DOBs

[0DDJ0B]

Got the DOBs for my two basses today. Now my curiosity has been peeked b/c of the big time gap between being made and being sold. It's hard to believe that they sat on a showroom floor for that many years.
The one build on 12/07/05 was purchased on 12/08.
The one build on 02/21/08 was purchased on 07/10.

 

[stoneboy26]

Over here in Australia, you get this happen a lot. Often because a bass will either sit forever in a store, or more than likely, at the distributor.

You can often get a much better deal on a bass you know has been sitting on the shop floor for 12 months+.

 

[Resolute]

Got the DOBs for my two basses today. Now my curiosity has been peeked b/c of the big time gap between being made and being sold. It's hard to believe that they sat on a showroom floor for that many years.
The one build on 12/07/05 was purchased on 12/08.
The one build on 02/21/08 was purchased on 07/10.

Did you get them in DFW? I know for a fact there are 3 MM basses that have been in various GC's in the DFW area for over 2 years.

 

[0DDJ0B]

Did you get them in DFW? I know for a fact there are 3 MM basses that have been in various GC's in the DFW area for over 2 years.

I got the blue one in DFW the other one came from their Hollywood store.

 

[oli@bass]

The one build on 12/07/05 was purchased on 12/08.
The one build on 02/21/08 was purchased on 07/10.

I had a Black Sparkle 2EQ StingRay that was build in 2000 and it sat in a store until I purchased it in 2007.

 

[Murphy]

I've seen 2007 Blue dawn special editions showing up new in stores now.

 

[0DDJ0B]

I just think it's crazy how this things sit around for so long. Both of my basses I've gotten killer deals on and wonder if it's b/c they were so old. Perhaps distributors just sit on them and when they hit a certain age they just get rid of them and GC pics them up on the cheap.

 

[Norm66]

Mine was right around a year old when I got it. It kind of surprised me. The way the economy is, it doesn't really surprise me that in certain places MMs sit around for a while. My buddy who manages the guitar department in our local music store says he sells 10 cheapo guitars/basses for every one nice one.

 

[0DDJ0B]

There are a couple of basses that I'm looking at right now that are 2009 models but are just now showing up. Makes me go hmm?

 

[danny-79]

My buttercreme Stingray is the 2005 model, i got it new in January 07 !! what it had been up to before then is a mystery

 

[Holdsg]

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The MI retail business really needs to come into the 21st century. Kinda makes you wonder why any instruments are kept in inventory in the first place. Why "guess" at what players are going to want to buy, why not just have them all made to order? I think EBMM is more like that than any other mfg. I am aware of, but still dealers want stuff in the channel, for the once in a blue moon that some dude walks in off the street and buys a $1900 instrument on impulse. Yeah, that happens, what, once a year, maybe? And we all know that the basses that sit at GC are just depreciating away, as every day they get hammered on by the wankers. I think the "wall of guitars" concept is so 70s, it just kind of makes me laugh sometimes.

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[oli@bass]

I think the "wall of guitars" concept is so 70s

Damn! Then I think I need a lava lamp in my living room...