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Maybe Emerald could sponsor a traveling roadshow with a bunch of demo models and have people register/reserve/purchase demo time. They may not be able to break even on the front end of a roadshow. But, the back end potential would probably be limited by production capability. The age old conflict conundrum of sales vs production.
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Road shows for hard to access guitars seems like a good idea, and I'm not sure how these were handled for the MacNichol shows. Here is a plan/ proposal, but this would make more sense if Emerald were trying to drum up sales/ awareness. Still could be a usable idea?
**Fancy veneers and colors don't change anything about the instruments other than aesthetic, so.... -Keep them simple in black color, one of each of their most popular models -Find a US dealer and and make favorable business deal that benefits both Emerald and dealer, Emerald ships models to dealer for the program. -Dealer stocks instruments and gets a pool of "road show" participants on board -ship instrument to first participant, "renter" keeps for X time -renter ships on to next participant in road sow -last renter sends instrument back to dealer -dealer lists final condition of road worn instrument and holds an auction -winner buys auction instrument at presumably a good deal -if there is no interest in remaining instrument then Emerald or dealer can sell as B-Stock and split sale? Something like this could work? No? |
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Of course it could work.
If it was necessary. I think the evidence of the last couple of years - the social media presence, the shipping videos, the continuing custom orders - would suggest that Emerald has got its act together, and is in a pretty happy place. Yes, we’re an enthusiastic bunch of fanboys here, but if we represent more than 1% of their actual owners, I’d be amazed.
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Just look at the Friday shipping videos, we may be closer to .1%
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True. My 2019 X20-7 has a serial number in the mid-5000s.
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If I knew this I'd drop it once and for all. Last I heard was when I shared it with Simon who said he'd passed it onto Alistair; but that was before the covid19 shutdown...
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My apologies. I thought all the parades had been canceled this year
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Nah, was hoping to see if I could get away with one thing that wouldn't get canceled
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