Do you ever think that there are just people out there who find say, a Fernandez bass or guitar, who know NOTHING about instruments at all, who have a friend, who knows say, very little about guitars/basses and says, WOW THAT LOOKS LIKE AN ALEMBIC! I've heard of them, they are very expensive! Then the owner of the bass/guitar goes online, checks out Alembic's price list, and sees that a custom made series instrument starts out at around 13,000 dollars, and honestly thinks that they will get that for the guitar they stumbled on to? Or do you think it is all a scam/ with evil intent?
I think about this when I see Rogue basses on ebay going for like 5,500. The people can't always be that greedy, they just may not be wise enough when it comes to Alembics to know that despite the 6,800 factory list price, a used rogue bass generally sells for a little over 2000.
This is also why when a guitar store gets ahold of a series bass or guitar, they generally want around 6 to 10 grand for it, rather than the 3-4 grand we all know it should be.
