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Dave K.

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I wish they would remove the barcodes from the new instruments. Although it may not improve the fine quality of the guitars, to me it projects the image of mass production and dilutes the cachet of the instruments, especially the BFR's. I hereby declare a motion to remove the barcodes and package them with pride.
 

PeteDuBaldo

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Many retail stores use those barcodes to track inventory, and EB uses them for the same reason - necks, cases, bodies, shipping boxes, etc. The fact that EB leaves them on to make things easier for the dealer is a nice gesture, from my skewed dealer point of view ;)



They are simply a static cling, so no worries about them sticking on permanently!
 

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Many retail stores use those barcodes to track inventory, and EB uses them for the same reason - necks, cases, bodies, shipping boxes, etc. The fact that EB leaves them on to make things easier for the dealer is a nice gesture, from my skewed dealer point of view ;)



They are simply a static cling, so no worries about them sticking on permanently!

What he said:D:p

Barcodes are the way of the world, in all honesty if the guitars I have bought from Pete and elsewhere did not have them I would question if they were new or not, please keep the barcode:)
 

Matt F

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Oh man, I said Ernie Ball..... Not "Bald Ernie"... Dang!

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Warg Master

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I wish they would remove the barcodes from the new instruments. Although it may not improve the fine quality of the guitars, to me it projects the image of mass production and dilutes the cachet of the instruments, especially the BFR's. I hereby declare a motion to remove the barcodes and package them with pride.

Good luck with that.


You know they are not mass produced, so what is the difference? Especially when it's easy to remove?
 

Big Poppa

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The bar code makes it easy for our distributors and dealers...i really doesnt do anything for us.......

You know what they say...Keep the dealers happy and we are all happy
 

jamminjim

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That is the most random complaint/comment I've ever heard!

Random is a nice word. I think this is cool. An EBMM guitar owner carefully looks over his/her/it's guitar and could only find a barcode sticker to complain about. EBMM guitars and company are GREAT!

Now I'm going to randomly ignore this thread... ;)


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MikeVt

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I have to agree...the bar codes don't bother me at all. In fact, I think it's pretty classy that they are only applied with static cling.

Mike
 

dstockden

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ITS A STICKER! pull it off if you dont like it! its not hard! i prefer to leave mine on for that little bot of extra scratch protection.
 

koogie2k

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I wish they would remove the barcodes from the new instruments. Although it may not improve the fine quality of the guitars, to me it projects the image of mass production and dilutes the cachet of the instruments, especially the BFR's. I hereby declare a motion to remove the barcodes and package them with pride.

Huh?

Welcome to the (barcode) Addiction!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. :cool:
 

paranoid70

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I bought a combination padlock the other day. I went to the gym, opened the package and found the manufacturer put a sticker on the back with the combination. Great. I go to peel it off and it is stuck on really hard. It took me a couple of minutes to scratch off just the numbers. Most of the sticker is still on it..... Geez I could have spent those extra minutes working on my abs. ;)
 
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