YAHOO! AUCTIONS

Auctions are HOT on the Web right now, so why not look at what the ever-popular Yahoo has to offer guitarists:

auctions.yahoo.com/22476-category.html

At the time of writing, they had 30 Bass, over 200 Electric, over 100 Acoustic, but no Classical guitars offered for auction. What is Yahoo Auctions? A place where you can make a bid or auction any item. It's free to buyers and sellers. What if you pay but the goods don't arrive? Yahoo suggest complaining to: www.fraud.org

More helpful advice for bidders is at:
help.yahoo.com/help/auctions/abid

Yahoo still runs listings of traditional classified ads, too. Musicians classifieds are at:
classifieds.yahoo.com/music.html
and can be listed by Metro area.

eBAY ONLINE AUCTIONS
www.ebay.com

Established as the online auction leader, eBay has 8,000 guitar-related entries! Take a look in this category:
listings.ebay.com/aw/listings/list/category621

Miscellaneous: Musical Instruments: Guitars

Includes bids for everything from 1960 Fender Stratocaster Original: $5000; to Mel Bay's Chord System (vintage 1948 book) $2

STUFF
www.stuff.com.au

Australia's first online auction site. As this site has only recently launched, there's not much guitar stuff on offer yet.

OHIO GUITAR EXCHANGE

You can submit a FREE Classified at Ohio Guitar Exchange
members.aol.com/guitarbozo
(Classifieds will run 30 days) or look at their Yahoo Auctions page:
auctions.yahoo.com/user/winlaw29

ONLINEROCK

OnlineRock is worth a look:
www.onlinerock.com

It is a Web community for musicians and music enthusiasts. You can promote your music by easily creating you own Web site, posting classifieds and interacting with other music lovers. The "Sounding Board" is where you can to post classified ads, musicians wanted ads or any comments you feel are appropriate for OnlineRock.com here:
www.onlinerock.com/soundboard_toc.htm

MUSIC EQUIPMENT CLASSIFIEDS
The site at www.musicequipment.com says:
"Attention: Buyers, Sellers and Resellers. Place as many ads as you like for FREE". Current ads indicate people offering their axes for as little as $100, and as much as $3500.

PROMUSICFIND

Dealers can also Buy and Sell New, Used and Vintage Guitars here: www.promusicfind.com

You can advertise your inventory online.

"The worldwide marketplace for buying and selling new and used musical instruments and audio and electronic music equipment; new, used and rare records and compact discs; new and rare videos; and new, used and rare books and music"

VALUE MUSIC

Buy / Sell / Trade in the Global Musician's Marketplace
www.valuemusic.com

Members can put their gear up for sale on ValueMusic's database and your gear will be listed in the used section of Shop the Discount Catalog section. It is free to list items for sale in the Global Musician's Marketplace.

VINTAGE MUSIC
www.stc.net/~vintage

Has free guitar classifieds, and a new Auction site:
www.guitarauction.com
where you can sell your gear - posting and bidding are free

WHERE ELSE?

You may also consider checking out:

MusicianStuff Classifieds
home1.gte.net/krisi/musicianstuff/classified.html
heaps of music Classifieds sites listed

Guitar Stuff classifieds
www.guitarstuff.co.uk/noticeboard/notices.html

Guitar Nine Records classifieds
www.guitar9.com/classifieds.html

Free Musician's Search Service
www.musician.com/mrs/mrs.html

The Guitar Exchange
www.arrowweb.com/gxchange/classads.htm

The Internet Bluegrass Magazine Free Want-Ads
www.mnusa.com

Musician's Online Classifieds
www.musicianads.com

Musician's Referral Service
w3.one.net/~fgruber/musicref.html

Used Music Gear
www.usedmusicgear.com
Classified / Consignment / Inspection Services

Rose van der Haven's list of Classifieds
www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palms/1891/ads.htm
several music Classifieds sites listed

Recycler Classifieds
www.recycler.com
Large site for online classifieds on any topic, not just music

and finally...

Where NOT to find free buy/sell ads on the Web:
tremolo.harmony-central.com/HyperNews/get/guitar.html
This is a great resource - the Harmony Central Guitar Forum - have a look - but they ask you NOT to place ads here!

DO YOU WANT MORE?

Do you think that GuitarSite.com should have a free guitar classifieds section? Let us know:

Email: GNW-Editor@hitsquad.com