no, you are wrong.. to buy a guitar or bass in us is more expensive than to buy in China. for example, my friend bought a jackson sl2h in China, only 14000 ren min bi, exchange to us dollar is about 1700 us dollars. U know in us how much is that? 2280 us dollars!! Both of them are all black colour, the really same one.
As you said, it is cheap to buy a musical instrument in us, I think the reason is the colour of that guitar which is cheap you considered. because different coloured guitar has different price, and this difference is rather fuck'in huge! for prs guitar, the royal blue's price is more expensive than normal colour, such like black, wine red. the difference is about 600 us bucks!
mostly I think ur friend was lucky! the price that u said in US may be the factory's list price or somethin' like that.so it could be dear. e.g. a epiphone g400 at the factory list price is not cheap ,but when I saw it in south american music L.A.(down town near tower custom shop) it is just half the list price'n all colors were the same.
and another reason for ur friend to bought a Jackson guitar in China cheaper than in US probably 'cos that was a Japan-made one ,and the US price was tax-includin' .ur friend might got a smuggled one ,so that could be cheaper. to buy Japanese guitars in US is not much cheaper than in China.
yes of course finishing (not color, buddy) is an element to affect the pricing of a guitar or a bass but it won't have a significantly huge difference on price just because of the finishing. you need to consider wood, pick up, hardware and so on.
and also consider this: if in china the selling price is cheaper than in U.S then why bother to export to china and why not selling them locally? just a simple economic theory.
you can't get a brand new MM sterling bass for RMB $8000 in china for sure. as for those 'deluxe' basses like sadosky, ken smith, larkland, spector.....thses basses regional selling price must have a great different between u.s and china.
以下是引用may在2003-8-1 18:52:00的发言：
yes of course finishing (not color, buddy) is an element to affect the pricing of a guitar or a bass but it won't have a significantly huge difference on price just because of the finishing. you need to consider wood, pick up, hardware and so on.
and also consider this: if in china the selling price is cheaper than in U.S then why bother to export to china and why not selling them locally? just a simple economic theory.
you can't get a brand new MM sterling bass for RMB $8000 in china for sure. as for those 'deluxe' basses like sadosky, ken smith, larkland, spector.....thses basses regional selling price must have a great different between u.s and china.
man, I can not get ur idea very well... say mandarin please.......
"and also consider this: if in china the selling price is cheaper than in U.S then why bother to export to china and why not selling them locally? just a simple economic theory. "
I can not understand either, the expensive price in US maybe beacuse of the gain and tax. Man, don't you think the dealers in US are not normal human being? they are not charitarian. and the heavy price is another factor
but the problem is i am not in hk now i am in china......it is unlikely to have a bass industry in hk for the high labour and high land rent. oh.. econ again......
i am sorry to hear that. and, maybe i am wrong. i have visited the olp's official web and the tom lee music's just now, and i can't find it or something about it.
i heard it from my friend who dealt olp guitars and basses in zhengzhou last year. he had told me the olp guitars and basses was made in h.k. i belived it. so... i am sorry and i think i am wrong in this word.
to Mr.King
sorry it takes time for me to type in chinese, please forgive for using english..
i am not an econmist, actually i failed this subject..., i am not trying to argue with you , what i wanna point out is that us sells cheaper bass than china does. that is.
if u choose a right time(such as Jul. 4th or x'mas) and right place(mostly i mean big cities) u can have a really low price. that's wat i have learnt in us.
发表于 2003-7-30 22:07:00
从弹琴那一天起，我就喜欢美国琴，可能是因为喜欢美国金属音乐的原因。另外一个原因是我喜欢 sunburst 的油漆，美国琴（有点档次的）大多把这一类颜色做的很漂亮（至少我认为），反正老美很喜欢 sunburst。
