Well good to see the guitar industry isn't raising prices.

Findthetone1 said:
My favorite brand as well. Lumps and all. But once prices started going north of 2K for models such as Standards, it became unreasonable.
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The guitar I got a deal on was an R6 and the store owner sold it to me for $1000. We’d had it a long time and he wanted it gone. I didn’t end up gelling with the fat neck like I’d hoped too and sold it a little while later for a profit on eBay. Told owner and he built a store website and we starting selling online soon after 😂.
 
As in 2020 with covid that gave every business that wanted to the "excuse" to jack prices claiming "our cost went up".
Like how you gonna fact-check them w/o an accounting firm ?
Now 2025 and the same damn thing with prices. Last 4 years we had some prices under control.
Same guy is the cause of the same type shit. But dont worry he said he would help.
 
shar-vell Dan said:
As in 2020 with covid that gave every business that wanted to the "excuse" to jack prices claiming "our cost went up".
Like how you gonna fact-check them w/o an accounting firm ?
Now 2025 and the same damn thing with prices. Last 4 years we had some prices under control.
Same guy is the cause of the same type shit. But dont worry he said he would help.
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Can the mods just move all of shithead-Dans threads to OT since all he wants to do is fucking whine and try to use backdoor politics disguised as guitar topics?
I'm happy to play but there are a lot of members that don't want to.
 
skoora said:
The guitar I got a deal on was an R6 and the store owner sold it to me for $1000. We’d had it a long time and he wanted it gone. I didn’t end up gelling with the fat neck like I’d hoped too and sold it a little while later for a profit on eBay. Told owner and he built a store website and we starting selling online soon after 😂.
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Yeah, I picked up and R8 once and knew there's no way I'd gel with the neck. R6s are really fat too. I'm a 60's profile lover.
 
The big price jump for guitars came during Covid when people were buying guitars like crazy. I’d say around 2022. Just before that I bought an SG 61 maestro for around $1400 new and a new 335 for $2450. Both are about a $1000 more today.

Gibson and Fender don’t need any excuse to raise prices. They are greedy as fuck and do it every year regardless.
 
Killcrop said:
The big price jump for guitars came during Covid when people were buying guitars like crazy. I’d say around 2022. Just before that I bought an SG 61 maestro for around $1400 new and a new 335 for $2450. Both are about a $1000 more today.

Gibson and Fender don’t need any excuse to raise prices. They are greedy as fuck and do it every year regardless.
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For guitars that require no R&D and little, to no retooling on the line for decades.
 
Findthetone1 said:
Yeah I happened upon a 79 Les Paul Artisan 2 pickup for a really good price about 12 years ago. It was a fantastic guitar except for those frets. I thought about a refret but since they are somewhat rare I decided to sell it to someone that really wants the guitar original. Made a quick 1K on it though.
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yea i dont have it in me to mess up vintage guitars no matter what...i'd rather just buy a new replica...more power to the pros who keep em going, i think its cool as hell to do that but i just dont have the talent in my fingers to justify doing that to a vintage guitar man
 
shar-vell Dan said:
During covid i recall millions dying. Don't recall a guitar buying rush.
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For the guitar companies, Covid was like winning the lottery. Record sales. People were stuck at home and a lot of them bought music gear. After Covid a lot of the guitar companies had to lay people off because of the drop in demand. Fender, for example.
 
rsm said:
After decades since owning a new Gibson, I took a chance on a Gibson '61 SG Standard in white...zero issues, QC was very good. I wanted the '63 Custom SG Les Paul, but at nearly $7K that wasn't going to happen because these aren't my main guitars of interest (EBMM Kaizen, Majesty, Ibanez PS-10) ....turns out Epi has the inspired by Gibson Custom version, for $1499, which has three Gibson pickups...again zero issues.

I have enough Gibson now, and enough Fender (Fender MIM Strat, and MIM Jaguar)...just to have "classics"


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I bought a Silver Mist '61 Standard last year, zero regrets, zero issues. AMS is selling both the SG Standard and Standard '61 $300 off on a few colors, (Cardinal Red and Silver Mist).. I was tempted to get a Standard in Cardinal Red, ($1499)..
 
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Quick........... somebody post some pics of excrement................................................:confused::LOL:

Cause inflation has nothing to do with printing money out of thin air................NAH................................:dunno:

No noticing allowed...................Go back to sleep..........................
 
Findthetone1 said:
Yeah, I picked up and R8 once and knew there's no way I'd gel with the neck. R6s are really fat too. I'm a 60's profile lover.
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You guys who like skinny necks are lucky—you have your choice of every guitar made. Leave us big neck guys the Historic Gibsons at least
 
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