The future is near, the Netflix of Guitars!

thisSNsucks · #1 12-09-2009, 06:25 PM

DISCLAIMER: I AM IN NO WAY AFFILIATED WITH THIS COMPANY!

A friend sent me this pretty cool article:
http://www.inc.com/magazine/20091001...ewsletter_News

About this company:
http://www.guitaraffair.com/index.php

Basically you sign up with this company, and provided you pass the backround and credit check, you can rent high end guitars (no basses yet from what I can see) for specific periods of time.

Pretty cool idea if you ask me. There's definatly a few hard/impossible to find basses out there that I wouldn't mind renting for a bit to see if I like them or not.

This would be a very GAS inducing business IMO

Discuss...

totallyfrozen · #2 12-09-2009, 06:44 PM

WILD! I'll be interested to see how this turns out.

JohnMCA72 · #3 12-10-2009, 10:02 AM

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Originally Posted by thisSNsucks

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Basically you sign up with this company, and provided you pass the backround and credit check, you can rent high end guitars (no basses yet from what I can see) for specific periods of time.
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Well, that's going to eliminate most musicians!

JM

jaywa · #4 12-10-2009, 11:57 AM

That would be awesome. Try before you buy, and/or get your hands on specific basses for specific gigs or recording sessions, without investing in a whole stable of axes.

Kinda have a feeling the company's not gonna make it, though. If the model worked, you'd think someone would have been doing it by now.

ksandvik · #5 12-10-2009, 11:59 AM

I'm sure those vintage guitars will become even more vintage pretty quickly!

jaywa · #6 12-10-2009, 12:02 PM

Yeah... I bet there will be some hefty deposits required.

thisSNsucks · #7 12-10-2009, 12:13 PM

Well it does seem that this kind of business will cater more towards the higher end guitars which in turn a higher end client.

It would be great for all those session guys, or for the hobbyist/collectors out there.

jaywa · #8 12-10-2009, 12:18 PM

Well with UPS, FedEx etc. raising their rates at the drop of a hat... shipping these axes back and forth is going to get pretty spendy.

nutso42 · #9 12-10-2009, 01:22 PM

They stole my idea!!

Ah well, I guess they can keep a portion of the profits. As long as they remember my royalties!!

nutso42 · #10 12-10-2009, 01:24 PM

Hmmm..... $125 a week. For a $2,500 guitar. Maybe (like Netflix) I can pay them the $12.99 a month and they just send me Epiphones and Squiers??