Ok weve had a discussion on running on this site for some time now.
Why Dosnt Ibanez Offer More Colors/Options.
The common response has been that they sell what they think they can.(i.e. dark colors and cheap modles)
but wait there is more to this. Just on Jemsite alone there are almost 2000 people give or take a couple hundred (not all are registerd) Now weve established that between 50%-60% of us spend 1,000 dollars on guitars a year. Ok thats 1,000,000.00 dollars a year mostly leaning tward
Ibanez guitars. The biggest reson we go anywerhe else is options. (I think we all admit that) All this is not including the millions of dollars they make a year in America with there current way of sales with cheaper modles to beginers etc..
Ok now the argument that has been placed on this site is that you can get what you want then customize it, but if you were Ibanez why would you supplie somthing that has to be changed. What does that do to your name as a business? If it wasnt for them being decent gutars with inovation thrown in they would have been destroyed years ago. So back to my point, Why throw another million away each year by letting other companies and luthiers make these adjustments.
Making a custom shope could only benifit Ibanez. There is no way they could loose money on it ever. The would completly wipe out any other custom shope. ESP would be gone as well as Jackson. Gibson and PRS would be greatly decreased in business. Just based on this site alone they would make over 2 million a year at the
custom shop, and those people would be freaking satisfied insted of being on a web site complaining about how they all had to adjust there guitars and spend extar cash. We would all have 2,000 + dollar guitars with exactly what we came for, and thats with just a limited amount of features to choose from. If they wanted to go all out and make anything we could think of (which wouldnt be a bad idea to keep up there inovation that they have always had) you would be talking about people spending over 3,000 dollars. Again if you just went by this site (not including people from out of the states and the rest of the people in the states) you would make 3 or 4 million a year.
Ok point is if you include the rest of the world, and figure in the couple years it would take for them to destroy all other companies Ibanez would have 60% or more of the busines in guitars of the world. The would have there regular lines and custom work raking in probably billions a year, and being cream of the crop.
just an idea ive been tossing around.
If there are any millionares out there that want to put me to work making our own company let me know. Or maybe jemsite as a whole should start our own company... heck yeah * *... im in Glen sign me up
Buzz
