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Location: Tampa, Florida | I am clearing out my guitars, and my Taylor was THE one I was going to keep, until I saw the new Contour Bowl Custom Elite. So I am selling the Taylor to raise money for the Ovation. Its on ebay-
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7358700347&rd=1&...
It is a great guitar. If you have the Taylor itch, this is a great way to scratch it. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | As it should be... :rolleyes:
Wish you a great auction. |
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Location: Tampa, Florida | MWoody,
Thanks for the thought... The Taylor sold!!! My Custom Elite is on the way to Al from the Mothership! Should be here midweek. Can't wait. If my 2005 Collector's is anything like the C2078LX, man, oh, man! Can't wait. |
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Location: SoCal | Great decision. But you should have mentioned in the auction that you sold the Taylor to buy a better guitar -- an Ovation! |
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Location: North Texas | Don't give away any secrets. |
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Location: Tampa, Florida | The Taylor is pretty sweet, and I'll tell you what, Taylors play really nice. But I just love the necks on my Ovations, especially the LX ones I have had. Plus the finishes and inlays are just so sweet... and they are durable!!! Great "working" guitars. |
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Location: SoCal | I like the sound of my 1537 and 87 C over anything from Taylor that I've heard. It's a question of authority. The O's just stand up to be counted. Taylors are nice and they're good guitars, but they don't speak with authority..... |
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Location: Tampa, Florida | exactly. That's why I love O's. I wish more singer/songwriters, "acoustic" bands and popular atists were using them, to help us get the word out about how great they really are. Also, Ovation/Kaman needs to be harder on their dealers. We have a Kaman dealer here in town, been around 50 years. He has two or three mid-level Taks, no Ovations! If the dealers aren't marketing/selling the Ovation product and a belief in the validity of the product, who will (besides us)? It makes me really want to open a shop, call Kim Keller, mail Ovation my business plan, and get an Ovation dealer here in this university town of 100k people who actually beleives in the product. I could walk in my local "dealer" and they probably wouldn't even know what LX was all about. But they have a hell of a piano inventory... |
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Location: Tennessee | Ovation is selling all of their USA guitars as fast as they can make them. Production is up some 50% or something like that in the last year and there is still not a lot of inventory around. That's a good sign. Increase production too fast and quality will suffer. And it's very expensive to ratchet down production if you overshoot the mark or get a rep for shoddy work.
If Ovation could feed the market, then they could create the demand. But it's expensive and it's a long process ... and many others have fallen along the way and will never regain their previous standing or glory. Ovation can remain a boutique house as far as I'm concerned. It's a corporate world out there. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | There are probably enough dealers, just not good ones. Our local GC doesn't know what they have and doesn't do anything to sell O's. There are 2 other O dealers. I was talking to a salesman there for 15 years or so and didn't know Ovations ever made solidbodies. The 3rd place carries so few and the last time I was in there the salesman said he didn't like O's and liked Ibanez better.
As Stoney just said, sometimes getting more dealers only means you are having trouble selling what you make. We couldn't get a Porsche dealer until the economy went south and Porsche finally made more cars than they could sell. Now we have a dealer and he doesn't have a clue about what he's selling. Cars and guitars, that's all I know. |
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Location: Tennessee | I was talking to a salesman there for 15 years or so Don'tcha just hate it when you can't get the imbicile salesman to shut up?? ;) |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I hate it when I do that. Especially since lawyers are supposed to be professional writers. I have been accused of being a slow talker, though. |
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Location: Tampa, FL | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
Cars and guitars, that's all I know. Do you think the clients are aware of this?
Today is offically Pick-On-Your-Local-Friendly-Attorney day. |
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