skydog52 Posted January 3, 2019 Posted January 3, 2019 Good for them. Bound to happen. https://www.musiciansfriend.com/search?typeAheadSuggestion=true&typeAheadRedirect=true&sB=r&Ntt=heritage+guitar
CJTopes Posted January 3, 2019 Posted January 3, 2019 Good for Heritages bottom line if they sell. Any idea what the quality has been like since the changes?
Gitfiddler Posted January 3, 2019 Posted January 3, 2019 Wow, that is huge news for the Heritage brand!
HANGAR18 Posted January 3, 2019 Posted January 3, 2019 If they ever get to Sweetwater, we're all screwed. 2 year interest free financing is a bitch to resist.
TalismanRich Posted January 3, 2019 Posted January 3, 2019 11 hours ago, HANGAR18 said: If they ever get to Sweetwater, we're all screwed. 2 year interest free financing is a bitch to resist. Doe you feel llke this sometimes? Oh yeah, thats an H140 hanging there.
skydog52 Posted January 3, 2019 Author Posted January 3, 2019 15 hours ago, HANGAR18 said: If they ever get to Sweetwater, we're all screwed. 2 year interest free financing is a bitch to resist.
brentrocks Posted January 3, 2019 Posted January 3, 2019 This is good for us but bad for dealers. This is gonna kill the mom n pop dealers. Obviously heritage doesn’t care about them???
skydog52 Posted January 3, 2019 Author Posted January 3, 2019 1 hour ago, brentrocks said: This is good for us but bad for dealers. This is gonna kill the mom n pop dealers. Obviously heritage doesn’t care about them??? Yes Don't I know, already Dead! No they don't
Buckyrock Posted January 3, 2019 Posted January 3, 2019 well, that's stupid. (Heritage at Musicians Friend/GC)
bolero Posted January 5, 2019 Posted January 5, 2019 at first I thought it was crappy: but after some thought, I think it is the only way to get Heritage into higher visibility with the larger population of guitar buyers people like us are a very small percentage I can't count the number of guitar playing friends who I have tried to "convert" to Heritage, who don't give the brand much credence, because they don't see them in stores beside GIBSON & FENDER and what about the even larger percentage of non educated, casual guitar buyers? ( like kids' parents etc ) G & F still hold sway over anyone who is only *marginally* familiar with guitar. Because they are everywhere. ( all that free marketing from 1950-1980 or so didn't help either ) at least now, everyone will be able to compare them side by side, and see for themselves
rwinking Posted January 5, 2019 Posted January 5, 2019 I.m selling my H150 to my neighbor who has fallen in love with it. He actual wants my H-170 but that will never happen. Anyway, I am looking for another H-150. Used ones are going fo anywhere from $1500 - $2000. My question is how are the new ones? Don’t really want to pay $2000 for a used one if I can get a new one for a little more. And if I decide to go new, I will probably give Jay in Florida a try before MF or GC
HANGAR18 Posted January 5, 2019 Posted January 5, 2019 6 hours ago, rwinking said: I.m selling my H150 to my neighbor who has fallen in love with it. He actual wants my H-170 but that will never happen. Anyway, I am looking for another H-150. Used ones are going fo anywhere from $1500 - $2000. My question is how are the new ones? Don’t really want to pay $2000 for a used one if I can get a new one for a little more. And if I decide to go new, I will probably give Jay in Florida a try before MF or GC By "a little more" you mean between $500.00-$1000.00 more?
kennyv4 Posted January 5, 2019 Posted January 5, 2019 The good news is name recognition which will increase the value of new and used Heritage guitars. The bad news is the increase in value of new and used Heritage guitars. It's the right move for Heritage. Time will tell if it hurts the independent dealers. I am hesitant to spend $2,800 on a guitar I can't see and play before buying, heck that goes for almost any guitar. The thing that bothers me is on the old Heritage web site they listed their dealers. Now you have to call them for a dealers name and they also sell direct. You can buy a Gibson at the Gibson factory at MSRP, no discounts. All their dealers sell them at discounts. Heritage is not doing that. Seems the mom and pop stores may not be in the future of the Heritage game plan. Time will tell what Heritage is going to do. Whatever it is I hope they are successful and thrive.
rwinking Posted January 5, 2019 Posted January 5, 2019 Yeah....$2000 or $2500......$500 is not that much more for a new guitar. Still, my question is how are the new guitars? Has anyone payed them? The thing with MF is free shipping and one can return the guitar if they don’t like it.
