Help! Tokai experts! For my 1981 LS60.

villager · Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2016 11:56 am Post subject:

its what i would sell one for m8 ..i would buy it for around 450-500 quid in japan.. but hey you asked for a value so i gave you one how did i come to that value..hmm well probably because i have sold around 3-400 love rocks of various grades over the last 10 years, been dealing japanese guitars for 15 years, follow ebay and all japanese auction sites every day, written articles on japanese guitars and have the biggest vintage MIJ collection and sales site in europe for certain and possibly in the world .. good enough for you?

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guitar hiro · Guitar God Joined: 05 Dec 2013 Posts: 241

smack!!!!!!

brokentoes · Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2016 9:09 am Post subject:

The problem with asking how much something is worth is that things are worth more (or less) in different parts of the world. The OP could have done themselves a favour by telling us what country they are living in.

kend · Plucker Joined: 05 Oct 2016 Posts: 14

Thank you for answering my question. I was expecting you will say aside from that is you studied tokai guitars from woods, electronics, hardware etc. and your an authorized dealer of original tokai guitar, Thats why i doubt the price. We all know that there are so many replicas and fake tokai guitars selling in ebay that also part of the reason i am asking.

villager · Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2016 11:59 am Post subject:

i dont understand you, there are no "authorized dealers" of vintage tokai guitars, there are very few replicas or fakes of tokais around and your is not one, so i really don't see what you are saying?? if you don't like the valuation then why don't you just put it on ebay and see what you get?
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ibicus · Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2016 4:31 am Post subject:

I'm not really surprised since ls-50 or ls-60 are popping up on ebay for 1500 euros and more in the last years.And they are for sale since because no one is willing to pay that amount of money when you can get a ls-80 for that price...that's the point here...ridiculous high ebay prices do not show the real price level.

villager · Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2016 4:48 am Post subject:

exactly.. and there is a big spec jump from LS-60 to LS-80. an LS60 will sell within 2 weeks at 7-800 euro depending on condition, it will sit there for ever at 1000 euro.. if you risk an open auction then you might get 500 you might get 800 just depends on the bidders..
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kend · Plucker Joined: 05 Oct 2016 Posts: 14

a great guitar selling cheap..its like almost the same price level of a brand new chinese, indonesian, indian made guitar..

very unfair market..

ibicus · Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2016 8:39 am Post subject:

Never sell a great guitar

especially if it's worth in your opinion more than the market price.

guitar hiro · Guitar God Joined: 05 Dec 2013 Posts: 241

markets are not fair nor unfair; they are just markets

ibicus · Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2017 6:48 am Post subject:

good example... hard to believe though

http://www.gitarren-studio-neustadt.de/gebrauchte-vintage-gitarren/945-special-stanford-gitarren-sp-1713404357.html

villager · Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2017 9:11 am Post subject:

lovely example idiotic price..
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