Do you find yourself scouring on-line classified websites browsing used gear? Or the auction type website looking for the "thing" you don't really need but want. Maybe like a lot of us you spend quite a bit of time visiting music shops wondering what forgotten treasure might be hanging on the wall or tucked away in some corner of a dusty display case.

We do.

So we've put together this website.
It's our hope that individuals as well as retailers will use it as a rally point for buying and selling used gear.

Why this site?
Well we want to bring it all together so then users can be easily notified when a new guitar hits the marketplace. Suppose you were looking for that 1980 Hondo II in flat wood tone just like your dad had when he was a teenager and it found its way into some local shop and before you ever got to see it some jerk waltzes in and buys it? Imagine your birthright in the hands of some other chump!

If it was listed here, and you registered to be notified of new Electric Guitar listings you might have been able to land that heirloom.

For retailers why risk customers not finding their way to your website to see if maybe you updated your used inventory? If one central rally point existed that everyone checked... wouldn't you want your merchandise included? Forget about that big (yet plain and often annoying) classified website, retailers are shut out. And while we're talking smack about them, wouldn't it be cool if all the listings had an image right up front? An image is worth a thousand words after all, and really, isn't typing overrated?

This is of course a chicken/egg scenario, unless we had tons of listings - - who would bother to check it out? If people weren't coming here, why list? We know this, and that's why we're paying people to list their items with us. Our goal is to get and average 500+ items on here within a short amount of time, ideally we'd like 1000 items or so. So we'll pay you to list your used gear here, no really. And in the coming months we aim to run several promotions and giveaways to liven it up.

Tell your friends and brush off that old crap you're not using anyway, it could be some other guy's birthright.

Have you ever bought or sold a used musical instrument on that famous on-line auction website? Or maybe you've used that massive "list style" cyber-trading post. Both are effective yet have their pros and cons. If you're like us there are things about each you find frustrating and less than perfect for your needs.

That's why we've created MUSICSALVAGE.COM

So what's the deal?

Well here's what we consider to be the pros and cons of the current resources available to buy and sell used musical instruments: