| Author | Message | ||
| fc_spoiler
Senior Member Username: fc_spoiler Post Number: 1380 Registered: 5-2006 |
I was asked a question about a Spoiler and I uploaded some old (early eighties) pricelists, beware: can be a shocking experience  Click here | ||
| lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 5204 Registered: 7-2004 |
Flip: Thanks, very entertaining! Love the "Bubbly Maple". Interesting how the F-2B hasn't increased much at all in price relative to the instruments and other products. Bill, tgo | ||
| honninscrave
Junior Username: honninscrave Post Number: 21 Registered: 3-2009 |
My bubinga Spoiler/Exploiter was $1,795.00 CAD (with the case) when I bought it new in 1987 from Steve's Music in Toronto. The exchange rate back then was about $1.3 CAD to $1 USD... | ||
| jazzyvee
Senior Member Username: jazzyvee Post Number: 3091 Registered: 6-2002 |
Incredible prices I remember seeing two alembics in a music shop here in the UK in the early 80's just after the Clarke Duke project hit the town. They were priced at £3000 UK pounds. So just think what the exchange rate would have been back in the early 80's to see how expensive they were here. Jazzyvee | ||
| hammer
Advanced Member Username: hammer Post Number: 211 Registered: 9-2009 |
Very interesting. I actually didn't feel too bad looking at the Distillate prices since they were exactly what I paid for mine 5-years ago. Of course, then I thought about the MK Signature Deluxe build I'm currently having done versus the Series prices of yesteryear and I swallowed hard. Of course in 1983...most of us weren't making what we are today (even with the recession factored in) and the cost of living at least in the upper mid-west was no where close to what it is at the current time. | ||
| terryc
Senior Member Username: terryc Post Number: 1938 Registered: 11-2004 |
My MK Signature was a bargain, I got it in Rudy Penshur's in New York in Jan 1998..the price.. a mere $1700 and the exchange rate at that time mean I paid about £850-900. It has paid for itself many times over. | ||
| fc_spoiler
Senior Member Username: fc_spoiler Post Number: 1381 Registered: 5-2006 |
I wasn't making a lot of money in '83 I've also updated the catalogue section: Click here (new scans and new pages) | ||
| cozmik_cowboy
Senior Member Username: cozmik_cowboy Post Number: 1262 Registered: 10-2006 |
Interesting. In Nov. '84, list on a Spoiler was $1190. The first Alembic I actually laid hands on was a new '83 Spoiler at the (hanging head in shame) Guitar Center where I worked then. We were asking $1500. Peter |
