Anybody else noticing the prices creeping up?

vale · March 2017

jonnyburgo said:

I think they thought "oh-oh, these are flying out the door,maybe they're too cheap"

totally. or squier jazzmasters have entered the toblerone zone (affinty for vm) & vms being run down.

TCat · March 2017

I'm certain the retailers do have problems with exchange rates, but it doesn't help when they are so quick to exaggerate the issue so they can use it to fatten their margin aspirations. I should have got in sooner for my keeley workstation.............when I started looking, not that long ago, it was £239...................now its £299...........gutted !

Dave_Mc · March 2017

ToneControl said:

Dave_Mc said:

^ Yeah. If I didn't live here already I wouldn't pick it, kind of thing.

And yeah I strongly suspect that's true, it seems to be a lot more egalitarian here. We don't seem to really have an upper class like England does. I've not really been to any of the rougher bits in England but I sort of suspect that's true as well.

what great about NI is that someone with a basic factory job can (or could) build themselves a lovely massive bungalow in the sticks. The quality of life can be great. The house my wife's cousin built for £300k was amazing, would cost £3m+ anywhere similar near me in England

I wish people could just build one-off houses in fields in England, and spread people out more

Yeah but then you have to live out in the sticks. And it's also a ton of bother I think.

Also £300k still sounds very expensive to someone who remembers what prices were before the boom.

Plus even now you could buy a detached house in a town for maybe £150k. Maybe a little less.

ToneControl · March 2017

Dave_Mc said:

ToneControl said:

Dave_Mc said:

^ Yeah. If I didn't live here already I wouldn't pick it, kind of thing.

And yeah I strongly suspect that's true, it seems to be a lot more egalitarian here. We don't seem to really have an upper class like England does. I've not really been to any of the rougher bits in England but I sort of suspect that's true as well.

what great about NI is that someone with a basic factory job can (or could) build themselves a lovely massive bungalow in the sticks. The quality of life can be great. The house my wife's cousin built for £300k was amazing, would cost £3m+ anywhere similar near me in England

I wish people could just build one-off houses in fields in England, and spread people out more

Yeah but then you have to live out in the sticks. And it's also a ton of bother I think.

Also £300k still sounds very expensive to someone who remembers what prices were before the boom.

Plus even now you could buy a detached house in a town for maybe £150k. Maybe a little less.

the £300k house had 2 staircases, an external 2 storey granny annex the size of a semi
the living room was the size and height of a 3 bed detached house, and the corridor to the kitchen was the size of a large living room. The kitchen was so big, it was too far to walk to the central island from the cooker really, and the utility room was the size of a living room again. It's amazing what you can build if you can get planning permission, and have £300k cash, this was about 10 years ago btw, but build costs are not much different now

Dave_Mc · March 2017

Ah right yeah that's a lot bigger than I was talking about for £150k

I was talking more a standard 4-bedroom house with 2 living rooms.

That sounds pretty awesome

darthed1981 · March 2017

Has anyone tried one of the new Squier Bullet offsets?

They seem to be going for £120 which if they are even half-decent is staggering value?

vale · March 2017

darthed1981 said:

Has anyone tried one of the new Squier Bullet offsets?

They seem to be going for £120 which if they are even half-decent is staggering value?

http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/96052/ngd-squier-bullet-mustang#latest

darthed1981 · March 2017

vale said:

darthed1981 said:

Has anyone tried one of the new Squier Bullet offsets?

They seem to be going for £120 which if they are even half-decent is staggering value?

http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/96052/ngd-squier-bullet-mustang#latest

Still definitely bargains to be had out there then...

IvisonGuitars · March 2017

guitars4you said:

richardhomer said:

My local chippy has raised the price of a small portion of chips by 20p recently - a 13.3% increase!

Last time I was in, he told me he'd just ordered a Private Stock PRS - so at least he's supporting the guitar trade....

that sounds a bit fishy at 13.3% - I bet the increase on his new local business rates will batter his profits

Chip shop puns! Can't believe no one has curried on with these.

guitars4you · March 2017

miserneil said:

guitars4you said:

richardhomer said:

My local chippy has raised the price of a small portion of chips by 20p recently - a 13.3% increase!

Last time I was in, he told me he'd just ordered a Private Stock PRS - so at least he's supporting the guitar trade....

that sounds a bit fishy at 13.3% - I bet the increase on his new local business rates will batter his profits

Chip shop puns! Can't believe no one has curried on with these.

is this the right plaice for such puns

IvisonGuitars · March 2017

guitars4you said:

miserneil said:

guitars4you said:

richardhomer said:

My local chippy has raised the price of a small portion of chips by 20p recently - a 13.3% increase!

Last time I was in, he told me he'd just ordered a Private Stock PRS - so at least he's supporting the guitar trade....

that sounds a bit fishy at 13.3% - I bet the increase on his new local business rates will batter his profits

Chip shop puns! Can't believe no one has curried on with these.

is this the right plaice for such puns

Looks like some have Haddock-nough of them but i've got time to fritter away...

crunchman · March 2017

guitars4you said:

miserneil said:

guitars4you said:

richardhomer said:

My local chippy has raised the price of a small portion of chips by 20p recently - a 13.3% increase!

Last time I was in, he told me he'd just ordered a Private Stock PRS - so at least he's supporting the guitar trade....

that sounds a bit fishy at 13.3% - I bet the increase on his new local business rates will batter his profits

Chip shop puns! Can't believe no one has curried on with these.

is this the right plaice for such puns

Who LOLed this? It's less funny than Ricky Gervais.

UnclePsychosis · March 2017

crunchman said:

guitars4you said:

miserneil said:

guitars4you said:

richardhomer said:

My local chippy has raised the price of a small portion of chips by 20p recently - a 13.3% increase!

Last time I was in, he told me he'd just ordered a Private Stock PRS - so at least he's supporting the guitar trade....

that sounds a bit fishy at 13.3% - I bet the increase on his new local business rates will batter his profits

Chip shop puns! Can't believe no one has curried on with these.

is this the right plaice for such puns

Who LOLed this? It's less funny than Ricky Gervais.