YSaC, Vol. 469: In which drmk spends too much time researching guitars.

2009 October 29

Small pervy guitar amp


I have a small pervy guitar amp that I dont use anymore and I need money so I want to sell it.
It would come in handy if you dont want to carry around a large amp all the time.
I would like at least twenty bucks for it lol
If your interested call or text xxxxxxxxxx

Andy sends this one in, saying, “A Pervy amp doesn’t sound like a good deal to me. I wouldn’t let it in my house. It’s also not allowed within 100 yards of a school, and it has to check in with its probation officer once a week. Now if it was a Peavey (http://www.peavey.com/) amp, that’d be different.”

We’ve established before, though, that guitarists aren’t the sharpest lightbulb in the crayon shed. And as if we needed more evidence, here’s an ad sent in by Joel:

Gibson Les Paul Special Electric Guitar, – $480


Ebony, Amazing Guitar. 2000 Model. Few knicks for it’s age. Don’t really care if I sell this or not. I’m still a beginner guitarist haven’t play up to this great guitar yet. It is $550 firm.
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He’s not desperate to sell this guitar, so he will sell it for $480 or $550 firm.

What’s extra amazing about this guitar is that as far as I can tell, Gibson didn’t make the Les Paul Special in 2000, or in ebony. In fact, what he’s got there is an Epiphone Les Paul Studio, which sells for about $549 new. (You can tell by where it says Les Paul Studio on the headstock – that’s kind of the giveaway.) I’m not even a guitar geek and I could figure that one out.

So unless a professional Los Angeles basketball team has been playing this guitar on a regular basis, both of your firm prices are probably too high. But at least you don’t actually care if you sell it or not.

Edited to add: All right, I was wrong; it’s not an Epiphone Les Paul Studio, it’s a Gibson Les Paul Studio. Sincere apologies to the guitar-heads out there. I should have done more research than I did. [It still isn’t a Gibson Les Paul Special, though.]

79 Responses leave one →
  1. 2009 October 29
    Rick permalink

    You got to watch out for those guitar amps….wonder if Chris Hanson may contact him for one of those “Pervy” amps?

    Adores: 3
    • 2009 October 29

      It’s basically the same as an ordinary amp, except that when you use it, you plug the guitar in to the other port.

      And the amp enjoys it.

      Adores: 75
      • 2009 October 29
        PrincessLuceval permalink

        Man, that really gives me a different picture of “whiny feedback.”

        Adores: 23
  2. 2009 October 29
    Cindy B. permalink

    Maybe this is all a euphemism for selling something less, um, legal.

    “I have a small pervy guitar amp that I dont use anymore and I need money so I want to sell it.”
    All I see is “pervy” + “I need money”; you do the math.

    “It would come in handy if you dont want to carry around a large amp all the time.”
    If you don’t really want a committed relationship to “carry around”…..

    “I would like at least twenty bucks for it lol”
    This is what clinched it for me: the snicker at the end reminds me of Beavis & Butthead.

    Adores: 8
    • 2009 October 29
      sarajean80 permalink

      Ewww. I’m really not liking the images that puts in my head. Surely there are less obscure ways to advertise those sorts of … “services”?

      Adores: 0
    • 2009 October 29
      Windrose permalink

      As I posted (briefly) yesterday, I wonder if he would take a Beatles Guitar Hero, like new, for the pervy amp?

      Adores: 3
  3. 2009 October 29
    Lola permalink

    I probably wouldn’t know this if I didn’t live here (don’t follow basketball), but the Knicks are in NY, not LA. So, the likelihood that a LA pro team has been playing this guy’s guitar = 0.

    Adores: 2
    • 2009 October 29

      You never know, Lola. The Clippers probably aren’t too busy to drop by and noodle out the opening to “Stairway to Heaven.”

