Author: dorjepismo ★2017
Date: 2017-06-20 17:12
Jthole,
Antitrust enforcement never made it as far as top-line musical instruments. It's been that way since I started playing in the '60s. We're the last to get new models, some just aren't available, and the prices are a lot higher--sort of like prescription drugs. There's an arcane system where, if you know where to go and say the right person sent you, the price drops substantially, but I believe there are distributer rules against advertising prices below set levels, so competition is artificially limited. It's sort of like gangster movies set in Chicago. It probably also has to do with the volume of sales. They can only make a limited number of the best instruments, and can adequately cover Europe and Japan a lot easier than the U.S.
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