Fender reissue reverb tank prices are crazy!

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So I've had one for, it seems like, near twenty years. certainly since the early 2000's, and I got it used. I'm comfortable with the fact that I'm never playing out again. So I went on a quest for a great reverb pedal and was going to sell the tank.

I just checked prices and the lowest price I saw with a shallow dive was one on reverb for $900! I saw some for up to $1,500! What happened? Anybody know?

[M Sarad]

When they were $600 it was too much.

[Steve DeRosa]

When I was a kid in NYC in the early-60's - back when the Brill Building ruled the local radio airwaves and your first "good" electric was a Brooklyn Gretsch (played through a top-panel blue-check Ampeg combo) - you could pick up an "old-fashioned" tweed Fender Bassman/Twin amp for $75, and one of those "boat anchor" '50s Les Pauls for $100-150 depending on year/model (Juniors/Specials for even less) on Manhattan's 14th Street "Pawnshop Row"...

In 2020 terms, a Holy Grail rig could be pieced together for around $200 in 1963 dollars - around $1700-1800 today...

Crap happens, and hindsight is always 20/20...

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Originally Posted by Steve DeRosa

In 2020 terms, a Holy Grail rig could be pieced together for around $200 in 1963 dollars - around $1700-1800 today...

Crap happens, and hindsight is always 20/20...

Yeah. The problem is the "price of things" is hardwired in my head from the mid-seventies. I'm talking milk, meat, gas... Everything. And I remember at the time looking at old National Geographics ads for the "brand new Chevrolet Camaro". If I recall correctly the base price was around $2200 in '67. I think the SS was around 3K.

The good news for me is that my dream rig cost me around $1,500 a couple years ago. Used Boogie amp and a NOS G&L semi-hollow Bluesboy.

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Originally Posted by M Sarad

When they were $600 it was too much.

I bought mine probably in 2002 from GC for $300 out the door. They wanted $350!

[Mr. Jelly]

High prices have a way of informing you to reevaluate your desires.