      Adores: 1
      • 2009 October 29
        Rick permalink

        If the Clippers used that guitar it would have 2 broken strings and the neck of the guitar would be cracked…

        Adores: 5
  4. 2009 October 29
    Ed Snyder permalink

    The biggest tipoff is that the seller thinks that $20 is too much as indicated by their chuckle when asking.

    Adores: 1
  5. 2009 October 29

    Nope–it’s a REAL Gibson–an Epiphone would say EPIPHONE across the top of the headstock where this one says GIBSON. He’s right about the manufacturer, wrong about the year it was made. So neither $480 nor $550 (nor any number in between, ) are really asking too much. Perhaps he’ll take the proceeds from this sale and enroll in a remedial math or English course!

    Adores: 5
  6. 2009 October 29
    My Evil Twin permalink

    As for the 2nd ad, given that drmk states that ~$550 is the new price, and the ad writer has $480 as the asking price in the title, I’m thinking the writer doesn’t know what “firm” means.

    salesperson: Look at this lovely Les Paul guitar.

    ad writer: How much is it?

    salesperson: It’s $550 firm.

    ad writer: So how much is it when it’s limp?

    salesperson: No, I mean you have to pay $550 to buy it, no exceptions.

    Therefore, firm = price to buy it in the store.

    Adores: 6
  7. 2009 October 29
    Colleen in MA permalink

    I love it when drmk busts people on YSaC! It’s funny what people think they can get away with when they try sell something that is used but still want to recoup their money. “Like new” is still used, people!

    Adores: 2
  8. 2009 October 29
    My Evil Twin permalink

    …or what gary said.

    Adores: 2
  9. 2009 October 29
    lost_compass permalink

    Ivory, Humdrum Guy. 1957 Model. The usual knicks for it’s age. Don’t really care if you read this or not. I’m still a beginner commenter haven’t write up to this great blog yet. Flabby.

    Adores: 40
    • 2009 October 29
      emsies permalink

      I’ll give you $2 for it!

      Adores: 1
      • 2009 October 29
        sarajean80 permalink

        I’ve got 5$ and half a pepperoni pizza.

        Adores: 3
      • 2009 October 29
        Igor the Vigorous permalink

        I’ll give you 20 $ if you act like a father figure. 😛

        Adores: 3
        • 2009 October 29
          sarajean80 permalink

          What’s the going rate for smothering … er, I mean, ‘mothering’?

          Adores: 0
    • 2009 October 29
      Colleen in MA permalink

      I’ll sit on you for half an hour. Oh, wait – what are we doing?

      Adores: 27
    • 2009 October 30
      Meredith permalink

      I only think it’s worth around $ish.

      Adores: 5
  10. 2009 October 29
    JcT permalink

    Dang. I wish I hadn’t started researching it this morning. Now I wish I had bought it instead of sending it to YSaC. It looks like $480 was a helluva price for that model. $550, not so much. *grin*

    Near as I can tell, it really is a Gibson, but it is a 2001 model, I think, because they didn’t make them in 2000. But it is hard to tell, actually. The black ones are hard to find on the web.

    *kicks himself*

    Adores: 0
  11. 2009 October 29
    dogface permalink

    I think I need a pervy guitar amp. My guitar and I have been awfully lonely lately…

    Adores: 6
    • 2009 October 29
      sarajean80 permalink

      Looking for someone to make sweet, beautiful “music” with?

      Adores: 3
    • 2009 October 29
      Windrose permalink

      Does your guitar gently weep?

      Adores: 5
      • 2009 October 30
        lareina permalink

        After an hour with the pervy amp, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.

        Adores: 7
  12. 2009 October 29

    Obviously the second poster was far too busy lusting after a pervy amp to know what year his guitar was made. As for the Knicks, he swears he saw 3 of them come into his house and play his guitar . Now at the time he was slighty chemically altered, but he’s sure it happened.

    Adores: 5
  13. 2009 October 29
    jackie31337 permalink

    That pervy amp would be the perfect companion for many of the guitars featured on Wet Riffs.

    Adores: 1
    • 2009 October 29

      Or perhaps the perfect amp for the lead guitarist of Panty Splinters.

