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Originally Posted by LouisF  Somebody in the thread said: "hard sell at this price" - what's interesting is the what the price points are on this bass. All things being equal (like the sound of the thing!) if one were to see it in a US shop for $3-3,500 US (about $5K Ozzie), one might be tempted to try it, but at twice that price, it has be a remarkably great sounding bass to overcome its quirky design.
I think somebody got a Nobel Prize in economics for this (seriously): the theory that at $5.99 a "good" bottle of wine is one that tastes surprisingly good for the money, and it flies of the shelves. Try and sell the same wine for $10.99 and it goes nowhere. Go figure.
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Maybe the wine would sell just fine at $8.99. At $5.99, it's a great deal. Taking into account the spread in the prices on the wine and the bass (big difference when you double the price), it doesn't seem so unreasonable. That is, a bass I might consider a really good deal at $3-3500 may not be desirable at all at $6-7000. That would be true, for example, if I considered it's "market value" to be around $5000. Great deal at $3500, no way at $7000. You know how it is-- people don't want to pay even a little bit over what they consider the "right price."
