model but in 5 string (which was never going to get built as a signature model) - so I snapped them both up, and they were both 299 each. Nobody wants to pay more for them but I'm not going to sell them - they're gorgeous, sound great, play great, and except for the logo on the headstock, they're 100% Valley Arts quality.
Cool man 😎
Why do people bother getting a booth for these? Even the salesmanship of just sitting there and playing ..or sitting like a watchdog. These sellers should know...the prices aren't going to move the guitars for them
Right, and there is a lot of the same gear there each show. They need to have better knowledge of pricing, so they can sell stuff and get fresh stock in.
You are lucky over there, prices in the UK for a decent budget guitar are just silly, be thankful.
@@edmundblackaddercoc8522 I am man. 🇺🇸
Almost looks like George Lynch's signature on that Gibson Les Paul Voodoo.
Yep, someone said it looks like George Lynch, I think it's him.
$1250 for a Tiesco? OMG!
LOL, It IS a super rare guitar these days... But that is why the guitar is worth $500 tops, instead of $100.
It’s more valuable than you think. Regardless of body shape/finish, Three pickup models ARE much more rare. You mainly see one or two pup models. I’d value it at $700-800.
@@ColeWheeler4Lyfe Hi Cole, your appraisal is the same method as the seller's $1100. Personal thoughts and opinion. The model is a ET-311... I deep dived into the models sales records. Not one in history has sold for over $500 USD. $350-$400 are the more common sales prices. Being vintage and rare, you can pay whatever you want, if you have to have it. I'm not paying over $500 for this one in the video. And any appraisal over $500 has nothing to back it up.
@@HankCoffeyrare doesn’t equate to wanted or high demand unfortunately. I see a bunch of Tiesco’s on reverb for under $500
@@ColeWheeler4LyfeI mean, there’s a nicer looking one, semi-hollow, 3-pickup made in Japan. Under $500, Reverb. Also a Tiesco Mayfair 60s sunburst, 3 pickup - $395
Hank Coffey....go to 21:52 marker in this video. You wanted to know whose signature that is on that black Les Paul ? I can definitely say it's none other than George Lynch from Dokken and Lynch Mob band.
You ARE THE WINNER!!!! Nice man, that is awesome.
Thanks Hank for sharing the prices. nice to see
I have this 90s jackson with the reversed headstock, ive got a green one :D
Those fenders also have the wrong trussrod access. It's some sort of reissue so it'd be on the butt but even if it was at the headstock they look nothing like that.
Some of these prices on other guitars there were an absolute joke.
The Silvertone was a deal at $399. Especially if you play slide!
What bugs me the most is most of these sellers don't even have a real store front to kinda justify some pf these prices. Its crazy when I work that event Im cheaper then most and I have a store front. Thanks for calling out them.
Hey Randy! Yeah I feel I needed to stay transparent on this show. People are watching my videos and going there. I am bummed that I didn't go to Bradenton. Those were perfect conditions to make a awesome video. Not good for dealers, but great for video and audio, and nobody IN THE WAY! lol
I'm pretty sure the "Effin' Guitars are rebranded Stagg guitars...
The days of the flea market, pawn shop, yard sale finds are truly over. What a load of shit guitars. And of course the scumbags that buy the counterfeits and sell them at places where there aren't any consequences.
I'm I the uk love these vids I just have to do the price conversions I my head, nice.
Isn’t a double neck Flying V a Flying W? Just sayin’
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Id be in trouble at a place like this.
Yellow with Bigsby is an Epiphone Wildcat
Plenty of counterfeits for sure
14:00. "It goes to eleven!"
Thanks for calling a duck is a duck. And some of those counterfeit sellers had attitude!
The only one I seen that I would of bought was the Kramer, the rest was the usual GC stuff for 2x the price. Good video!
Thanks Jeff!
wish that we had guitar markeds like that Around here!!!!
The signature looks like
George Lynch's
Yep, it is. Thanks for looking into it man. 👍
You didn't seem to recognize the famous Rory Gallagher vintage Strat at 26:36 "Here is a relic Stratocaster, Look at it's age" ... 26:45 "Fender copy" or was that a fake?
What did the ticket on the neck say?
Cheers otherwise, my favorite kind of market walk.
I went by that rack fast, I think they were all copies.
Mexican fenders have 3 piece (layer) pick guards.. and they fade before the knobs pickup covers do. Those were fake ag
Doesn't surprise me. I've forgotten most of the stuff I used to know about Fender guitars. I could spot a fake in a second. Now days, I have to take a 2nd look. A lot of people can be fooled. I don't want my viewers fooled.
Greetings from Argentina man! How I'd love to have a flea market like that here.
Greetings from Florida!
that custom tele thinline has quite a smack right on the F-hole and he still wants 1600 for it?
Yeah that guy was asking between max retail and loonie toons for his stuff.
