What have you bought that you regret?

deefstes · 2012-07-20T13:50:37+00:00

OK, so we all seem to constantly have to fight off the GAS attacks. I'm interested to hear what items of gear you have purchased which, in retrospect, you feel were mistakes. I'll get the discussion kicked off with the Peavey Ampkit Link. It seemed like a great idea at the time and it's probably not bad but I find that I just never use it and it's now just collecting dust in a cupboard. So what are your buyer's remorse items?

Dingwall

Actual guitar hardware i seldom regret, even the guitars i have never gigged with. So it is usually pc based recording stuff like my line 6 kb interface keyboard which i have never used other than teaching sharps and flats to pupils, i.e pointing at the keyboard in my lesson! I also have some other unused roland interface and about 10 daw's never used!

Oh just remembered i bought a takamine acoustic that i just could never get on with and it had to go! actually never bonded with takamine....

ZarK

I usually just sell something after spending enough time with it to realize it doesn't serve the intended purpose. Usually I get the money back or end up paying a little for the experience gained, so no regrets that I can recall...

ftcl

I recently considered getting rid of some of my gear just gathering dust. Funny thing is, I now have great need for the guitars I considered selling ??? Seems to me usage of gear is a cyclical thing.

I regret NOT buying waaay more than buying...

Chris-Mason

Guitars full stop. Should have started on the triangle, my bank manager would have preferred that choice.
Seriously though, one regret a vox tonelab (still have it) otherwise some purchases impulsive most well researched.
Saddle and Nut

Nitebob

Saddle and Nut wrote Guitars full stop. Should have started on the triangle, my bank manager would have preferred that choice.

:yup:

Ray

Lots of things. For one a Rode microphone which I've just put up for sale so go and buy it. Another thing is a Boss Micro BR which is just a sweat. Maybe I should try and sell that as well.

Squonk

guidothepimmp wrote Have plenty of regretted sales..

+1

I had a Charvel Model 3 , it was a brilliant guitar, I couldn't really play electric so traded it in when buying my Takamine Acoustic.

I am putting my Takamine as my first regret(at least for awhile) , I didn't bond with it for at least 7 years. It did cost a bit, so a bit expensive for an ornament.

The bonding process started when I joined GFSA and decided to have a go at TJ's Open Mic Night. My old Yamaha G-230 didn't have a pickup so I kind of forced my self to play steel string and eventually we clicked. I suppose the moral of the story is to give it some time before giving up!

Reinhard

ragges wrote Gibson Sg Standard.............its gotta go.......prefer my Tele's and Les Paul... ?

I love my SG, but my Tele and Strat need to go. They get no play time.

Different strokes ?

chris77

Nitebob wrote
chris77 wrote
IceCreamMan wrote everything ~~else~~ is a learning curve i guess and one has to buy them and use them to learn from them..... and move on...
Nevertheless, I think I wasted money that could have been better spent on these:

Fender Showmaster - rusty piece of crap
Ibanez EW20WNe - new piece of crap
Stagg ovation type guitar - Enough said
Cort 12 string - nice guitar, but I never ever play it.
Marshall Class 5 - Nice amp, too loud.
Zoom GFX5 - O.K'ish features but toneless. Currently on permanent "loan" to friend
Boss Bluesdriver pedal - Thought it would work with the Class 5. Didn't.
Marshall G'uvnor2 pedal - Ditto

A quick tally of what I paid for those items reveals I could have bought a Gibson Les Paul and have some pennies to spare had I rather saved the money. Maybe even a Cabronita. ☹ >☹
Do I smell a gas sale in the pipeline? :woohoo:

:-[ Nope, not yet. ?
Will someday, probably later rather than sooner, sell off the lot and keep only 3 or 4 electrics and an acoustic. Not sure which ones though. Two places are booked by my baby blue strat and ash tele, but the remaining two...toughie. :-\

flatfourfan

While I made a pretty penny selling it, I hated my epiphone special II, 100% total piece of crap, cheap and nasty hardware, bad fretwork, bad sound, really terrible to set up as that alone took a week because the piece of bovine excretion wouldn't stay in tune.

Everything else, I've pretty much just grown out of, so I've never really regretted buying it.

One funny thing is icecreamans MT-2 comment............ I've owned 6 MT-2's and shortly after selling one, I'd miss it and buy another one. Times that by 5 and then I ran one through my half stack and realised that it's all about the amp with that pedal. Also I have a setting on mine and it's never been off it since I bought my last one.

Squonk

Dingwall wrote Oh just remembered i bought a takamine acoustic that i just could never get on with and it had to go! actually never bonded with takamine....

