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It's not unreasonable to assume he looked it up before (or after) buying it from whomever he bought it from. He's also probably tried to sell it as a collectible already. However, if the collector crowd snubbed him, citing the wear and tear, yet he thinks or even knows that the vast majority of collectors can either do the work themselves, or have it done cheap enough by "their buddy", that he'd see it flipped within a week.
Ergo, he's holding our for top dollar and today's value, which forces the flippers to hold onto it until it goes up again.
Doesn't matter to him whether you're a flipper or not, because from his perspective, you're just saying that you're not. He has no evidence to the contrary.
The internet (and time, actually) have made the old "doesn't know what he's got" shops all but a myth. 20 years ago you could find more shops who only knew Gibson and Fender and Gretsch, and who still believed Epiphones were made in Michigan, and brands like Kramer, Jackson, Charvel, Ibanez, and Dean were no better than Cort, Hondo, Aria, and Arbor, and you could score major deals (to balance out the major fucking they gave people who were down on their luck and took whatever they could get for it).
However, people who knew about those brands and their popularity did wind up running those same shops eventually, and while they may not have kept up with the details of USA vs Japanese models, they at least had some knowledge beyond Gibson, Fender, and Gretsch. Now that those people are closing up shop, they're more aware of what's what regarding those old dusty, beat-up models that everyone's trying to get cheap.
Ergo, he's holding our for top dollar and today's value, which forces the flippers to hold onto it until it goes up again.
Doesn't matter to him whether you're a flipper or not, because from his perspective, you're just saying that you're not. He has no evidence to the contrary.
The internet (and time, actually) have made the old "doesn't know what he's got" shops all but a myth. 20 years ago you could find more shops who only knew Gibson and Fender and Gretsch, and who still believed Epiphones were made in Michigan, and brands like Kramer, Jackson, Charvel, Ibanez, and Dean were no better than Cort, Hondo, Aria, and Arbor, and you could score major deals (to balance out the major fucking they gave people who were down on their luck and took whatever they could get for it).
However, people who knew about those brands and their popularity did wind up running those same shops eventually, and while they may not have kept up with the details of USA vs Japanese models, they at least had some knowledge beyond Gibson, Fender, and Gretsch. Now that those people are closing up shop, they're more aware of what's what regarding those old dusty, beat-up models that everyone's trying to get cheap.
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