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Double Bass Are they serious

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#9
"Originally Posted by zeytoun View Post
It's a $650 bow, with a $4,350 frog."

You're probably right. But what can their marketing/business model thinking possibly be on these bows. You say Glasser to most people and, rightly or wrongly, they think $79 school bows. I just don't see who they expect would take a bow of theirs seriously, even if it beat the pants off of the high end cf bows (like Arcus) or great would bows like Bill Halsey, Sue Lipkins etc. I just don't get what they were smoking.

Louis
 
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LouisF said:
"Originally Posted by zeytoun View Post
It's a $650 bow, with a $4,350 frog."

You're probably right. But what can their marketing/business model thinking possibly be on these bows. You say Glasser to most people and, rightly or wrongly, they think $79 school bows. I just don't see who they expect would take a bow of theirs seriously, even if it beat the pants off of the high end cf bows (like Arcus) or great would bows like Bill Halsey, Sue Lipkins etc. I just don't get what they were smoking.

Louis
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Probably unicorn hair.
 
#12
You guys have a right to your views, of course, but you might want to note that:

a) many people have 5K to spend on a bow and don't think that's an excessive amount of money;

b) the Glasser company is doing very, very well, has been in business for a very, very long time, are not fools, and would not design a product which did not sell;

c) unless you've actually played with this bow, you might want to reserve judgment until you do.

Just my .02
 
#14
"a) many people have 5K to spend on a bow and don't think that's an excessive amount of money;

b) the Glasser company is doing very, very well, has been in business for a very, very long time, are not fools, and would not design a product which did not sell;

c) unless you've actually played with this bow, you might want to reserve judgment until you do."

All true... but...

a) $5K is not "excessive" but as Arcus has found out the hard way, most people are VERY hesitant to spend any more than 1/2 that on a cf bow... and the market price point for cf bows (Karrbow, Gage, Lucchi, etc) seems to peak at @$1K -$1.5, especially with good (Finale) and ok (Yita etc) cf bows available for a third of the price;

a1) I've tried several $4K and $5K bows (Lucchi, Halsey, etc) and "settled" for some in the $2k -$3K range (Prochownik, Marco Pasquino, Milan Oubrecht) that were every bit as good, if not better.

It seemed to me (which is why I was so stunned in the first place) that the "extra" two or three grand was a factor of the maker's name, marketability, hand-crafted quality, and, especially, resale/retained value.

Even if the bow was stunning on a Lipkins/Rubino etc level, I can't see it holding its value; so I have to say that marketing strategy escapes me, unless (as when VW did its Phaeton etc) the point is to say, "wow - Glasser makes a $5K bow!" and get people talking about (but ultimately not buying) the product;

b) the Glasser company has been doing well for a long time based on student level bows and, more recently, improved cf bows in the under $500.00 (I had one of their "braided" cf bows for a while and it was quite good, actually); again my only point was not to question the quality of the bow as much as to ask what were they thinking in their strategy.

Louis
 
#15
Well, of course you have a right to your views, but are you privy to the sales figures from Glasser on this bow? IIRC, they've been offering this bow for a long time, at least 10 years (?). So it strikes me that, if they never sold any, they would have stopped production quite some time ago.

It's a much larger world than most of us perceive, with a much bigger market.
 
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scsigurl2010 said:
Well, of course you have a right to your views, but are you privy to the sales figures from Glasser on this bow? IIRC, they've been offering this bow for a long time, at least 10 years (?). So it strikes me that, if they never sold any, they would have stopped production quite some time ago.

It's a much larger world than most of us perceive, with a much bigger market.
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you're right, you can't judge a book by its cover so to speak, but when there's carbon bows like Invalid Link Removed out there for only 64.99, it's hard to justify 5K.
 

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