Just a reminder to not contact anyone featured in this video. Doing so reflects badly on me so please don’t. I understand your frustration, but please keep that frustration here. Thanks.

Yep all Mustaine fans hate the guys at Essex Recording Studios and rightly so

Imagine thinking "I must have this 21k Dave mustaine banjo"

I love how the Essex Studios guy also put the condition of every instrument at ''excellent'' when Dave himself put them at ''Very Good'' at the best :D

How Keith/Essex have managed to get away with this for SO long genuinely baffles me. He bought a guitar from me a few years ago, through his wife’s account and trying to pretend it was someone else, lied to me about knowing the previous owner of the guitar (which he couldn’t, since I’d owned it from new), and initially sent me an offer so low it was actually insulting. I know this is minor, but he also never left feedback from the purchase. He sold a guitar to a friend of mine and had managed to conveniently hide that the clear coat lacquer was peeling from the guitar in all of his photos. When my friend asked about it he got a dismissive answer back that it wasn’t a big deal when, to my friend, it very much was. I also, through a friend of a friend, know that Andy Sneap recently sold him a bunch of gear, which Essex has now put up at significantly higher than what he paid for them. He bought the drum kit used on one of the recent Megadeth albums (I forget if it was 13 or Dystopia but don’t worry, I’m sure his listing will tell you in all caps) for about £6000. It’s now up for sale at £35,000 last time I looked. He also relentlessly flexes on his Instagram about how much he loves his Bentleys and other way-too-expensive luxury items. Don’t let this scalper buy another Bentley. Support the decent sellers on Reverb/eBay instead.

This type of inflation is about to happen on Alexi Laiho RR Jackson’s.

Unfortunately, there are people who make enough that $25,000 is not a lot of money to them and this guy knows it. What makes it unfortunate is that Dave was being really cool and tried to give the average fan a chance to buy a part of his story and this dude went out of his way to take it out of their reach to cash in.

"People only scalp because people pay these prices." You said it yourself.

Gonna shit on a hm-2 and put it on reverb claiming it was on tour with gg allin.

This reeks hard of a possible essex guitar studios audio audit.

Also Essex Recording Studios falsely advertise most of their guitars as "Rare"

The cheapest double necks POSSIBLE are like $400, that was an amazing price by Dave for those

I've noticed that, recently, scalpers have been rebranded as 'resellers'. These people suck no matter what you call them. They deprive legitimate people from purchasing items at a normal price. I'm sure Dave would be extremely pissed off to see this.

I remember waiting to buy a Mustaine guitar but that scalper bought them all! That Essex Guitar Guy is a such a prick.

tbh: you actually never NEED "this" guitar, its just your GAS ( gear aquire syndrome ) after beeing really dissappointed with high price guitars that ive bought, i switched to buying cheap guitars and modding them ... much fun and i can have whatever i want and its waaay cheaper

Just wait until people start selling "Pre-Gibson Mesa/Boogie" amps.

Most people when a legendary guitarist dies: OMG wow gone too soon they were such an inspiration to me and so many others RIP Scalpers when a legendary guitarist dies: YES!! WOO HOO I FINALLY GET TO SELL THEIR SIGNATURE PEDAL FOR 700x THE ORIGINAL PRICE GET IN

That guy with all of Mustaine’s gear is just crossing his fingers and hopes some drunk millionaire Megadeth fan who money is no object to sees the ad and buys it.

That's just insane. Immoral, actually. Very generous of Dave to ask for such low prices for his instruments as well. Great video as usual!

Same thing's bound to happen to discontinued Alexi guitars and old Jackson RRs now that Alexi's gone. Scalping is fucking disrespectful and disgusting.

I'm embarrassed everytime one of his listings pops up in my reverb feed. The prices are fucking astronomically higher than Dave himself priced them.

The crazy thing is, the studio that bought the DM guitars then BROUGHT them to a concert at Wembley to have Mustaine sign every single one

Did anyone else think the title of the video was misspelled and it was gonna be about KDH not liking scalloped fretboards?

Good ol Essex Guitar Studios, a yankee in the UK.

Damn man... Would love to hear Dave's thoughts on this..

The same thing is going on with a lot of BC Rich guitars, especially ironbirds...my god, a cheap, bolt on ironbird is going for the price of a professional-made jackson

discovered you recently and now easily my favorite channel to watch at the end of my work day, absolute champion! i love your absolute honesty, it's very refreshing.

reverse scalping: I sold a piece of my legacy gear to a known artist, at a reasonable price.

