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Title: Good ol' times
Post by: FC Bass on August 09, 2012, 07:05:39 AM

I was asked a question about a Spoiler and I uploaded some old (early eighties) pricelists, beware: can be a shocking experience  
Click here (http://painandgrief.com/aaa/fcbasssite/alembic/images/pricelists/pricelists.htm target=_blank)

Title: Good ol' times
Post by: lbpesq on August 09, 2012, 07:37:26 AM

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

Title: Good ol' times
Post by: honninscrave on August 09, 2012, 10:09:20 AM

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...

Title: Good ol' times
Post by: jazzyvee on August 09, 2012, 11:47:17 AM

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

Title: Good ol' times
Post by: hammer on August 09, 2012, 12:30:53 PM

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.

Title: Good ol' times
Post by: terryc on August 09, 2012, 03:35:41 PM

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.

Title: Good ol' times
Post by: FC Bass on August 09, 2012, 07:06:43 PM

I wasn't making a lot of money in '83  
 
I've also updated the catalogue section: Click here (http://painandgrief.com/aaa/fcbasssite/alembic/10.htm#Alembiccatalogues target=_blank) (new scans and new pages)

Title: Good ol' times
Post by: cozmik_cowboy on August 10, 2012, 04:47:28 AM

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