Ah Rosetti. Now that was a wild organisation.
We bought Les Paul standards for about £1160 ex vat one week, £1045 another...we’d jump on low cost prices, and a week later “buy 5 (at £1160) get one free” - absolutely mental.
So some places had paid £1160, some had paid £1045, some had paid £967.
All for the same guitar.
They’d also have back orders in for Rickenbacker stuff, 2 years or so.
They’d send them to us “by accident” and say “ah keep it, we’ll knock you 10% off trade” so we’d end up with a random 4003 bass some poor bugger elsewhere had paid for 6 months previous and they remained in the queue.
As a point - when Gibson took over their own distribution, all of this nonsense stopped. It was replaced by another brand of nonsense - £50k a month buy in.