Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

I'm really enjoying this thread, thankyou. It's good to remember a time when the company knew how to make beautiful and exciting guitars. More please.

I'm not doubting that people are prepared to pay the inflated prices in the UK, but the original question wasn't whether I was prepared to pay the UK prices or not, it was whether in comparison to the US prices are we being shafted? And the answer is definitely yes. We are paying on average 80% more...

OK, lets forget the stores selling them who may or may not be dealers, lets look at the comparable RRP on some of the available models. This price comparison uses the price list on the official Rickenbacker website for the US RRP, and Rosetti's website (Official UK distributor) for the UK RRP. 330/6...

stuart wrote:Fingers crossed for the 350v89

Fingers crossed that if there is anything new, that they don't go to all the effort of taking it to a trade show, and then hide it in a room out the back.

New 2013 Rickenbacker 381/6 V69 in the USA - $3100 Where in the USA can I buy a new V69 for $3100? $4949 is the MSRP. New in the US http://www.ebay.com/itm/2013-Rickenbacker-381V69-Mapleglo-6-String-Electric-Guitar-New-With-Case-/281239313142?pt=Guitar&hash=item417b2b5af6 RRP in the UK. - $8046...

So is Rickenbacker selling these guitars to English vendors at the same price they do to American/Canadian vendors (plus shipping costs obviously) If so it's then the English vendors who are marking them up to such exorbitant prices?? Seems to me, if this is the case, that there's an opening here f...

johnhall wrote:"Entertainment industry"? "Exhibition"? That only reinforces the perception that you've never been!

collin wrote:
How would we know? Most of your eight posts on this forum are lambasting RIC in one way or another.

Not at all.
I would suggest you read through them again.

. . . spoken by someone who has never actually been there. 7 posts and never been to NAMM. :roll: Why would you assume that I've never been over to NAMM? Because I live in the South of England? For many years I worked in the entertainment industry and I have actually attended the exhibition many ti...

If you can't make it to NAMM this year, just look at the pictures of the Rickenbacker stand from last year, or the year before that, or the year before that, or the year before that, or the year.....

You will need to insure it separately. Allianz musical insurance have given me good service and adequate cover on all my musical instruments and equipment.

David, when you say that you haven't had much luck with the guitar, what other problems have you had? Did you buy it new or second hand? I'm just about to buy my first Ricky so I'm here doing a bit of research.