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Originally Posted by octatonic
The shops you buy from have higher operating cost compared to the US- the cost of living is higher than most places - they pay more income tax, higher rates and rent etc. That all has to be passed onto the customer.
Also the prices in the UK are full retail, which you need to haggle down from.
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Fair do's on the 'Royal' bit, i think it's your job to moan about the Royals if you are a Brit regardless of what they cost, mind you i'd like access to a Chinook for mates parties too but that's another post -
Octatonic, at the risk of sounding like a right old misery, the two paragraph's sum up my feelings
totally about the poor old music shop keeper, they
DO have ridiculous overheads (my partner manages a 'high end' porcelain and china biz and their rates make me pooh myself) yet after they have paid them in
we all come as customers insisting on haggling them down ! "Oh, i can get that cheaper on the 'net".
We have had many a joust here about haggling, personally i don't get it, i can't do it at Tesco's or the Ferrari garage so why would i try it on for a dozen sets of guitar strings ?
Not being a misery, just my .20p (and thats NOT negotiable
).