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YSaC, Vol. 469: In which drmk spends too much time researching guitars.

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Small pervy guitar amp

I have a small pervy guitar amp that I dont use anymore and I need money so I want to sell it.
It would come in handy if you dont want to carry around a large amp all the time.
I would like at least twenty bucks for it lol
If your interested call or text xxxxxxxxxx

Andy sends this one in, saying, “A Pervy amp doesn’t sound like a good deal to me. I wouldn’t let it in my house. It’s also not allowed within 100 yards of a school, and it has to check in with its probation officer once a week. Now if it was a Peavey (http://www.peavey.com/) amp, that’d be different.”

We’ve established before, though, that guitarists aren’t the sharpest lightbulb in the crayon shed. And as if we needed more evidence, here’s an ad sent in by Joel:

Gibson Les Paul Special Electric Guitar, – $480

Ebony, Amazing Guitar. 2000 Model. Few knicks for it’s age. Don’t really care if I sell this or not. I’m still a beginner guitarist haven’t play up to this great guitar yet. It is $550 firm.
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He’s not desperate to sell this guitar, so he will sell it for $480 or $550 firm.

What’s extra amazing about this guitar is that as far as I can tell, Gibson didn’t make the Les Paul Special in 2000, or in ebony. In fact, what he’s got there is an Epiphone Les Paul Studio, which sells for about $549 new. (You can tell by where it says Les Paul Studio on the headstock – that’s kind of the giveaway.) I’m not even a guitar geek and I could figure that one out.

So unless a professional Los Angeles basketball team has been playing this guitar on a regular basis, both of your firm prices are probably too high. But at least you don’t actually care if you sell it or not.

Edited to add: All right, I was wrong; it’s not an Epiphone Les Paul Studio, it’s a Gibson Les Paul Studio. Sincere apologies to the guitar-heads out there. I should have done more research than I did. [It still isn’t a Gibson Les Paul Special, though.]

Comments

79 responses to “YSaC, Vol. 469: In which drmk spends too much time researching guitars.”

  1. Rick Avatar
    Rick

    You got to watch out for those guitar amps….wonder if Chris Hanson may contact him for one of those “Pervy” amps?

    1. isaac Avatar
      isaac

      It’s basically the same as an ordinary amp, except that when you use it, you plug the guitar in to the other port.

      And the amp enjoys it.

      1. PrincessLuceval Avatar
        PrincessLuceval

        Man, that really gives me a different picture of “whiny feedback.”

  2. Cindy B. Avatar
    Cindy B.

    Maybe this is all a euphemism for selling something less, um, legal.

    “I have a small pervy guitar amp that I dont use anymore and I need money so I want to sell it.”
    All I see is “pervy” + “I need money”; you do the math.

    “It would come in handy if you dont want to carry around a large amp all the time.”
    If you don’t really want a committed relationship to “carry around”…..

    “I would like at least twenty bucks for it lol”
    This is what clinched it for me: the snicker at the end reminds me of Beavis & Butthead.

    1. sarajean80 Avatar
      sarajean80

      Ewww. I’m really not liking the images that puts in my head. Surely there are less obscure ways to advertise those sorts of … “services”?

    2. Windrose Avatar
      Windrose

      As I posted (briefly) yesterday, I wonder if he would take a Beatles Guitar Hero, like new, for the pervy amp?

  3. Lola Avatar
    Lola

    I probably wouldn’t know this if I didn’t live here (don’t follow basketball), but the Knicks are in NY, not LA. So, the likelihood that a LA pro team has been playing this guy’s guitar = 0.

    1. isaac Avatar
      isaac

      You never know, Lola. The Clippers probably aren’t too busy to drop by and noodle out the opening to “Stairway to Heaven.”

      1. Rick Avatar
        Rick

        If the Clippers used that guitar it would have 2 broken strings and the neck of the guitar would be cracked…

  4. Ed Snyder Avatar
    Ed Snyder

    The biggest tipoff is that the seller thinks that $20 is too much as indicated by their chuckle when asking.

