Have You Ever Suffered With Sellers Or Buyers Remorse ?

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When buying and selling Amp Heads Combos Cabinets Guitars and Pedals ?
I thought I might have after selling my ancient VOX AC 30 combo on Monday but after using my new VOX AC 15 head today.
I have no remorse what so ever 👍🍺
 
I’ve regretted every piece of gear I sold in the first 10 years I started playing.

Namely- Carvin Legacy halfstack, Mesa Studio Pre, my first block letter 5150, my very first guitar, all the pedals I bought when I was a teenager, I could surely think of a bunch of others.

Haven’t had too may regrets for buying, at most it’d be the Fortin 33 because it’s fucking useless to me and no one seems to want to buy it.
 
I still regret selling my 1960s Martin acoustic 12 string that was given to me after my exams in 1971 by Noel Redding .
I needed a large deposit for a flat in London in the mid 70s.
 
I have a big list of amps I will forever regret selling. Some that would be nearly impossible to ever get back at this point.

I’ve had a few buyers remorse amps. The one I remember the most was a H&K Edition Tube 20th Anniversary.
 
Yup.

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I sold this Burny when I moved cross country back in 2018. Ended up tracking down the buyer and bought it back last year. Just a killer player that will be staying for good.

I also sold a 96 Dual Rectifier and a mint Studio Preamp when I was broke in college. I wasn’t able to track down the originals but replaced both with units from the same era last year.
 
I regret selling about 80% of the gear I've sold over the years


I think the only thing I've ever regretted buying was the EHX soul turd
 
I wish I didn't sell my shitty tacky B.C. Rich Virgo from the 00s lol - that mf was so ugly it was awesome
 
Buyer's remorse, only twice.
  • Boss GT6. Just couldn't hold a candle to the tones I got from the Yamaha DG I had back then.
  • Laney AOR3012 combo. It was so god damn loud I just could not use it at home, and sounded like a can of bees when turned down. It was my first tube amp, and I just quickly sold it.
Seller's remorse, a few times too.
  • Stephenson LJ10. This was like a 15W mini Trainwreck Express in a homely chassis (which also made it very affordable). It was a very saggy amp but I think today I would appreciate it more for what it is, and maybe could dial it better. Just pretty unique so I wish I had kept it, tried it with more cabs etc.
  • Victory VC35 + 1x12 with Alnico Gold. I didn't 100% love the cab itself, but loved the VC35 + Gold combination. Just perfection for that Vox AC30 style tone. I sold it because I felt I couldn't regularly play it at a nice volume.
 
I kinda regret selling my Steinberger GM5T but it didn’t sound very good compared to my other guitars.

I kinda regret selling my Mesa Mark III Simulclass but it didn’t sound very good compared to my other amps.
 
DrewJD82 said:
I’ve regretted every piece of gear I sold in the first 10 years I started playing.

Namely- Carvin Legacy halfstack, Mesa Studio Pre, my first block letter 5150, my very first guitar, all the pedals I bought when I was a teenager, I could surely think of a bunch of others.

Haven’t had too may regrets for buying, at most it’d be the Fortin 33 because it’s fucking useless to me and no one seems to want to buy it.
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Same here. That was when I didn’t know as much about gear as I do now. I bought a Road head and 4x12 when I was seventeen, and it came with a box of effects, including a Thomas Organ Co wah pedal and an original Tube Screamer. Those weren’t any good for metal, so I dumped them pronto. Fucking idiot, I was…
 
Regret: Selling my Yamaha PAC510V

Good riddance: to all the Guitars i bought, Fender/Fender branded MiM
 
I have regrets about things I *didn't* buy, like a 50s goldtop for $1200 :facepalm. Over the years I've re-bought almost everything I had regrets about selling. Some of the regrets were justified, some not so much.
 
@paisleywookiee You know I’ve tried over and over again to make it work. I love how quaint a little amp is. The Rectoverb 25 has maybe my favorite aesthetic of any amp ever, but I just do not jive with the boxy sounds from the little amps.

The Victory Kraken and MT15 are notable exceptions. Those lunchbox amps bring it 100%. I think the Marshall studio series with the EL34s are probably great too but I haven’t tried them personally yet.
 
I had buyer's remorse on the Revv G3 pedal I picked up a few months ago and sold it within a week or two of trying to get a sound I liked out of it.

After the honeymoon period I kind of have some buyer's remorse for the Crab Dragon I bought earlier this year. It's not bad and the price was OK, but it's really not that great either. I'm using it for a practice amp in my living room where I give lessons and it was inexpensive enough that it doesn't bother me all that much,
 
I miss a few guitars and amps I've sold over the years, but it probably doesn't qualify as remorse.

Biggest buyers remorse I've had was a fawn Marshall JMP 50w 2x12 combo that I bought off a guy in Hawaii. It shipped in a road case, but that didn't protect it from the massive fall that FedEx put it through.
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Of course FedEx didn't pay the insurance claim, or for the repairs I needed to do to get the amp up and running again. I tried to make lemonade out of these lemons by converting it to a head so I could use it with different cabs, and it IS the Marshall I had been searching for, but it still grinds my gears...
 
EOengineer said:
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I sold this Burny when I moved cross country back in 2018. Ended up tracking down the buyer and bought it back last year. Just a killer player that will be staying for good.

I also sold a 96 Dual Rectifier and a mint Studio Preamp when I was broke in college. I wasn’t able to track down the originals but replaced both with units from the same era last year.
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I thought we were gonna be having a conversation about the "live laugh love" pillow.

I kid, I kid :beer

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