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Re: JM Prices taking off...a marketing perspective...plus a look to the future
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 4:02 pm
by Naturality
If they did raise up more than about £1500 then I think Fender would start up production again.
Re: JM Prices taking off...a marketing perspective...plus a look to the future
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 10:02 pm
by sookwinder
the absolute mint 73 strat I bought 4 years back could be sold today for anywhere between 2 - 3 times what I paid for it (including shipping costs).
Ebay (and similar sites) have certainly enlarged the potential number of buyers, thus reducing the availability and increasing the prices. So when one model becomes hard to get/expensive, buyers move to the next similar model, what ever the product actually is.
isn't this just economics 101 ?
I just wished when I first go into guitars 7 years back I had not been put off by the "oh jms and jags are crap" comments from local guitar stores. I can still "see" those two 59 jms sitting in a local guitar shop for about AU$1800 (exchange rate at the time = US$920). no one wanted them, then when I suddenly saw the light, and went back a couple of years later to see if they were still there... of course they weren't
Re: JM Prices taking off...a marketing perspective...plus a look to the future
Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 7:33 am
by aen
It's strange, because eBay made everything available to everyone all the time in most other collectibles, so they went waaaaaaay down. (comic books, uh, coins and stuff, dollies...)
Re: JM Prices taking off...a marketing perspective...plus a look to the future
Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 9:42 am
by rabidhamster
damn! so ebay is why I cant sell my stupid comic collection anymore?!
I'll kill them.
Re: JM Prices taking off...a marketing perspective...plus a look to the future
Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:19 pm
by i love sharin foo
rabidhamster wrote:
damn! so ebay is why I cant sell my stupid comic collection anymore?!
I'll kill them.
Justin
Re: JM Prices taking off...a marketing perspective...plus a look to the future
Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 8:38 am
by aen
rabidhamster wrote:
damn! so ebay is why I cant sell my stupid comic collection anymore?!
I'll kill them.
Pretty much. Every time i look somehting up that used to be worth hundreds, can now be snatched up for 25 or 50 bucks. The "supply" half of the equation was blown away, but the demand stayed the same. Definetly didnt work for guitars.