Bert-O-325

I kind of feel the same way. If you don't know the value of things, don't sell them. It's not difficult with forums like this, Ebay completed items, etc, to find the value or an item. And expecting morality and fairness from a place that's going to re-sell your item to another person is moronic. My friend took his guitar and amp to GC for trade-in and was offered $75 for the guitar, and somewhere around $50 for the amp, if they even would take it. He sold them both on Craigslist a few days later for $800. My old guitar teacher has a 60s Gretsch he got for $300 from a classified ad. He found an ad that read "gretch guitar," went to the house, and checked it out. It was an elderly woman selling it, it had been her husband's, and he had passed away. Perfect condition, worth probably 10x what she was asking. He took a few minutes to debate and told her, flat out, she could make a small fortune if she sold it to someone else. She said, "it was my husband's and he's gone, get it out of my house." $300 and he's got one of the nicest guitars I've ever seen or played. I disagree - Granted, I don't know the specifics of this transaction, BUT: My Father (a man in his 80's) could not, if his life depended on it, manage to research the worth of an old guitar (or a new one). I love the man, and he aint stupid - but the technology-understanding gap is just too wide. I have tried to assist him with such things and its just a lost battle. He's also from a very different generation than me - in his day, you treated customers, and especially the elderly with respect. For ANYone to so grotesquely take advantage and knowingly misrepresent the guitars value goes WAAAY beyond bargaining, and into the realm of the truly criminal. And I would fully expect such a case to go before a judge, and the jerks who took advantage would be found guilty of a crime.

Mojo sent, best wishes to your Mom for the best outcome possible!