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The Official Vintage Guitar Magazine Price Guide, 2007 Edition (Official Vintage Guitar Magazine Price Guide)
by Alan Greenwood, Gil Hembree
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Vintage Guitar Books (2006-10-01)
ISBN: 1884883184
EAN: 9781884883187
UPC: 884088083939
Dewy Decimal #: 780
Paperback: 520 pages
Edition: 1
Condition: Very Good
Comments: 2007 Edition, 8.5 x 11, 488 pages, Paperback, Book is in Very Good Condition. Book is completely intact with inside pages in Very Good condition with no tears and with no notations (no pencil marks, no underlining, no highlighting, etc.)
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
For 2007, The Official Vintage Guitar Magazine Price Guide continues to be the industry-leading reference for values on vintage and collectible guitars, basses, lap steels, mandolins, ukuleles, banjos, amps and effects. Expanding in '07 to more than 500 pages and including information on more than 1,400 brands illustrated by more than 1,000 photos, The Guide is the only such work to cover everything in one very affordable volume! Published by Vintage Guitar magazine, The Guide combines thorough research with a user-friendly format employing quick-find page headings, page-edge tabs, a comprehensive index, and a dealer directory that puts you just an e-mail or phone call away from guitar buyers and sellers in every region of the country. Also included is a detailed look at the "hows and whys" of the collectible instrument market.
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Customer Reviews
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Guitar Pricing
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-06-29
Great tool for determining not only the value of your guitars but guaging their increase/decrease in value. Keep in mind these are closer to retail prices and used by some stores to price the intruments they have for sale. "GC" for example does this in some of the stores I have been to. It's a great way to study the market by buying each new issue annually for comparison from the years before.
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And these guys are the experts?
Rating  (1)
Date: 2007-06-02
Simply put, page after page have inaccuracies and incomplete information. If a novice like myself can find the errors it makes you wonder who in the heck the "experts" are. Do they proof read this before it goes to print? I am talking EASY things that most guitar players know.
It is just disappointing that a book that has an impact on market pricing is so inaccurate.
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Good Reference
Rating  (4)
Date: 2007-05-07
This price guide is a good reference book for anyone interested in buying, selling, collecting or edjucating themselves on used and vintage guitars, basses, and amplifiers.
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Very useful and complete guide .
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-04-03
0 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Excellent guide !! . It's the most complete guide I'd ever seen..
A good source for collectrors and not collectors too. Good Descriptions and details.. And very very complete..
You will find every intstrument you are looking for.
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One of many useful tools
Rating (4)
Date: 2007-03-11
5 out of 7 customers found this reveiw helpful
One can rarely perform any complex and important task, be it manual or cerebral, with a single tool. Research on any subject is a prime example; a single reference source is never adequate. This guide, while not as complete or exhaustive as some might like, is simply one of many reference tools, and an extremely useful one. Were the guitar market static, it might make sense to put together a voluminous compilation aspiring to be all-inclusive and unerringly accurate. But the guitar market is anything but static and this guide simply provides the best "snapshot" that it can at this particular time.
I must disagree with those other reviewers who say the prices in this guide are so vastly off the mark, and that ebay represents the new paradigm in pricing information. My own experience during the last few years has been repeated instances of wishful sellers justifying their asking prices by pointing to the "Buy It Now" prices of the burgeoning numbers of "Power Sellers" and "ebay Store" entities. Those prices obviously have no significance in defining the current market, because the vast majority of the listings expire without generating a single bid. Even more interesting are the numerous cases in which sellers have said that their guitars sold, at or above the asking prices, and then a month or two later the same sellers have the same guitars listed again. Were it to happen often enough, such fraudulent generation of apparent sales could help drive the market upward, just as those sellers are obviously hoping.
While ebay sales represent valuable pricing data, the authors of this guide have certainly tried to exclude sales to apparently collusive buyers, and probably weighted their analysis in favor of those sales that generated numerous bids.
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