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  • MayneheadMaynehead Frets: 1782
    Jack_ said:
    I'll post my usual retort;

    "ESP Skull and Crossbones guitar that no one in their right mind would ever buy, was £995, now £975 - grab yourself a bargain!"
    Firstly, that IS a bloody bargain and secondly, you’d better call out the guys in white coats because I’d buy that right now even though I’ve already got one (or three).
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  • Modulus_AmpsModulus_Amps Frets: 2569
    tFB Trader
    Just got a letter from MBNA offering 0% interest for 39 months on a rather large credit facility, I wonder if this is the banks way of trying to boost buying before Christmas... Luckily I don't like PRS guitars and can build amps better than most retail offerings... but I do quite fancy a blue sky.....
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  • tampaxbootampaxboo Frets: 487
    edited November 2017
    Non-food sales for retail this year have been crap, I have a feeling retailers are going to go absolutely psychotic this year on Black Friday "deals week" as everyone calls it now.

    Amazon will no doubt discount some Gibsons, I wouldn't be surprised to see some things that are end-of-line going for great prices.
    my feeling is that it will be the death rattle for retail for a few years now (unless brexit is officially dumped), as interest rates start creeping up and all those buy-now-pay-forever deals come home to roost.
    people have been piling things on credit as a stop gap until things picked up.
    now it is becoming apparent things may get much worse, that debt is keeping a lot of people up at night. hammond one for sure.

    i suspect BF will be seen by many retailers as their last chance to shed anything that is not guaranteed bread and butter sales, before dust and rust gets to it.
    i am the hired assassin... the specialist. i introduce myself to you... i'm a sadist.
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  • darthed1981darthed1981 Frets: 11673
    Its an exciting time...Andertons usually knock off up to £25 off the high end prs and gibson guitars 
    Yeah but Lee does a funny video, easily worth another £25 ;)
    We have to be so very careful, what we believe in...
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  • darthed1981darthed1981 Frets: 11673
    tampaxboo said:
    Non-food sales for retail this year have been crap, I have a feeling retailers are going to go absolutely psychotic this year on Black Friday "deals week" as everyone calls it now.

    Amazon will no doubt discount some Gibsons, I wouldn't be surprised to see some things that are end-of-line going for great prices.
    my feeling is that it will be the death rattle for retail for a few years now (unless brexit is officially dumped), as interest rates start creeping up and all those buy-now-pay-forever deals come home to roost.
    people have been piling things on credit as a stop gap until things picked up.
    now it is becoming apparent things may get much worse, that debt is keeping a lot of people up at night. hammond one for sure.

    i suspect BF will be seen by many retailers as their last chance to shed anything that is not guaranteed bread and butter sales, before dust and rust gets to it.
    Sadly you are probably right.

    I wish the whole country had pulled over at a restaurant before the Brexit vote, because I like a nice meal before I get f**ked...
    We have to be so very careful, what we believe in...
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  • capo4th said:
    I have heard Guitar Guitar are doing a free guitar with any set of strings purchase....
    That sounds exceptionally generous....
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  • Jack_Jack_ Frets: 3175
    capo4th said:
    I have heard Guitar Guitar are doing a free guitar with any set of strings purchase....
    That sounds exceptionally generous....
    .07s to keep costs down though.
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  • I’ve always done quite well on Amazon for Black Fridays, it’s worth noting that as well as the previously mentioned Gibson’s a lot of the Epiphones get reduced as well. 

    Last year I picked up a Gibson Thunderbird Bass for £800 down from £2200. 

    The year before I picked up an Epi thunderbird Pro with the Gibson pups for £250 down from £400

    Year before that I got my Dad an Epi Dot studio for £110! (Amazing guitar for his 50th) and I picked up a Tom Delonge Epi for £200. 

