Strings are a lot cheaper than they used to be

[riker1384]

I was last regularly playing about 10 years ago an I was thinking of taking it up again. I remember a set of strings costing $30, sometimes $40 in the music stores. Now on Amazon I see lots of brand-name 4-string sets going for under $20. People call Elixirs "expensive", but I see them at $34 a set. Has the competition from online sellers pushed the prices way down? Are they that cheap in stores these days, as well?

[JimiLL]

Slinkeys are 30% more when I started playing again last fall, from about 8 years ago.

[blubolt]

Probably overseas manufacturing is what brought prices down on the strings you are looking at. Elixirs are my brand of choice and I think it is money well spent.

[Fred19137]

it is all supply and demand! Slinkys-at least around the north bay are becoming more popular I have seen a lot of players with them. While elixers are for the standard player. The more groovey-out-there-alien name and package look the more demand there is for it.

[Low Tone]

Webstrings.com has gone up. They used to be $10 a set and now they're $12.99.

[Jazz Ad]

Everything got cheaper.
Beginner basses for 100 bucks? When I started playing you have to spend 200-250 for something way crappier than an SX.
Amps, pedals, cables, strings, everything is more affordable with higher quality.

[riker1384]

Originally Posted by Jazz Ad

Everything got cheaper.
Beginner basses for 100 bucks? When I started playing you have to spend 200-250 for something way crappier than an SX.
Amps, pedals, cables, strings, everything is more affordable with higher quality.

Yet Fenders have apparently gone way up. My first amp was a Hartke Kickback, and it seems to be selling for around the same price as it was back then.