Not hard - Go to mandolin write in "Gibson" and you'll get (most) of the Gibson mandolins that are on ebay --there are sometimes others hiding places on there.(By the way those lost or improperly listed items can be the best bargains if you can stumble on them) click the ones your interested in on to your watch list and when they end write 'em down. The problem with buy it now's is that you can never be sure what the final price was, there may have been some haggling that went on. One's that sell at auction the final price is public. If I have enough information I can figure out the date. A lot of the dates supplied by the sellers are often incorrect. Condition is often a guess of course and the ones that sell for the lowest prices are sometimes due to having the worst pictures and scanty information. But we're trying to figure out averages here---throw out the highest 10% and the lowest 10% I figure. Someone will always pay too much and sometimes one falls through the cracks. I missed out on a perfect boxed set of Berg chisels the other day because I slept at the wheel --but no one else got them either because no one bid,my bad! An A2z or a perfectly preserved A4 can change the averages by quite a lot. What I was really trying to come up with was the prices for average "players" 'cause I think Gibson A models are something that every mandolin player should have and probably can because there are so many of them and compared to the price of a new mandolin with anything close to that quality would have to be considered dirt cheap!
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