re: Made a trade for my first ever Gibson

You may check to see if there is a music store in your area that takes consignment used instruments. We have one here in Baton Rouge.

The basics of consignment are you agree on a minimum selling price and a percentage of which the consignee will keep for his efforts. Because his reward is a percentage based commission, it is in the seller's best interest to exceed your minimum price and shoot for top dollar.

The advantage of consignment is your instruments are in a public viewing area exposed to retail foot traffic, and you don't have to deal with corksniffers, tirekickers and/or potential armed robbers using means like Craigslist or Facebook ads to take advantage of you. Or your friends and caretakers in your AL community for that matter, which may forbid buy/sell/trade activity by and for its residents.