Marvin Posted January 4, 2011 Posted January 4, 2011 Anyone else noticed some prices have rocketed. I've got a Fender Rumble 350 on its way to me. Before Christmas a lot of the well known online retailers were selling these weighty rocks for about £350. Now they're going for between £410 and £470ish. I've also noticed some of the Squier range of basses have seen a good £30 increase in price at some retailers. Just blimey! You may also notice that I don't look at expensive gear Quote
ShergoldSnickers Posted January 4, 2011 Posted January 4, 2011 [quote name='Marvin' post='1077183' date='Jan 4 2011, 12:11 PM']Anyone else noticed some prices have rocketed. I've got a Fender Rumble 350 on its way to me. Before Christmas a lot of the well known online retailers were selling these weighty rocks for about £350. Now they're going for between £410 and £470ish. I've also noticed some of the Squier range of basses have seen a good £30 increase in price at some retailers. Just blimey! You may also notice that I don't look at expensive gear [/quote] That's most of the battle. Not looking at it. Heard good things about the Rumble - let us know what it's like. Quote
Marvin Posted January 4, 2011 Author Posted January 4, 2011 [quote name='ShergoldSnickers' post='1077188' date='Jan 4 2011, 12:17 PM']That's most of the battle. Not looking at it. [/quote] It's a terrible affliction [quote name='ShergoldSnickers' post='1077188' date='Jan 4 2011, 12:17 PM']Heard good things about the Rumble - let us know what it's like. [/quote] It'll be here on Friday (hopefully), I'll see if it makes the neighbourhood Rumble Quote
Jean-Luc Pickguard Posted January 4, 2011 Posted January 4, 2011 & Everything seems to have gone up overnight by about 2.5% Quote
flyfisher Posted January 4, 2011 Posted January 4, 2011 There's a lot of price changes going on at the moment - fuel duty, VAT increase, Christmas, sales, end-of-sales. I suspect all this price movement creates some general confusion in people's minds and some retailers just use it as an excuse to hike prices. Some will get away with it, some won't. Quote
WalMan Posted January 4, 2011 Posted January 4, 2011 [quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='1077222' date='Jan 4 2011, 12:51 PM']& Everything seems to have gone up overnight by about 2.5%[/quote] Always a good excuse to round up / add a bit more in the change Quote
Marvin Posted January 4, 2011 Author Posted January 4, 2011 [quote name='WalMan' post='1077232' date='Jan 4 2011, 12:57 PM']Always a good excuse to round up / add a bit more in the change [/quote] They've been adding a bit more than the increase in VAT. The stuff I was looking at would have increased maybe no more than £5 to £15, but has increased £50+. I know that January generally brings an increase in prices across the board (I got hit one year with building materials for an extension I was building) but, just but Perhaps there will be some heavy discounting in the coming months? Or is that me being cynical? Quote
SS73 Posted January 4, 2011 Posted January 4, 2011 A new price increase from Fender has added to the melee, if this year isn't going to bad enough already. Watch this thread through the year for more unbelievable hikes. Quote
Alex-Wright Posted January 5, 2011 Posted January 5, 2011 Tell me about it! Had my eye on a nice Fender 70s Reissue Jass Bass (mexican). Have been saving up for a while now, and was about 70 quid off the online prices of around £520. Looked at them again yetserday, and they're all around £612! I'm pretty sure most retailers were selling the Geddy Lee one for around £700 not too long ago, which is now at nearly £900 in the space of a few days! Ah well, shouldn't complain to the good people at basschat - I just wanted to let off some steam about it! Alex. Quote
karlfer Posted January 5, 2011 Posted January 5, 2011 So get your musical goodies from Basschat Karl. Quote
xgsjx Posted January 5, 2011 Posted January 5, 2011 Fuel prices and VAT going up have affected transporting goods, thus putting the prices of most goods up by considerably more than 2.5%. Greed is the other major factor that I can think of. Quote
Gareth Hughes Posted January 5, 2011 Posted January 5, 2011 [quote name='Johnston' post='1078396' date='Jan 5 2011, 11:23 AM']I was reading somewhere yesterday that they reckon the VAT increase will be used as an excuse to put things up by around 8% .[/quote] Fully expect that. I was living in Dublin when the currency changed from Irish Punt to the Euro. Everything was rounded up way past what it should have been, with the excuse that there would be too much confusion and hassle if prices ended in 58c, 23c, etc instead of 99c. Quote
spinynorman Posted January 5, 2011 Posted January 5, 2011 There seem to be more inflated expectations of used prices on eBay too. Unexceptional Japcrap with a BIN approaching £500 being the worst of many examples. Quote
bartelby Posted January 5, 2011 Posted January 5, 2011 (edited) The Squier bass I was looking went up £50 before the VAT hike! I'll look for a used one... ... Anyone thinking of parting with their blue 50s classic vibe precision in a few months? EDIT: oh and Diesel on Monday 126.9p, now 136.9p Edited January 5, 2011 by bartelby Quote
Prime_BASS Posted January 5, 2011 Posted January 5, 2011 Our company's prices decreased end of August due to bad sales figures, then after a period of increased sales prices gone up an average of £2 on each meal on the menu. Now cause of the VAT increase they are set to go up again soon. Especially as we are now going from a 2for£10 pub to Fayre and sqaure. Quote
Metalmoore Posted January 5, 2011 Posted January 5, 2011 I was going to buy a VMJ from GAK (Hoping that the wood looked nice) when i get paid at the end of this month but since last week the VMJ has went from around 220 to 306 quid. Think i will be keeping my eyes peeled around here more often... Quote
Rich Posted January 5, 2011 Posted January 5, 2011 [quote name='bartelby' post='1078471' date='Jan 5 2011, 12:34 PM']EDIT: oh and Diesel on Monday 126.9p, now 136.9p [/quote] That'd be partly down to the fuel duty hike too. Daylight bastid robbery. And my weekly rail season has gone up by nearly 7%. Quote
bartelby Posted January 5, 2011 Posted January 5, 2011 [quote name='Johnston' post='1078526' date='Jan 5 2011, 01:21 PM']How much are they now?? I was quoted £330 locally last Easter [/quote] Before christmas you could got one for £259 from Digital Village, now £319! Quote
Soliloquy Posted January 5, 2011 Posted January 5, 2011 Save your money for a bit. They'll soon drop their prices when no one's buying the stuff. Quote
niceguyhomer Posted January 5, 2011 Posted January 5, 2011 [quote name='Soliloquy' post='1078536' date='Jan 5 2011, 01:36 PM']Save your money for a bit. They'll soon drop their prices when no one's buying the stuff.[/quote] Exactly Quote
Mlucas Posted January 5, 2011 Posted January 5, 2011 Yeah this is a bad problem for us people, music sales are down, with many record shops such as HMV shutting stores, thus creating a lesser demand for instruments, not helped by the VAT increase either! Quote
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