Fender Price hikes are up!

[selowitch]

Oh well.
At least this makes the Mod Shop and Custom Shop look like a better value.

 

[primusfan1989]

Saying MIM instruments are junk is pretty unfair. And maybe even a bit on the racist side.

IDK if id go as far as saying its racist but its an ignorant comment at best.

 

[Shawn Luckman]

Plus side the high prices have smothered my GAS which isn't such a bad thing.

 

[makanudo]

IDK if id go as far as saying its racist but its an ignorant comment at best.

Considering MIM is made by Mexicans with asian hardware in Mexico and MIA is made by mexicans with asian hardware in the USS it's sort of funny to me.

 

[Dragan]

well, don't buy it. lots of people act as they must buy new instrument (while having 20 basses lying there in their cases)

 

[PBassin]

Glad I got my Geddy Lee Jazz when it was around $1,500...damn thing is $2,150 now!

 

[joel the bass player]

A Lakland Skyline 55-02D is over $1700 and doesn't come with a case. That is harder to swallow for me. Only looked it up as a comparison because it might be time to sell one.

Good thing I'm done buying stuff...




yeah right.

 

[trickyric]

From the last discussion, I learned that a thread on instrument pricing is a thread on politics. Not allowed, nothing to discuss…

I read that entire thread... I didn't see 1 political comment or veiled political comment.. weird

 

[matti777]

I'm looking for a new or used Fender MIM passive jazz right now so that I can install a new Audere that I have on order. My budget is $1k Cdn max. Stores have low or now stock. Local market is pretty thin too. I might have to learn to be happy with what I have.

 

[matti777]

I read that entire thread... I didn't see 1 political comment or veiled political comment.. weird

Just look at the other large thread on Fender price increases

 

[J_Bass]

Mexican junk

Mind your manners.

 

[Shawn Luckman]

Considering MIM is made by Mexicans with asian hardware in Mexico and MIA is made by mexicans with asian hardware in the USS it's sort of funny to me.

Irrespective of where it's made they are made by people who just, want to work and do their best to make a good product.

 

[trickyric]

Irrespective of where it's made they are made by people who just, want to work and do their best to make a good product.

MIM fenders have cheaper made hardware and electronics, different quality body wood and don't do the fret finishing the way they do with American made ones.. it's not the people, it's what product lines the company chooses to produce in those factories.
Ford makes amazing trucks in Mexico.. nobody is talking about the people or the country..

 

[Smooth_bass88]

I'm all set

 

[Shawn Luckman]

MIM fenders have cheaper made hardware and electronics, different quality body wood and don't do the fret finishing the way they do with American made ones.. it's not the people, it's what product lines the company chooses to produce in those factories.
Ford makes amazing trucks in Mexico.. nobody is talking about the people or the country..

Agree with the cheaper hardware & pickups there was a thread somewhere here on TB showing, pictures of the differences between the bodies & necks from MIM/MIA basses. And IIRC some necks or bodies were shipped from the American plant to the Mexican plant.

 

[blacktocomm]

Saying MIM instruments are junk is pretty unfair. And maybe even a bit on the racist side.

 

[ColdEye]

Insanity. Good thing this has completely ended my GAS. Have to think twice about selling what I have now.

 

[Eruso]

Now imagine having 30% to 50% annual inflation for decades and you will be welcome to Argentina ... in 2009 I bought my first car at 38,000 Argentine pesos, today it costs 2,500,000, the same car!

 

[trickyric]

Now imagine having 30% to 50% annual inflation for decades and you will be welcome to Argentina ... in 2009 I bought my first car at 38,000 Argentine pesos, today it costs 2,500,000, the same car!

that sucks

 

[flojob]

Saying MIM instruments are junk is pretty unfair. And maybe even a bit on the racist side.

Out of curiosity, what race is a bass guitar or a country?