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What is a piece of gear that you cant seem to sell, for instance, you have watched ____ sit on ebay/verb for a year or more....you can even sink to say there is a piece in your collection you could not give away even if you tried, or.. refuse to throw away even though it don't work right...

for me its this subdecay prometheus...was on ebay for 4 month, then I took it off to use....put it on the verb a few times since then for month or two...then simultaneously with ebay for a while, nothin.

Seems like its been goin on for 2 years of trying to flip it...I have even gone to get switch tips to make it like woooo... .....but no,...still for sale sittin in b/s/t & reverb

passive modular gear too, cant seem to sell, and I have a roland dr sample 202 that I thought would only serve a purpose if I rounded up shipping cost to send off to the magpie...circuit bent sampler?

Pioneer CDJ-1000 mkii, one of them. Apparently no one's interested in a single outdated cd player.

I couldn't give the Fuzzhugger stuff I got for a third of what I paid for it.

I gave up, it's nice stuff, but I only bought it to help somebody out.

Passive modular stuff never seems to sell, while basically any other modular gear goes quick on reverb (the staff seem to love buying it for some reason).

I also could never sell my hand-painted Zvex Fuzz Probe for anything NEAR the original price, but it is a pretty weird one. It's fun to keep around, but if I ever use it it's only as a regular fuzz...

It's beyond me why but I can't get rid of my Clyde McCoy wah even though it's in good condition and I was trying to sell it under market value. I finally got a seller a couple weeks ago but she returned it because it didn't sound "outstanding." I'll probably just keep the thing at this point.

I had a danelectro fab tone that I could not sell for $5 on CL for a long time. Then it went into a closet behind some old clothes. Then I used it for a door stop in one room where wind kept blowing the door shut. Someone on here wanted one so I was gonna give it away for free so I searched for it but it appears I threw it out.

Honestly, it depends on the market. I've had highly desired or rare shit sit just as long as the everyday stuff.

Usually if something doesn't sell within a week or two, I pull it. Especially here. People here tend to indicate interest even if they can't afford it.

I can't think of a single piece of gear I had a ton of trouble with, but I'm sure there is one.

jwar I don't think you will ever be able to pass on dW's range master as awesome as it is xD

I have a Peavey XR 1600C powered stereo mixing console I can't seem to give away. It seems that anyone interested in a giant mixing board probably wants something very particular, likely more state of the art than what I've got. I also have some road cases for my Acoustic 301 and 406 cabs that are immense and cumbersome, which I've been trying to sell for years, with occasional biters who always want me to ship them across the country. Finally, my Blackout Musket has been surprisingly hard to sell or trade.

Homebrew Electronics Hematoma, it's a great overdrive, and 5-10 years ago on Talkbass it was considered one of the best. But there are new overdrives coming out all the time, and HBE as a company has disappeared, so it seems like the Hematoma has lost it's allure.

Boutique stuff has always been a crapshoot, it's why I don't go that route in guitars - it's one thing to be out a couple hundred in unsellable pedals, another to have a piece of lumber you can't unload for 10% of what it cost you.

FS/T: Gold horsie Klon

Edit: sorry, wrong forum, wrong decade

rfurtkamp wrote:Boutique stuff has always been a crapshoot, it's why I don't go that route in guitars - it's one thing to be out a couple hundred in unsellable pedals, another to have a piece of lumber you can't unload for 10% of what it cost you.

100%. I never got into having a "nice guitar" don't think I ever will. I do have one guitar that was more expensive than my others but I bought knowing it was money I will never see again.

Plus, for higher end stuff there is a cost of maintenance which I don't have the time or patience for. You don't get that with pedals thankfully.

Z Vex Lo Fi Loop Junky. I didn't buy it for full price myself fortunately, but even when I ask 2/3 of what I paid I get zero bids.

rfurtkamp wrote:Boutique stuff has always been a crapshoot, it's why I don't go that route in guitars - it's one thing to be out a couple hundred in unsellable pedals, another to have a piece of lumber you can't unload for 10% of what it cost you.

I've never had issues with boutique basses being sold and I've owned a ton of them. You just have to buy used. I'd never buy new unless I knew without a shadow of a doubt that I'd keep it forever. Which means, I couldn't buy new. LOL