1800s American settler listening first 10 seconds: "Oh me too I hate- oh he is talking about music"

Essex guitar studio's prices are mental. They have a jackson KE3 for 500 quid, I got mine for 315 from a local shop

Thing is, if everyone refuses the scalpers prices, they are out of pocket, and then they have to sell for a reasonable price. Really Dave Mustaine should have put a one item per customer limit on it if he wanted to be fair. Because ultimately what this scalper has done is rob Dave Mustaine of money he could have earned for them, and made it unlikely that any artists will be sell for their fans ever again.

I'll have to respectfully disagree: ▩ The only problem here is that Dave meant it as a chance for fans to get hands on his gear, and instead it got bought by an a-hole dealer who chose to brag about it too instead of just keeping his lid shut. Dave should have anticipated that all this will be bought for profit - and should have set up a raffle sale instead, choosing the buyers randomly. ▩ As sad as it is, it's obvious that dude is not just reselling the gear, but also the name behind the gear and a piece of history, complete with COA and signature. And as long as somebody is willing to pay the price, it's worth it. That's what dealers and auction houses do. ▩ As for the items that are mass produced, you can still get them at "regular" value, for example MXR Super Comp is widely available for $80, and you can get Dave's signature guitars for anywhere between 700-1500, so it's not exactly "scalping" - as his prices will not affect the market price for this gear.

noticed something similar. I don't follow new guitar releases too much, But a few months ago Fender Japan released a signature Evangelion Asuka telecaster. they were around 2400 if i recall and then with import maybe 3000. Only a small amount were made and after they sold out I was seeing them sell for 6000, 7000 dollars. Not as extreme as the musician owned gear, but still more than twice the amount Fender Japan sold them for. I actually saw a youtuber who bought 4 or 5 of Asuka signature tele's and he said " So fans could get them" He didn't say how much he resold them for , but I'm assuming a profit. You know, instead of buying 5 and "helping the fans get them" The fans could have just bought those 5 guitars from Fender Japan without making him some money. The thing that bothered me the most was he didn't even know what Evangelion was. He just bought them because of the hype and he knew he could resell them.

Man I'm glad someone else is addressing this. I see this stuff on a lot of just normal discontinued gear. I remember the rick and Morty pocket operators being sold for twice the price. The special anniversary boss ds1 pedals as well. But I always find it absurd. It's not just high end gear. I remember a while back there were about 4 or 5 Tom Delonge fender strats on ebay. They were all under $1000 or so. They all sold the same day. Next day a new listing for one for $2200. And someone actually bought it. The most nauseating disgusting part of it is. I payed 600 for mine. And thought i overpaid at the time. It was in worse shape than mine as well. Good video though man. Take care!

Trogly is charging 7k for the Fender Evangelion guitar that originally cost $1500. Come on bro. Shameless

Haha, love the Trogly s/o. Great video!

All of us hate ESR with a passion

I was looking at Dave Mustaine's guitars on Reverb the other day and I came across one of these posts and I thought, "Wow the person selling this must have really paid out the nose when they bought this from Dave" but this is really sad to see, that they would just mark the prices up so damned high.

I KNEW IT! THE STRIPES ARE BASED ON EVH! You have very good taste, my man! love your videos by the way! keep at it!

Blame Reverb for not having a system in place that prevents one person from buying up all limited edition merch like that. This is as much a publicity stunt for reverb as anything

“Piece sells, but who’s buying.” I blame the buyers 😕

This also happened with the Chase Bliss Ayahuasca. It’s unfortunate that it prompted the guy behind the pedals to say he would never do limited runs again, but these gougers are just the worst.

Agreed on the point about the Bowie tour piece. I had a pickguard hand wired by Kent Armstrong. After many years playing things needed replacing and I neglected the instrument because I thought it had an added value attached. The instrument eventually did the opposite of what it was meant to do and made me sad. This year I brought it to a luthier in Cork, and completely rewired it and he actually put in more suitable pots and it plays better. More "valuable" to me now.

I work for a fashion brand's IT department, and boy do I hate scalpers. Any time something limited edition is released in the web store, it's sold out within seconds. There are so many countermeasures built in to prevent it yet they keep doing it. The biggest scalper rented several AWS clusters and keeps rotating between IP addresses every few seconds. Fortunately the guitar market is not that bad, as a hobby guitarist I never saw something I wanted on re-sale for crazy prices.

