Safest Easiest way to get Top Prices and Free Appraisals for your Vintage and Collectible Guitars, Basses, Gear, Mandos, Keyboards, Banjos, Amps, Effects Gear, Pro Audio, Celebrating 20 Years. Welcome to GuitarDesires
We're guitar loving folk and expert in the assessment and professional international sales of fine vintage and collectible guitars, instruments, and gear. Wherever you are, we speci
alize in helping you learn more about what you have and then giving you some professional information and top options to maximize your net proceeds with industry leading verified cash offers and our custom commission brokerage service for even higher proceeds. We do the rest, and you get top net proceeds with our safe and effective program. Both options bring you the amazing prices of the global collector markets with GuitarDesires' professional convenient turn-key program to bring your items to our online state-of-the-art online showrooms and brokerage where the highest prices are obtained. We're fans of all kinds and shapes of guitars, gear, all the cool old and new stuff and trade in banjos, mandos, basses, as well as amplifiers, vintage effects and sundry, pro audio, high value, collector, limited edition, signed editions and all the nuance of this stuff! And, in the global market where we play - collector frenzy has made some of these old and new musical treasures worth a small fortune for the folks and families we serve! GuitarDesires' listing research, pro studio photography, engaging ad copy, personalized sales, stellar reputation and following mean that online buyers pay top dollar to buy from a trusted source. Our real passion for these cool guitars and stuff have helped us consistently achieve record breaking values with sales to the world's top collectors, stars, investors, and best musicians on the planet! And, in the process, we've served thousands of individuals, famlies, and estates across the United States with a professional, effective and easy new way to get more on the Worldwide Market than trying a do-it-yourself local effort with Craigslist or amatuer Ebay attempt! We've also become expert at providing the specialized authentication, provenance, financial, and logistical support needed for closings on the more upper echelon collectibles we represent with discretion for our clients. I always loved music, guitars, and gear - dreaming of someday having a little store of my own. Little could I have imagined the wild and wonderful ride I've had through the rich history of these instruments and artifacts of the great American Viral Musical Genesis. And the amazing tales of the history, design, musicians, and innovators in making and using these crazy cool guitars and gear over the years. But especially the stories and tales of the families who brought us their treasures, their inheritence, their most prized and I've been able to catalyze an outcome where I get my fair share based on performance and both the buyer and seller share in a lovely win-win-win paradigm! Get started and let us know what you've got and we can start the process now. Start
How We Work
Wherever you are, GuitarDesires professional brokerage has evolved a cutting edge package of custom online services for your instruments or entire collections. Depending on your needs, we can offer you an amazing and quick verified top cash quick purchase option or a customized commission-based bokerage marketing program for the highest level return. After we check out the Appraisal Request you send us, GuitarDesires contacts you to discuss your intake and confirm your description of the item after which we will present a guaranteed buyout purchase or commission price brokerage offer option for your consideration. If you wish to proceed, we welcome fine guitars, instruments, and gear from anywhere on the planet and we'll arrange your convenient intake either by an insured shipping with an Incoming GuitarDesire Box, or personal pickup, or a drop-off appointment. Once you start your intake, we'll contact you and take care of all the details to get the process started! Our Incoming GuitarDesire Box is a simple personal intake kit to your door that includes a custom box, prepaid fully insured return label, all packaging materials, and easy-to-follow instructions to help get your things safely to us so we can get started. Once the item arrives at our Boulder Colorado center, we authenticate, confirm the condition, and finalize the buyout or consignment option with you at that time and send along your check or PayPal payout.. Our fanaticism for all things guitar, specialization in rare, collectible and vintage instruments, worldwide reputation, and our attention to detail have yielded extraordinary results for both our clients and global collectors who have purchased from us. Professional, convenient, effective, personalized, and comprehensive - we consistently deliver top proceeds for our clients, often twice as much or more than local offers. And, since we take care of all details and avoid the dismal sub-wholesale level results and hassle of a do-it-yourself local sale, you get way more! Vintage, historic, and rare guitars - in particular - require world-class expertise and a trusted reputation to properly identify, classify, authenticate, photograph, and represent these wonderful collectible instruments professionally to top Global and Nationwide Collector and Celebrity buyers. GuitarDesires consistently leads in achieving record high sales prices and outstanding customer service for our clients. The Boutique Consignment Option
If you decide to work with us to market your guitar on a commission basis, GuitarDesires works with you to execute a personalized and comprehensive sales and marketing plan for each item to achieve the highest potential sale price and we handle all the details of listing, support, financial and shipping arrangements, and final proceed disbursement to you. We begin by conducting a thorough examination and authentication to clearly identify, verify, catalog, and describe each piece followed by a critical and professional photography session for a complete image catalog used in the presentation. Taking both elements, we generate a beautiful world-class web-based listing for our Ebay and Gbase stores which will present your item professionally to collectors and buyers around the world. Before posting your item in our stores, we conduct an up-to-date selling price analysis that examines book values, comparable sales, and current offerings and share those findings as we confer with you to finalize the asking price as well as the plan strategy and timelines to fit your needs. Once these details are decided and your item is actually listed, we actively provide individualized item support and answer questions and interact with prospective buyers around the world to effect the sale for the highest price attainable. Our efforts can include providing additional written details, photographs, sound recordings, videos, Skype sales sessions, physical showings in our showroom, as well as details about shipping and payment or other aspects of the transaction. In general, items are presented in a fixed price / best offer format where buyers can purchase the item at the asking price or make a formal best offer through the system requiring a negotiated agreement. GuitarDesires works closely with you through this process as we move through your final approval of counter offers and sale. Once the sale is final, GuitarDesires handles all aspects of the financial transaction with our buyers through verified PayPal, banking, international, and merchant services to accept credit cards, cash, wires and various other financial instruments and closing arrangements from purchasers worldwide. On fund clearance and escrow, we then handle all aspects of insured delivery and professional domestic and international insured shipping via commercial accounts. Once buyers receive their purchase and approval, we disburse your proceeds along with a Payout Report detailing our commission and marketplace fees associated with each sale. You can choose disbursement via Certified Check, PayPal, direct deposit, bank wire, or ACH transfer. Our service fees consist of a 20% average percentage based commission plus the actual marketplace, PayPal, and Ebay fees associated with each sale. Our brokerage consignment clients generally realize from 65% -80% net proceeds from each sale with higher percentage on higher value items. Because GuitarDesires provides top tier sales results with our reputation and proven process - our clients frequently recieve twice as much or more than they were offered by local buyers, stores, dealers, and the other low performing choices out there. We're proud and excited to have helped hundreds of folks, families, and estates consistently realize amazing and fair proceeds with our transparent, effective, and convenient system. We find ourselves delighted with constantly learning, researching and selling these wonderful old vintage Gibson, Fender, Martin, Guild, Gretsch, Rickenbacker, and other renowned American instruments and gear from the present and the past. Our great photos and write-ups help bring top dollar for our offerings and our Skype, Ebay, and Gbase online portals let us reach prospects with the important exposure, sales, support, and hand-holding that oftentimes go with multi-thousand dollar and/or international sales. Luthier, Rare, and other higher value instruments also especially benefit from this specialized treatment, international scope, and amazing sales performance when brought to a broader worldwide audience in a professional manner. With the myriad challenges and complexities of selling a very valuable asset, a difficult location, lack of computer skills, safety concerns, poor local sales prospects, and busy time constraints - GuitarDesires offers a best-in-class proven professional service that saves your time and brings you better results than any other way.
