Post #512830 by The Granite Tiki on Tue, Feb 23, 2010 1:40 PM

You can buy a Fender Strat new for $2699.99 and you can buy a Fender Strat new for $689.99

These are both Fender Strats and both new, fine guitars.

Why on earth would they sell a guitar by the same name at different price points?!?!?!

Would you chastise a beginner, or a poor (financially) musician for buying the $689.99 model?!?!?!

Is the $2699.99 one better? I HOPE SO!!!! Of course it is.

Would you find fault with Fender for selling strats that aren't as great as their top of the line strats??

Of course not. If they don't make them, someone else will, and take that market away from them.

Places like Trader Vic's and Don The Beachcomber's invented the whole tropical escapism dining experience, yet a whole segment of the potential market is being swallowed up by others, who don't have the pedigree or the original intent.

I'm guessing these franchises will be much easier to open, and sustain.

This is a great thing! And no one HAS to go there, but when/if one opens up here in NH, I'll be there every week!

PS. by using a slightly different name my analogy probably works better if you consider Fender Squire Strats.

[ Edited by: The Granite Tiki 2010-02-23 13:43 ]