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As I said I thought it was a parody of moral panic “news” rather than a something to be taken seriously.

Nope sorry just a flippant comment. I don’t watch Fox News. I just presumed it was a parody rather than a real news story.

Same here but Im just a prole that’s getting poorer.

Probably because the likes of you and me don’t have 20K of surplus income sat gathering dust in a bank account or bedside cabinet knowing that it’s losing purchasing power every month it sits there. Vintage investments and crypto may just collapse in value. Cash is definitely doing so.

I don’t think for a minute that they will prop up the price of vintage Fenders Every asset is in a bubble. It’s either all going to burst (starting with things like vintage instruments) or there’s going to be a tsunami of liquidity to keep it all afloat that will devalue the value of currency and pump the price of all assets. Anyhow wrong thread for this. Personally if I had the spare cash I would like a vintage Fender Precision. I would put it in my Man Cave garage next to my vintage car collection.

Fans of Fox News must be Psychotic!

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Absolutely. It’s always great when the next generation get into music that you love. My kids are really into reggae and have started introducing me to new artists. Here’s something a little different that my teenage son has been playing recently:

The price of vintage instruments has diverged hugely from the earning power of your average person. Logically it should correct but the economic system appears to have also diverted from all logic over the last few decades. Instead of big recessions we have seen epic borrowing at unprecedented levels in peacetime. Whilst most of us are getting poorer for every £1 we owe someone else has that £1 plus interest. There is a lot of money sloshing around still looking for assets and investments. Central banks and governments are just itching to rinse and repeat so I would not bet on prices going down. They might if a recession is allowed to let rip, but until then I will look at a vintage Fender bass priced at £10K plus and think that’s crazy in the same way I look at a 500K+ average home in a leafy suburb and think that’s crazy but they still appear to attract buyers.

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It would be easier if FB Marketplace place just renamed itself FB Scams, Lies and Tosspots.

My favourite bass. It never asked for anything but was never as extroverted or flamboyant as my Clownfish. Now that could really party and win over a crowd. Nilo share the drugs.

Just my tupence worth. Pretty much every large company is in a race to the bottom in terms of customer service. Whether they appear on these pages is probably more due to people falling foul of whatever workflow or process they use to extract cash and provide the most basic service they can get away with.

If you are working off massive generalisation then the UK is just about XFactor tosh and insipid Beatles rehash bands.

Take a trip to places like Seattle, Nashville, Portland or Brooklyn. You might revise your opinion.

The USA is such a huge and diverse place that there is a market for a very diverse range of music. Pretty much every new artist that grabs my attention is from the USA and this is across a wide spectrum of genres. I found on every visit I make to the USA that my preconceptions are proven wrong. I would totally disagree with the macho/conformist argument. Mainstream fodder is invariably rubbish whatever continent you live in.

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Seems appropriate:

Nope, just another hurdle that companies like Thomann have to overcome. Brexit is frequently mentioned but is just one factor at play.

But I would hazard guess that the majority of the goods it sells originate in the Far East and ship via Suez are the Red Sea. Supply chains are so vulnerable to disruption now. Covid and more recently geopolitical factors are causing chaos with these businesses models.

I have found that the quality of goods and services has steadily declined in proportion to their price. Time for a rethink.

Who knows. Maybe globalisation is reversing and people will need to get used to buying fewer (and in many cases better quality) things? Edit: How Harley Benton continues with such rock bottom prices is a mystery. I guess no licensing deals, little in the way of bricks and mortar for sale and distribution and some very slick workflows to allow volume sales at low margins. Even so.