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DarrinPA
Silver Member
USA
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 Posted - 01/08/2010 : 04:41:40
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My friend bought a left handed american made fender strat [he is right handed] thinking that it would be cool. A few months later he asked me to sell it for him, he was tired of the knobs being in the way. I tried to warn him. So now he's trying to sell it at a lose of money but there aren't many left handed people on craigslist. I originally listed the guitar at $650 and now I've lowered to $350 and still nobody has bought it. You lefthanded people are so difficult...  |
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zerksies
Double Platinum Member
USA
3406 Posts |
Posted - 01/08/2010 : 13:25:38
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| where you at i might be interested? I am only interested in a local area pick up |
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DarrinPA
Silver Member
USA
221 Posts |
Posted - 01/09/2010 : 04:53:21
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| Chicagoland area. No offence but now I see why guitar companies don't bother with making more lefty guitars. |
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zerksies
Double Platinum Member
USA
3406 Posts |
Posted - 01/09/2010 : 12:44:52
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| Some of these companies are really bad with lefties.I can see them not making certain guitars. But not painting some of these guitars is nuts.Fender does half of the colors that it does for lefties. and their paint is not that good.And if they do it they call it a custom shop color and jack up the price three times the cost.Gibson just won't do it at all. Martin makes anything that i want at the same price |
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jack
Platinum Member
USA
1418 Posts |
Posted - 01/09/2010 : 14:50:26
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I have suggested many times that somebody out there might be able to make some good money if they were a one stop guitar shop for lefties, or a guitar leftorium...but then again, if only 10% of the world population is left-handed, and let's estimate that probably 10% of that 10% percent play guitar...so when it comes down to it, you would have a store that only interests and caters to less than 5% of the world's population, but you'd be the only one, so it might work...
However, from a business standpoint, it may not be profitable, and since its the music business, profit, not music, is what is important to companies...So if they are used to not generating a substantial amount of profit from left handed guitars, then they probably won't offer as many options or finishes as other guitars because its not worth it (to the company in terms of profit).
I mean I can understand the frustration of not having as many options, but I can see the companies offering whatever lefty models they have as more of a courtesy than a money maker...sort of like the over-the-counter meds we sell at the college bookstore I work at, as we do not make any profit from the sale of these items, but we do it just sort of out of courtesy for any people who may be in need of such items. But we make no profit off the sale of these items which take up valuable retail real estate just behind the counter, where we could display additional items like flash drives, software, and graphing calculators that bring in huge profits for the store. Not to mention that in the time it took us to sell 18 left-handed spiral notebooks (a year and a half) we sold hundreds of regular spiral notebooks in that time. Stores at times do not have the finances or storage space for items that don't sell fast. Guitar stores are the same way, at least the ones I have been to...why take up valuable and limited floor space to display 1 or 2 lefty guitars that may end up being on the sales floor for 9-12 months or more, when you could put a right guitars in there that might just take 9-12 days (if that) to move...so over the course of a year, they could possibly have 12 different guitars displayed in those spots if they move one a month, or they can have 1 lefty guitar there if they move just one of those a year...What would most retailers pick? Something they are going to have in their store for a year? Or something that they can move more of per year? Just a thought about the whole lefty thing. I mean I can see your frustration, but I can also see why they are not widely available at times. |
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DarrinPA
Silver Member
USA
221 Posts |
Posted - 01/09/2010 : 18:43:05
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| Very good breakdown of the whole idea behind companies selling left handed verses right handed guitars. Another point is the fact stores that sell the guitars can buy in bulk a bunch of right handed guitars which lowers their purchase price from the manufacturer allowing for a larger profit once sold. Buying lefty guitars in bulk just can't happen because of the storage problems like you mentioned. |
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FRANZONI
Double Platinum Member
Ireland
3543 Posts |
Posted - 01/10/2010 : 03:21:22
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We could get Ned Flanders to work in the shop....
