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GHS Price Increase

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40Hz said:
Wouldn't surprise me. I'm seeing stock-outs in a lot of places I never saw have those before. I don't know how it works in the music gear business, but in some industries I'm very familiar with it's between three and six months before the sales chain starts seeing the effects of a drop in manufacturing volume. So if production levels for a product dropped sometime around June, the shortages wouldn't be felt in the wholesale channels until October, and those wouldn't significantly affect quantities on retail shelves until sometime around December.

We probably won't feel the full economic impact of Covid until early this summer. Or earlier if hording starts up again.
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I walked into local GC last weekend and they had like 4-5 basses hanging on the wall. It looked like a going-out-of-business-sale at the end of the sale. I was talking to the guitar manager and he said they were waiting for more shipments from...China. :roflmao:
 
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Shorelinegold said:
I walked into local GC last weekend and they had like 4-5 basses hanging on the wall. It looked like a going-out-of-business-sale at the end of the sale. I was talking to the guitar manager and he said they were waiting for more shipments from...China. :roflmao:
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Yes indeed. A lot of "more coming soon" flags on Sweetwater these days too. Between manufacturing slowdowns and (even more) our saturated delivery systems, everything is taking longer. Tough state of affairs for our nation now that we've become spoiled for choices and take speedy deliveries as a given. Awww...:(

Oh well. This too shall pass. We'll muddle through like always. :):thumbsup:
 
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5% is nothing, find the eBay or reverb dealers who are willing to sell at a lower cost and make it up with volume. The people looking for 50% profit margin are stuck in the MI industry of 1975 sadly. Nowadays Amazon and others make less than 2% on most items, they make up for the margin by moving a lot of product.
 
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PennyroyalWe said:
Change strings every week/month?! I hope you’re recycling those old strings, that’s a lot of metal.
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Be careful with recycling strings. It sounds like a good idea, but the long, strong strings can jam the sorting machines if your recycling center is doing single stream. I recycle them, but cut them into roughly one foot sections and save the ball ends for some future, unknown use.
 
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MultiScaleMale said:
Be careful with recycling strings. It sounds like a good idea, but the long, strong strings can jam the sorting machines if your recycling center is doing single stream. I recycle them, but cut them into roughly one foot sections and save the ball ends for some future, unknown use.
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I was thinking through D’Addario’s recycling program, just send them in or drop off at a dealer.
 
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PennyroyalWe said:
I was thinking through D’Addario’s recycling program, just send them in or drop off at a dealer.
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I'm a cynical person. When there are recycling bins in stores they mostly just throw them in the trash. My office building did that. We have recycling bins inside, but when I went to take a large cardboard box to the outside recycling dumpster. Wait, there is only a cardboard recycling dumpster and two trash dumpsters. Hmmmm...... Even the home pickup that we have is unlikely to actually be recycled. I still go through the motions. Oh, and CAVA with their "everything is biodegradable" and the two inside bins are for glass/plastic and the other biodegradables. Then you look in the back of the store and they only have a dumpster. Sure, this fork will biodegrade .... in the landfill, if it isn't incinerated first. Anyways, long rant, I mostly try to get things that I can use for a long time instead of single use items. I'll recycle, but I know it's probably 50/50 at best.
 
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40Hz said:
No clue, other than how almost everything has gone up noticeably over the last year or so. Maybe it's as simple as GHS finally realizing they were leaving money on the table by not charging more? They were charging significantly less than their competition despite being a favorably regarded string company.
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This.
 

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