I bought a $30 Martin 0-18 once. The woman selling it said she'd taken it to a local store and asked them if $30 was too much to ask for it, and they said, "No."

I didn't have the money to pay much more than that at the time, and it did need a neck reset, but I felt bad enough that I also bought a couple of cheap, in-need-of-repair guitars from her(a Sears Supertone Hawaiian guitar, plus something else) for another $25 (on a later visit, when I'd scraped up more money). After some work on them, I sold them for modest amounts. This was in 1967, when the going rate for non-Dreadnought Martins of that kind was $150-200, so don't use today's inflated prices as a mark of the bargain I got.

Of course, the free Martin I got later was another story.

Bob Clayton