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I bought a new Ibanez SR605E on sale with a $120 mark down. Im just doing a monthly payment plan of 60 bucks a month for the rest. Selling some old gear I no longer use and that’s gonna cover the monthly payments lol but that’s only because my current bass’s body broke in half after my cat saw it hanging and decided to try climbing on it. Fell and and broke, luckily the cat wasn’t hurt. But I wanted to upgrade for like 6 years anyway, and I guess this was the time. But aside from that, I refuse to buy any gear atm. Even the second hand market is selling stuff for just under new prices. Im sorry, but your 3-4 year old beat up gear is NOT worth what you paid for it new lmao. Idc what anyone says.

It costs more now that guitars have been outsourced to Indonesia than they did when they were built in Korea and it’s a no brainer that people aren’t going to buy as many in that case

It's also guitar influencers that are to blame for the used guitar prices going up. I won't name the RUclipsrs but I think you might know who (To do with Gibson Guitars).

Totally agree, that's why I respect PRS for creating their SE line, Paul understands and is responding to the market.

Let's search a Kay tulip LOL

As a guitar maker i have more money invested in tools of accuracy than it costs china to make a cheap guitar lol

In my experience you can get good guitars manufactured in any country but the best or most consistently good ones are made in Japan maybe followed by made in USA (excluding Gibson). But I also got a flawless Squier made in China and I played good Ibanez guitars made in Indonesia.

I have to say. My Epiphone Lazarus had a 2 piece body, 2 piece top and one piece neck. Same wood combo as my Gibson minus the rosewood fretboard. Yes it has a veneer, but is still essentially the same. Had all the Gibson wiring and pickups too. Fine, fine guitar for the money at the time.

Yeah they have to come down… it got inflated during covid, production went way over the top and the boom has dropped… they need to level out pricing a good bit.

They will come down, or they will sell to a bigger company or shutdown. AI music making software is about to make the music industry have a rude awakening. That includes the makers of the instruments as well. It isn't just instrument makers either though. All art industries are about to be in real trouble. Every day AI is getting better and it is discouraging people from putting the time into learning a craft or an art when you can just put in a prompt and generate whatever you want. Obviously there are those of us who make things and pursue the arts as a hobby for self fulfillment and not to make money, myself included, but to ignore the shift is going to fuck these companies up.

The prices are high because you keep buying, look at tha wall full of guitars.

In this video, Phil is addressing matching with listed specifications. In my experience I look more for build quality & playability. Can a cheap guitar at least be set up to be playable. I've found China-made guitars to be most consistently flawed, from super inexpensive to around $800. MIK guitars from reputable brands (Squier, Epiphone, PRSSE, Schecter, LTD); Mexico Fenders; &, at the very top, Warmoth are my top choices for hotrodding/customization while keeping quality high & price moderate. I think it's a tragedy that people are wasting money on MIC lookalikes.

To answer your thumbnail question. I suspect at least in part they are anticipating a migration from games to music. Since the vast majority of games to release in the past 10+ years have been unable to provide joy, entertaiment, a decent challenge, reward players for their achievements, or a sense of accomplishment to their customers. What passes for games now are just designed to extract as much cash from their customers as quickly as possible before pulling the rug and leaving with both their money and their game when they suddenly decide to shut down the servers and refuse to offer refunds. If this sounds like a scam, it's because it is, but these customers recieve zero protections. Meanwhile a guitar can meet all of those expectations, and a decent one will cost you roughly the price of a console, strings can be bought in bulk (10 sets) for about the price of 1 game, a pack of picks only cost anywhere from 3-9 bucks for a set of about 6. Plus it has never been cheaper or easier to play with digital effects or record/share with friends to collaborate.

I am the king of cheap guitars, I have a Mexicaster and 2 Squires,and a Epiphone, And I don't think my audience can tell the difference between what I got than a 2000 strat. 'BUT if my fortunes change, then I will go crazy and spend the 4 to 8 grand on the brand new name brand stuff.

The world is a way better place with Kings X.