    Saying that hat though if you know what your looking for deals can be had any time on Amazon. Just ordered a Dan Donegan schecter for under half the RRP
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  • DLMDLM Frets: 2513
    Perhaps unsurprisingly, a log of people painting the devil on the wall in this thread.



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  • uksaint7uksaint7 Frets: 308
    Being a relatively recent 'thing' over here I think guitar shops are a bit better prepared this year than on previous years. I know that at least one major guitar store have some genuinely great guitar deals coming for Black Friday.
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  • capo4thcapo4th Frets: 4437
    uksaint7 said:
    Being a relatively recent 'thing' over here I think guitar shops are a bit better prepared this year than on previous years. I know that at least one major guitar store have some genuinely great guitar deals coming for Black Friday.
    Wicked I can’t wait.
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  • mbe said:y
    Amazon had plenty of Digitech Polara reverb pedals last year for £80.

    I picked one up thanks to seeing a heads-up on here. They also had a limited number of the Obscura delay pedals for £80, but they were first offered to Prime customers and none were left after they went on general sale.
    There were some left as they ran the promo 3 or 4 times. I got both, but don't have prime. The year before I got a les paul junior foe £280, now that was a bargain.
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  • SNAKEBITESNAKEBITE Frets: 1075

    I think it can be a good time if you are open minded.

    By this I mean you have a bit of spare cash and are looking for something "nice". You can just lok at the offers until something grabs your attention.

    The down side ide is if you are after a specific item you can be swayed to get something that is not exactly what you wanted, but is cheap.

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  • FYI Amazon have a few ongoing deals with some Digitech pedals such as the Ventura Vibe which I've backordered purely for a decent rotary setting.
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  • DOD Boneshaker £85 ish.
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  • mortmort Frets: 718
    FYI Amazon have a few ongoing deals with some Digitech pedals such as the Ventura Vibe which I've backordered purely for a decent rotary setting.

    Amazon are just price-matching Thomann on the Ventura Vibe.
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  • mbembe Frets: 1840
    Even the scammers are jumping on the BF bandwagon.  Saw an ad on FB for studio gear going cheap for Black Friday. Same lot as Ibanezmall with registered address as per Dawsons in Warrington.
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  • I've only been back playing guitar since the start of this year, so have never seen what 'Black Friday' is like with music gear retailers.

    In previous years have the major gear retailers (GG, PMT, Andertons) taken part in the Black Friday frenzy that other retail sectors do? And if so, is there ever much decent stuff available or is it mostly just trying to shift a bunch of naff, unwanted stock that they couldn't sell anywhere near RRP?

    Still mulling over options for buying a new amp, but wondering whether I should hold out for a couple of weeks and see if I can grab a bargain...  s
    Ive been working on Reverb's all week and its looking very good......
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  • jpfampsjpfamps Frets: 2723


    The main issue for MI retailers is that margins on most gear are pretty slim as it is, especially when compared with other industries, eg fashion, so Black Friday is not particularly welcome many smaller retailers, especially as they have to compete on price with the usual suspects online.

    It seems to be that people are holding off buying gear at the moment in hope of getting some Black Friday bargains, maybe not even a guitar, but other consumer items.

    As ever these "innovations" very much favour the larger operations at the expense of smaller retailers.
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  • Moe_ZambeekMoe_Zambeek Frets: 3419
    edited November 2017
    I've only been back playing guitar since the start of this year, so have never seen what 'Black Friday' is like with music gear retailers.

    In previous years have the major gear retailers (GG, PMT, Andertons) taken part in the Black Friday frenzy that other retail sectors do? And if so, is there ever much decent stuff available or is it mostly just trying to shift a bunch of naff, unwanted stock that they couldn't sell anywhere near RRP?

    Still mulling over options for buying a new amp, but wondering whether I should hold out for a couple of weeks and see if I can grab a bargain...  s
    Ive been working on Reverb's all week and its looking very good......
    Dang it, just bought a pedal from DISCO @iain.reverb !
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