  5. gary Avatar
    gary

    Nope–it’s a REAL Gibson–an Epiphone would say EPIPHONE across the top of the headstock where this one says GIBSON. He’s right about the manufacturer, wrong about the year it was made. So neither $480 nor $550 (nor any number in between, ) are really asking too much. Perhaps he’ll take the proceeds from this sale and enroll in a remedial math or English course!

  6. My Evil Twin Avatar
    My Evil Twin

    As for the 2nd ad, given that drmk states that ~$550 is the new price, and the ad writer has $480 as the asking price in the title, I’m thinking the writer doesn’t know what “firm” means.

    salesperson: Look at this lovely Les Paul guitar.

    ad writer: How much is it?

    salesperson: It’s $550 firm.

    ad writer: So how much is it when it’s limp?

    salesperson: No, I mean you have to pay $550 to buy it, no exceptions.

    Therefore, firm = price to buy it in the store.

  7. Colleen in MA Avatar
    Colleen in MA

    I love it when drmk busts people on YSaC! It’s funny what people think they can get away with when they try sell something that is used but still want to recoup their money. “Like new” is still used, people!

  8. My Evil Twin Avatar
    My Evil Twin

    …or what gary said.

  9. lost_compass Avatar
    lost_compass

    Ivory, Humdrum Guy. 1957 Model. The usual knicks for it’s age. Don’t really care if you read this or not. I’m still a beginner commenter haven’t write up to this great blog yet. Flabby.

    1. emsies Avatar
      emsies

      I’ll give you $2 for it!

      1. sarajean80 Avatar
        sarajean80

        I’ve got 5$ and half a pepperoni pizza.

      2. Igor the Vigorous Avatar
        Igor the Vigorous

        I’ll give you 20 $ if you act like a father figure. 😛

        1. sarajean80 Avatar
          sarajean80

          What’s the going rate for smothering … er, I mean, ‘mothering’?

    2. Colleen in MA Avatar
      Colleen in MA

      I’ll sit on you for half an hour. Oh, wait – what are we doing?

    3. Meredith Avatar
      Meredith

      I only think it’s worth around $ish.

  10. JcT Avatar
    JcT

    Dang. I wish I hadn’t started researching it this morning. Now I wish I had bought it instead of sending it to YSaC. It looks like $480 was a helluva price for that model. $550, not so much. *grin*

    Near as I can tell, it really is a Gibson, but it is a 2001 model, I think, because they didn’t make them in 2000. But it is hard to tell, actually. The black ones are hard to find on the web.

    *kicks himself*

    1. JcT Avatar
      JcT

      And yes, it is an Epiphone.

      Here is the same guitar, posted by someone who doesn’t need a Grammar Slap

      http://treasure.craigslist.org/msg/1402628925.html

      1. Bob Avatar
        Bob

        No it is not an Epiphone, for the love of God it says GIBSON on the headstock!

        1. Isaac Avatar
          Isaac

          FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, MONTRESOR!

  11. dogface Avatar
    dogface

    I think I need a pervy guitar amp. My guitar and I have been awfully lonely lately…

    1. sarajean80 Avatar
      sarajean80

      Looking for someone to make sweet, beautiful “music” with?

    2. Windrose Avatar
      Windrose

      Does your guitar gently weep?

      1. lareina Avatar
        lareina

        After an hour with the pervy amp, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.

  12. kelli Avatar
    kelli

    Obviously the second poster was far too busy lusting after a pervy amp to know what year his guitar was made. As for the Knicks, he swears he saw 3 of them come into his house and play his guitar . Now at the time he was slighty chemically altered, but he’s sure it happened.

  13. jackie31337 Avatar
    jackie31337

    That pervy amp would be the perfect companion for many of the guitars featured on Wet Riffs.

