Elderly Music Prices on Fender are these for real?!!!!

nikininja · **Posted:** Sun Feb 08, 2009 5:27 pm

Fenders 2009 price increase. Quite a thread on this in the lounge.

cvilleira · **Posted:** Sun Feb 08, 2009 5:52 pm

Yes they are correct! Sweetwater raised there prices a few days ago so the 30+ percent increase is real not just rumor so look for the others prices to go up as there stock get replenished!

keiths · **Joined:** Thu Jan 03, 2008 11:09 am **Posts:** 126

guitarlover215 wrote:

Hi All,
I was just on the Elderly Music site and couldn't believe my eyes. The were asking over $1110 for the Classic Players Series Strats and $1275 for the New American Standard Strats. Is the new Fender price increase I have been hearing about! :cry:

I checked on the GC and Sam Ash sites and their prices are still the same. Can anyone please verify. Thanks. Here is the link/http://elderly.com/fmic/cats/FGES.htm

Yes, Sad but Its true.

... I guess i will not be getting the new tele for a while and as nikininja stated ther is quite a thread on this in the forums lounge.

Sailjunkie · **Joined:** Tue Jan 27, 2009 5:42 pm **Posts:** 13

Elderly has always been known as very expensive. They have a great selection of guitars, but charge premium prices. What are the alternatives...Craigs List, Music Go Round (only in the Detroit area), Guitar Center, Sam Ash (online), etc...

SlapChop · **Joined:** Tue Jan 27, 2009 3:41 pm **Posts:** 1257

Since Sweetwater et al. have the new Strats priced at $1274.99 (exactly the same price as Elderly), how is Elderly "expensive?"

qblue · **Posted:** Mon Feb 09, 2009 10:06 am

I saw my Baja Tele now costs $1110. I paid around $750, 2 years ago. Now I wish I had bought the SuperSonic Combo amp I wanted, too.

Triskele · **Joined:** Sat Feb 23, 2008 10:18 am **Posts:** 3084

yep, but see here:

http://www.musicstore.de/is-bin/INTERSH ... tion=false

587,00 EUR

looks like storage before price increase...

cheers

cvilleira · **Posted:** Mon Feb 09, 2009 12:33 pm

SlapChop wrote:

Since Sweetwater et al. have the new Strats priced at $1274.99 (exactly the same price as Elderly), how is Elderly "expensive?"

They all use the same ad prices. I have bought two guitars from Elderly and had them sent to me in the past. They open and inspect and also set them up before they ship them and do a pretty good job of it. There prices where no more then anyone else. Now the few guitars I got from GC and MF arrived and had not even been opened and checked before shipping you could tell.

dgonz · **Posted:** Mon Feb 09, 2009 5:11 pm

Sailjunkie wrote:

Elderly has always been known as very expensive. They have a great selection of guitars, but charge premium prices. What are the alternatives...Craigs List, Music Go Round (only in the Detroit area), Guitar Center, Sam Ash (online), etc...

Agreed. Eldery is a great place to go, they have an outstanding restoration team and repair shop (one of the best anywhere), but they've never been a budget place for tons of people to be swarming in, ready to wheel and deal the lowest prices around. And I don't think they care to be either.

dgonz · **Posted:** Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:51 pm

guitarlover215 wrote:

I didn't post to put down Elderly , It just happend to be the first site I visited that had made the price increases. I was in shock about the price increases in general. ...

Yep. Just as note though:

- If you want to get some antique instrument restored, find something obscure, test out a ton of stuff, play a number of unique high-end acoustic guitars, or spend an entire day checking out cool things, Elderly is your place.

- If you want to check good prices on things, you're better off with Guitar Center, without a doubt.

Sailjunkie · **Joined:** Tue Jan 27, 2009 5:42 pm **Posts:** 13

BUT, they are more expensive on average. That being said, I agree with the others...they probably know more about guitars than anyone out there.

stratmansteve · **Posted:** Mon Feb 09, 2009 8:56 pm

It's been my experience that most Fender guitars sell for about 30% off of the current list price. Most of the major chains have the exact same sell price. I'm sure that will happen again once the old stock gets sold and things settle down.

atolleter · **Posted:** Tue Feb 10, 2009 1:52 pm

This whole price increase thing = my used gears are worth more now. Time to list a couple Strats on CL.

stratmansteve · **Posted:** Tue Feb 10, 2009 5:08 pm

atolleter wrote:

This whole price increase thing = my used gears are worth more now. Time to list a couple Strats on CL.

Good point . . . but I can't bear to sell any of my babies.

atolleter · **Posted:** Tue Feb 10, 2009 5:23 pm

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