From dta3923@yahoo.com Tue Dec 06 09:48:42 2005
Subject:Re: fair CX-3 price

Armed with the receipt of the prior deal, I would walk back into GC and demand a refund of the difference or return the CX-3. I would at least go back and renegotiate a lesser price. Your church got hosed, which in my experience not that uncommon.

Dan

The interesting thing was (and I should not mention
> this to you) is that the previous owner apparently
> left the sales receipt in the owners manual, showing
> what HE was paid for it by the store. Are you ready?
> $550. So I guess if you are a large guitar oriented
> store with lots of toys someone is dying to trade for,
> you might get one for $550 too!

jake92028 wrote:
--- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, Lou C wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I just bought a used CX-3 from a large guitar-oriented
> store we may all be familiar with. It is a little
> hard to tell what I paid for it because I got another
> large piece they discounted as well, but it is
> somewhere about $1100. Mine has a little damage to
> the wood on one side and I suspect it could have been
> dropped or bumped on the side. But it sounds good,
> plays well and otherwise looks perfect.

> The interesting thing was (and I should not mention
> this to you) is that the previous owner apparently
> left the sales receipt in the owners manual, showing
> what HE was paid for it by the store. Are you ready?
> $550. So I guess if you are a large guitar oriented
> store with lots of toys someone is dying to trade for,
> you might get one for $550 too!

That's a pretty standard Guitar Center deal = if someone's dumb
enough to let them sell their gear for them - GC gets 50%! If they
buy a piece of gear from someone because they think they can sell it,
then they sell it x 2 what they paid. The only deals I ever make with
GC are an offer to buy new/demo with cash/card in hand and ready to
walk out the door if they don't drop another 10-15% from their Green
Tag or whatever ..heh heh.. and "eat the tax" (I don't pay it). They
know how to back-figure tax into the total transaction so well, it's
easy to tell regular "experienced" employees - sometimes after
checking with the manager first - do it all the time. If you run into
a brick wall at a certain $$$ figure, that most likely really is
their bottom line, meaning almost no profit any lower. Walter j

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