Buying guitars as an investment

[pan60]

1000.00 for your Squier Strat ; o
you would be hard hard pressed around here to get a 1000.00 for a used USA made one.
there an American standard tele with a rosewood board been for sale with five miles of me for i beleave 875.00 been for sale for six months an i was told they would make me a deal on it?
i have almost bougt it a couple times but i on the fence ass to rather i want to mess with it.

[jazzshrink]

I recently visited a prominent jazz guitar store, ...

Which jazz guitar store?

[sgosnell]

That post needed more emojis. Most readers' sarcasm meters are not strong enough without lots of them.

[SoftwareGuy]

Don't most guitars depreciate rather than appreciate? Wouldn't only rare collectibles appreciate? Even nice vintage instruments are still usually less than the comparable model new.

I think this is the reason guitars are a bad investment. There is the idea of buying a bargain, maybe cleaning it up and flipping it for a profit. But that is really a business, not a passive investment.

Investments are things that have a return, like a dividend. Buying guitars and never regularly selling some at a profit is not investing. It is just spending money.

[Litterick]

I think this is the reason guitars are a bad investment. There is the idea of buying a bargain, maybe cleaning it up and flipping it for a profit. But that is really a business, not a passive investment.

Investments are things that have a return, like a dividend. Buying guitars and never regularly selling some at a profit is not investing. It is just spending money.

Some buy in the hope that their guitars will be a hedge against inflation: their values will rise as the value of money falls. These investors are usually disappointed.