Would you pay £7,489.85 for a pair of pup surrounds?

[dave_bass5]

I saw this add just now but cant imagine anyone would pay this much, not even a collector. Am i wrong?

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1957-Gibson-Cream-M-69-PAF-Pickup-Surrounds-RARE-/220662032274?pt=Guitar&hash=item33607b6792"]ebay listing[/url]

Check out the special offer for the screws lol.

Edited March 14, 2011 by dave_bass5

[mrdreadful]

Ah, eBay... the place where people will buy anything at any price as long as it says RARE and/or VINTAGE.

[Earbrass]

I'm guessing the seller thinks they'll get more by inviting offers than by a regular auction - hence the starting price which makes the auction a non-starter.

Edited March 14, 2011 by Earbrass

[pietruszka]

Yeah but if you buy now, he'll throw in some nickel coated screws worth $800. Bargain!

Totally not worth it. But there are some daft people out there with more money than sense. Still each to their own.


Dan

[drewm]

"I'm the real deal, so bid with confidence"

Riiiight.

[bobbass4k]

"To the unlearned, these may seem like two silly over-priced pieces of plastic, but to those in-the-know or in need of them...they're well worth it."

No, to anyone with a modicum of rationality they're over-priced. I'm not an expert in vintage guitars, but I recall a '57 goldtop going for around £25k. I'm pretty sure a 3'rd of the price wasn't the pickup surrounds.

[flyfisher]

I wonder where he gets them made?

$11,500 should easily cover the necessary tooling and bashing out, say, 100 sets. Can't cost much to nickel-plate screws either.

Nice little earner if there are mugs out there with more money than sense.

Good luck to him. Long live capitalism.

[ZMech]

A general rule of thumb seems to apply, in that font size is inversely proportional to brain size.

[waynepunkdude]

[quote name='Zach' post='1161879' date='Mar 14 2011, 03:24 PM']A general rule of thumb seems to apply, in that font size is inversely proportional to brain size.[/quote]


[size=7]SOD OFF[/size]

[mart]

Thanks for posting this. These are just what I need for my Sue Ryder goldtop.

[icastle]

Hmmm.

The seller comes from somewhere called Flushing.

Seems that someone needs to pull the chain a bit harder...

[Cat Burrito]

Not in that colour, no

[chris_b]

I don't know if these parts are priced accurately or not but it seems that you guys don't know the vintage collectable guitar market.

I know someone who wanted a replacement scratch plate for a 57 Strat. An original cost him over £3000 plus shipping from the US. There are collectors who will pay 100's of thousands for rare instruments.

It's another world out there if you can afford it!

Edited March 14, 2011 by chris_b

[Machines]

Wow, it can only be guitarists willing to pay these prices.. right ?!

[geoffbyrne]

Y'gotta have the original nickel-plated screws to get the tone, Dude!!!

Everybody knows that......



G.

[Slipperydick]

Oh Come on !

They have never been molested, and they are better than the photos depict, where else could you find a bargain like that ?

Worth seven and a half grand of anybodys money.

So how much would the guitar with them on be worth ?

[chris_b]

[quote name='Machines' post='1162086' date='Mar 14 2011, 05:51 PM']....Wow, it can only be guitarists willing to pay these prices.. right ?!....[/quote]
No not guitarists.... collectors.

[Ben Jamin]

Wow, I've been looking for a set of these for AGES.
Bargain.
Perfect compliment to my Epiphone LP.

[Emmaemme]

I doubt that they're worth more than half of the asking price.

[MuckedUpFunkies]

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1957-Gibson-Les-Paul-Goldtop-Vintage-Guitar-/290544433437?pt=Guitar&hash=item43a5cc391d#ht_500wt_949"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1957-Gibson-Les-Paul...1d#ht_500wt_949[/url]
Be interesting to see what this goes for =L

[xgsjx]

I can just picture these being fitted.

Slightly ill fitting screwdriver messes the screwhead up & then overtightens it, causing the surround to crack!

[Blademan_98]

[quote name='mart' post='1162014' date='Mar 14 2011, 05:02 PM']Thanks for posting this. These are just what I need for my Sue Ryder goldtop. [/quote]

I better get in first then as my LP is in desperate need of some......

The guitar cost me £75 from Ebay (It must be a genuine Gibson cause the chap said I could trust him. It came out of his uncles attic).

[Randy_Marsh]

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='1161889' date='Mar 14 2011, 03:28 PM'][size=7]SOD OFF[/size][/quote]


This was all I saw as I browsed through. Genius

[stingrayPete1977]

[quote name='bobbass4k' post='1161874' date='Mar 14 2011, 03:22 PM']"To the unlearned, these may seem like two silly over-priced pieces of plastic, but to those in-the-know or in need of them...they're well worth it."

No, to anyone with a modicum of rationality they're over-priced. I'm not an expert in vintage guitars, but I recall a '57 goldtop going for around £25k. I'm pretty sure a 3'rd of the price wasn't the pickup surrounds.[/quote]


[quote name='chris_b' post='1162076' date='Mar 14 2011, 05:45 PM']I don't know if these parts are priced accurately or not but it seems that you guys don't know the vintage collectable guitar market.

I know someone who wanted a replacement scratch plate for a 57 Strat. An original cost him over £3000 plus shipping from the US. There are collectors who will pay 100's of thousands for rare instruments.

It's another world out there if you can afford it![/quote]
This and this.

I know some 59' Les Pauls can change hands for £250'000 , I know a friend of a good friend who inheritted a pair and got offered that for one and £80'000 for a second that had a headstock repair, He kept the minter and sold the 80k one to donate the money to the RNLI as the guy that bequithed them to him had been a lifeboat volunteer all his adult life whether you lot agree with it not doesn't matter it just fuels the fire the same as classic cars for millions.

[flyfisher]

If pup surrounds are going for $7k+ then perhaps Clapton should have made his recent sale a 'breaking-for-parts' sale.
[url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12695811"]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12695811[/url]