I remember his wholehearted interview with Levi. So “I’m doing this for the fans”. What a clown he is.

I think its just a sign of the times in general. It is so insane with computer GPUs right now. Last gen stuff is going for almost the same as current gen.

Love your show. It's so dame good. I get so hooked on the topics. Praise you tube ha

Totally stumbled across this. Bro, I'm with you. This is ridiculous. Dave started music talk on the interweb...please tell me he saw this video. Ok. I'll go through the comments now

Scalpers are even hitting brands like Strandberg, who have relatively low production as is. I don't mind hitting up the secondary market, but companies should do more to ensure end users and reliable dealers get gear first. Also: if that rack mount gear was owned by Revves Gabrels, it's definitely valuable to some fan.

7:12 - 28.5276 times Dave’s asking price of $75. Just so we all know.

Really enjoyed this content 🙂

A similar thing happened with the Adam Jones 1979(?)silverburst LP re-issue, only Gibson started them at around $13K. They hadn't even been played by him! They quickly went up to ridiculous prices on Reverb.

I have a speaker that I bought from some guy in Genesis. Sounds the same as the other ones which, as far as I'm aware, were never owned by anyone in Genesis.

My favorite KZfaq channel, loves from Japan!

I liked that after purchasing and putting them back up in his description is like (Paraphrasing) "Yeah the pandemic hit so I need to sell them off to fund my recording studio." Cool dude, Good luck.

Great video my friend 🤘🏻

I just discovered your channel. Your videos are awesome! Subscribed.

Dave should've made a clause from those sales...or a limit of 2 maximum per customer...it's a shame ESSEX got it, what's worse he had Dave's signature on all of those guitars to further increase value. It's probably a conspiracy theory but, Dave probably conniving with Essex is highly possible.

I'm absolutely in love with your Ibanez on the wall. That thing is fucking beautiful.

Dude! Awesome video. Also, I agree that it was very cool on Dave's part for listing them at those prices. Edit- 8:45 😶 You've gotta be kidding me.

I had a George Lynch owned JMP-1 with his presets still on it, bought directly from george. Was actually cheaper than most listed JMP1s. Artist linkage has almost nothing to do with price of an item.

like trying to buy a gpu atm

KDH you channel is awesome. Can you explain to an idiot like myself - what stops the manufacturers from being the scalpers themselves?

i remember when behringer discontinued their super fuzz clone for a very short time and that was being sold on reverb for over £100 i remember seeing...for a £20 plastic pedal...behringer soon put it back into production to stop this

What’s really stupid about the EVH things when Eddie died, you could still buy some of them new.... for less

The bigger the lie the more it seems plausible. This is the concept scalpers apply along with their belief there is a "sucker born every minute". Good on you for exposing these gear scalpers.

I had to watch this. I recently went looking for a LTD JH200 because I had to part with it about 10 years ago (long story 😢). When I saw how much they are going for now... I had to tell myself to forget about it.

This seems to be a problem across the board. A few years ago a pedal manufacture pointed out that a circuit in a $50 pedal that was currently on the market, was identical to a much sought after discontinued pedal that sells for $500+. Not only did the few stores that carry such a 'lowly' brand sell out immediately, but a wait list developed and people started selling them on line for four times the retail price. For many people the internet has become to get between manufacturer and customer and demand a ransom

It's already happening with the Laiho ESP/LTD guitars. Anything for a buck.

in other words "legal doesn't mean ethical" I guess....on the other hand though, thats a brilliant move if there are people willing to pay that kind of money....although I highly doubt that there are that many, so wealthy megadeth fans out there so eventually prices will come down to more reasonable levels....

Its funny that I knew instanty who you were talking about even when I did not know he had bought all daves' guitars.

One of my dream basses is a David ellefson signature Jackson CBXM-V. The five string with maple neck, the one that looks more like a fender than a Jackson. I went onto reverb hoping to find it used for maybe $600-750USD. I saw someone sell a stage played model for $5,500USD. That’s a little more than 6 times it’s original value of $850USD. I get that it’s stage played and signed, but I would expect it to be double or even triple the value. The price it was being sold was the same as his USA custom shop basses, for one made in Indonesia.

Dave Mustaine played it really well with pricing. Slash and Gibson on the other hand...

People are scalping anything desirable. Guns, Guitars, Computer Components, etc.

Not sure what’s worse, Essex Recording studios taking the time to go through the comments and reply to loads of them, or me going through loads of comments out of morbid curiosity to see how many they’ve replied to...

