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Selling gear to fund other things

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Im currently VERY conflicted. I want to buy a "motorcycle" should i sell a "guitar" I really love to buy said "motorcycle" or should i wait it out and save up like a grown up?

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Simonski wrote:Im currently VERY conflicted. I want to buy a "motorcycle" should i sell a "guitar" I really love to buy said "motorcycle" or should i wait it out and save up like a grown up?

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See: http://www.nzguitars.com/forum/viewtopi ... =2&t=21448 I'm having a big sellup to fund a new toy, whats the bike?
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If you want a bike, sell all your gear, 'cos the odds are that you'll be dead or severely injured pretty soon and you won't be able to play the guitar anyway.

When I used to ride motorbikes, that's pretty much what I was told. I was a 'temporary kiwi' to most people, especially since I was a hoon anyway. I'm still around.
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Rog wrote:If you want a bike, sell all your gear, 'cos the odds are that you'll be dead or severely injured pretty soon and you won't be able to play the guitar anyway.

When I used to ride motorbikes, that's pretty much what I was told. I was a 'temporary kiwi' to most people, especially since I was a hoon anyway. I'm still around.
Yeah but look at you ... the motorbike explains everything!

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Simonski wrote: *when reading anything in quotation marks, raise your hands in the air and do the air quotes.
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yea, Im looking at Honda VTR250 or equivalent. But its like easy $4000, and I love my guitar.
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As a general rule, when you save up for something big an unexpected expense will come along and swipe your savings. :?
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I wouldn't sell a guitar for a 250!! :mrgreen:
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Given how difficult it is to sell gear, unless you're willing to practically give it away, you may as well start saving.

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I guess it depends on what gear your selling
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For sure, I sold a guitar in under an hour last night, think it must have been too cheap, doh! :?
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Simonski wrote:Im currently VERY conflicted. I want to buy a "motorcycle" should i sell a "guitar" I really love to buy said "motorcycle" or should i wait it out and save up like a grown up?

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I can't help but point out that the quotation marks have absolutely no relevance here, since you're ACTUALLY looking at buying a motorcycle... not a "motorcycle".

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Rog wrote:If you want a bike, sell all your gear, 'cos the odds are that you'll be dead or severely injured pretty soon and you won't be able to play the guitar anyway.

When I used to ride motorbikes, that's pretty much what I was told. I was a 'temporary kiwi' to most people, especially since I was a hoon anyway. I'm still around.
My Bishop's wife (who was a an A&E nurse) always used to say that a motorbike was "the second most dangerous thing between a man's legs" :mrgreen:
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