here
 
Graeme

Beautiful guitar!  The top and back woods are very nice.

Isn't She Lovely!
 
(Message edited by keavin on August 20, 2006)

so what's the deal with this?  i'm not a guitar guy but it seems like a nice instrument.  overpriced? hidden issues?  shaky seller?  nobody likes 12-strings? (i have an 8-string bass and it rules!)
 
http://cgi.ebay.com/1980-Alembic-Series-1-Electric-12-String-Guitar-w-OHSC_W0QQitemZ110027159550QQihZ001QQcategoryZ2384QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I think someone pointed out in another thread that all of the saddles were moved to the very front of their travel.  Aside from that, I am not sure what the problem is.  Looks as though the seller has plenty of positive feedback. Maybe just the fact that it is 12 strings is a deterrent.  (I simply lack $6,000 in mad money).
 
Here's the other thread:
http://club.alembicguitars.net/Images/395/30000.html?1154362257

This one has been around the ebay merry-go-round at least three times now, if not more.  Each time the price comes down a little.  IMHO it is still substantially overpriced.  Six stringers of this vintage usually bring about $2500-3000  (I won my '76 Series I guitar on ebay last February for a little less than $2500).  It's hard to say if this is increasing recently, as used Alembic basses and some non-series guitars (Electrums especially) seem to have been increasing in selling price lately.  Series guitars come around so rarely that it is hard to discern a pattern.  Nevertheless, I'd be surprised to see this top the $4000-4500 range in an open auction, and suspect it would sell closer to the $3000-3500 range.  Still, it's a beautiful looking axe.  If I won the lottery (which, as the late great Herb Caen used to say, one has roughly the same chance of winning, whether you play it or not), I'd hit the BIN.  If anyone is really interested, I'd be patient.  Chances are good it won't get any bids and will be back again at a lower price.
 
Bill, tgo
 
(Message edited by lbpesq on August 30, 2006)

Tim; I tend to agree with Bill, there are just not that many people in the market for a $6,500 twelve string guitar.  There are not that many twelve string Alembic Series guitars floating around, so I suppose if the seller is patient, some collector may decide to go for it.  But I think Bill's market price estimate seems reasonable.

One around:        $6500
Next time around:  $6000
It's back!!!       $5500
 
http://cgi.ebay.com/1980-Alembic-Series-1-Electric-12-String-Guitar-w-OHSC_W0QQitemZ110029639096QQihZ001QQcategoryZ2384QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
 
Like I said, wait and ye shall reap rewards!
 
Bill, tgo

Here we go again.  Another $500 price drop, this time its $5000
 
http://cgi.ebay.com/1980-Alembic-Series-1-Electric-12-String-Guitar-w-OHSC_W0QQitemZ110033038179QQihZ001QQcategoryZ2384QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
 
Bill, tgo

Zero bids!  
 
It'll be around again. ;-)

If it gets down to ?500 it's mine ;-)
 
Graeme

And yet another $500 price drop to $4500 with a $4750 BIN.
 
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110035921592&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1
 
Bill, tgo

Fixing the issue with the saddles not having enough travel is probably as easy as a phone call to Valentino or Mica and a divestiture of a few hundred $$$.  Beautiful guitar though.
 
John

An electric 12 is a pretty unusual guitar to use much, and even when you do, it's often not in a capacity where the sound of the particular instrument will stand out over and above the characteristic sound that all electric 12's have in common.  For the kind of occasional use such a guitar gets, there are lots of great and much less expensive guitars around - unless you are a collector, it seems to me, the price of an alembic 12 is pretty hard to justify.  I suspect that is what is driving the absence of bidders.
 
Rick