$2800 - Martin D-42k Custom Shop Flamed Koa Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar 2019 w/OHSC

[Marco65]

Here we have an exquisite pre owned Martin D-42K Custom Shop Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar. Made in Nazareth, PA USA in 2019. This guitar is an absolute masterpiece. Made by the Martin custom shop. This D-42 features a full gloss finish over highly Flamed Koa for the top, back, and sides. Solid Mahogany neck with a Flamed Koa head plate. Gold Schaller open style tuning machines. Solid Ebony bridge with a beautiful pearl perimeter along to the top. This guitar comes with its original hard shell case and paperwork.


This D-42K has just been strung with Martin 12's and is playing beautiful. The neck is perfect and the truss rod is working as it should. The frets are in excellent condition with almost no signs of wear. Truly excellent shape.


Cosmetically, the guitar is near mint. It will be listed as "Excellent" because everyones opinion seems to vary on what that means. So just in case.... its Excellent. There are no dings, dents, or ganks. Truly very very clean shape.


It is a lightweight guitar at 4lbs 2oz. It rings like a bell with an incredible tone. The guitar just flat out sounds beautiful. If you are in the market for a unique and custom built Martin guitar, we highly recommend you consider this one. Please see the last photo for detailed specs on this guitar. Thanks for looking and happy buying!






We ship via Fedex ground, UPS, or USPS and insurance is always included in shipping. A surcharge of $75.00 will be added for Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico.

[Fortune]

Where are you located? If you are near me, I would like to play it in person before I buy. Looks incredible

[Gitfiddler]

Beautiful Martin D42-K, especially for the asking price!

Your images appear to be taken in a guitar shop, and you stated..."We ship via Fedex ground, UPS, or USPS and insurance is always included in shipping. A surcharge of $75.00 will be added for Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico."

Is this a private sale or dealer?

[Stringswinger]

Why am I smelling a scam here?

[jazzshrink]

Why am I smelling a scam here?

Why don't you tell us?

[Stringswinger]

Why don't you tell us?

You can't tell?

Consider that the prospect that a 4 year old rare Martin that retailed for over 10K being sold by a putative dealer for $2800 sounds too good to be true. And probably is.

[Mark M.]

It’s not passing the sniff test for me, either.

[Woody Sound]

If I am not mistaken (which could very well be), that serial # indicates a 2022 guitar. Of course, the paper says 2018. So, which is it? And, it doesn't really look "highly flamed" to me, but of course that is just subjective opinion.

[Mick-7]

Same guitar and photos* as this listing: Martin D-42k Custom Shop Flamed Koa Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar 2019 w/OHSC | eBay

Shouldn't we have a minimum post requirement to sell stuff here? Could be just 10 posts, but zero does not cut it.

* P.S. - Actually, it's an exact duplicate of the eBay listing - I was wondering who the "we" in the ad was.

[telephonic]

Shouldn't we have a minimum post requirement to sell stuff here? Could be just 10 posts, but zero does not cut it.

I haven't been here long but have already seen two scams come up. Looking at the rules thread it seems there used to be a 50-post rule for selling stuff but that must have been dropped at some stage. Ten posts seems like a very reasonable requirement.

[tomvwash]

You can't tell?

Consider that the prospect that a 4 year old rare Martin that retailed for over 10K being sold by a putative dealer for $2800 sounds too good to be true. And probably is.

And somehow the OP has been rendered mute.

[jazzshrink]

How about this? "I refuse to do business with anyone who has less than x number of posts." This approach is based on personal responsibility and can vary depending on your risk tolerance. One of the problems with creating a rule to protect us is that now you're placing the responsibility on someone else to monitor, educate, warn others, close threads and even possibly ban someone from the board. Only one individual has that power, and I don't think Dirk is interested in this kind of remedy.

