Fender Price increase overnight

[MMiller28]

Not sure if anyone needs to look around but prices are going up for everything, everywhere.

I just ordered a bass from a two man shop and they said they're raising prices 15-20%.

 

[defdog99]

fyi: this is the 3rd price increase in < 12 months. The laast one was in july before the wood and supply chain/port stuff. Surprised some models only went up $10 or $50.

We are at the point that mysynchrony needs to up the minimum financing from 6 months to 12 months for all stores -- even used.

 

[chadds]

You could stop buying stuff. I realize that’s against the TB guidelines. “You must have GAS” is an edict.

 

[Tim Schnautz]

Nothing new from fender excites me anymore. If anything else, I'd take that money and look for something different or used

 

[jd56hawk]

fyi: this is the 3rd price increase in < 12 months. The laast one was in july before the wood and supply chain/port stuff. Surprised some models only went up $10 or $50.

We are at the point that mysynchrony needs to up the minimum financing from 6 months to 12 months for all stores -- even used.

Now, that you mention it, I remember them going up in July.

 

[Neil Folkard]

How many people commenting on this thread actually have experience working for a manufacturing company, working directly with manufacturing costs, and in this current economic situation? I bet a lot of people are just upset but really have no idea what some manufacturing companies are doing right now to keep people employed and with health insurance. I know we are struggling with the cost inputs and at the same time we want to take care of our people. It’s a struggle without passing the increases on, especially right now. I’ve seen some components double in price, some increase by 500% in a matter of weeks. It’s really hard to plan for that kind of increase. But most people will just complain instead of try to offer a solution, it is a shame.

This. For one thing, the price of wood went up exponentially for awhile. It's a miracle that prices haven't gone up even further.

 

[kbob]

I just did a little Google search and can't find anything in particular that marks December of 2013 as a historical event. Nothing in economics pops up. Care to explain?

On December 23, 1913, Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act. Took the US off the gold standard. Maybe that's what our enigmatic friend is talking about.

 

[littlebun]

In the 60s a Fender factory worker could afford to buy a single family home in fullerton ca.

My daughter, who just graduated college and landed her first job, is making 45k a year. She has to have a roommate because the rent is so high in So Cal. We had it so much better than the young people of today. Two weeks of her pay won't pay the rent for a one bedroom.

 

[defdog99]

Live in a cool city and pay a cool price. Live in the middle of the USA where its -10 degrees and life is so boring that you follow guitar prices. lol.

 

[StayLow]

How many people commenting on this thread actually have experience working for a manufacturing company, working directly with manufacturing costs, and in this current economic situation? I bet a lot of people are just upset but really have no idea what some manufacturing companies are doing right now to keep people employed and with health insurance. I know we are struggling with the cost inputs and at the same time we want to take care of our people. It’s a struggle without passing the increases on, especially right now. I’ve seen some components double in price, some increase by 500% in a matter of weeks. It’s really hard to plan for that kind of increase. But most people will just complain instead of try to offer a solution, it is a shame.

Thank you!

People insisting on everyone having an equal voice despite most of those voices speaking from zero functional understanding, experience, knowledge of history or critical thinking skills is exactly why things are as they are.

 

[bdplaid]

The price increase definitely puts Sandberg in the running.

 

[StayLow]

On December 23, 1913, Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act. Took the US off the gold standard. Maybe that's what our enigmatic friend is talking about.

Two different things. FDR takes United States off gold standard

Priced in gold, everything costs the same or less than decades ago. Houses cost about 1/3 the price of 1971, for nicer / larger homes. Cars cost the same, for far better & safer cars. Wages, including minimum wage, are the same. Event tickets cost less. Etc. etc. ad infinitum.

It won’t be different going forward. In fact it’ll be much worse. Today’s rabid debt-binging consumer, and everyone else, would do well to keep it in mind.

 

[Surely_Bassy]

...everyone having an equal voice despite most of those voices speaking from zero functional understanding, experience, knowledge of history or critical thinking skills is...

...the Internet!

 

[Al Rivera]

I should have listened to my sweetwater rep........

 

[Herrick]

The only thing I plan on buying this year is bourbon so if that doesn't go up price then I'll be a happy herrick.

 

[Jim C]

This. For one thing, the price of wood went up exponentially for awhile. It's a miracle that prices haven't gone up even further.

But it went back down.
More importantly, I think the increased price of wood is insignificant in the price of a $1.5 K instrument

 

[GregC]

Two different things. FDR takes United States off gold standard

Priced in gold, everything costs the same or less than decades ago. Houses cost about 1/3 the price of 1971, for nicer / larger homes. Cars cost the same, for far better & safer cars. Wages, including minimum wage, are the same. Event tickets cost less. Etc. etc. ad infinitum.

It won’t be different going forward. In fact it’ll be much worse. Today’s rabid debt-binging consumer, and everyone else, would do well to keep it in mind.

That's an assumption. Maybe it will, maybe it won't. Many were insistent that inflation would run wild after late 2008/early 2009 money printing combined with consumers' taste for debt. Yet we ended up with well below-average inflation for more than a decade.

 

[nonohmic]

I should have listened to my sweetwater rep........

But this way you save $1549, instead of only saving $200.

 

[luciens]

That's an assumption. Maybe it will, maybe it won't. Many were insistent that inflation would run wild after late 2008/early 2009 money printing combined with consumers' taste for debt. Yet we ended up with well below-average inflation for more than a decade.

Yep, and the other thing to remember too was how disastrous last year was, which is what today's inflation is really measured against. The entire economy basically went into a coma for an entire year. It's just catching up all at once this year so it just looks particularly bad relative to the complete disaster of the last year or two of the pandemic....

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[Tim Schnautz]

This. For one thing, the price of wood went up exponentially for awhile. It's a miracle that prices haven't gone up even further.

Im sure CEO Shultz and other execs salaries and bonuses have too