    1. isaac Avatar
      isaac

      Or perhaps the perfect amp for the lead guitarist of Panty Splinters.

      1. sarajean80 Avatar
        sarajean80

        During their infamous Finger Lakes tour.

  14. lulu Avatar
    lulu

    A pervy amp… perhaps now we know why George Harrison’s guitar was gently weeping.

    1. Lola Avatar
      Lola

      Law & Order: Really Bad Music

    2. Windrose Avatar
      Windrose

      Shoot, I should have read all the posts. 8(

  15. Bob Avatar
    Bob

    That most certainly is a Gibson. Gibson does indeed make a Les Paul Studio model. An epiphone clearly says epiphone and has a different shape on the headstock, so you suck and you suck at craigslist doucher.

    1. sarajean80 Avatar
      sarajean80

      That was uncalled for.

    2. Colleen in MA Avatar
      Colleen in MA

      I just googled “doucher” – do you guys know how many Douchers there are on Facebook?

      1. emsies Avatar
        emsies

        ummm… ALL of them?

        oh wait, I’m on FB. Oh well.

        1. Igor the Vigorous Avatar
          Igor the Vigorous

          Igorth generally do not use Fathebook, but my couthinth don’t mind me uthing it every onthe in a while.

        2. sarajean80 Avatar
          sarajean80

          I only use it to play Vampire Wars and FarmVille.

        3. Procrastinator Avatar
          Procrastinator

          I only use it for Mafia Wars. So that makes me less of a geek, right?

        4. Procrastinator Avatar
          Procrastinator

          Oh, and to post pictures of me peeing, of course.

        5. isaac Avatar
          isaac

          Of course.

        6. Lola Avatar
          Lola

          I use it so as to keep up with/keep in touch with people with minimal effort.

          Fortunately, my mother isn’t interested in being on it. That would kill it for me.

        7. Igor the Vigorous Avatar
          Igor the Vigorous

          I use it because I’m too damn lazy for IM/ for the stupid little flash games that I can play for 30 seconds and excel 10x faster than my friends at.

        8. Igor the Vigorous Avatar
          Igor the Vigorous

          Oh, and because Lola is actually awesome enough to have found me using it.
          Give it up for the almighty queen of noticing glowing orange pictures!

        9. Windrose Avatar
          Windrose

          I’m on Facebook, and so’s my wife! Er, husband. 8/ Yeah I think my 17 year old son would sometimes wish I wasn’t on Facebook.

      2. isaac Avatar
        isaac

        … And think how many douceurs you can find on YSaC, by comparison.

      3. csdx Avatar
        csdx

        How many assholes are on this ship anyhow?

    3. isaac Avatar
      isaac

      Well, to be fair, “craigslist doucher” is a pretty obscure dialect. Not everyone can be great at it.

      1. sarajean80 Avatar
        sarajean80

        How would you say “poopy-headed troll” in “craigslist doucher”? Hypothetically speaking, of course.

      2. emsies Avatar
        emsies

        sprekenzie douche?

        1. Meredith Avatar
          Meredith

          Emsies, comment of my day, friend.

    4. PrincessLuceval Avatar
      PrincessLuceval

      Ah, our beloved llama nun may or may not suck, and she may or may not suck at craigslist, but she certainly doesn’t suck at sucking at craigslist. Get your complaints straight there, buster!

      And “Craigslist Doucher” is definitely the band name of the day.

    5. Igor the Vigorous Avatar
      Igor the Vigorous

      So the wonderful web llama nun boss lady followed logic?
      You suck at telling people they suck at you suck at craigslist.
      Sucker.

    6. Procrastinator Avatar
      Procrastinator

      Hi, Bob. Glad you dropped by. Anything else we can help you with before you leave?

    7. Igor the Vigorous Avatar
      Igor the Vigorous

      On another note-
      Why are you here,
      Why do you suck so much,
      And why are you such a judgmental wanker?

