"Limited Edition"??!!?! Really?!? Slight Squier Rant upcoming.....

[covermego]

I love the many different responses. I almost put this in the "Bass Humor" category.
Really, I wasn't looking to make a million...... really (he said, trying to convince himself).
I actually bought it because I'm a sucker for matching headstocks and my last Precision bass (in my avatar) was donated to my eldest son, who plays it every weekend. That beauty weighed almost 10 lbs. and my back has suffered enough. So.......... I bought this because I was mostly curious. I was drawn to it before the "sale", so when the discount came along, I thought, why not? I was hoping it would be one of those flukes where it weighed under 8lbs, but it is just above that. I'm sure I could hang with that little difference, though. I may just break it out and utilize it for a new blues project we have going. Or give it to an up-and-coming whippersnapper.

As for that MIM Mustang, that model came up 2 or 3 times on sale......then they kind of went the way of the buffalo. I was totally surprised how much they were selling for when I decided to list it. I didn't really expect anything like that from this precision bass.
Thanks for all your responses.

 

[Element Zero]

Lol

 

[tpaul]

The McRib wasn't ever coming back either, you know....

Wait... you mean my McRib collection isn't going to put my kid through college?

 

[Auggieinks]

" Limited " pretty much means limited to as many as they can sell

 

[elgranluis]

It’s a Squier, not a pre CBS Fender. It is a mass produced instrument .

Back then, those pre cbs were mass produced instruments. End even for those , it probably took them a good 20 years to gain any value anyway.

 

[skycruiser]

Is it one of the colors that only guitar center and musicians friend can sell?

 

[DirkP]

My rant
What else should Fender do against people who buy “limited” instruments to make money with them instead of playing them and stealing them away from real players or in hope to make them pay more.
It’s a nice strategy to label them as “limited” to fool people and sell them to musicians for a decent price and make them loose money by selling it to musicians for an even lower price. I am all for it, go Fender go!

 

[Squier Boy]

Really hate that this kind of thinking has taken over two of my main hobbies (bass and golf).

Doesn't apply as much in this case since they're still selling em', but people buying things, taking them out of the hands of people who'd actually use them, just to try and make a quick buck.

Totally understand if you're buying used gear, trying to look out for potential resale if you don't like it, but buying new stuff with the intention of sitting on it and flipping it sucks for everyone but the flipper.

Not trying to pile on you OP, but it's just frustrating.

 

[Warpeg]

Companies know that using buzzwords like "limited", "special", collector", etc. will get people more excited about buying certain products. Many people fall for it all the time.

 

[micguy]

Back then, those pre cbs were mass produced instruments.

They were produced in a factory of sorts, but the numbers in which 50's and 60's Fenders were produced were FAR below the kinds of numbers being made and sold today. If you were alive in the 60's (I was), you never saw Fender guitars or basses, except occasionally on TV - electric instruments were a rarity in the population at large. The "custom shops" at Fender and Gibson produce more instruments per year today than the "factory" made in the 60's.

Put another way, go to a Guitar Center, look at the guitars in the wall - maybe a couple hundred on hangers, and a couple hundred in the back. That's more guitars than Fender made strats per year in the mid 50's (there were fewer basses).

 

[Sharko]

You can’t invest in ONE Squier any more than you can invest in one stock.

You need to diversify your portfolio with many Squier options. If you invest wisely in Squier basses you’ll be rewarded.

At last the Squier heavy portfolio pays off!

 

[Zooberwerx]

Wait... you mean my McRib collection isn't going to put my kid through college?

Always wanted to hear an Antiques Roadshow appraiser proclaim “…you spent WHAT?!? You effin’ idiot!!”

If paired with an era-correct Shamrock Shake, you may just have something.

Riis

 

[covermego]

My latest strategy is to buy ALL these Squiers and hoard them so my grandkids can sell them off and never have to work. HAAAA-HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! These should go great with my Yugo automobile collection!

 

[Maxi Funkl]

I have a Black 60th anniversary MIM FSR Strat with no pick guard only 250 were made. Black, Red, and I think White. Thus far I've yet to see another Fender Strat with no pickguard not a Custom Shop order. So I guess I got lucky, from time to time I'll see one pop up used really would like a red one.

 

[DirkP]

Companies know that using buzzwords like "limited", "special", collector", etc. will get people more excited about buying certain products. Many people fall for it all the time.

Fender sometimes offers limited editions without even labelling them as such like the LPB 64 Jazz with matching headstock from the AVS series introduced in 2013 and only made during the first year. Or their limited editions are really limited like the 150 Daphne Blue 64 Jazz with matching headstock from 2014.
They were not more expensive than the non-limited ones, despite the effort for the headstocks.
I fell for both!
The other two I own are the MIJ Duck Dunn and the MIJ Noel Redding. Both had the numbers made advertised and were numbered.
I bought not a single one BECAUSE it was limited. I only was mad about the Jazz in nitro Daphne Blue, because this was and is my dream bass. Was so happy to find one in Germany in 2014, still my favourite!

 

[basslayer]

It's limited edition, until they run out of the paint.

 

[gln1955]

Just wait until Fender makes a bass that isn't a P or J and buy a bunch of them. You can be sure those will indeed be a limited edition. Probably still not worth much in the future anyway...

 

[StereoPlayer]

This could very easily evolve into a McRib thread.

 

[mapleglo]

 

[BigBigGuy44]

Join the party and list it in the classifieds here for double it's original regular price.