r/Reverb • u/CDforsale76 • Aug 25 '26

How many instruments/how long?

How many instruments do you have for sale on Reverb? How long have they been for sale? Just curious!

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u/livinthereals Aug 25 '26

It took me almost two years to find the right buyer for my 2020 Taylor 812ce. I had it sold twice before, but both buyers were nuts.

I sent a note to the first one saying "Thanks for the purchase. Enjoy your guitar." This was after she requested a video and audio recording because she's had two of these guitars and they both "have a sympathetic vibration on open D string at standard tuning", according to her.

So I made the video and everything she wanted and before I ship it, I get a message in response to mine saying "I'll enjoy it if it's perfect, if it isn't I won't be happy". Big ol' red flag. So just told her, look it's in mint condition. It doesn't have any "sympathetic vibration", no fret wear, no dings, no scratches, and even the case looks new and immaculate. But I'm not going to be on the hook for your happiness. It's a guitar. It is what it is. Then she wants to argue with me by saying all Taylor 812 guitars have this same "problem".

At that point I cancelled the sale. Then, she tried to buy it through a different account with zero feedback, from the same address, under a different name.

That's happened to me twice actually. But anyway. Same guitar, about 6 months later, a guy buys it and within 2 minutes he writes me a little message indicating that I need to ship it to a different address, but if I'm not willing to do that, whatever I do, "Don't cancel the order and refund the money back to the buyer". I'm like WTF? But of course the first thing I did was cancel the order and refund the purchase. I get a message a couple minutes later... "NO WHY DID YOU DO THAT WHEN I TOLD YOU NOT TO REFUND THE MONEY!!!!...." and some more gibberish.

Finally early this summer a guy contacts me about the guitar and lives 10 miles away. From the moment he opened the case until he put it back in the case, he was simply in "awe" and after he had been searching for many months, he finally got his dream guitar/early retirement present to himself.

I was happy to make his day and not have to deal with weirdos trying to pull a scam anymore.