Tokai Love Rock ALS-48
guitar
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Why this number?
The typical used price is the median of 8 used sales observed in the last 24 months, with outliers removed and the figure rounded. An observed sale is often the last asking price rather than a confirmed hammer price.
| Typical used price | €310 | median sold, rounded |
| Most sold between | €280–€410 | 25th to 75th percentile, same window |
| Window | last 24 months | the tightest of 90 days, 6 months and 24 months with 8 used sales |
| Sample | 8 used sales | thin data, treat as a rough guide |
| Time to sell | — | only counted from listings we watch start to finish; not enough yet |
| Live asks | €525 | typical ask across 6 listings, 69% above typical used |
| Outliers | dropped | beyond 10× the product’s own median: bundles, parts, typos |
| All-time | €300 | 37 used sales, 2016–2026; not used for deals |
| Sales on record | 41 | all-time, all platforms |
Typical prices are rounded (to 5 / 10 / 50 / 100 by size, in whichever currency you read); asks and the chart are exact. As of 19 October 2026. Full method, including what each badge means
About the Tokai Love Rock ALS-48
The ALS-48 is the entry-level Love Rock, built in Korea (in the old Cort factory) from about 1995 to 2003 and in China since; new it sold for roughly 400-500 in euros or dollars. The Korean guitars carry no serial but Made in Korea inked on the pots; the tells against a Japanese one are a hex-nut truss rod rather than the Gibson-style brass nut, a three-screw (or one-screw; two on some early ones) truss-rod cover, metric pickup rings, small pots, a box-type toggle, binding seen mainly from the side and a photo-print flame top. Later Chinese examples carry MK4 pickups, and distributor runs exist, a 2017 lemon drop of 108 for France with Giovanni pickups, with the open-book headstock on some. Owners date theirs from 1995 to 2017. On a Korean guitar the hex truss-rod nut sits deep in the neck under the string nut and takes a hex key, it is not a snapped rod, and not the Gibson-style socket of the Japanese guitars.
For sale right now
The best-priced as cards, a row of them; every other ad as a line, by ask. Each ask is the seller’s own number; the platform’s mark opens the listing. Each one says when we last confirmed it at its source: the price and availability are from that visit, so check the marketplace before you go.
eBay United States
Reverb
eBay Germany
Price history
Every recorded sale, one point each: 41 of them, placed by the day the ad went up. Too few sales to draw a trend through them without inventing one, so the points speak for themselves. Condition is mixed, so some of the spread is a mint against a fair rather than the market moving.
Recent sales by listing date
8 used sales · last 24 months · middle half €280–€410 · thin
| Listed | Price | Condition | From | Platform | The listing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Mar 2026 | €258$299 as sold | good |  Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 12 Feb 2026 | €681$789 as sold | very good |  United States | Reverb | Details |
| 25 Apr 2025 | €241$279 as sold | good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 19 Jan 2025 | €319$360 as sold | mint | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 21 Dec 2024 | €302$350 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
A date is the day the ad went up. Marketplaces do not publish the day a sale closed; each of these had sold by the time we recorded it, in August 2026 and October 2026. A price is what the listing last asked, converted at that day’s rate.
Show all 41 recorded sales
| Listed | Price | Condition | From | Platform | The listing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Feb 2025 | €311$349 as sold | good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 22 Dec 2024 | €284$329 as sold | good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 27 Nov 2024 | €674$780 as sold | excellent |  United Kingdom | Reverb | Details |
| 23 May 2023 | €327$379 as sold | good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 23 May 2023 | €327$379 as sold | good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 23 May 2023 | €301$349 as sold | good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 23 Mar 2023 | €284$329 as sold | very good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 25 Feb 2023 | €578$649 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 16 Feb 2023 | €301$349 as sold | very good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 25 Jan 2023 | €624$700 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 15 Jan 2023 | €215$249 as sold | very good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 26 Oct 2022 | €356$400 as sold | very good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 1 Oct 2022 | €302$350 as sold | good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 4 Aug 2022 | €302$350 as sold | very good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 28 Jun 2022 | €302$350 as sold | very good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 4 Jun 2022 | €345$400 as sold | very good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 25 May 2022 | €356$400 as sold | very good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 25 May 2022 | €302$350 as sold | very good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 10 May 2022 | €474$549 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 4 Apr 2022 | €655$735 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 1 Apr 2022 | €302$350 as sold | very good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 14 Mar 2022 | €302$350 as sold | very good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 27 Dec 2021 | €285$330 as sold | very good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 20 Sept 2021 | €285$330 as sold | good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 18 Jul 2021 | €302$350 as sold | very good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 11 May 2021 | €328$380 as sold | very good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 20 Apr 2021 | €285$330 as sold | very good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 7 Nov 2020 | €356$400 as sold | very good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 4 Aug 2020 | €345$400 as sold | very good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 15 Nov 2019 | €223$250 as sold | very good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 11 Mar 2019 | €216$250 as sold | very good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 10 Apr 2018 | €344$386 as sold | new |   Spain | Reverb | Details |
| 5 Apr 2017 | €519$582 as sold | new |  Australia | Reverb | Details |
| 5 Apr 2017 | €491$551 as sold | new | Australia | Reverb | Details |
| 5 Apr 2017 | €517$580 as sold | new | Australia | Reverb | Details |
| 4 Aug 2016 | €325$376 as sold | very good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
A date is the day the ad went up. Marketplaces do not publish the day a sale closed; each of these had sold by the time we recorded it, in August 2026 and October 2026. A price is what the listing last asked, converted at that day’s rate.
Cheapest live: Japan €337 · 
Germany €499 · before shipping
In one paragraph
The page's figures as one paragraph, assembled for quoting; not written by hand.
The Tokai Love Rock ALS-48 sold for a median of €310 over the last 24 months across 8 recorded sales, with most examples landing between €280 and €410. There are 6 listings live right now across eBay United States, Reverb, eBay Germany, from €337 asking. Figures computed 19 October 2026 by Doirado from cross-platform listing data.
What owners have said elsewhere
Paraphrased from 12 discussion threads among 21 owners, 2021-2026. No names, nothing quoted.
The verdict on the ALS-48 is consistent: quite good quality from China, still a very excellent guitar, good for the money and capable of being great with a few small upgrades; a pawn-shop find is praised for its finish, neck, sound and pickups, and a 2017 lemon drop is called streets better than an Epiphone 59 that cost three times as much. The dissent is from a collector of six Japanese Tokais who will not buy the Korean or Chinese ones at all, and from those who stress a good guitar is still far from a Japanese one.