I've watched so many of these type of vids now, like dozens and more, and it's always the same - a ton of guitars I've either never heard of or know better than to buy, and a load of guitars that I would buy except they're priced at ridiculous crazy prices. I honestly just don't understand how these guitar marts keep operating, I mean no one ever buys anything from these stalls, not that I've seen. Some stock seems to get traded between dealers, but the public are just browsing. And the attitude of some of these 'sellers' lol, I mean who wants to deal with someone who starts of making you bristle and gets worse from there. They know they're just basically having a laugh (I'm being nice), and some are darn right nasty. I wouldn't waste my time and money going to these things, and I'm constantly surprised anyone else does. I'm in the UK and there used to be loads of these guitar fairs, but there's almost none left now and it's no surprise at all. Guitars are easy to find - the market is flooded beyond all reason and bargains are plentiful, there's no reason to get ripped off at one of these things. Anyway, just my 2C
Rockin the JH Diesel shirt….
LOL, yep! Truck smashing a Prius.
I went home soaked after being there 2 hours. I got on your film at 26:34, back turned on the Right top. in Rust colored shirt.
Yeah, it was hot and humid there.
Just like the video game market... lots of overpriced stuff that sits forever and then people trying to sell fake games as authentic. Some of those guitars will sit forever...
I appreciate the artistry in making instruments, but I don't know why folks just try re-inventing the wheel (or guitar, in this case!)
Gold hardware and fancy wood looks nice, but you can still make great music with a customized el-cheapo Strat copy.
Always dig your content, and these flea markets, I want to reach thru the screen, when I see a good one, some 🆒 guitars.
🤣👍🎸.
LOL
Rising tide guy. Make the groove around your cutting boards big enough for a fingertip. Who wants to use a qtip to clean their cutting board?
Really enjoyable vid Hank!
Thank you so much Han.
I was there looking for cheap import parts for a cheap beater import I have. Just like every other time I’ve gone there it was an utter waste of time.
Yeah. Honestly I appreciate the video but you’re right it’s mostly 100 dollar junk. Some interesting acoustic guitars but not s single real gibson tells you all you need to know. Some rude bastards too.
21:41 gibson! I love This One!!
Yeah, me too
Novice guitar collector and gigger here - how can I filter the prices on Reverb to last sold? Really trying to find a couple of things specifically
Search for your item. Select "all filters". Go to "show only" on the list. Check the "sold listings" box. You can then set the sort to "most recent first".
eBay Sold Listings are more accurate results for actual Market Values. Reverb listings are high.
The flying W was cool, I like all of your previous videos on these flea markets,nice when you tell us the price of each guitar,you could actually turn this into a business,a buyer service for people seeking used guitars,middle man fee of like $50 to 100 dollars,they pay for all shipping and price of guitar,all you do is set up the deal between the seller and the buyer,do not cover the cost let that be worked out,between buyer and seller,all you do is ship after the deal is complete,claim you won’t be responsible for any shipping damages during shipping.
An issue is that most of the stuff there is priced market value or over. The only deals I saw was a few $100 guitars and that blue Jackson I liked.
@@HankCoffey so true,a lot of times I will see a guitar I like, but not willing to pay the price someone wants ,for a used guitar.
@@GuitarDaze2023 Same
That Slingerland kit looked good for $600
Man, those drums? That guy had a killer kit in previous videos... it was see through.
I was hoping there'd be some lap steel guitars.
Where was this?
This answer is in the first few sentences of the video.
The Alvarez acoustic is decent. The older Yamaha probably not bad either. This honestly looks like every pawn shop in town shut down during COVID and now they're selling off what they have at the swap meet. I wouldn't pay any more than $200 for any of it personally and half that for anything electric
Got a “chibson” from that swap meet last time I went. Had “copy” sharpied on the headstock maybe that’s how they get passed it. Otherwise great guitar. Hurt a lot less than 3K
I hear ya, as long as they don't lie about the fakes I don't care. Other than warning you guys, it's none of my business.
Thank you for muting the terribly out of tune guitars in the background. Shit was distracting for the first bit of the video lol
It was to avoid a copyright risk. But people comment that I only play a cheesy blues lick, and stop playing. It's because the guitars are OUT OF TUNE! And intonation is off. I'm not embarrassing myself in public like that.
That black ovation wasnt a breadwinner.
Isn't the signature on the guitar George Lynch ?
Yep, a few others have said Lynch as well.
What did you find good
There is decent stuff at this place. I just don't ever see any good deals on the stuff worth buying.
I saw that on line. Worth a lot that skull
reverb lets you search sold items
People yacking about the high cost of a good guitar. In the '70s my dad had to pay $300 to get me a decent Yamaha acoustic. Can you imagine? What is that $300 worth now?
The point in this video is, everything here can be bought cheaper online, in better condition. Not complaining that a guitar is expensive.
I agree, and I wasn't thinking you were complaining.
