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04-18-2021, 01:25 PM
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They did nothing of the sort. They restructured their pricing so it’s just MSRP instead of the previous factory list with a separate MAP for vendors. It always was the case that vendors could discount below MAP, just couldn’t advertise it. Same thing now, they advertise at MSRP but can sell at whatever price they want. Just so happens the factory is behind on orders, so vendors are not as eager to give deep discounts. That’s a vendor decision, not Martin.
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04-18-2021, 01:43 PM
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Price gouge? Where did you get that idea? Martin just did what Taylor and Gibson did long ago - get rid of MSRP. Now it simply lists MAP like all its dealers always have. The dealers are free to negotiate below MAP...just like always. With the COVID-induced inventory shortages, though, discounts like what we’re all used to are very hard to fine. Bigtime seller’s market right now. Hopefully things will get back to normal in a year or two...
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04-18-2021, 01:48 PM
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04-18-2021, 01:55 PM
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I don't see where there's a perceivable price hike in any of it. All they did was eliminate the fiction of their old MSRP, and convert the lower MAP to what they now call MSRP. And dealers can still discount from that but now MSPR and MAP are one and the same thing. But it's basically 80% of what the MSRP used to be, so if you believed the old MSRP had any meaning, this would be a 20% price drop, not hike. Whether dealers are actually discounting below MSRP / MAP now is another question heavily influenced by the pandemic. Most seem not to be. They probably will again at some point after inventories fill up again...
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Couldn't get any traction over at UMGF and had to try it over here?
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Yes, you can’t get the price on a new Martin, but it’s not Martin’s doing. It’s the dealers and it’s not price gouging. They have limited supply of guitars, they are not discounting like they used to. I just got a new Martin GP28e. It cost me around 2700. Last year I could have gotten it for 2400. Next year, when we are back to normal, it will probably be back to 2400.
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04-18-2021, 05:25 PM
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I just bought a brand spankin’ new 2021 Martin 000-18...and it was listed at the same MAP as last years model. I didn’t get as deep a discount as I did on the last new Martin I bought (2-years ago...from MFG), but I didn’t think of that as “gouging” at all. Nobody is doing the 40% off MAP deal any more that I know of due to inventory shortages.
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