SteveStrummerUK

Dear Wibbs Are you playing with yourself again? Sincerely etc Strummy

Nice ...

Bapu: "Hold my beer"

Didn't Shure used to do something similar to this? I'm certain I remember reading somewhere that they set a minimum retail price for their more popular products, and that was the reason e.g. that you never saw a brand new SM57 on sale. I think the article explained that Shure were once so plagued by the massive flood of SM57 counterfeits coming from the far east that the price of a genuine microphone was made non-discountable so the buyer should then know that if he was buying 'new' at less than this price he would most likely be buying a fake. Makes sense I suppose. On a broader level, it may or may not be true but it always seems to me anyway that a lot of The UK's bigger/well known music stores (Andertons, GAK, GuitarGuitar, DV247 etc) have some sort of 'joint' pricing policy. At least I've noticed it a lot on USA-made imported guitars/basses - especially so on the newest versions of particular ranges. It seems to relax as newer models hit the ranges, and then prices begin to vary. I know from experience when I bought my US Strat and US Tele because I'd been researching prices for ages before taking the plunge, and the price of each model on virtually every website I checked was always identical. As it happens, I got 'lucky' on both, but the 'cost' of a much-cheaper retail price for a new guitar was to buy an older model. In both cases, I was looking to buy a US Standard model of each guitar - it was around the time a few years ago when Fender was upgrading their range and morphing the US Deluxe range into the Elite range (now Ultra); and I managed to do a deal with GuitarGuitar for a Deluxe HSS Strat for around the same price as new model Standard, and had a cracking result from GAK on my Deluxe Tele.

(Wibbs, prepare to be triggered ?)

Brillyant ^^^^^^^

Oi oi ...

Marvellous

What did he say? "Folder"? "Manchester"? "Bag"? "P***s"? Enquiring minds etc..

Coicidentally.... I took my fishing rod down the local pawnbroker earlier today. I was angling for a loan. ME - - - - - - - - - - > ME COAT

"IBTL" ~ CraigB

I don't get it.

How vulgar.