Re: Price increases coming soon or already here
Originally Posted by
Mandobar
It's lack of inventory and enormous demand coupled together. I had a dealer ask me politely not to pay in cash. He wanted trades. I had to laugh out loud at that one, but it is now not the first time a retailer has made that request, and it's not going to be the last either.
When I worked for Eldon Stutzman back in the Cretaceous Period (actually, early 1970's), he wouldn't sell anyone -- me included -- a Gibson mandolin unless the customer had a Gibson mandolin to trade in. Luckily, I had the 'teens A-1 I found in my grandfather's attic, so I was able to buy an F-2, then later trade the F-2 in on at F-5. Just weren't any new Gibsons around, and those that were -- well, this was just pre-F-5L, so quality was sketchy.
As for "enormous demand," I guess that's when three people want the same Northfield. We're talking mandolins here, right? Dealers with "huge inventories" have, say, a couple dozen. Dealers with huge guitar inventories have a couple hundred.
Allen Hopkins
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