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Stan , see the other post where a lot of what your asking is explained."How to sell" type stuff
One thing I will say here is that I've NEVER had much luck trying to sell out of retail stores where I'm not there to push it. . The problem with that is, they SEE the instrument but dont know what it is, nor can they hear it played.In my experience they HAVE to hear it.
The general public does not know what a cigarbox guitar is,when they SEE ONE but dont HEAR one they think its a toy.
Thats your problem ,letting them know its a real instrument and part of our history.
A brother of a friend is a die hard fleamarketeer and has asked if I would be interested in taking up a booth with him
I think he sales that stuff that Mr. Cunningham shills for these days
Also found a couple of monthly gatherings of old car nuts that another friend goes to
My son likes old cars so he will go to that with me and he is an excellent player, but a snob that thinks our stuff is cute
Gonna try all that out along with the Ebay routine
I take the blame for my son's attitude
His older brother was born when I was 18 and had to grow up with very little the second came along 10 years later after
His mother also grew up poor in the NY projects
I guess we felt guilty and tried to make up for what the first didn't have by giving it to the second
Life has been handed to him , at 2 and 3 he was wearing Air Jordans and the trend just continued
On a better note
I took a few over to a cousin in law today that has a similar opinion of CGBs
His father was a pro musician all his life and his older brother is a musician and avid collector of "serious" instruments
I only asked him to play one to tell me if the action was too high (I already knew it wasn't')
2 hours later he finally put the thing down
Now he is wanting one and was coming up with some really good marketing scheme and ideas
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