) As an old boss of mine used to say: "Selling price bears little relationship to manufacturing cost. It's what the market will bear. Manufacturing costs are driven down to increase profits, not to lower prices."West R Lee said:
As an old boss of mine used to say: "Selling price bears little relationship to manufacturing cost. It's what the market will bear. Manufacturing costs are driven down to increase profits, not to lower prices."[/quote:3af4v2bh]cjd-player said:
guitardude said:Just seen this listed online at Elderly, wonder why they have changed to a 1&3/4 nut.... Because Martin have ? There does seem to be a trend towards this nut width of late, perhaps because fingerpicking is becoming more the dominant style of playing ? (I'm in a minority here cos I really like the old 1&5/8 width
Cheers, Ian
Good rule of thumb but there are enough exceptions that you need to be careful when applying it.yettoblaster said:
bluesypicky said:
....Or 11/16th.guitardude said:
Honestly, I've never paid much attention to the specs when it comes to guitars.Ridgemont said:
Expectations are based on what the competition offers (no offense to Guild lovers of which I am a part)........ See Martin MMV referenced above (or on another thread... losing track of them since the debate seems to inevitably come back to the new Guild prices lately, regardless of OP's subject....).FNG said:If one shoots for 40 percent on suggested retail, then that is about 1700 bucks. Seems like some unreasonable expectations for price around here...you want a low price point guitar, buy a GAD.
Actually 20% off list is very common especially in a market like this, that'd be $1600.00 (on a $2000.00 list price), and 30% would get it down to $1400.00, BUT...will there be so many guitars sitting on the shelves that sellers will feel the need to do this right off the bat?FNG said:If one shoots for 40 percent on suggested retail, then that is about 1700 bucks. Seems like some unreasonable expectations for price around here...you want a low price point guitar, buy a GAD.
20% off 2k is $1600?adorshki said:Actually 20% is very common especially in a market like this, that'd be $1600.00, and 30% would get it down to $1400.00, BUT...will there be so many guitars sitting on the shelves that sellers will feel the need to do this right off the bat?FNG said:If one shoots for 40 percent on suggested retail, then that is about 1700 bucks. Seems like some unreasonable expectations for price around here...you want a low price point guitar, buy a GAD.
I got every one of mine new in those brackets, but there was some motivation for the seller to do it in each case.
2000x .20=400; 2000-400=1600.bluesypicky said:
