Mesa Boogie prices policy in Europe

I'd like to know too, why a 400+ is in the US around $1800 new but in Europe $3500...

 

it's the same here, at the local shop a dunlop 105q bass wah is about $330 AUD and i think thats alot. so i got one on USA ebay, shipping and the pedal was $183 AUD thats close to half of what the shop wanted

 

Mesa is ridiculously expensive in Europe. But we have it better than tha Australians.

 

Importers making a killing.
Everything generally being more expensive over here.
Mesa probably does have a say in it, seeing they are just short of price fixing most of the time . . .

It sucks, it really does

They manage to sell amps with such inflated prices because people still buy them.

 

It's because the economy is much stronger in europe.

 

I had blown a speaker of my mesa 2x10.
The replacement costs 189 $ in usa,the italian distributor is selling it for 399 euro.
That's 3 times.:scowl:

With this kind of distributor i have to say bye bye mesa,even if they produce beautiful bass gear

 

just currious, how much do powerhouse 2x10s, 4x10s, and 1x15's go for at the average guitar center in the north east?

 

Unfortunately, Guitar Center doesn't sell Mesa Bass gear any longer, just guitar gear.

They blew (or attempted to blow) out their remaining stock at recent List and other special sales. IIRC, my local GC was asking just under $500 for the 410 that they had left... When they were a Mesa bass gear dealer, they were required to charge list price.

If you're looking for a Mesa bass cabinet, call a Guitar Center and see if they can find any for you...you might be able to get quite a deal.

 

Quite a lot of companies/importers just convert dollars to pounds so $100=£100; effectively doubling the price. Then even if you import stuff from America or wherever, the taxes are so big it ends up costing the same as it does here. Oh well...

 

This thread is too true.

I was in the market for an M-Pulse 600 recently. My local shop said they could get me a great deal on one - only £1600 ($3200)!

Err.... thanks, but no thanks.

C'mon, Mesa.. sort it out!

 

It's due to importation costs. They have to pay X to get it imported, if they didn't have to do that they'd just charge the U.S. prices. At which point they become some of the cheapest peices of gear in existance and they'll slowly weed out everyone else trying to work in britain and eventually they become a large monoply and take over the world!

Basically, to prevent people importing cheap chinese made goods and selling them for fluff all, import tax is there to "balance" out the pricing between economies. If I could import a Trace Elliot AH500-7 in from the U.S. with out having to fork over import tax, I'd be paying around £100 less than the R.R.P.!

£1GBP = $2.00USD

 

SO.. import tax runs at 100% of the RETAIL price?

I think not...

 

Well...Damn, foiled.

 

We had a similar discussion on teh Mesa Mega thread. I'm emailing boith these threads to Mesa.

 

I'd be interested to see the response, not that there will be one unfortunately.

In the end, the only thing that will lower prices is if people don't buy them, and that ain't gonna happen.

 

Did anyone check other US producer prices in EU? Couse as far as I'm concerned lowering prices is the best way to sell a product - you kill the competision (Orange, for example).
Taxes in UE ARE very high. You have to add at least 22% VAT to anything that is not produced here. Than the shipping costs are more expensive here (gasoline is way way cheaper in US) and consider that one pays much more tax when earns anything, so importer put that in the price of the Head too.

BTW: Hello everybody. This is my first post on TalkBass.

 

Hello! Welcome aboard.

I see your point, but...

...let's not forget that the importer isn't paying anything like full price for the head. I just don't understand where this ridiculous 100% mark-up on Boogie gear comes from.