Re: Musicians friend Price politics

[Travis Hartnett <tiktok@sprintmail.com>]

I like cheap gear as much as anyone, but if the supply on an item stays 
low to non-existent for a long time while demand goes way up, then I'm 
not surprised that eventually price goes up.  If you don't like the MF 
price, go buy it from somewhere else--if you can find someone who has 
them in stock.  I've had a standing order at Alto (they always beat 
everyone's price that I've checked, but you have to call or email them) 
for months and months, they still haven't got one to sell me, but 
apparently MF does (in theory--we've seen a disparity between their 
catalog and warehouse many times before).  It's just unusual that there 
be one product in a mass-distributed catalog that has this combination 
of supply/demand, but sometimes it happens.

If Gibson would make more of them consistently available, we probably 
wouldn't see this problem, although I wouldn't rule out a price hike 
given their jaw-dropping guitar prices.

TravisH

On Jul 26, 2004, at 7:37 AM, 
Loopers-Delight-d-request@loopers-delight.com wrote:

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>> Supply/demand/invisible hand, etc.
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>> TravisH
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> More accurately:
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> artificial price inflation generated from web traffic / unaware 
> consumers trusting prices not to constantly jump / deceptive business 
> practices that are not practiced by their more reputable competitors, 
> etc.
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> Get Optimized,
> Rob