Apex prices---SHTF?

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I'm actually surprised it took this long. I noticed that the prices of Apex mics have nearly doubled for some models. When do you think the S*** Hits The Fan, because of the fallen value of the dollar, for the rest of the manufacturers?

Paj
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Can you site examples?

I keep seeing them for around the same prices as always.
 
That's if you're getting a good deal, like on eBay, where you can still get the 460 for around $200. The suggested retail price was always $399 as far as I can remember.
 
PG: The prices I quoted were from FullCompass. I last checked a few month ago. Their prices and 8thStreet's prices for Apex are definitely up.

Hey, I hope it's not the trend. BS aside about how a weak dollar is good for our trade, I hope it's not a trend in electronics.

Paj
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it's been getting worse for everything and will continue to get worse, food, gas, lumber, electronics......everything
 
...but should that not lower the price of music equipment?

If gas, groceries, etc. keeps going up, music gear will be the last thing on my shopping list...

...I've wondered that before.... does a poor economy lower prices on "luxury" items?

:confused:
 
Off topic but...gas prices are making touring cost prohibitive. Especially here in Canada because of the distance between major cities. I'm talkin' indie bands in stinky little vans not major label tours.
 
Those Canadians need to hurry up and get all those tar sands producing :eek:
 
Price of oil means higher prices for processing the metal that makes the mic bodies
And the shipping rates to go from China to the US are going through the roof.

....there's only so much that cheap labor can do....
 
Full Compass lists MAP on its website, like every other vendor that is required to list MAP. If you call them, you typically can get a far better price. I expect that if you called FC and asked for their price on the APEX 460, you will get quoted something in the neighborhood of $200.
 
As a potential upside to gas prices, I have heard that globalization has slowed a little, and could potentially reverse.

The theory is, since it is expensive to ship to China and Mexico, due to gas prices, it could make more sense to pay the higher wages in US and Canada.

I heared on the radio, a few company's have actually come back to North America, due to this.
 
mattkw80 said:
The theory is, since it is expensive to ship to China and Mexico, due to gas prices, it could make more sense to pay the higher wages in US and Canada.

I heared on the radio, a few company's have actually come back to North America, due to this.
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That's a nice theory. I'm sure that this is happening, but that doesn't mean the jobs are coming back.

What's happening is this: manufacturers are realizing that as they get more and more automated in their manufacturing processes, the advantages to manufacturing in low-wage countries evaporate and suddenly the transportation costs become more expensive than the handful of people needed to run the equipment.

That said, most electronics are not likely to move to the U.S. any time soon. There are a handful of plants that manufacture goods for thousands of companies. As long as those are in China, odds are most of those companies will continue to produce their goods there because the financial cost of running their own facilities greatly exceeds the cost of transportation and will for the conceivable future.

When we start to see manufacturing capacity going unused in the U.S. on that scale, we'll see companies start to move here in significant numbers, but for now, it's a chicken-and-egg situation. The plants have to come first. :)
 
TimOBrien said:
Price of oil means higher prices for processing the metal that makes the mic bodies
And the shipping rates to go from China to the US are going through the roof.

....there's only so much that cheap labor can do....
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They are just not really using the cheap labor the right way.

The could paddle the ships here you know.
 
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