The Viral Taylor Swift Smashed Guitar Sells for Over $6K on eBay

The smashed-up Taylor Swift guitar has discovered a brand new house … as a result of somebody purchased the controversial merchandise on eBay.

In keeping with the e-commerce web site, somebody scooped up the guitar — which was featured in a viral video on the finish of September — on Tuesday night for a whopping $6,550 … even amid doubts concerning the guitar’s authenticity.

As TMZ beforehand reported … Gary Estes, a Texas resident, spent $4,000 at a charity public sale on a guitar marketed as bearing a Taylor Swift signature on it. Upon receiving the guitar on the public sale, Gary was additionally handed a hammer … and proceeded to smash it up.

The video quickly went viral on social media … with Gary later stating he did not have any malicious intentions with the bit, claiming he was simply joking round.

Gary clearly did not really feel too hooked up to his $4,000 destroyed guitar … the eBay vendor famous the person donated it again to the nonprofit … the Ellis County Wild Recreation Dinner. The cash from the sale will reportedly be used to assist agricultural schooling for native youth.

Whereas the itemizing marketed the guitar as one “autographed” by Taylor, a supply near Taylor’s merch firm denied the declare … doubling down and clarifying the pop star did not signal the guitar — it was later decided Tay’s signature on a separate merchandise of memorabilia had been hooked up to the instrument.

Regardless that the itemizing included a “certificates of authenticity,” her merch firm isn’t the one which offered the documentation, as it is not an official Taylor Swift guitar.

There’s different questionable issues concerning the certificates … particularly because it does not have a seal, one thing that is usually discovered on paperwork like this.