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*** is going on with prices?
- Thread starter joenoone
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When have prices really ever gone down?
Yes the D’addario strings are almost 15 euros a pack more expensive than last year I think. Much more than the normal inflation.
High fuel costs and I believe gouging of overseas and domestic materials transportation services. They took great advantage of covid by raising prices and holding products back, will not lower the costs with the crisis diminished. I'm usually an optimistic person, but this situation makes me more pessimistic.
I use "Honey" price drop alerts and buy when I get notifications via email. Sometimes the drop percentage is dramatic (and often short-lived). I'm running Honey on Firefox (I get the feeling there are a lot of browsers that Honey does NOT run on. I also never remember in ECO101 being told that all this will be one day moved to POL274.
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I bought a tank of gas in West Charlotte last week for $3.19 a gallon. Took 26 minutes because everyone else wanted to save $0.30 per gallon too.
I bought a set of strings today on Amazon.
Full retail, $57.30 plus tax free shipping on Prime. D'addario tapewounds ain't coming down any time soon. It's a lot like a donut...
Hurts, donut?
I bought a set of strings today on Amazon.
Full retail, $57.30 plus tax free shipping on Prime. D'addario tapewounds ain't coming down any time soon. It's a lot like a donut...
Hurts, donut?
Ive seen some pretty substantial increases in many different products. Gas, certain foods, its to be expected thx to all the worlds problems. Its also something new in the sense the USD is in the worst shape in seemingly ever. The rise of BRICS and commodity backed currency is probably whats causing an even bigger inflation bubble than we've already been experiencing. Without getting into it further i just hope that it doesn't keep going where its been going. I still want all our string makers to be making enough money and to be able to afford thier products. With an election year in the US next year this tends to be the time when economics gets extra crazy. Sit back and enjoy the circus I say. 
Geez, I'm paying $5.69 a gallon (diesel), you're lucky...
I've noticed this on few brands, like the mentioned D'Addario.
two years ago I use to buy their strings for 18€ to a maximum of 20/21, now the lowest price is 29 (which was the price of a 6-string set of D'Addario... my TRB6p remembers it).
other brand didn't raise that much, like Rotosound and Ernie Ball. I still buy them for 22/25€ as it was few years ago.
two years ago I use to buy their strings for 18€ to a maximum of 20/21, now the lowest price is 29 (which was the price of a 6-string set of D'Addario... my TRB6p remembers it).
other brand didn't raise that much, like Rotosound and Ernie Ball. I still buy them for 22/25€ as it was few years ago.
I saw the most dramatic price increases in GHS strings, particularly the Boomers. A 5-string set of Boomers is now over $32 a set. Rotosound RB strings cost less, and they're imported from UK (which would naturally make them pricey given import costs).
D'Addario, Dunlop, and LaBella are still hanging in there, price wise. I can get 5-string sets of their XL, black box, and Rx strings (respectively) for under $30, and they're good strings.
But, yeah, it's inflation. We still haven't recovered fully from all the supply chain issues the COVID years dumped on us.
And, yeah, while I can still get LaBella Rx strings reasonably priced here, they'd probably cost an arm and a leg in EU.
D'Addario, Dunlop, and LaBella are still hanging in there, price wise. I can get 5-string sets of their XL, black box, and Rx strings (respectively) for under $30, and they're good strings.
But, yeah, it's inflation. We still haven't recovered fully from all the supply chain issues the COVID years dumped on us.
And, yeah, while I can still get LaBella Rx strings reasonably priced here, they'd probably cost an arm and a leg in EU.
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When I see a comment like this, I can never resist asking for a definition of “they.”
Ok. Sounds somewhat conspiratorial though. The difficulties worldwide logistics companies went through during Covid are widely documented and not necessarily the result of greedy little groups of money hungry individuals. I am sure there is/was some of that too, but that’s true across the board, name your global weather event, disease or disaster.
Yeah…everything is more expensive, for a variety of reasons that could have been avoided, but they weren’t. So we are now on the road to hell that was paved with good intentions. Enjoy.
