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Considering that those words probably started their life in German, it seems funny how some things aren't lost in translation. Business BS. The universal language of those faking it in suits.

For one, I hope you are wrong about May, the last thing we want is a kickstart of yet another spike. It’s too early. (IMHO)

I wouldn’t be taking that bet. But we shall see.

Crumbs, I dont know about musicians, but ham sandwiches are currently having issues crossing boarders...

It's hilarious isn't it? Nothing to do with the effort of dealing with the great unwashed at all. As I say, ease of shifting boxes.

@Bart Funk Bassjust want to check - so what you are doing, is taking other people's content from videos of various artists, breaking it down into smaller chunks and posting on youtube, with the view of getting 1000 subscribers to you can start to monetise and gain money from other people's content?

Its a Japanese thing.

I suspect it won't be long until Musik Productiv UK returns as a registered UK company... unless they aren't bothered with the UK.

You need to be introduced to the Fiat Multipla

It's as though I had a magic crystal ball. https://community.musictribe.com/discussions/178490/309762/thomann-and-music-tribe-to-enter-super-partner-relationship

You need to up your chosen shop game. May I suggest a large international musical superstore... or Amazon? Plenty on there. (I jest) EDIT: I've just looked. Amazon aren't too hot on the Gibsons it would seem.

I wouldn't suggest anything of the sort.

It's already started. You wait until wedding bands are told they can perform again. Some very good pro bands will be pitching pub prices in order to get to play something. And as for the "international wedding bands" - yeah, keep on dreaming. Those days have gone. (Yet those are the bands that seem to be splashing out on putting out high production videos in lockdown, whilst not socially distancing, in order to flex over other bands to get gigs that don't even exist - and concurrently complaining about lack of money, gigs and support from the government (especially when they've wrapped up all their payouts in dividends)). Couldn't make it up could you?

Bax UK - Detailed Seller Information Business Name:Bax-shop.nl B.V. Business Type:Privately-owned business Trade Register Number:50943642 VAT Number:GB195900482 Phone number:00312036952176 Customer Services Address: Olympiastraat 2 Goes 4462GG NL Business Address: Olympiastraat 2 Goes 4462GG NL VAT registered but that's pretty much the only UK thing about it.

Funnily enough, I've just been onto Amazon to see whats happening regarding Fender - the first two I clicked on, happened to be Zoundhouse (Germany) and Bax UK (although if you look at the seller details, it discloses NL). There are UK sellers on there, Absolute, Fair Deal... but again, they are the larger organisations who are just using Amazon to widen their footprint. As a seller, Amazon is not a great platform as it's takes a lot of your markup - but you could argue, better to sell at less than not at all... but then we are on that downward spiral of diminishing profits to enable a living wage.

Indeed - and can a shop be seen to be credible if it doesn't stock Fender or Gibson? To the wet behind the ears noob, you walk into a shop and if those brands aren't present, it's automatically discounted as not being a good shop.

Additionally, tricks like what Music Tribe are up to (Behringer) is not going to be helping. Similar Fender. They are basically cutting the small independents out - again, as I say, it's all about shifting boxes now. All manufacturers and distributors want the goods out of their hands and accounting for in the books asap (who doesn't?). But then all the risk is at the end retailer. The ability to drop 50 boxes of goods to a retailer is infinitely more appealing to just dropping 1 or 2 to that small independent. If the UK music industry is to survive, the distributors really need to help those that are going to struggle. I suspect they won't... as it's an overhead. Ergo, the large music supermarkets will get bigger, the smaller establishments will go pop. I fear that we are now entering a circle of self destruction. I understand what @MoJoKe is saying - but that also assumes that people have spare pennies to spend. People won't - especially as times will start to get tougher and not aided by the pandemic. If they can save a quid off Amazon, they will. Funnily enough, I've seen this before - in car insurance. There used to be high streets full of brokers, who would get you the best deal. Eventually, the Internet came along and caused disruption. The same service could be offered in an automated fashion and cut out the brokers and the cost associated with the bricks and mortar front ends. Of course, what they didn't tell you, is that a lot of the larger operations, were deliberately operating at a loss to undercut the high street - as they knew they could put the vast majority out of business within 2 years. And that is what happened. Then they jacked up the commission prices to recover the losses.

Yup. The thing I find most frustrating about all of this is that the decisions made on this were driven by a decision by people who have not got a Scooby Doo on how any of this works - as proven in this thread. Its easy to say "buy British" - but the the complex pieces of string that hold all this together are far from easy to work out. We will see the fall out from this for many years to come... Some people have got very rich from it though. So there is that. They'll be paying all the taxes on their new found wealth... oh no. That will be stashed off shore. But as you say, blue passports... for what they are worth at the moment. Killer form of ID down the post office though I guess.

Absolutely not. Just seems a bit random and just a load of Youtube vids with zero context as to why they have been posted.

"Amazon: It is no longer possible to access Amazon UK from the EU depriving UK sellers of a 440 million customer base in Europe. UK merchants will be unable to fulfill EU orders using Amazon’s logistics networks" Guess the UK vendors will just have to be limited to selling within the UK then.

What is this thread about? Some fan boy thread or something?

Hows that happened?

All goods that started their journey pre EU Exit crossed under the EU membership agreements. (Or should have)

That may be the front surround suspension. They can become noisy and sound raspy as they vibrate. You'll be able to locate the area by playing the note and running your finger around the edge of the speaker. If you can make it stop, its a problem with the main driver, not the tweeter. It's a sneaky fault as it does sound tweeterish.

Interesting reading that paints yet another picture - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-fish-trade-uk-eu-lorries-exports-b1784312.html?fbclid=IwAR1foEk_2jN1mHWdiRvjtABF1hAAWKA_9hpLryygFqC9qoirxNXCU6kPXtY