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Post subject: Fender Website Suggestion
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2013 9:52 am
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On the Fender product website, It sure would be cool to be able to search/filter for instruments of a certain color.

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Post subject: Re: Fender Website Suggestion
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2013 10:44 am
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SeanGephardt wrote:
On the Fender product website, It sure would be cool to be able to search/filter for instruments of a certain color.
    +1, absolutely but why stop there.

    I think many would appreciate being able to search current and previous models by providing any number or combination of specs. Imagine entering Strat, Black, C69, Hard Tail, 1954 to Present, and getting a list of all Strats that meet those criteria. 8)

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Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2013 2:11 pm
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Bluer Monkey wrote:
SeanGephardt wrote:
On the Fender product website, It sure would be cool to be able to search/filter for instruments of a certain color.
    +1, absolutely but why stop there.

    I think many would appreciate being able to search current and previous models by providing any number or combination of specs. Imagine entering Strat, Black, C69, Hard Tail, 1954 to Present, and getting a list of all Strats that meet those criteria. 8)

    Cheers!
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Would you want to pay extra for your next new Strat, in order to be able to do that? I don't see any other way that would happen.

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Post subject: Re: Fender Website Suggestion
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2013 4:45 pm
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Drew365 wrote:
Would you want to pay extra for your next new Strat, in order to be able to do that? I don't see any other way that would happen.
    Databases and search engines are not within my area of expertise so I stand to be corrected by those who actually know what's involved and the associated cost, but I don't think that implementing my suggestion would necessitate a price increase for Fender products. I believe that having such a database may even help to increase sales.

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Post subject: Re: Fender Website Suggestion
Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 12:36 am
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Bluer Monkey wrote:
Drew365 wrote:
Would you want to pay extra for your next new Strat, in order to be able to do that? I don't see any other way that would happen.
    Databases and search engines are not within my area of expertise so I stand to be corrected by those who actually know what's involved and the associated cost, but I don't think that implementing my suggestion would necessitate a price increase for Fender products. I believe that having such a database may even help to increase sales.

    Cheers!
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databases and search engines are my area of expertise, but someone would need to be able to provide - what - 60+ years of complete Fender manufacturing inventory for that to be feasible. I just want to search my current model/by color so I can figure out that models are ash bodied, with transparent white finishes, without looking at every single spec sheet.

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Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 2:53 am
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I compiled a pair of lists for Tele and Strat from original start to present based on info I found from various sources around the web. I made them for my own reference but my lists are pretty rudimentary and they certainly do not include colours, let alone colours by year. My only objective was to track changes to the models as they evolved and my project took more man hours than I care to admit even given it's crude state. I don't want to even try to imagine how much work it would take to collect all that data and input it into a searchable database.

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Post subject: Re: Fender Website Suggestion
Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 5:22 am
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I think a company like Fender who's name is reputed by the heritage of its yesteryear products should really do this. From the beginning to the present day.

Lots of 'unknowns' out there and there are some people who request information that isn't easily available- yet could have been archived somehow.. Even for something as recent as the 80's or 90's where it should have been

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Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 12:30 pm
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Hi guys: I assumed from what SeanGephardt and Bluer Monkey wrote, above, that they just want extra layers of filtering for the current range of guitars, not the entire catalog going back 60 years - is that right?

If so, then there's no feasability reason why it can't be done, it's just plenty of extra work for the website programmers. On the products pages you can already filter for body shape, brand and model line: for example, Strat + Fender + American Standard. Or whatever. No reason you can't add extra layers of filtering to that, for colour, bridge type... anything you care to set the database up to specify.

Of course, it's lots more employee hours organising it and then keeping it up to date as finishes and other things come in and out of the catalog. Obviously, as Director of IT Brad is the guy who has to judge whether that's worth the effort for the slight extra level of website functionality. Just the other day he was advertising for a new member of IT staff. Sounds like his team currently have their working days pretty full...

Cheers - C

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Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 2:48 pm
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Ceri wrote:
Hi guys: I assumed from what SeanGephardt and Bluer Monkey wrote, above, that they just want extra layers of filtering for the current range of guitars, not the entire catalog going back 60 years - is that right? ...
    I was thinking along the lines of "from now on" so as to include current and future models. Going back 60 years would be great but of course may not be practical.

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Post subject: Re: Fender Website Suggestion
Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 10:52 am
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"Hi guys: I assumed from what SeanGephardt and Bluer Monkey wrote, above, that they just want extra layers of filtering for the current range of guitars, not the entire catalog going back 60 years - is that right?"

Yes, exactly.

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