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Peripatetic wrote:Har har I will give you 5USD for it or trade it for a free gelfling.

o hai, I fixed your post.

that's a nice looking guitar, but I will never ever be able to afford it. Good Luck Zomzom! I hope you bleed Gallo for a bunch of cash.

Thanks, interesting site.

Yeah as Badcomrade said, if Vincent Gallo doesn't bite, the UK ebay would probably be a good idea - not all the sellers of expensive guitars ship here either so it would have a good chance. Also, www.metalnecks.com has a lot of aluminium guitars up on the for sale section

If you sell it on ebay, you better have at least 1,000+ pos feedback. Anything below will totally effect the price you can get for your 133. If you do have that level of feedback, I suggest posting the list of previous owners. Add recordings that the guitar were used on also.

I have only 200 some feedback, all positive, and I wouldn't dare sell a Veleno. Veleno parts maybe....

Good luck Zom. Sucks you are being forced to part with it.

Wish I had the scratch to get one of those.

I'll post it for you if you want...On the eBay that is...I'd start with the least you want for it as a starting price, and go from there. No Western Union, Cashiers Check only.

You should also ship anywhere.

if you post a message on that travis bean site listed above, you will most certainly get responses. there's been some talk of them there recently.

steve wrote:I would suggest having no reserve, but a starting bid well below what you would take. It should look like a bargain on first notice, which will attract the interest of people who will pay much more.

+1. This never fails if the shit is the shit.

list it in the US, but indicate that you'll ship to North America, Europe, Australia, or Asia, and then clarify prominently in the listing precisely which countries in Asia you'll ship to (maybe just Japan) or something. I've only ever listed stuff US only, but with the Veleno, and the awesome dollar, you might benefit a lot.

Here's what I do.

List with a starting bid that's exactly the minimum you'd be willing to part with it for plus $500. Set a Buy It Now price that reflects the market (which I don't follow, for Veleno) and also represents the amount you'd be happy getting, setting it as high as you think the market will bear, and considering the way this Buy It Now would actually play out in the real world. Doude has been following Veleno auctions for a bit, waiting to find one he's gonna buy. He sees that there's a new Veleno listing, he checks out your auction page and sees a fucking nice Veleno, beautiful flattering pictures with deliberate lighting, fully-detailed photos of every aspect of the guitar that he might perceive as an "imperfection" after he spends X thousand dollars for it... the description is not cheesedick like so many of them are. just facts, relevant details, and clear specification of every aspect of what's gonna go down. cashier's check in USD only, guitar ships after payment clears, you will be paying the shipping charge (put in the auction headline "free ship w/BIN" or similar, you only ship to XYZ, "if you have less than 98% positive feedback *OR* less than 25 completed auctions, DO NOT BID OR USE BUY IT NOW. your bid will not be accepted".

Doude has just checked your whole page, and then checked it again (he's about to spend $9,750!!!) and he's weighing this question for somewhere between one second and ten minutes: "is this the guitar I've been looking for, and do I have the cash on hand to make this guitar mine?"

doude knows that with a starting bid as low as yours is, somebody out there might be happy getting it for the starting bid price. with no reserve (make it no reserve), if somebody bids, the Buy It Now disappears. so doude knows he has limited time to jump on it and get it for the BIN price. comparing it to the max this guy would pay for the guitar, the BIN price has to be the same or lower.

zom-zom, don't forget the cut that eBay takes in its "listing fee" and "closing fee" or whatever they're called. both are a function of auction price, and will be hefty for prices this high. add this cost in to your minimum (starting bid) and "happy" (BIN) prices. and the shipping, factor in $500 for that, so if you're shipping to Japan or Australia and paying for insurance, you're alright.

that's the way I've sold all three of the instruments I sold on eBay, including my TB1000S, all for a couple/few hundred dollars more than I paid for them. in all cases, Buy It Now was used. I might have gotten more without the BIN option, but I think it was in a good price considering the market (a little lower than the highest I'd seen them sell for most recently) and considering it was the price I'd be happy with, not the highest I could possibly hope for or anything, it was all good. In all three cases, the auction ended within about an hour after it was started. One of the first people to see it won in all cases. Buy it now.

Sorry to hear you're selling it because you need to and not cause you wanna.