Blasphemy!!!

domhatch

once bought a no-name ovation copy, traded a yamaha 12-string for it. ick. otherwise, nothing much in the past. currently i have a boss fdr-1 i'm not loving (yes, alan, you are allowed to say i told you so), as well as a boss ds-1 i got as a gift and don't use but just can't seem to part with. there's also the vox ac4-tv (head and combo) which is a great little amp, but i'm looking for something with a clean channel and an fx loop - so i guess something with a few extra features to it - and it thus gets little use.

complain much? me?
dh

Keira-WitherKay

Squonk wrote
Dingwall wrote Oh just remembered i bought a takamine acoustic that i just could never get on with and it had to go! actually never bonded with takamine....
Blasphemy!!!

so true tho , some guitars that others may find fabulous just might not work for you , i've sold many a good instrument which i just could not bond with , and then i rather dump that guitar asap and try again, so a true comment that re bonding with gear or not

deefstes

flatfourfan wrote While I made a pretty penny selling it, I hated my epiphone special II, 100% total piece of crap, cheap and nasty hardware, bad fretwork, bad sound, really terrible to set up as that alone took a week because the piece of bovine excretion wouldn't stay in tune.

LOL, I can only see the classifieds ad:
"Epiphone Special II, 100% awesome guitar, expensive and classy hardware, excellent fretwork, excellent sound, really a pleasure to set up thanks to its excellent tuning stability."

Hey wow! I never thought I'd make such a pretty penny selling it ?

flatfourfan

deefstes wrote
flatfourfan wrote While I made a pretty penny selling it, I hated my epiphone special II, 100% total piece of crap, cheap and nasty hardware, bad fretwork, bad sound, really terrible to set up as that alone took a week because the piece of bovine excretion wouldn't stay in tune.
LOL, I can only see the classifieds ad:
"Epiphone Special II, 100% awesome guitar, expensive and classy hardware, excellent fretwork, excellent sound, really a pleasure to set up thanks to its excellent tuning stability."

Hey wow! I never thought I'd make such a pretty penny selling it ?

LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...........I remember being asked by a guy why I'm selling, I just said, it's too nice a guitar to strip down and hotrod. Cosmetically it looked brand new. But you can see that it was built to a cost.

The worst was when I bought it, I thought damn this dude has just given me a bargain......I think I paid a grand for it, I went home and played it and thought, whoaaaaaaa, WTF is up with this thing.......I hear some guys really dig their old specials, I just never bonded with my hunk of braai wood.

Someone ended up buying it off the junktree for I think R1500. I thought that I'd suck a price out of my thumb and I had a load of people that wanted it, no haggling. Damn I could of probably sold it for more.lol.

Alex-B-Broadway

flatfourfan wrote LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...........I remember being asked by a guy why I'm selling, I just said, it's too nice a guitar to strip down and hotrod. Cosmetically it looked brand new. But you can see that it was built to a cost.

The worst was when I bought it, I thought damn this dude has just given me a bargain......I think I paid a grand for it, I went home and played it and thought, whoaaaaaaa, WTF is up with this thing.......I hear some guys really dig their old specials, I just never bonded with my hunk of braai wood.

Someone ended up buying it off the junktree for I think R1500. I thought that I'd suck a price out of my thumb and I had a load of people that wanted it, no haggling. Damn I could of probably sold it for more.lol.

I think I remember seeing the ad. ??? I owned one of these too, which I bought at the local Cash Crusaders. Eventually I traded it for a hardcase and some extra cash (which funded the Cube amp purchase). I heard back from the guy later and he seemed happy with it. He modded the hell out of it, though.

flatfourfan

Alex B Broadway wrote He modded the hell out of it, though.

That there is the key..........I reckon with new tuners, neck nut, frets, neck pick up, bridge pick up, bridge, tail piece, pups and input jack, it could of been a really nice player.

Alex-B-Broadway

flatfourfan wrote
Alex B Broadway wrote He modded the hell out of it, though.
That there is the key..........I reckon with new tuners, neck nut, frets, neck pick up, bridge pick up, bridge, tail piece, pups and input jack, it could of been a really nice player.

Agreed. At the time it wasn't really worth it to me. I'm thinking of keeping my SX Strat to see it I can play around with it a bit. It needs a little bit of work, but it's not bad as it is now either.

flatfourfan

Alex B Broadway wrote Agreed. At the time it wasn't really worth it to me. I'm thinking of keeping my SX Strat to see it I can play around with it a bit. It needs a little bit of work, but it's not bad as it is now either.

1 Guitar I do regret selling was my SX Les Paul, damn I loved that guit, 100% stock and sounded great.......but that's for another thread.

Alex-B-Broadway

flatfourfan wrote
Alex B Broadway wrote Agreed. At the time it wasn't really worth it to me. I'm thinking of keeping my SX Strat to see it I can play around with it a bit. It needs a little bit of work, but it's not bad as it is now either.
1 Guitar I do regret selling was my SX Les Paul, damn I loved that guit, 100% stock and sounded great.......but that's for another thread.

I sold mine the other day. It really is a cool guitar, but the weight got me down and the back problems didn't really help. ??? The one guitar I really should've kept is my Cort bass. I figured I'm not much of a bass player (but now, about a year later, I'm tempted to try again).

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