One more thing: would it be too much to ask a person who strongly suspects foul play to address it directly for all to see? Hinting at, wondering aloud and sniffing around the issue does little to stop a potential scam or protect other members. Respectfully asking direct questions and pointing out discrepancies does more to shed light on the situation and to send the scammer a' scamping. Another option is to give the seller the benefit of doubt by messaging them privately about your concerns and suspicions, then sharing the information you gather if you wish. Again, personal responsibility.

[tomvwash]

How about this? "I refuse to do business with anyone who has less than x number of posts." This approach is based on personal responsibility and can vary depending on your risk tolerance. One of the problems with creating a rule to protect us is that now you're placing the responsibility on someone else to monitor, educate, warn others, close threads and even possibly ban someone from the board. Only one individual has that power, and I don't think Dirk is interested in this kind of remedy.

One more thing: would it be too much to ask a person who strongly suspects foul play to address it directly for all to see? Hinting at, wondering aloud and sniffing around the issue does little to stop a potential scam or protect other members. Respectfully asking direct questions and pointing out discrepancies does more to shed light on the situation and to send the scammer a' scamping. Another option is to give the seller the benefit of doubt by messaging them privately about your concerns and suspicions, then sharing the information you gather if you wish. Again, personal responsibility.

All good points. Thank you. I did address this directly twice on here just last month, one of which was my guitar. I don't know if Dirk banned him, or if the seller ditched, but he did the same thing with another guitar, two actually, just a few days later. His last scam post remained most of the day--clearly no shame here in potential scams, at least with this one.

[Mark M.]

How about this? "I refuse to do business with anyone who has less than x number of posts." This approach is based on personal responsibility and can vary depending on your risk tolerance. One of the problems with creating a rule to protect us is that now you're placing the responsibility on someone else to monitor, educate, warn others, close threads and even possibly ban someone from the board. Only one individual has that power, and I don't think Dirk is interested in this kind of remedy.

One more thing: would it be too much to ask a person who strongly suspects foul play to address it directly for all to see? Hinting at, wondering aloud and sniffing around the issue does little to stop a potential scam or protect other members. Respectfully asking direct questions and pointing out discrepancies does more to shed light on the situation and to send the scammer a' scamping. Another option is to give the seller the benefit of doubt by messaging them privately about your concerns and suspicions, then sharing the information you gather if you wish. Again, personal responsibility.

One of the things that makes this site so good is the community of members who look out for each other, “know” each other through a history of transactions, etc. Asking direct questions of the seller is a good practice, but I see nothing wrong with sharing cautions based on previous experience. If a FS post looks fishy, I think it’s well within our collective interest to look out for each other and call it out.

[Mick-7]

It's true that a minimum post requirement will not protect us from scams, however it would be sensible to require that anyone who has no or few posts provide some credentials or reference so we have reason to trust them. It could be a recommendation by a trusted forum member, or a link to the seller's page on Reverb, eBay, Facebook, etc.

For example, I was once a VIP seller on eBay and have 100% positive feedback from hundreds of buyers there (I haven't been an active seller there for a couple of years but my account is still active). If I was to sell something here, I could post the link to my eBay page where members could contact me and receive a reply.

The last scam ad posted here (which was deleted) had a fake eBay ID in it, one can easily check whether the ID given is fake. I can think of no good reason to permit anonymous new members to sell items here, especially not expensive instruments.

[wintermoon]

Good sleuthing fellas!
I don't really know why the forum ditched the 50 post minimum and its been discussed many times since, but having even non scammo's register, sell something and disappear never to be heard from again isn't fair to the regulars that post frequently and support the site.
If not 50 or the 10 suggested by someone then maybe 25 posts seems like a good compromise to weed out scammers or hit and runs registers. I think the "big" guitar forum that will remain nameless has a minimum and a fee for selling but someone will correct me if I'm mistaken.
I don’t advocate the fee and we all know Dirk isn't in this for the $, so reinstating a minimum post requirement seems like a good compromise and should reduce his workload a bit at the same time. But of course this is all up to him and I'm sure he'll do what he feels is best.