Why Our Prices Are Higher on Ebay than on OKVG.com
Some people have asked about our price differences from www.oklahomavintageguitar.com to our eBay store. The prices in our eBay store are a bit higher and we almost always charge shipping on eBay because the eBay fees have gone through the roof in the past year or two. When you buy the same instrument on OklahomaVintageGuitar.com you will almost always save money on the exact same item with very few exceptions because we do not have the super expensive eBay fees on www.oklahomavintageguitar.com.
We also take money orders, cashier's checks and even personal checks with time for them to clear when you buy through www.OklahomaVintageGuitar.com. However, eBay has imposed a new rule recently, which says, no seller on eBay can accept money orders or checks. They say they are doing this for security reasons, however any thinking person knows that it is only because they don't get any Pay Pal fees on checks or money orders. They cancelled, just bluntly ended, approximately 200 of our listings on eBay just because we didn't have the entire "money order" wording removed from all of them yet.
For this and many other reasons we are slowly but surely leaving eBay. Two years ago we had approximately 700 listings in our eBay store, but this year we have it down to between 150 and 200 listings. EBay drives prices for instruments higher and we don't believe our customers should have to pay the extra if they don't want to. EBay was once a mighty force in the sales world but they abandoned the sellers who write the checks to pay their salaries and they are now struggling to reach even a shadow of what they once were.
Remember this also; it is almost impossible for us to list everything that we carry on either of the sites or on both of them combined. So, if you don't see what you are looking for, please email me at Bobby@OKlahomaVintageGuitar.com or call us toll free at 888 422 0788. We have hundreds of instruments in the store that we have not had a chance to list at this time. We are a family owned and run business. Sandra and our three boys 15, 19, and 21 years old and I are the only people who work here are. We love the instruments and we love talking with people and helping them find what they need, but there is no huge staff or even a website developer that we hire to do this work. We build the site as we go and list the instruments as we can get to them. Call us if you want something you don't see. We will work hard to get it for you at a great price.