The epiphone firebird does absolutely not need to change price I’ll tell ya what

I don't need 30 guitars either. So I've got 36 .............We can't have too many guitars, obviously

I only buy used. But used prices are getting so bad ill have to stop that soon aswell

There might be enough/too many guitars in the world? Play it til you break it!

Just wait for the economy to collapse within the year. It will be a buyers market 😮 for sure. Bidenomics is about to crash… 💥

One acoustic one electric is all you need. I get collecting though because I’m not even good at playing but just love the way guitars look. But the prices are insane. I could buy a nice car for the price of a Les Paul

I wish reviewers were less comical with their product reviews. This is a serious issue, people are being totally ripped off and these manufacturers need to be held accountable by dealers, guitar centers atc. Boycotting works. MAGA!!!

The Theodore is one really ugly guitar in my opinion.

HUNDREDS not 100s 🙄👍

They have basically stopped making amps. They have had amps back ordered for months. They are saying it could be October or November before they have new amps.

How many guitars do I need? Just 1 more.

Keep in mind, the American companies getting these guitars made in China, know and are happy with how they’re building them. Eastman is by far the best Chinese Acoustic builder.

Bought a bass 2021 for 1168€ and sold 2 years later for 1100€, perfect condition of course, but yep.

Almost as ugly as headless guitars. 🤮

You have to promote overseas guitars because it yields more views since your main audience is broke.

That guitar is fugly

Imagine fighting over the way a piece of wood is cut. Imagine fighting for the exclusive right to cut a piece of wood in a specific way. Imagine stepping on people you could have collaborated with just to have access to a different shape to cut wood in. Guitars are so stupid that normal people no idea.

And I told Vince and dime""DONT GO PLAY NO CLUBS!"

2400 for a new Gibson Les Paul? Epiphones for 1000+?! BEGGING to take a loss when you sell them on. Especially the Epis. I have seen a funny consequence of these insanely priced special run Epis (on the Irish 2nd hand market at least) that guys are trying to sell 2nd hand guitars in line with these price hikes. Old Korean Sheratons are on buy and sell sites for 850 up to a K. They never commanded that kind of money, and honestly probably never will.

People fight over the ugliest things, that'd be like 2 studs fighting over 2 ton Tessie at the buffet. Aint no way!

Price of everything needs to change. Everything would be alot cheaper and easier if we stopped voting for democrats that steal and make our lives harder while the economy tanks daily

It will be interesting to see how a ton of hobbies settle back on prices. I mountain bike as well and they just went through a huge crash. I got over 50% off both my new bike and my wives. But I took a big hit on selling her old bike. The companies haven’t really eased all that much on new bike prices though so they might end up in a fire sale again. Just annoying as someone that did a lot of the Covid boom hobbies before Covid. A lot of these companies really put their loyal customers in a shitty spot and they might feel it for years. I have a whole lot less interest in buying new gear than I did before Covid just because of the price gouging and I’m sure it’s the same for a ton of people.

GIBSON could always rename it the Tulip, lol.

Tokai should be suing them both for ripping off the Talbo 😅

Some of us nerds just like to have a collection. I have 19 in my collection.......... and 20 more to sell.

It's an ugly guitar anyway, so who cares? The only people that will buy this guitar are people that don't really play guitar to begin with.

I can't believe PRS and Gibson are fighting over a 59' Danelectro body. LOL

I would not say it’s a completely waste but if you want a perfect intonation on a guitar go for Buzz Feiten tuning or even better True Temperament Tuning. The guitar strings are of different thickness and have different tension so it is impossible to get it perfectly in tuning all over the neck with straight frets. A cord that is perfect on the upper part of the neck will slightly be out of tune in the lower part of the neck. The two mentioned systems compensate for that. This is specially notable on complexed jazz cords.

When I saw the thumbnail pic and the "PRS and Gibson are fighting over this guitar" title, my thought was: fighting over what? Who gets to disown it the fastest? I think it's one one of the more uninspired and unattractive designs out there. YMMV

guitar prices needs to change says the guy who buys a guitar talks about and then sells it for profit because his platform drove up demand.

Eww. They can break it in half and keep it.

MAC-10's jam a lot. He should have had an HK MP5. Lol

Cool story, bro! Really, cool story...

Marketplace sellers are smoking crack.