      Adores: 4
      • 2009 October 29
        sarajean80 permalink

        During their infamous Finger Lakes tour.

        Adores: 3
  14. 2009 October 29
    lulu permalink

    A pervy amp… perhaps now we know why George Harrison’s guitar was gently weeping.

    Adores: 8
    • 2009 October 29
      Lola permalink

      Law & Order: Really Bad Music

      Adores: 5
    • 2009 October 29
      Windrose permalink

      Shoot, I should have read all the posts. 8(

      Adores: 1
  15. 2009 October 29
    Bob permalink

    That most certainly is a Gibson. Gibson does indeed make a Les Paul Studio model. An epiphone clearly says epiphone and has a different shape on the headstock, so you suck and you suck at craigslist doucher.

    Adores: 4
    • 2009 October 29
      sarajean80 permalink

      That was uncalled for.

      Adores: 7
    • 2009 October 29
      Colleen in MA permalink

      I just googled “doucher” – do you guys know how many Douchers there are on Facebook?

      Adores: 3
      • 2009 October 29
        emsies permalink

        ummm… ALL of them?

        oh wait, I’m on FB. Oh well.

        Adores: 4
        • 2009 October 29
          Igor the Vigorous permalink

          Igorth generally do not use Fathebook, but my couthinth don’t mind me uthing it every onthe in a while.

          Adores: 1
        • 2009 October 29
          sarajean80 permalink

          I only use it to play Vampire Wars and FarmVille.

          Adores: 0
        • 2009 October 29
          Procrastinator permalink

          I only use it for Mafia Wars. So that makes me less of a geek, right?

          Adores: 0
        • 2009 October 29
          Procrastinator permalink

          Oh, and to post pictures of me peeing, of course.

          Adores: 3
        • 2009 October 29

          Of course.

          Adores: 0
        • 2009 October 29
          Lola permalink

          I use it so as to keep up with/keep in touch with people with minimal effort.

          Fortunately, my mother isn’t interested in being on it. That would kill it for me.

          Adores: 1
        • 2009 October 29
          Igor the Vigorous permalink

          I use it because I’m too damn lazy for IM/ for the stupid little flash games that I can play for 30 seconds and excel 10x faster than my friends at.

          Adores: 1
        • 2009 October 29
          Igor the Vigorous permalink

          Oh, and because Lola is actually awesome enough to have found me using it.
          Give it up for the almighty queen of noticing glowing orange pictures!

          Adores: 0
        • 2009 October 29
          Windrose permalink

          I’m on Facebook, and so’s my wife! Er, husband. 8/ Yeah I think my 17 year old son would sometimes wish I wasn’t on Facebook.

          Adores: 0
      • 2009 October 30

        … And think how many douceurs you can find on YSaC, by comparison.

        Adores: 0
      • 2009 October 31
        csdx permalink

        How many assholes are on this ship anyhow?

        Adores: 3
    • 2009 October 29

      Well, to be fair, “craigslist doucher” is a pretty obscure dialect. Not everyone can be great at it.

      Adores: 2
      • 2009 October 29
        sarajean80 permalink

        How would you say “poopy-headed troll” in “craigslist doucher”? Hypothetically speaking, of course.

        Adores: 4
      • 2009 October 29
        emsies permalink

        sprekenzie douche?

        Adores: 28
        • 2009 October 30
          Meredith permalink

          Emsies, comment of my day, friend.

          Adores: 1
    • 2009 October 29
      PrincessLuceval permalink

      Ah, our beloved llama nun may or may not suck, and she may or may not suck at craigslist, but she certainly doesn’t suck at sucking at craigslist. Get your complaints straight there, buster!

      And “Craigslist Doucher” is definitely the band name of the day.

      Adores: 8
    • 2009 October 29
      Igor the Vigorous permalink

      So the wonderful web llama nun boss lady followed logic?
      You suck at telling people they suck at you suck at craigslist.
      Sucker.

