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Everyone wants to get gear for the cheapest price, but let's be up-front about it. Allusions to the moral superiority of buying from 8th Street Music over Guitar Center are pointless. If Guitar Center undercut 8th Street by $50, everyone would buy a DL-4 there. If 8th Street was such a wonderful place, they'd give everyone the best deal, not just the guys who have dropped a lot of money there. 8th Street, like all independent music stores, gives discounts where it thinks it will benefit them financially, and doesn't give discounts under the same criteria. And I'm sure that 8th Street will appreciate you steering all this business to them. Nudge, nudge. All things held equal, I'd buy from 8th Street (or somewhere just like it). If GC or AMS offers a better deal, I'll buy from them. People could support "independent" music stores in their own town, but what you're proposing is that if 8th Street offers them a better price, don't support a store just because it's independent, support it because it gives you the best deal. TH > > Travis Hartnett wrote: > >> Well, actually it looks like it REALLY pays to quote "price of >indeterminate >> origin" to your local store before the counter guys have had their >first cup >> of coffee. > > Evidently. I just wanted to point out this is not the norm least we have > ten more "How did you find that price?" posts that all go unanswered > like the last few have. So far no place has a standard price of less > than $200 from what I've seen and heard. Please post otherwise if you > know of a place that has a *regular* (not haggled) lower price. > >> BTW, I truly appreciate the logic of appealing to "support your local >music >> store" while setting up a national group buy AND suggesting that we use >> Radio Shack AC adaptors. > > I think my point was clearly made (independent store VS Chain store) but > quite frankly I don't give a damn where people buy 'em. 8th st isn't the > best store in the world (Each saledude is different) but over the years > I've met some of the best salesdudes I've met in any store there and > these guys go the extra mile to take care of all their customers not > just the big spenders. Personally I think that kind of attention > deserves reward. Since we're putting together a multi purchase *someone* > has to find a place to buy them and rather than deal with the chains > that constanlty get ragged on for poor and ignorant support it just made > sense to me that we support a particular salesmen or team that has > developed a decent track record which makes things easier to buy as well > as helps them out a bit. > > As for the adaptors that was answering a question someone had yesterday > which is very pertinent to ANY DL4 user as well as people buying and > paying shipping for a $20 adapter VS one they can find around the corner > from them. > > Y'know I am trying to set this up for the list since there is so much > interest. What was all that community crap that someone wrote about the > past few days? If the best you can do is be a wiseass when somone's > going out of their way for nothing to help out the group perhaps you'd > feel more at home playing with the ignorant sellers on Ebay than > following up on someone elses's efforts to get something done instead of > talking about it. > > loop on. >