New Fender dealer rules. - stolen from richardsguitars facebook (Sorry!)

Neil

Urban legend?

xSkarloey

Give them a break lads. At least they use a hand woven italian cashmere Eric Clapton Signature sock in a nice shade of grey.

GuitarZero

Neil said:

Urban legend?

Definitely sounds that way.  Though the way Fender and Gibson are known to pressurise their retailers, nothing would surprise me.

I'm subscribed to Richard's FB page and didn't see it.  I also can't see it now after going there directly.

fretfinder

Hence the old expression 'sock it to me' presumably?

imalone

Skarloey said:

Give them a break lads. At least they use a hand woven italian cashmere Eric Clapton Signature sock in a nice shade of grey.

They sold off some of his old ones a while back.

Rox

I'm off into my workshop to sharpen the pitchforks.

Who's got the flaming torches?

GuitarZero

They are burning brightly my friend...

Babones

'Matching headsock'

OilCityPickups

I owned a music shop for a good number of years, and absolutely nothing would surprise me about the arrogance and high handedness of both the major brand UK distributors like Fender, and the bloody awful major wholesalers/distributors like Stentor, JSH etc etc. 

DiscoStu

GuitarZero said:

Neil said:

Urban legend?

Definitely sounds that way.  Though the way Fender and Gibson are known to pressurise their retailers, nothing would surprise me.

I'm subscribed to Richard's FB page and didn't see it.  I also can't see it now after going there directly.

It's still there on his Richards Guitars Richards Guitars page.

Corvus

They need a sock to tell whether a Strat copy looks like a Strat? Me too. Luckily I usually have a couple with me.

GuitarZero

DiscoStu said:

GuitarZero said:

Neil said:

Urban legend?

Definitely sounds that way.  Though the way Fender and Gibson are known to pressurise their retailers, nothing would surprise me.

I'm subscribed to Richard's FB page and didn't see it.  I also can't see it now after going there directly.

It's still there on his Richards Guitars Richards Guitars page.

Very odd, I still can't see it.  Lots of reviews but can't see that post.

Chalky

If you take away the imaginative narrative detail of the figurative sock, i.e. the urban myth bit, then all you have left is that "Fender puts pressure on its dealers to cease selling its competitors products". Which is undoubtedly true

not_the_dj

GuitarZero said:

DiscoStu said:

GuitarZero said:

Neil said:

Urban legend?

Definitely sounds that way.  Though the way Fender and Gibson are known to pressurise their retailers, nothing would surprise me.

I'm subscribed to Richard's FB page and didn't see it.  I also can't see it now after going there directly.

It's still there on his Richards Guitars Richards Guitars page.

Very odd, I still can't see it.  Lots of reviews but can't see that post.

It's on the "Richard Guitars Richard Guitars" account not the "Richard Guitars - Guitar Specialist" account.

spacecadet

What would the legal implications be on this? Surely it's against some sort of competition rules.

streethawk

Spent 5 minutes scripting a meeting at Fender HQ only to realise I misread the OP.

GuitarZero

Well I believe it to be true.  I understand it was the reason that Richtone stopped selling Tokai and Edwards guitars.  They basically started selling Gibson's but had to drop the others to do that.

Handsome_Chris

I would feel like a total mug for believing this.

To me it sounds up there with "I bet you can't name a city that doesn't have the letter A in it?"

Philly_Q

GuitarZero said:

Well I believe it to be true.  I understand it was the reason that Richtone stopped selling Tokai and Edwards guitars.  They basically started selling Gibson's but had to drop the others to do that.

I didn't know they'd stopped!  Shows how observant I am.... 

GuitarZero

not_the_dj said:

GuitarZero said:

DiscoStu said:

GuitarZero said:

Neil said:

Urban legend?

Definitely sounds that way.  Though the way Fender and Gibson are known to pressurise their retailers, nothing would surprise me.

I'm subscribed to Richard's FB page and didn't see it.  I also can't see it now after going there directly.

It's still there on his Richards Guitars Richards Guitars page.

Very odd, I still can't see it.  Lots of reviews but can't see that post.

It's on the "Richard Guitars Richard Guitars" account not the "Richard Guitars - Guitar Specialist" account.

Thank you, that would be why then, I had no idea there were two sites