Re: Expanding the Jackson line by force?
So you'll complain about how many models Fender has, then want Jackson to do the same? Why do you think they have so many models?
At best with most companies you get color selection. Different pickups = different model, and it's the same way with Jackson. You want a H/S/H Soloist? Well, that makes ONE of you. Find a few dozen more that also want one and it MIGHT make a blip on the radar. The extra cost in grabbing the parts from the bin is in the extra cost for the parts. Gold hardware costs the manufacturers more money too, you know? Import graphics DO NOT SELL. There is NO MARKET for them. The swirls manage to do better than flames (blue-orage an hot rod combined), but they are still tough to get out of the warehouse. If you're going to use shitty plastic for the fingerboards, just ebonize the damn rosewood with a dark stain. It's no lamer than plastic composites.
Jackson is a fucking TINY company compared to Fender. Fender can offer so many more options because they have a couple orders of magnitude more customers than Jackson does. Fender can afford to do a different model for each day of the week because they WILL find their buyers for it, and their overheads are so fucking low on guitar part costs they can afford to make less money on eac guitar.
You can ONLY get an Epiphone with a maple board and black inlays because they WERE on the now-discontinued John Conolly model. AFAIK, they didn't move many of those. I could be mistaken though.
So you'll complain about how many models Fender has, then want Jackson to do the same? Why do you think they have so many models?
At best with most companies you get color selection. Different pickups = different model, and it's the same way with Jackson. You want a H/S/H Soloist? Well, that makes ONE of you. Find a few dozen more that also want one and it MIGHT make a blip on the radar. The extra cost in grabbing the parts from the bin is in the extra cost for the parts. Gold hardware costs the manufacturers more money too, you know? Import graphics DO NOT SELL. There is NO MARKET for them. The swirls manage to do better than flames (blue-orage an hot rod combined), but they are still tough to get out of the warehouse. If you're going to use shitty plastic for the fingerboards, just ebonize the damn rosewood with a dark stain. It's no lamer than plastic composites.
Jackson is a fucking TINY company compared to Fender. Fender can offer so many more options because they have a couple orders of magnitude more customers than Jackson does. Fender can afford to do a different model for each day of the week because they WILL find their buyers for it, and their overheads are so fucking low on guitar part costs they can afford to make less money on eac guitar.
You can ONLY get an Epiphone with a maple board and black inlays because they WERE on the now-discontinued John Conolly model. AFAIK, they didn't move many of those. I could be mistaken though.
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