Guitars can be pretty faddish, too- Explorers were big in the 2000s then went off the boil, Teles were totally out of fashion when I got mine for buttons and now it’s worth probably 5 times what I paid, so it’d be easy to get burned I think.

(I bought a lovely BC Rich 7 string for basically nothing in 98 then along came Slipknot and suddenly all the kids wanted an impractical jaggy guitar)