Gibson pulled licenses??

Luke Duke

Luke Duke

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A guitar tech I know who is opening his own store (more of that in another thread) and he was telling me that every dealer in the US had it's dealership license pulled. To get it back they must all pay $250,000 for the license and then order x thousand dollars worth of inventory. Anyone else heard this? It's from a fairly credible source and, honestly, it sounds like something that Gibson woould do. It's all about the money these days. :yell: I guess that's what you get when a company is no longer ran by players.

Luke
 
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Well, sounds bad. I wouldn't tend to believe that but if that's what's happening, it's really sh.itty...
 
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Sounds like BS to me 1/4 of a million is not an ammount of money that a music store would have available ... but I'll check with the Local Gibson dealer today or tomorrow.

Unless they're trying to close down every single Gibson dealer, I have trouble believing this. It'd make Gibson 1 million for every licenced Dealer
 
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Luke Duke said:
A guitar tech I know who is opening his own store (more of that in another thread) and he was telling me that every dealer in the US had it's dealership license pulled. To get it back they must all pay $250,000 for the license and then order x thousand dollars worth of inventory. Anyone else heard this? It's from a fairly credible source and, honestly, it sounds like something that Gibson woould do. It's all about the money these days. :yell: I guess that's what you get when a company is no longer ran by players.

Luke
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Sounds like a regular 2-monthly "fair play" move of the Hungarian Taxation Agency here. Them US guys must have studied ultra-heavy restrictive taxation skin-flaying methods here and learnt how to squeeze people more and applied to a wrong area :eek13: :smack:
 
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NecroPolo said:
Sounds like a regular 2-monthly "fair play" move of the Hungarian Taxation Agency here. Them US guys must have studied ultra-heavy restrictive taxation skin-flaying methods here and learnt how to squeeze people more and applied to a wrong area :eek13: :smack:
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Yeah.... what he said...
 
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Guys you aren't thinking it through completely. It would only weed out the small dealers who only sale 2 or 3 LP's a month or year even. Guitar Center, Manny's , Musician's friend, all the huge dealers will pay the price and will become part of a very small EXCLUSIVE group of companies/stores that are Gibson dealers. Notice I said Gibson...Epiphones are a different story. That's what makes the bulk of Gibson's money so they'll leave out those lincenses. This is a guy checking into becoming a dealer not just some yokel off the street.

Luke
 
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Talked to the local dealer, if they are going to do this they haven't informed them
 
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who cares if small ones only sell a few, they're still selling, and that means money for gibson
 
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The music store here in town sells a lot of Gibson,PRS,Ibanez, etc , but I can't see them being able to cover a 1\4 mill. for a single maufacturers license. I think this is most likely false.
 
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I doubt the price is that high, but I think the main reason they'd do something like that is too keep 'discount dealers' from advertising rock bottom prices. It makes it very difficult for large dealers, who sell many more guitars, when small discounters are buying just a few, then giving them away at a few bucks above cost.
Personally, I don't like it, but from a business standpoint I can see why they'd trim back the number of retailers out there. It's definitely "corporate tactics" but it gets played equally by Guitar Center, Sam Ash, Musicians Fiend, since they could easily discontinue the Gibson line if they see too many 'undercutters' out there.
Actually, GC DID discontinue selling Gibsons for one year around 99/2000.
Guitar Center likely realized it was a mistake and changed their mind. Gibson is a company like any other.....they need to operate a certain way to stay in business.

It doesn't matter to me, tho, because I'll always buy my guitars used from some rich guy at a tear jerking loss to him. Failed Dot Com Baby Boomers are to thank for many of my aquisitions. Ha Ha
 
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texasguitarslinger said:
Sounds like Gibson is going to screw themselves completely out of the market. :smoker:
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With there already high prices on Gibson, They have already almost priced themselves out of the market. Now this???
 
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