I Paid $90 For 3 Guitars, Did I Waste My Money?

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[madbenjamin]

You could always donate the guitars to a high school in Mesa, if they still have music classes.

[frankhunt]

Level the frets and do a fall away that will fix the issue

[VanWailin]

Seriously man? Dane you made out great. Throw them up on the wall for $59.99. with gig bag. Anybody who buys one of those guitars is not going to be shredding up in the 12th to 14th frets anyway. It would be a $60 guitar to play cowboy chords on all day and have some fun and not worry about having to break it. You'll make your money back easily.

[luisvillarreal]

Hello Dane. I have the “As Seen On TV” Roy Clark acoustic guitar, (with picks, a strap and a pitch pipe) that was given to me by a senior gentleman that was an employee at a Walmart. We became good friends and he remembered that I mentioned that I play guitar. He brought it one day when I went back to Walmart. He showed it to me and he said, “it”s yours now. I can’t play the damn thing.” That was 25 + years ago. It’s plays good, compared to what you have there. 😆 By the way, you’ll probably get your money back with the small practice amps.

[mikeyID]

I think you scored Dane 💯🙌🏼💯🙌🏼💯You will definitely make money

[TheChristafershawn]

Oh, I see, they are the modern day Esteban. Funny right after I made this comment you said the same thing.

[allenwebster]

No you didnt waste money a few mins with a fret rocker and small and fret eraser its all good even if you want to that, I just bought a kramer guitar from ams american musical supply it was roughly 800 bucks new and and I had 2 high frets ended up doing alittle work but its alright, pretty neat guitars really

[michaelmetal]

hey Dane actually those are not CDs Those are DVDs, you put them into a Blu-ray player or something that can play DVDs and it’s a video of Keith Urban teaching you how to play the guitar and a particular song, I think each DVD has like a lesson of one or two songs on it that shows you how to play it all the way through even the guitar solo I think, not exactly for beginners in my opinion. Just thought I’d let you know.

[fladification]

I dunno man, seems to me like you could spot level the one fret that's bad and have a decent guitar. The main issue with all cheap guitars from that era was the frets. This was really common for sub $500 acoustics from the late 20-teens. You could get real lucky and only have to repair one fret or you may end up doing several but in the end once that's done that's still a $100-150 guitar. GuitarCenter seems think they're worth around $200. You should come out smelling like a rose on this deal, stop giving negative vibes!

[garrymoss]

Finish flaw you could probably sand out and polish. Cheap guitar, not surprising there would be a neck problem over 7 years. Fix the frets; should be stable. I’d say $60 easy, maybe more. Amps should easily be worth $30 each. I’d say you did well.

[TheSammyreynolds]

He has new guitars that are made by Yamaha now and they're actually not bad. But you're right, the ones that HSN made were horrible.

[prestoman]

Here is the problem that I bet you havent noticed yet. The tops on those are so thin that any vigorous strumming flexes the top and throws it badly out of tune.

[TimRock]

My opinion all they need is a good setup and fret job. You can get your money out of them and make a profit. They look great and for the price worth every penny. I've bought a $500 acoustic electric name brand guitar that needed a fret job at the 14th fret. I was highly pissed that happened after less than 30 days. Because it didn't do that at the shop. The shop took care of it, but in hindsight, I should have returned it.

[michaelsine]

When my mom bough my first guitar, she said, 'buy one that you always will want to always play'. She bought me a Carvin V220!! I miss that guitar. I once got an Estaban guitar. I had it for about a week. I now have Carvins, Schecters, Ibanez, Godin, Seagull, and other quality instruments. The only way to go is what works for you.

[bushmann]

i used to see these at goodwills all over town along with the randy jackson ones (the electrics) couple of years ago, ppl used to buy them turn around and intermediately post them on craigs or market place thinking they were going to make money off of them, they totally dropped the ball by not making randy's basses.

[vancochran]

I got 20 small 10 watt Keith Urban amps from an Unclaimed Freight place in Peoria, Il. I paid 9.99 for each and sold them for 35.00 each. I also got some larger ones for 19.99 each and sold them for 45.00. They had reverb in them. I got one or two that had Randy Jacksons name on the amps too.That was back in 2017.

[jimcamp]

I think they'll play with more work than they are probably worth brand new. That said, are they better as fixed gifts. The amp & gig bag might get a return. But the hard part is whether to part them out as a player pack for items or keep them together as a fret & level ? There might be a truss rod adjustment that might cure where what seemed to be a fret out high/low fret that is a single location on each guitar ? Sometimes we do things for saving the good out of the bones of a guitar. These are 7 year old guitars, never unboxed. I ended up with a pre-owned Ovation Applause that had it's share of issues. I took my time with it, but it plays quite well today. I bought it Oct 2019, under $ 200, I never expected it to be a $ 500+ acoustic electric, but with enough work to understand what I needed to fix, I had to learn as a 1st timer, the issues are at least compensated for to arrive at a guitar I wouldn't resell as my personal daily player of an acoustic and that fell into place a couple/few years into my ownership. I'd break out a truss rod wrench and see if I could get rid of the fret buzz for that one problem area with a loosen & tightening process. Eyeballing the neck never really took the place of actually using the straight edge and adjustment process. My eyeballing is relatively close for accuracy, but it's not that good that the fretboard ruler wasn't more accurate for making sure it was flat. Just as a fret rocker is going to be better for determining the high vs level vs low frets. String height action gauge being the 3rd tool that will help you determine.

As for profitable ? If these guitars haven't sold in 7 years, the market, the economics of that has sailed I think. Are we staring 2024 & guitar market has dried up from a 2020-2022ish pandemic frenzy when the guitar industry had it's best run for inflation ?

[cardmonty]

I bought a Randy Jackson guitar about 16 years ago and I had to do fret work on it, plus I re-shaved the braces, replaced the nut & saddle with GraphTech saddles, and it sounds like a million bucks now.

[hughbarton]

The only downside to this situation: if the guitar is semi-garbage,
you may totally scare off the new player. I myself started playing guitar around 1970, and quit soon thereafter. Started/quit guitar 3 or 4 guitars, wouldn't tune, action that could require to the local E.R. to stop the bleeding....
Then my grandfather bought me a Japanese "Heit" brand guitar.
Been playing(poorly!)ever since. Give yours to a school or church....

[dw]

Most likely they did not show Keith the actual production guitars.
They showed him prototypes and/or guitars made with more care and QC.
Then rolled out cheaper, more quickly made guitars to the public.