Sound Control - oops!

[Largest of Als]

Originally Posted by MarkMono

A little from column A, a little from column B.

Just what I was going to say

.. added with the fact I used to get them guest list if they wanted to go to gigs...

It's all about the back scratching!


Al

[Yorgo]

I spoke to a reliable source and found out the real reason Sound Control has got into this mess.

I don't retract anything i've said about the online mess, but, this had nthing to do with SC's demise. They deserve it.

[Densu]

Never had any problems with the place. Even when I was a wee dafty.

They knocked about 100 quid of a keyboard I wanted. Tried to get me to by an extenal soundcard that I didnt need. Thats it.

I can see why people think there bangers though. Retails a bummer. It's hardly a game store though. GOT ANY WII'S?

[GarryHoax]

http://clearance.soundcontrol.co.uk/index.php

A big list of bargains.
£1700 off a £4000 PRS?!

[Yorgo]

Those are fairly shite deals for such a fucked company

[Largest of Als]

They still have to try to make SOME money back...

On a side note.. 3 other independent guitar shops closed this week, one in Sheffield, one in Leicester and one just outside London. It's not easy for anyone at the moment.

The other thing to think about, since not many people know that SC was part owned by the Bank Of Scotland, who'll be responsible for a large chunk of the loss, is that this will effect ALL music stores and their dealings with the banks. Everyone will be seen as a risk now. I know we had our bank business manager on the phone yesterday asking questions about how things had been going since we opened.

Add to that the manufacturers and distributors who have all lost a shit load... lots of deals from them will be getting changed and re-shuffled, which will effect the prices the retailers buy at, which means you'll probably see things going up a little in price in the near future.


Al

[J.M]

Originally Posted by GarryHoax

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A big list of bargains.
£1700 off a £4000 PRS?!

In effect, brings the place in line with what you would expect to pay?


hate when people advertise the originaly rrp price from before the product was even launched when it comes to sales! It was 6000000000 million quid but you can have it today for a fiver, thats a saving of over 500million !!!!!



its amazing what massive effects can be caused by a few people defaulting on there morgage can cause! add to that the rising cost of houses,petrol, beer, n it spells fucked for commodities that are seen as luxury! can anyone spell recession? lol

[Semprini]

Originally Posted by J.M

hate when people advertise the originaly rrp price from before the product was even launched when it comes to sales! It was 6000000000 million quid but you can have it today for a fiver, thats a saving of over 500million !!!!!

Legally, to list the discount as 'sale', the product has to have been for sale at the higher price for a set period of time, which I think is at least 28 days.

[J.M]

Originally Posted by Semprini

Legally, to list the discount as 'sale', the product has to have been for sale at the higher price for a set period of time, which I think is at least 28 days.

what i meant is, retailers always list the rrp(eg 199.99) price even thought the item is almost always launched at a price lower than this (115)! then when it comes to the 'sales' they take 15 off the actual price but it looks like theyve took 100 pound off because of the rrp?!

[MarkMono]

Originally Posted by Largest of Als

They still have to try to make SOME money back...

On a side note.. 3 other independent guitar shops closed this week, one in Sheffield, one in Leicester and one just outside London. It's not easy for anyone at the moment.

The other thing to think about, since not many people know that SC was part owned by the Bank Of Scotland, who'll be responsible for a large chunk of the loss, is that this will effect ALL music stores and their dealings with the banks. Everyone will be seen as a risk now. I know we had our bank business manager on the phone yesterday asking questions about how things had been going since we opened.

Add to that the manufacturers and distributors who have all lost a shit load... lots of deals from them will be getting changed and re-shuffled, which will effect the prices the retailers buy at, which means you'll probably see things going up a little in price in the near future.


Al

Its like Sound Control exploded from overpricedness and its now lightly showering every other music store with its mark-up.

[Largest of Als]

Originally Posted by MarkMono

Its like Sound Control exploded from overpricedness and its now lightly showering every other music store with its mark-up.

Well, wouldnt say it was their overpricedness, I'd say it was more about the willingness of other suppliers to run on such minimal profit margins.
It's something I've been looking at quite a bit in the last few weeks, and I cant work out how some of these places, specifically online retailers, can operate on such low mark ups.

I was challenged on the price of something I was selling last week, the guy said he'd seen it much cheaper online, so I asked him to show me where. He was right. I worked out that the place he'd seen was making no more than £20 profit on an item costing nearly £2k.. thats a 1% mark up..

You have to be doing HUGE stock turnover to be able to work on margins like that...


Al

[MarkMono]

Originally Posted by Largest of Als

Well, wouldnt say it was their overpricedness, I'd say it was more about the willingness of other suppliers to run on such minimal profit margins.

Isn't every store charging less than them just the same as them being overpriced?

[Largest of Als]

Originally Posted by MarkMono

Isn't every store charging less than them just the same as them being overpriced?

Or all the stores charging less are underpriced?



Al

[MarkMono]

Again, same thing.

[Syxx]

I've lost track, who's the bad guys?