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I have never bought a guitar from him but he gets great reviews and obviously cares very much .
Those who think that guitar shops are piss takers need to take a reality check on what gross profit business needs to survive
- I am surprised that the retailer credit terms are so hard ...very few retail business' would tolerate this .
My friend is CEO of a distributor that supplies numerous lines to a very well known supermarket chain- they demand 18 months credit !!............as he says .......every little hurts !
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/57632/
If you sell to a punter directly, you pocket what the punter is willing to pay directly. If you sell to a shop, the shop will have to make an allowance for both the cost of holding and selling your item, and the profit they expect to make from the item based on the amount of time it will spend in store, and the amount of space it takes up.
I guess there is a cross-over on trade-ins as there is obviously a chunk of margin in the retailer's price. However, the retailer will still have a guitar left over they need to sell/take up space or simply junk.
I guess the various dealers here could weigh in on what is "fair" but ultimately it isn't a sin to make a profit. Running a guitar store these days can't be an easy route to mega-riches.
Was - maybe still is - a problem with those London dealers who have several business trading from the same shop. The case I remember was the guy who left a Fender Twin with a Denmark St guitar shop, but didn't check the paperwork he got. He was later told the business had gone bust and his amp/proceeds with it.
Because the paperwork he had was for some similarly named percussion shop that the dealer ran as a Ltd company from the same address. Meanwhile the prestigious guitar shop carried on trading as normal, the staff didn't change, and the guy had no claim against for loss.
Damning all dealers is ridiculous. It's like denouncing all Ebay buyers or sellers as crooks if you get one bad transaction.
You will get less selling to a dealer than if you're online but you don't have any hassle afterwards. No couriers, no pickups with cash on collection that the buyer gets delayed on or gets cold feet.
This is basically a kind of bailment until the goods are sold surely? In which case the guitar should just be returned to whoever owns it, it isn't a resource belonging to the shop.
Not reading posts properly is ridiculous!
I think this thread is where it came up http://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/8869/tone-world-in-administration/p1
It's not just the Harrisons who give the music industry a bad rep. I suspect that many of these old timers are very astute at moving the funds, assets and obligations of the various businesses around (rent, licencing, staff cost allocation, etc) so that with a bit of careful planning, there's nothing left in the sacrificial company when it goes under.
I'm saying that old hands at the music dealer business know all of the phoenixing/etc tricks.
Until a couple of years ago I'd sold loads of guitars on eBay but all the horror stories on here have frightened me off.
I'd like to try selling some guitars on commission - no pissing about taking photos, writing ads and dealing with stupid questions from "buyers" - but since I live in a backwater (London) there don't seem to be any good dealers offering that service. I wish I lived closer to @guitars4you.