OT: I think I made a bad sale DOH !

[Kilby]

I sold one of these during the mid 80s for 75 UKP.

http://www.ampaholics.org.uk/vox__vintage_inventory_page_1.htm

It just shows one mans meat is another mans poison, it was impossible to get any sort of natural distortion clipping out of it at all, unless you set the volume at 10 (and then it was feedback city in my bedroom).

If I still had it I could sell it abd buy a good amp.

Rob...

[Nasse]

I sold my vintage small case Marshall 50 watts head quite same way 30 years ago. Well, I dont have any tinnitus, only some damages at here and there in audio spectrum. It was helluwa loud mofo.  :?

I could have a super cheap deal for Vox AC50 head and 2x12 closed box with greenbacks and cool curved chrome tilt support with wheels that time. The owner needed urgently money for booze. And Burns Black Bison bass solid as a rock was included in deal. I fussed it.

[RDV]

That's nothing. I sold an Ibanez TS-808 in the 80's for $20.00, along with a silverface Fender Deluxe for $150.00!

Regards

RDV

[marc]

When I was 12 years old, I saw  an ad in the  paper for an electric guitar and amp for sale for $40 (Canadian). I convinced my mom to  buy them for me as an early birthday gift. The amp was a small Supro. When I was a not-so- on-the- ball adolescent, I ended  up killing the amp.
Three years ago, I saw the exact same model amp in a store selling for $600.00. Turns out it was the same kind that Jimmy Page used.
When I was starting to play out, amps and effects were so cheap we were always trading stuff around. We took so much for granted way back then (80's). "I wish that I knew what I know now..."

[Kilby]

These sad tales have raised my spirits a little, after all I only bought the damn thing because it was a VOX, but it was certainly no AC15 or AV 30 that's for sure.

In about 1983 I was offered a Thinline tele as owned by Adrian Gurvitz (http://www.adriangurvitz.com/) for 120 UKP.

Unfortunitely being a teenager the 48 hour window of opportunity passed without me being able to raise the nessicary funds, still as he produced a song as dreary and boring as "classic", perhaps it was a lucky escape after all

Rob...

[petemoore]

I decided after all the bum horses I'd been solde to try a little horse tradin myself...
 My good buddy from high school was telling me how both his forearms got broke ina softball game, and he wanted this a: [a Vox transistor Beatle/Vox 4 /12's BULLDOGS] [name...original Super duper Vox speakers...[also two Midax horns [original] without the cage out of his life for good ...just make me an offer...
 I happened to have a small pile of cash and said 100, the very next morning [after some hangover juices] we saw the deal through.
 The cabinet sounded fantastic with a 100x plexi on it. The lead side of the Vox head had died, the head itself was well ... lets just way it wasn't all that amazing sounding [it did what it did..kinda cool for a minut I guess..different].
 I liked the cavinet ... more exactly the speakers... and sold the whole thing with 'millrun 12'' replacement speakers I had [I got those Voxxies drivers out of it] to a Beatles tribute band guy who said "All I care about is the look" ... that's exactly what he got for 750...he was there with his van like NOW, I was like good deal man...I always freely give tone info...
 Nice look for sure and crappy tone to be certain...lol...from before function !!!
 I also turned the speakers over for another 100...after testing the ohmage and noticing one was hoggin ost of the power I decided 30+ years of service [the guy I bought them from used to CRANK bass through them] made them fragile and I was right...two of them were still working the last  I heard...really amazing sound in those old Voxes speakers to be sure///the 'Friend' wanted 300$ a pop for one of the re-issues...not for me...

[BillyJ]

Gotcha all beat. My first guitar COULD have been a really nice candy apple red Strat from like '62....It was a friends of my grandfathers. I went to the hospital were my granddad worked to check it out. It had a little wear on the paintjob and well to tell the absolute truth....it just didn't have all the points my 'friends' guitar had.....
My friend was nice enough to sell me that Kramer Focus 4000 for only a hundred more than the Strat would have cost....I paid 5 hundred dollars for the Kramer the Strat was $400.00.
14 year olds can be soooo dense!!!!


Yeah I know this thread was about stuff you sold.....well I got $150.00 for the Focus years later.....that is about what it was worth when I bought it....oh well.

[Ge_Whiz]

Aaagh, you guys should worry. In 1974 I bought an original germanium transistor Fuzz Face for UK£6. Soldered a loose battery wire back and it sounded fantastic.

In 1977, I had it stolen at a gig. Wouldn't have minded so much THEN, but I only took it along as a spare because my mate's Tonebender was playing up. (We fixed it before the gig, and he didn't need the FF). :cry: