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10-23-2009, 06:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Cochrane alberta | | | Being a broke teenager in small town albera sucks.
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Well i've been putting off new strings for close to 6 months, and last night broke my D and G string. so i went to *cough cough* phantoms music *cough couch* the only music store in town an decided to get my self some strings, i usually play elixirs but due to my general brokeness i decided that id get some Slinky's instead. Well a the music shop i realized something, $59.99 for regular slinky's, usually at this point i would have jumped in he man van and drove to L & M, where i can get the same stings for $29.99. But the man van was low on gas If i were to have filed it my trip would STILL have cost me less but i was in a hurry and needed o get going.
My question is Why he flying hell can a small shop charge so much?
Beer yet, how much would it cost o open a bass shop next door I'm really sick of this. 
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10-23-2009, 06:25 PM
|  | Running With Scissors since 1964 | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Michigan's U.P. | | | I know it is tough when you break a string and do not have spares. Or a backup bass.
But guess what? The internet is your friend. Lot's of places online that will be much cheaper than that local shop, even with shipping.
My advice? Since you may be going through a pack or two a year. In a few months, buy a set, affordably, before you have a problem again. then, when you do change your strings, buy another pack to replace the one you took.
An once of prevention goes along way in your wallet! Broke ass teen or not. A monkey could save 30 bucks in a few weeks...
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10-23-2009, 06:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Cochrane alberta | | | the issue isn't so much the cost, it was the fact that I needed them now. I had no were to go. the other issue is that i could not afford to change them, ideally id be changing every month. |
10-23-2009, 06:37 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: AZ mountains | | | Nice punctuation. Switch to flats, and change your strings every 8 to 10 years.
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10-23-2009, 06:39 PM
| | | | where are you in alberta, im in sherwood park |
10-23-2009, 06:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Cochrane alberta | | | Cochrane. |
10-23-2009, 07:23 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: New England | | So broke - can't afford the "T's" 
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10-23-2009, 08:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Cochrane alberta | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Honk'n_down-low  So broke - can't afford the "T's" | so broke i can't afford to replace the broken key board. |
10-23-2009, 08:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Fort Myers, FL | | Quote:
Originally Posted by snyderz Nice punctuation. Switch to flats, and change your strings every 8 to 10 years. | If that often
I have a great sounding sounding (and feeling) set from 1996 on my J bass. |
10-23-2009, 08:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec | | | 60$ for a set of Slinky's? That's downright outrageous. What does he sell those Barracuda basses for, 600$ ? |
10-23-2009, 09:14 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Canada | | | A 5-string set of Slinky's shoudn't run you over $40 (that's being conservative). My guess is that he's charging that much because he's the only place around. If he's not, he can't expect to sell much with prices like that.
I agree with ProfGumby: always buy one set in advance so you don't get stuck.
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10-23-2009, 09:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Cochrane alberta | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MagicMan_841 60$ for a set of Slinky's? That's downright outrageous. What does he sell those Barracuda basses for, 600$ ? | How does $400 sound for a squire affiniy jazz?
I have been in there about 4 times, once for a set of strings (too much so i walked away and went o my regular store) twice for pics pre jam and this time. They have lost my business forever. |
10-24-2009, 09:37 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Michigan | | | I just got a set of Labella Flats delivered to my house for less than $40. If the brick and mortar store won't price match...then order online.
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10-24-2009, 08:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: cincinnati | | | know this.. if you play elixir and love them, nothing else will do. i tried... i cant play anything but them. they cost 40 a pack at musiciansfriend and every other online dealer i know.
if you live that far out, id recommend keeping a spare pack around
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10-24-2009, 10:30 PM
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Originally Posted by DRN-PWNS the issue isn't so much the cost, it was the fact that I needed them now. I had no were to go. the other issue is that i could not afford to change them, ideally id be changing every month. | Actually you had someone nearby with something that did the job.
The price sucked (vaseline at least?) but you left with new strings.
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10-24-2009, 10:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: AZ | | | i always have a backup set at any given time. whenever i need to use those, that's when i get a new backup set. that way you can still put it off so you don't get ripped off by the local guy, but not put it off so long that you're SOL again.
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10-24-2009, 10:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brookfield, CT | | Sounds like you paid list price. Happens. Try these; decent quality, very much like D'Addario XL's. Dunno about shipping to Canada, but give 'em a call: http://www.webstrings.com/electric_b...it-nickel.html
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10-24-2009, 10:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Buda, TX. | | | Good thing you weren't looking for Thomasik Infeild flatwounds. At the inflation rate you mentioned, they would have cost you around $180! |
10-24-2009, 11:01 PM
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10-26-2009, 07:26 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: CO | | | I never throw strings away when I am done with them. I always have a set of spares with me. And many times they are the old strings. I have only had to use them once in a gigging situation. And when you have a broken string, the fact that the replacement is old is of very little concern. So you can stop the bleeding with your used back up set and then take a few days to track down an affortable replacement.
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