HANGAR18 Posted January 5, 2019 Posted January 5, 2019 5 hours ago, kennyv4 said: The good news is name recognition which will increase the value of new and used Heritage guitars. The bad news is the increase in value of new and used Heritage guitars. It's the right move for Heritage. Time will tell if it hurts the independent dealers. I am hesitant to spend $2,800 on a guitar I can't see and play before buying, heck that goes for almost any guitar. The thing that bothers me is on the old Heritage web site they listed their dealers. Now you have to call them for a dealers name and they also sell direct. You can buy a Gibson at the Gibson factory at MSRP, no discounts. All their dealers sell them at discounts. Heritage is not doing that. Seems the mom and pop stores may not be in the future of the Heritage game plan. Time will tell what Heritage is going to do. Whatever it is I hope they are successful and thrive. I was at a Guitar Center recently. Hadn't been in one in years, but I happened to be shopping for a new Gibson Flying V and didn't have much choice. Anyway, it used to be that I NEVER paid what it said on the tag. (This was in a day and time when I would walk into this one particular GC and every sales person in the place would stop what they were doing to walk over to me, shake my hand and greet me like i was a rich MF'n rock star.) Times have changed. The cashiers who work at Guitar Centers now have informed me that the price is now set in stone by the manufacturer and that they cannot budge on the price... period. This is not the only place where I have seen this sort of thing is happening either. It seems to me now that all the manufacturers of everything (guitars, guns, cameras, a brand new Harely-Davidson, whatever) are all forcing dealers to stick to a specific price (such as a minimum advertised price) in order to compensate for the invention of the World Wide Web so that everyone is on a level playing field. This basically removes the incentive to buy online instead of from a local dealer. Dealers who fail to comply (ie get caught cheating) risk having their dealership status pulled. So now, it doesn't matter if I buy a guitar from Gibson directly or from a local dealer, it will cost me the same. (The subject of sales tax or no sales tax, or shipping is a different discussion.)
Gitfiddler Posted January 5, 2019 Posted January 5, 2019 Will MF and GC handle custom orders, or is that strictly handled by the factory? Another dumb question. Why haven't we received any comments or updates from Heritage management about this or other developments?
TalismanRich Posted January 6, 2019 Posted January 6, 2019 3 hours ago, Gitfiddler said: Will MF and GC handle custom orders, or is that strictly handled by the factory? Another dumb question. Why haven't we received any comments or updates from Heritage management about this or other developments? Does MF and GC handle custom orders from Gibson and Fender? I've never even considered going there and asking to custom order a guitar.
DetroitBlues Posted January 6, 2019 Posted January 6, 2019 On 1/2/2019 at 9:49 PM, HANGAR18 said: If they ever get to Sweetwater, we're all screwed. 2 year interest free financing is a bitch to resist. Wait for the four years interest free...
skydog52 Posted January 6, 2019 Author Posted January 6, 2019 6 hours ago, Gitfiddler said: Will MF and GC handle custom orders, or is that strictly handled by the factory? Another dumb question. Why haven't we received any comments or updates from Heritage management about this or other developments? Looks like Gibson and Fender offer Custom orders online. The way of the future I guess. Really we are not a factor in their decisions.
davesultra Posted January 6, 2019 Posted January 6, 2019 14 hours ago, skydog52 said: Really we are not a factor in their decisions. Just another reason why I could care less about this new version of The Heritage. No thanks Meng.
Vanschoyck Posted January 7, 2019 Posted January 7, 2019 On 1/5/2019 at 2:45 PM, Gitfiddler said: Why haven't we received any comments or updates from Heritage management about this or other developments? This is a very good question. Is it just me, or does it seem like when they have updated on this forum they got torched pretty good.
HANGAR18 Posted January 7, 2019 Posted January 7, 2019 2 hours ago, Vanschoyck said: This is a very good question. Is it just me, or does it seem like when they have updated on this forum they got torched pretty good. Well, there is that.
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