I bought 2 of Dave's personally owned Jacksons. One I bought from the original sale of them and the other from a fellow collector who was about to lose his house and needed to sell it. I have no intentions of ever selling them.

You should try send this video to Dave. I say he would be pissed if he saw what being done with his legacy.

It's downright anti-consumer.

Great and interesting vid as usual - Sadly stuff is worth what people are willing to pay for it and it has little link to the 'intrinsic value'. I remember earlier in the year some youtuber celeb making the news for paying thousands for first gen pokemon card!

It happened with the Spark amps, in fact it was happening with that product around the time you uploaded this video.

I see a new KDH video- I watch!

Adam Jones' guitars got me like:

4:46 given you're Irish I wonder if the guitar player was Gerry Leonard. Hope to see you playing in Dublin post covid man.

Bro, 2 years later and I still see them for sale on reverb

Imagine what's gonna happen to the explorer when james hetfield passes on

Damn, and I just subscribed to the Essex youtube channel thinking "hmm, this is a lot of really cool gear"...whoops!

It’s funny I’m seeing this today, the thumbnail caught my attention bc I was literally on Dean’s website lastnight wanting to find some of Dave’s cheaper Vs (United Abominations, black, and silver ones) and I literally can’t find them on the site.

As a super fan of anything and everything FUZZ, all I wanted was a Boss Wazacraft Tone Bender. Not to resell or profit but to enjoy, play and love. Well.....at the current price of 1K average it doesn't seem this pedal will ever be in my collection.

Trogly’s definitely been guilty of scalping in the past 👀 But he’s mostly okay.

Dave should not of sold them all to that guy ... he should of spread the love and made sure they was going to different people.

cool, you have a lawsuit model Ibanezx. Havent seen one of those in ages. Really good guitars.

I’d expect prices like that for ‘Deth stuff from the 80’s and 90’s. This is just ridiculous

I'm quite surprised, maybe even impressed, by Mustaine's prices.

What about Fedora scalping?

2:46 Music shop that buys guitar and sell them back with a higher margin add a value to the item. They check if the instrument is properly working (set up, truss rod), the refference them well (Identifying pickups in a Gibson for exemple). So when you buy from a reputable shop you pay a guarantee that the item you buy is as decribed and you have a real support. I think it's far better to pay 20% more for a guitar and be sure it's perfectly working when you're buying one guitar than taking the risk to get scam and get in a lot of hassle to get your money back. But that's personal prefference after all :)

The cycle of reselling on Reverb is terrible right now. I check Reverb for various items several times a day (you have to if you want a good deal) and over the past 2 years I have seen more and more of items with a good price being sold within a hour of being listed and then being relisted within days (or sometimes relisted with the original seller's pictures) for a big mark up. There is a well known KZfaq guy who does this and sometimes will buy brand new instruments and then re-sell them after doing his video (where he takes them apart, etc.) for a couple hundred more than they are new. Some instruments you can follow bouncing from reseller to reseller and going up in price each time, never reaching the hands of a musician.

Man, didn't knew Lana Del Rey was rocking an yngwie sig marshall, but can she play I'll see the Light Tonight tho?

As grim as this is, the moment a celebrity dies, scalpers will always jump on anything related to that celebrity. BUT, that is not the worst problem. The worst problem is how when a celebrity dies, overnight, we will have loads of obvious fakes looking to scam fans who want to snatch up anything related to their idol. Case in point, a month after EVH died, I found a counterfeit "EVH-owned Marshall" on Reverb. I doubt many would know what to look for, but, thankfully, I know. 1: Those memorial plaques were obviously glued on. Those inscriptions were NOT engraved onto the actual amp itself. 2: Those memorial plaques say they were presented to EHV in 1985. The serial number starts with Y, which means the amp was made in 1990. 3: The serial number also says S/A, which means it is a 50W, while the product ID sticker says 100W. So, the name plate does not match the serial number, and the amp itself was built 5 YEARS AFTER THEY CLAIM IT WAS PRESENTED TO EVH, not to mention the plaques are GLUED-ON. This thing is an obvious fake, and not even a GOOD fake. And this fake was made entirely to take advantage of grieving EVH fans. There are two lessons to be learned here. The first lesson learned is education will go a long way. If you do know what to look for, you can avoid getting scammed by fakes. The second lesson learned here is those of us who do know what to look for need to be active, maybe even proactive in finding fakes, so we can protect those who DON'T know what to look for, so we can prevent them from getting scammed by fakes.

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Well said!