I'm lucky..i'm left handed but was taught to play my first chords right handed back in the mid 70's by the mad monks from the bog...they wouldn't teach lefthanded as they thought of it as a mark of the devil... my mother at that time of my childhood probably agreed with them... i'm also left footed when playing football and kicking drunking punters off my pedalboard ......so getting guitars have never been a problem for me,i believe Mark Knopfler and Gary Moore two of my favourite players are also lefthanded but play righthanded probably for similar reasons...i think a lot of people of my generation all over the world had similar problems as it was seen to be a mark of something out of the ordinary and people were very superstitious like that..i also think as a lot of these superstitions get rolled back as we go further into the 21st century you will see a rise in left handed people coming to the fore.... so open that shop i'll have the first pair of sissors please....!! the biggest pain in the arse is trying to cut with a right handed sissors...!.... ...
P.S .. don't ask Boss to to build you a left handed DS-1 or some other pedal or they will 'do a fender' with the custom colours and put telephone numbers on the pricetag.... |
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natthu
Gold Member
Australia
756 Posts |
Posted - 01/10/2010 : 03:50:13
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So I have an hypothetical question for all the lefties (whether you play left or right):
Suppose I was to start teaching a left-handed child to play guitar, should I teach them on a righty or a lefty? What would be best for the child?
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FRANZONI
Double Platinum Member
Ireland
3543 Posts |
Posted - 01/10/2010 : 04:13:42
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| I would let them develop whatever comes natural to themselves...i know it pissed me off no end being forced to do things right handed and i still have a bad temper at times plus an obstinate attitude of taking any kind of authority from anyone over me that i put to been terrorised by assholes during my childhood over being lefthanded... you could say i swing to the left in all ways....in the states i would probably be called a democrat........ |
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zerksies
Double Platinum Member
USA
3406 Posts |
Posted - 01/10/2010 : 04:40:34
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Originally posted by natthu
So I have an hypothetical question for all the lefties (whether you play left or right):
Suppose I was to start teaching a left-handed child to play guitar, should I teach them on a righty or a lefty? What would be best for the child?
i would say what ever seems easier for the child. I once dated a lefty woman that lived in a house with her father that played righty and she learn how to play righty cause she thought that was the right way to play |
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jackderringer
Silver Member
USA
153 Posts |
Posted - 01/10/2010 : 08:15:48
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Originally posted by DarrinPA
Chicagoland area. No offence but now I see why guitar companies don't bother with making more lefty guitars.
chicago's my hometown, i'll ask some friends back home if they're in the market or know someone who is.
in other news, the real story here is...
best buy sells squires??? |
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jack
Platinum Member
USA
1418 Posts |
Posted - 01/10/2010 : 14:10:27
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Originally posted by jackderringer
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Originally posted by DarrinPA
Chicagoland area. No offence but now I see why guitar companies don't bother with making more lefty guitars.
chicago's my hometown, i'll ask some friends back home if they're in the market or know someone who is.
in other news, the real story here is...
best buy sells squires???
Its been mentioned here before...Best Buy actually sells Fender, Gibson, Squier, Epiphone, and perhaps a few more brands of guitars, but definitely those...
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Audio/Musical-Instruments/abcat0207000.c?id=abcat0207000 |
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jackderringer
Silver Member
USA
153 Posts |
Posted - 01/10/2010 : 19:14:13
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| i've never seen that at any best buy i've been to... is this something they're just test-driving in certain markets? |
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DarrinPA
Silver Member
USA
221 Posts |
Posted - 01/10/2010 : 21:58:22
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Originally posted by jackderringer
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Originally posted by DarrinPA
Chicagoland area. No offence but now I see why guitar companies don't bother with making more lefty guitars.
chicago's my hometown, i'll ask some friends back home if they're in the market or know someone who is.
Cool man, thanks.
I haven't been in a Best Buy in about 6 months. I'll go check one out to see what it's like. |
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zerksies
Double Platinum Member
USA
3406 Posts |
Posted - 01/11/2010 : 02:39:23
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Originally posted by jackderringer
i've never seen that at any best buy i've been to... is this something they're just test-driving in certain markets?
From what i am getting yes, its only in certain areas.The other two in my area does not have music stores. but the new one that opened up does |
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