      1. sarajean80 Avatar
        sarajean80

        Ooh, a new band name – “Judgmental Wanker”

        1. Lola Avatar
          Lola

          First single, with thanks to emsies: “Sprechensie Doucher?”

    8. drmk Avatar
      drmk

      When I was researching this, I found the Les Paul Studio models listed under the Epiphone brand name. If I’m wrong, I’m wrong, and I can accept that, but I was on the Les Paul/Epiphone web page while I was looking it up.

      1. Meredith Avatar
        Meredith

        WHERE IS THE LLAMA??? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH HER????

        1. drmk Avatar
          drmk

          I’m, er, on a different farm, with limited internet access. Don’t worry, the emu/ostrich (we’re not sure which he is) will take care of things while I’m gone.

      2. Bob Avatar
        Bob

        You’re wrong:

        http://www2.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/Les-Paul/Gibson-USA/Les-Paul-Studio.aspx

        http://www.epiphone.com/default.asp?ProductID=43&CollectionID=6

        It’s pretty easy to tell the difference…

  16. HorribleLicensePlates Avatar
    HorribleLicensePlates

    Never knew an amp could be creepy… but there it is.

  17. Monica Hamburg Avatar
    Monica Hamburg

    Have some respect people! Maybe it’s a pervy war amp?

    1. isaac Avatar
      isaac

      I had never heard that idiom before. (Thanks, Google.)

      I wonder how much of the pervy war amp is missing.

    2. sfaye Avatar
      sfaye

      When I google pervy war amp, all I get is YSaC. 🙁

      1. isaac Avatar
        isaac

        Take away the “pervy.” Monica’s making a pun. Maybe quite an obscure one.

        Or maybe it’s a Canadian idiom? I’ve seriously never heard it before this.

        1. Monica Hamburg Avatar
          Monica Hamburg

          You’re right, Isaac – didn’t realize until now that it may be a Canadian term. Google.ca lists the organization as the first in the search results, but that might not be the case with Google.com.

          So:
          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_Amps

  18. Cled Avatar
    Cled

    I have a small pervy guitar amp that I dont use anymore and I need money so I want to sell it.

    So sad. So very, very sad.

    A young amp, an innocent amp; an amp with, perhaps, a brilliant future ahead of it. A trusting amp. This small amp meets… a musician? A busker? A sidewalk evangelist? The small amp meets this
    person, begins to trust him and what happens?

    He grooms him.

    Yes, our sweet, small, perfect amp is groomed and used and soon, in spite of himself, becomes a “pervy amp” and is used some more, and then… is tossed aside when the “musician” doesn’t want to use him any more. Discarded. Sold to the first punter who can come up with twenty bucks.

    Does no one care?

    Will no one weep for the amps?

    1. sarajean80 Avatar
      sarajean80

      *sniff,sniff*

      Where should I send the love offering, Pastor Cled?

  19. queensbee Avatar
    queensbee

    its a PeAvey amp. dunderhead. but veddy amusing.

  20. Mrphysic Avatar
    Mrphysic

    That pervy guitar amp will probably enjoy being sold………liking the idea that it is providing it’s service for cold hard cash. It’ll also enjoy being stored in the closet along with various undergarments which it will routinely sniff and try on in the mirror whilst you are out shopping.

  21. Jami_no_e Avatar
    Jami_no_e

    I can only imagine that this pervy amp is like that one uncle every family has. You know the one who gets just a little too close at family gatherings. He blames it on all the wine he has had to drink, but you know all he has in that plasic Solo cup is grape juice.

  22. Gridlock Avatar
    Gridlock

    Are amp owners compelled to carry them around all the time?

    And “I would like at least $20 for it”…

    “I’ll give you $25! No, wait, $30! Argh!”

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  24. Scotch Bingington Avatar
    Scotch Bingington

    Actually, the Gibson IS a Les Paul Special. It says so right under “Les Paul” on the headstock lol.
    The ad is right, he obviously just relisted it with a lower price and forgot to update the description.

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