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Browse the full range of acoustic guitars on eBay → Prices move fast. See the biggest price drops across every category this week →Look at the bridge before anything else. Run a fingernail along the seam where the bridge meets the top. If it catches, or you can slide a sheet of paper under the back edge, the bridge is lifting. Re-gluing is routine work but it is shop work, and a bridge that has been pulling for years usually takes some of the top with it.
Then sight the top from the side. A slight dome behind the bridge is normal and by design. A visible ridge, or a top that has sunk in front of the bridge, means the braces underneath have let go. That is the fault most likely to be quietly expensive.
Check the action and work out why it is high. Measure the gap at the twelfth fret. If it is high and the saddle still stands proud, a setup fixes it for very little. If it is high and the saddle has already been filed almost flush with the bridge, somebody has run out of adjustment and the guitar needs a neck reset. On a dovetail neck a reset routinely costs more than the guitar is worth used, which is the single most useful thing to know before bidding.
Cracks matter less than people assume, if they are stable. A cleated and closed grain crack on the top or side is common on older instruments and barely affects tone or value. An open crack, or one running through the bridge plate, is another matter. Ask for a photo down the soundhole with a phone torch.
Solid top or laminate is the value question. Look at the edge of the soundhole: a solid top shows continuous grain through the thickness, a laminate shows thin layers like plywood. Solid tops open up as they age and hold their money. Budget laminates are perfectly good guitars and almost worthless secondhand, which is exactly why they are the bargains in the table above.
Value. Well-made solid-top acoustics from Martin, Taylor, Gibson and Guild depreciate very slowly and vintage examples appreciate, so buying used is low risk on the money. Laminate starter guitars lose most of their value the moment they leave the shop, so buy those used and never new.
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For tone and for resale, yes. A solid top flexes as one piece and gets louder and warmer over years of playing; a laminate top stays roughly as it started. It matters far less for a first guitar than a good setup does, and a well set up laminate beats a badly set up solid top every time.
Usually 20-40% below new. Cheap laminate models fall furthest, often more than half, because there is little demand for them secondhand. Martin, Taylor and Gibson hold their value hardest, and the sought-after older ones sell for more than they cost new.
Over decades string tension slowly rotates the neck forward, raising the action past what the saddle can compensate for. Fixing it means removing and re-angling the neck. It is skilled work costing many hundreds, so on an inexpensive guitar it writes the instrument off, and on a good one it is simply part of owning it. Check the saddle height before you bid.
Yes. Favour high-feedback sellers, prefer listings with photos of the actual guitar and honest condition notes, and lean on eBay's Money Back Guarantee, which covers you if it arrives faulty or not as described. Ask for a photo of the bridge seam and the saddle before bidding on anything expensive.
A daily snapshot of the lowest genuine eBay price for every model we track, and how good that price is right now versus its usual level, updated automatically. Prices last refreshed 12 October 2026. Tap a price to see that model's cheapest listings on eBay, or tap a model name for the full live list here.
These are second hand prices, listed by sellers as used or pre-owned, taken from live eBay US listings in US dollars. In collectible categories a sealed or unworn item is sometimes the cheapest genuine listing, and it is included. The same number works both ways: it is what a buyer pays today and the resale value a seller can realistically ask. Every model also carries a price history, the daily record kept since tracking began, which is the part to read before you buy or resell. On a day when a model has no listing that passes these filters, its row keeps the last price we recorded rather than inventing one, and drops off this table if that goes on for more than a few days.
Under each model is the actual listing that price came from, so you can see whether it is the thing you want or a bundle, a variant, or an accessory that happens to share the name.
Over the period we have tracked, this category is down 6.4%, while the used market as a whole is down 0.3%. See the Used Price Index, which is built from these prices and published as a free CSV.
| Model ↕ | Cheapest now ↕ | vs typical ↕ | vs recent |
|---|---|---|---|
Taylor 814ce Used Taylor 814ce Grand Auditorium Natural 2013 | $2,574 | 16% under | ▼ 16% |
Taylor GS Mini Taylor GS Mini Natural 6-String Right-Handed Acoustic Guitar | $380 lowest yet | 11% under | ▼ 10% |
Taylor 314ce Taylor 314CE Studio Grand Auditorium Acoustic Electric Guitar - Shaded Edgebu… | $1,398 | 7% under | ▼ 9% |
Guild D-40 1974 Guild D-40 Dreadnought 6-String Natural RH Acoustic Guitar w/ Case | $1,145 | 5% under | ▼ 27% |
Martin D-18 Martin D-18 Standard Dreadnought Sunburst satin 6-String Mahogany w/ Hard Case | $1,800 | 4% under | ▼ 6% |
Taylor 214ce Taylor 214ce Grand Auditorium Layered Walnut Acoustic Electric Guitar - Natur… | $768 | 3% under | ▼ 3% |
Martin D-28 Martin D-28 12-String Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar Excellent condition  | $2,000 | 3% under | steady |
Gibson J-200 Gibson J-200 Natural Jumbo Type with hard case 1995 Acoustic Guitar | $3,250 | about typical | ▼ 2% |
Epiphone DR-100 Epiphone DR-100 EB Acoustic Guitar In Black | $99 same 59 days | about typical | steady |
Yamaha FG800 Yamaha FG800 Folk Acoustic Guitar - Sand Burst | $150 same 59 days | about typical | steady |
Martin LX1 Little Martin Martin Little Martin LX1 Acoustic Electric Guitar w/ Fishman Pickup & Gig Bag | $300 same 19 days | about typical | steady |
Yamaha FG830 Yamaha FG830 6 Strings Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar - Autumn Burst | $310 same 14 days | about typical | steady |
Taylor Big Baby taylor big baby acoustic guitar | $330 same 24 days | about typical | steady |
Seagull S6 Seagull Acoustic S6 Original Guitar w/ Gig Bag | $350 | about typical | steady |
Ovation Balladeer Vintage 1980s Ovation Balladeer Special Acoustic Guitar – Model 1139 | $425 | about typical | ▲ 3% |
Martin DX1AE MARTIN & CO ACOUSTIC ELECTRIC GUITAR DX1AE SPRUCE TOP W/ CARRY CASE | $460 same 15 days | about typical | steady |
Taylor 414ce Taylor 414ce-R Accoustic Guitar | $1,740 same 44 days | about typical | steady |
Yamaha LL16 YAMAHA LL16 acoustic guitar | $878 | about typical | ▼ 8% |
Martin 000-28 Martin 000-28 Used Acoustic Guitar [AUTH] | $2,279 same 15 days | about typical | steady |
Gibson Hummingbird Gibson Hummingbird Custom Used Acoustic Guitar | $2,492 | about typical | ▲ 2% |
Gibson J-45 Gibson J-45 Century 12-Fret - Vintage Sunburst W/ Custom Case | $2,039 | above typical | ▲ 6% |
Guild D-55 Guild USA D-55 Antique Sunburst Acoustic Guitar Dreadnought | $2,300 | above typical | ▲ 11% |
Martin HD-28 Martin HD-28 Custom 15 Acoustic Guitar 1995 in Antique Natural V-Neck Rare | $2,535 | above typical | ▲ 15% |
Fender CD-60S Fender CD-60S LH 6 String Left-handed Acoustic Guitar (970115021) | $149 | above typical | ▲ 35% |
Epiphone Hummingbird Epiphone Hummingbird Studio 6-String Dreadnought Red 2021 Picks | $400 | above typical | new |