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Trav
Mackerel
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Posted: 10/30/2009 7:30:00 AM
I'm looking at getting a 75th DCM model, either 330 / 360 or 660, all at different prices. The sad part is that I would view this as an investment (ish) guitar, meaning not a working guitar as my current 330 is. So, which one would you go for, which will be the most desirable?
All help is much appreciated - Thanks.
Posts: 38 Location: Worcester UK Registered: 3/31/2009 8:42:00 AM
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leftyguitars
Salmon
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Posted: 10/30/2009 7:51:00 AM
The 660 without a doubt! ;-)
Posts: 132 Location: Yorkshire, England Registered: 8/10/2005
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Schmidt
Trout
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Posted: 10/30/2009 7:52:00 AM
quote: I'm looking at getting a 75th DCM model, either 330 / 360 or 660, all at different prices. The sad part is that I would view this as an investment (ish) guitar, meaning not a working guitar as my current 330 is. So, which one would you go for, which will be the most desirable?
All help is much appreciated - Thanks.
John Lennons original black 1958 325 will be great investment... but I'm not sure if Yoko is about to sell it to you :o) Actually it doesn't have to have been Johns. Any 325 from back then will be great investment.
That said I think guitars should be bought for playing - not for investment. Art is a much better investment objects as it can be enjoyed while growing more expensive - and it doesn't get worn...
Posts: 97 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Registered: 8/2/2009 11:54:00 AM
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Trav
Mackerel
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Posted: 10/30/2009 8:09:00 AM
Schmidt, I don't disagree with you at all, however, I do need to make some justification (the Wife). The 660 is the most costly of the bunch, but I guess the least like my regular 330, so that is the way I am leaning - Thanks.
Posts: 38 Location: Worcester UK Registered: 3/31/2009 8:42:00 AM
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Took38years
Mackerel
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Posted: 10/30/2009 11:25:00 AM
Any "collectible" item may or may not be a good investment. Remember, there was a time when old/used Fender Strats couldn't be given away. Now they are hugely popular.
It's all about supply and demand. I'd never buy a guitar because I expect it to appreciate it value at a rate higher than regular financial investment products.
Who knows, even actual Beatle-owned guitars someday may lose their investment value. Will today's kids in 50 years consider these as important treasures that will push the value upward? Maybe, maybe not.
With guitars, buy it because you really like it. I fully understand being concerned about scratching or damaging one of the DCM anniversary guitars. I recently took delivery of a long-awaited 325c64. I treat it very carefully. I don't play gigs, but if I did I doubt I'd haul that one into a dive bar to play. But I love owning it. I figure it's a good bet to hold its value in case I want or need to sell it someday (hope that never happens). But that's not why I bought it. And, at the end of the day, enjoy what you buy. Treat it with respect, sure, but I don't keep mine locked away in their cases so that someday when I die someone will get a pristine guitar that I never really used. Better that I enjoyed it and I put those scratches on it, rather than whoever gets it after me.
Posts: 46 Location: New York Registered: 4/24/2006 7:42:00 PM
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jingle_jangle
Shark
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Posted: 11/6/2009 9:04:00 PM
These are currently a bit flat in the market, but it's the 660s that come up for resale least often, with basses popping up frequently.
Personally, I believe that they will become hot items someday, due to the certified low production numbers. But, you're probably looking at 10 years before you'll see an appreciable rise in values, with the basses being slowest to rise at first but later going up much faster as they catch on.
Reason: only 75 basses in total, 225 6-stringers spread over 3 different models.
Posts: 1148 Location: SF CA Registered: 8/8/2005
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JONO
Grouper
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Posted: 11/8/2009 5:19:00 AM
Buy 'em and play 'em I say! I have two Rickenbackers, both DCMs a 330 which I just don't use (which is why it is for sale Trav as you know) and a 360 which is gigged regularly and now has a few laquer chips but I bought it because it looks great and sounds fantastic run through a Marshall 18 watt combo at full chat!
Often hear the comment didn't know Ricks could sound like that!
Posts: 4 Location: Hampshire England Registered: 3/16/2007 9:51:00 AM
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