Chankgeez wrote:Seance wrote:Chankgeez wrote:Seance wrote:Is a fuzz pedal really such a valuable tool that you'd be willing to pay $800 for it?
The same applies regardless of the price.
If you are a person willing to pay $5,000,000 for a fuzz pedal... then have at it.
OK, gimme the $5,000,000 and then I'll buy the fuzz pedal.
My point being that a builder asking $400 for a new pedal is then doubled in attempted price on the flippage.
I personally have never paid over US $250 for a guitar pedal. I only buy maybe one pedal a year.
So I obviously am not the consumer willing to pay $400 or $800 for a pedal, flipped or direct.
For people who don't care about flipping and markup, they are willing to pay what they are
willing to pay. I don't swim in those waters. And markup flipping is going to happen regardless
of the price, and sometimes, regardless of the availability. People are people. The entire
world economy is built on the notion of "markup", often with mass produced, widely available
items that are no longer regional, handmade, specialty items made by craftspeople trained in
a tradition. It is mostly all spin in an attempt to create fervid consumption patterns with no
correlation to usage value or worth.
We are getting to the point where pedal makers might start to insert "keys" into their pedal that
can only be activated by logging onto their website (like with expensive computer graphics programs).
The only thing seemingly keeping that from happening is that guitar pedals are still (at least nominally)
stand alone units and don't require keys or constant updates in order to continue to be usable.