@@216trixie 😎👍
Are you OK Hank?
Did Hurricane Helene affect you and your family at all?
You do seem to get a lot more bad weather than before.
We do too, but it's always on a much smaller scale with less devastation than your country.
Later alligator 🐊
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Postscript...
On a more depressing note...
We've had a terrible year so far and it's still very stressful. My biological father died, and then my Stepdad died too, who was the one I grew up with, and my Mum's second husband for the last 50 years. My Mother's Dimensia has gotten much worse and she needs 24 hour care, and there's been a few technical problems selling her house to pay for her care. It's taking ages and many months of solicitors efforts trying to sort it out.
It's extremely tiring and I struggle to cope with my chronic fatigue problems and anxiety. Plus I had the flu, followed by pneumonia, and in July a mysterious illness that has left me even more fatigued than ever before. It's a good job I've got Tricia and other family to do most things currently, although Tricia is now getting more stressed as Mum's savings are to run out soon, and the delays selling the house are still a big obstacle. It's mainly to do with a fire in 1999. The company that did the mortgage on the house held everyone's deeds , and other things in a big warehouse which was destroyed by fire. They replaced everyone's deeds, BUT there was 2 big mistakes on the new deeds registered with our country Land registry's, that wasn't noticed at the time. This is currently the main obstacle 😔
Hey JaanJaan, the winds got to about 20 mph for a few hours... nothing big. When the hurricanes aren't on land, there isn't much damage here. They have to be going over us. That is a bummer about your health and house problems. You would think a realtor would be able to expedite what ever process that's going on.
I am slowing starting to go live again JaanJaan, it will be at the same time as past. About 10 or 11am my time. But, it has to be based on Twitch. If I stream on UA-cam, UA-cam will interrupt my stream on most of the cover songs. And then I have the copyright claims that come through on the replay after. People are so hard headed about coming to Twitch, that I will probably multi-stream here as well for a while, to bring over viewers... but on a lot of songs, my stream will stop playing here. You will get a frozen screen. All special interactions and chat priority will be on Twitch. I think you might be following me already over there.
I hope you are able to get your problems worked out JaanJaan. And hope to see you soon!
Here is my Twitch Channel JaanJaan www.twitch.tv/hankcoffey
@@HankCoffey we will be lucky if the Land Registry does their stuff before Christmas , and the buyer we have keeps on getting the price he pays dropped. He is getting a house worth around £320k, definitely at least £300k for £275k now, and our legal fees are probably around 10k. And that's with thing's sped up because of my Mum's health too! Her personal GP[general Practitioner] has written letters which weve sent to the various places including Land Registry. We're probably going to have to get a short term loan to pay for my Mum's care. Tricia and me have excellent credit ratings and we now own our house and have no mortgage or any other loans, so in theory it should be straightforward.
I still have Twitch loaded onto my old Tablet, which is slowly dying because it stopped being supported by android updates last month, and many things have stopped working.
But I also have twitch on my smartphone, which I loaded just in case I spotted you live!
And i bought an Apple Mac laptop , not the basic one but one up from basic with a terribyte of memory, which i need lessons to get into doing things, including using GarageBand. Plus I need an appropriate thing to connect my guitar.
All of the current stuff about my Mum comes through one of my email accounts, and maybe you could send a quick email the day before you definitely intend to go on twitch? Otherwise I would forget as my brain isn't great, becauseof my CFS being worse. I recently got referred to a new specialist organisation helping people with CFS[Chronic Fatigue Syndrome] and fatigue problems from "Long Covid". My Problems started after having Shingles followed by Glandular Fever nearly 20 years ago now, and the 3 significant illnesses I've had this year have made my brain worse.
I will send you an email from the email address I see daily.
It will be nice to see you again and interact with a live stream like before.
Thanks Hank,
Later Alligator
@@The1stMrJohn Hey JaanJaan, yes I got your email and I will definitely let you know when I am going live. I shot a UA-cam video today, so I am tied up editing that and doing other stuff. After this video upload, I will be going live. I can send a multistream feed here as well, but my stream will be paused on UA-cam for some covers. I am definitely basing my stream on
Twitch.
Nice vid!!
Thanks!
Oh, there were definitely over priced items. That camo Peavey though... you should've snagged it. That green Teisco was way over priced and the action was WAY too high.
The guitars are all out of tune and need setup. That's why I don't play the guitars much when I am there.
@@HankCoffey To be fair, Florida humidity is a bit different from Oklahoma humidity. I mean, we're pretty wet, but Florida is a lot wettter. But still, do a simple set up.
man, i would have'ta' leave my wallet....like in Canada or somethin' if I walked into that place!
I really wanted that Teisco guitar man. It would be cool with a setup. But, I can't pay $1100 for a $500 max guitar.
I’ll take that cozart to church😂
Definitely a lot of AliExpress guitars there