jtheissen
Wholenote
Montana lurker, mostly🎸
Posts: 202
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Post by jtheissen on Jan 31, 2020 10:06:17 GMT -5
I don't want or need one, but why are the prices NEVER published? Ads always say to call for price. GC, Sweetwater, et al never show a price. I am not aware of another manufacturer that cloaks their purchase price in secrecy.
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Post by larryguitar54 on Jan 31, 2020 10:27:38 GMT -5
If you need to know the price you can't afford one.
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Post by Leftee on Jan 31, 2020 10:40:32 GMT -5
I don’t know either. If it’s always been that way, IIRC.
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Jan 31, 2020 13:55:05 GMT -5
In order for a vendor to qualify as a Rickenbacker dealer and receive new instruments directly from the factory, they agree to never post prices. You can always "call for price."
The original name of the company was RoPatIn, later changed to Rickenbacher (Adolph's last name). The spelling was changed to Rickenbacker around the time that Francis Hall bought Rickenbacher in the early 1950s
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Post by Leftee on Jan 31, 2020 14:19:11 GMT -5
Why didn’t I think of this for my guitars?!?!?
“Call for price!”
🤣
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Post by Mike the marksman on Feb 3, 2020 11:35:03 GMT -5
Rickenbacker is kind of a rarity in the industry these days. They're still family owned, All of their instruments are made in the USA with as many US-made components as possible, they don't offer an overseas-made budget line because they don't want to dilute the brand, they only employ around 60-70 workers, and they sell every instrument they make.
they could open a plant in Korea, mass produce cheap instruments, start an aggressive marketing campaign and make millions, but they refuse. That's pretty admirable, IMO
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Post by Sérgio on Feb 3, 2020 16:05:19 GMT -5
Rickenbacker is kind of a rarity in the industry these days. They're still family owned, All of their instruments are made in the USA with as many US-made components as possible, they don't offer an overseas-made budget line because they don't want to dilute the brand, they only employ around 60-70 workers, and they sell every instrument they make. they could open a plant in Korea, mass produce cheap instruments, start an aggressive marketing campaign and make millions, but they refuse. That's pretty admirable, IMO
Indeed.
Nor do they have a "Custom Shop" that makes "custom" models cost 4 times the Standard price, with a fancy little logo in the back of the headstock.
They don't even offer visits to their plant. They're proud to make their products all American and all standard, the bling and features varying slightly according to the models.
I like them. I wish Fender and Gibson were still so.
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Post by Leftee on Feb 3, 2020 16:09:41 GMT -5
I admire them for who they are. Their guitars are out of my wheelhouse, though.
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Feb 3, 2020 16:33:31 GMT -5
Rics are as handmade as you can get. I got this Ric 660-6 new in 2007; it was a non-standard color (blue burst) for them, but I didn't know it at the time. I was in a small shop in a small town in VA; they had this one and a matching bass. It simply looked, played, and sounded fantastic, so I bought the thing. You don't see blue burst Rics very often. When they do pop up for sale, they get snapped up fairly quickly. Nothing sounds like a Ric with toaster-tops. I should've gotten the bass too.  |
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Post by Vibroluxer on Feb 3, 2020 17:01:17 GMT -5
Beeeautiful!!
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Doug In Idaho
Quarternote
Posts: 37
Formerly Known As: BlackGibson
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Post by Doug In Idaho on Feb 4, 2020 10:26:01 GMT -5
Nice one Peegoo... Ric's just seem special to me and they make up the vast majority of my "collection". I don't own a blue guitar, but your 660 really looks sweet, I don't need another Ric... but I need one like that! db
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Feb 4, 2020 11:42:54 GMT -5
Even if you don't dig the Ric vibe and don't want to get one for yourself, ya gotta pick one up and try it because Rickenbacher was the first company to market a solid body (all aluminum!) electrificated guitar to the public in the early 1930s. We are all connected back to that original "frying pan" guitar strictly by being electric players. This is one of them:  |
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Post by bluzcat on Feb 5, 2020 15:44:43 GMT -5
I have a 620 in Mapleglo that is very nice- they are very different guitars than Strats or Lesters for sure.
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