What's the next collectable on the second hand marketthen?

[ead]

Don't forget inflation folks.  £300 in 1966 (about the price of a Fender bass I think) is worth about £5,800 today.

[Sean]

USA Spectors.

They will be worthless in the future. It's probably time to offload them for a few hundred quid now before they bottom out.

If you need some help shifting yours, I know a chap that can help.

[Stub Mandrel]

On 19/03/2025 at 08:34, ped said:

Maybe not so much these days!

 

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

[neepheid]

Obviously it's 3 pickup Greco LP shaped basses, innit?

 

[NancyJohnson]

Haven't most of us owned something that we sold cheap only see the prices go nutso?

 

My old Travis Bean (sigh), that frankly terrible '79 Precision, all those Gibson Thunderbirds.  Mass produced bass amps have little or no appreciating resale value unless they're old valve things like Matamps.  I doubt any of the current production line Fenders/Gibson/MusicMan/Ibanez etc basses will be loss-making or worth anything long term.

 

My belief is the money is in investing in short runs and decently built kit.  I own a couple of Hamer basses, I bought one very cheap and am being hassled by two Americans who are in this odd bidding war, currently at $4k.  My Mike Lull basses (one likely going up for sale shortly) were both built by Mike before he died, are certainly carrying ticket prices equivalent or higher than what I paid.  Again, I'm getting enquiries on a Lull build from the US offering c.£6k.

 

I suppose you have to realise one swallow does not a summer make; just because there's someone out there that'll pay over the odds for something doesn't necessarily make it a collector's market.