RG550 value

GRADOG · #1 12-09-2003, 11:50 AM

i purchased one of Steve Vai's personal guitars at a charity auction it's an rg550 that is signed and appears on his site as well as this one. since the auction it has been stored in my home. i would like to sell but don't have clue what it's worth. i bought it because i was the only one at the auction who knew who he was. check it out at www.vai.com/Machines/guitarpages/guitar056.html

RG-Head · #2 12-09-2003, 01:00 PM

you must of grabbed the guitar for cheaper than expected if you were the only person to know who Vai was

GRADOG · #3 12-09-2003, 02:28 PM

Steve and his wife owned a home around the corner from me and i saw him around once in awhile. i live in Lake Tahoe and there are alot of fogeys here, so yea i picked it up cheap. whats it worth to a "Vai" worshipper?

**jim777** · #4 12-09-2003, 03:17 PM

I think it would be particularly difficult to say. The RG 550, along with a lot of other RG series guitars, usually sell at far below their actual "value", as it were. There are precious few $700 guitars that can compete with a $250 dollar RG550, so the price to value ratio doesn't really sit right with them. Now, some people care about past ownership and signatures and whatnot, and might pay a steep premium for it, but who knows? If you really want to see what the market will bear, put it on **** with a high reserve. Things are generally worth what they sell for on ****. And they don't sell any higher than they do at Christmas (I think).

jim