Does TUS take trade ins?

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Title. Trying to get an Ohta-san on trade. Not sure is TUS takes in ukes on trade. If they do take trades, and someone has gone through that with them, what was your experience like?
 
Elderly takes trades and I think they still have an Ohta San in stock.
Yes, they do and yes, they do.

Elderly is my local store, I've been doing business with them since 1974.
 
I bet they'd love your Ana'ole too, @ukeclass ... although it  would be nice to keep it in the UU family.
I'd prefer keeping it in the UU family too. I just got a response from Elderly, they told me they would be happy to take it on consignment, so I guess they no longer take trades?
 
Hmmmmm, must be a policy change. They were willing to do a trade a Martim guitar for another Martin guitar a couple months ago. I will say that their consignment deal is better.
 
Elderly does:
  • purchase of instruments (least % to customer)
  • trades
  • consignments (highest % to customer)
I have done all three many times over the years.

Possibly, they may have their own reason for not doing a trade on a particular instrument.

 
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Just saw this notice on the Elderly website:

Update: As of 11/01/23, as a temporary measure we will only be taking instruments in to sell on consignment or trade-ins toward an Elderly gift card.
 
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