      Adores: 11
    • 2009 October 29
      Procrastinator permalink

      Hi, Bob. Glad you dropped by. Anything else we can help you with before you leave?

      Adores: 4
    • 2009 October 29
      Igor the Vigorous permalink

      On another note-
      Why are you here,
      Why do you suck so much,
      And why are you such a judgmental wanker?

      Adores: 3
      • 2009 October 29
        sarajean80 permalink

        Ooh, a new band name – “Judgmental Wanker”

        Adores: 5
        • 2009 October 29
          Lola permalink

          First single, with thanks to emsies: “Sprechensie Doucher?”

          Adores: 3
    • 2009 October 29
      drmk permalink

      When I was researching this, I found the Les Paul Studio models listed under the Epiphone brand name. If I’m wrong, I’m wrong, and I can accept that, but I was on the Les Paul/Epiphone web page while I was looking it up.

      Adores: 0
  16. 2009 October 29

    Never knew an amp could be creepy… but there it is.

    Adores: 1
  17. 2009 October 29

    Have some respect people! Maybe it’s a pervy war amp?

    Adores: 1
    • 2009 October 29

      I had never heard that idiom before. (Thanks, Google.)

      I wonder how much of the pervy war amp is missing.

      Adores: 0
    • 2009 October 30
      sfaye permalink

      When I google pervy war amp, all I get is YSaC. 🙁

      Adores: 0
      • 2009 October 30

        Take away the “pervy.” Monica’s making a pun. Maybe quite an obscure one.

        Or maybe it’s a Canadian idiom? I’ve seriously never heard it before this.

        Adores: 0
        • 2009 October 30

          You’re right, Isaac – didn’t realize until now that it may be a Canadian term. Google.ca lists the organization as the first in the search results, but that might not be the case with Google.com.

          So:
          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_Amps

          Adores: 1
  18. 2009 October 29
    Cled permalink

    I have a small pervy guitar amp that I dont use anymore and I need money so I want to sell it.

    So sad. So very, very sad.

    A young amp, an innocent amp; an amp with, perhaps, a brilliant future ahead of it. A trusting amp. This small amp meets… a musician? A busker? A sidewalk evangelist? The small amp meets this
    person, begins to trust him and what happens?

    He grooms him.

    Yes, our sweet, small, perfect amp is groomed and used and soon, in spite of himself, becomes a “pervy amp” and is used some more, and then… is tossed aside when the “musician” doesn’t want to use him any more. Discarded. Sold to the first punter who can come up with twenty bucks.

    Does no one care?

    Will no one weep for the amps?

    Adores: 18
    • 2009 October 29
      sarajean80 permalink

      *sniff,sniff*

      Where should I send the love offering, Pastor Cled?

      Adores: 0
  19. 2009 October 29
    queensbee permalink

    its a PeAvey amp. dunderhead. but veddy amusing.

    Adores: 0
  20. 2009 October 29
    Mrphysic permalink

    That pervy guitar amp will probably enjoy being sold………liking the idea that it is providing it’s service for cold hard cash. It’ll also enjoy being stored in the closet along with various undergarments which it will routinely sniff and try on in the mirror whilst you are out shopping.

    Adores: 9
  21. 2009 October 29

    I can only imagine that this pervy amp is like that one uncle every family has. You know the one who gets just a little too close at family gatherings. He blames it on all the wine he has had to drink, but you know all he has in that plasic Solo cup is grape juice.

    Adores: 4
  22. 2009 October 30
    Gridlock permalink

    Are amp owners compelled to carry them around all the time?

    And “I would like at least $20 for it”…

    “I’ll give you $25! No, wait, $30! Argh!”

    Adores: 1
  23. 2012 November 11
    Scotch Bingington permalink

    Actually, the Gibson IS a Les Paul Special. It says so right under “Les Paul” on the headstock lol.
    The ad is right, he obviously just relisted it with a lower price and forgot to update the description.

    Adores: 0

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