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Price Guarantee

Ed Roman's Price Guarantee is Fairly Simple:
I will beat any stocking authorized dealers price on any new production guitar.

Ed On Negotiation:

I will not be insulted if you try to negotiate or make a better deal. I realize that human nature is such that every one wants to get a good deal.  When a customer starts negotiating price, He is telling me that he is a serious buyer. Obviously I have to make money when I sell something how else could I pay the rent or make the payroll.

Customers should try to understand that I have a large investment of inventory. I have dedicated myself to being the most complete and up to date guitar store in the world. This also of course costs money.

The more we sell the less we have to charge. So if you like what this store is about, Tell your friends and support us by buying all your guitars here.  Currently my prices are low except on rare and oddball items but I will be able to go even lower if my volume increases.

Furthermore:
Many companies have forbidden me from posting  my price guarantee on  pages that are associated directly with them. For example Taylor Guitars  told me that "I could not post my guaranteed lowest price on any of my Taylor Pages."   They even went so far as to get a court injunction from me listing even their list prices.

So remember, just because you don't see a price posted doesn't mean you shouldn't feel free to to use my guaranteed lowest price guarantee.

Some companies prevent us from even offering free freight.  These companies are trying to level the playing field for all their dealers. I agree with what they are trying to do.  If they didn't do that then no one would make any money.  Remember if no one makes money doing something, they just won't do it. 

For example....  What if everyone downloaded music from the internet,  and never bought the actual CD, Tape or Record.  In that case, all the record companies would cease to exist. The studio owners would all go out of business,  they could never afford to keep their doors open. The musicians would be limited to home recording, eventually no one would care if their records sold, and the entire industry would simply flush itself down the toilet.  Bye Bye music scene. 

So try to remember, we need to make money so we can keep bringing you all these extra cool guitars that no one else will carry!!!

So don't beat us into the dirt too hard the next time you want to buy a guitar.

Limited Editions

I cannot guarantee to beat prices on limited editions.  In fact my prices on those may even be high  (but I usually have them when nobody else will).
I will beat any price that you are quoted.  I can and will keep my prices lower than the competition.  Except on limited editions and one of a kind guitars.

Tell Me If you get a better price, and tell me from who!!!!

Please don't feel embarrassed or funny about using this service. How else will I know if other dealers are cheaper.

Solid Colors & Standard Models

In the case of solid color models  or standard models like PRS, Parker,  Gretsch, Jackson, Gibson BC Rich, Rickenbacker, & most Major Brands etc. I will always guarantee to beat any price.

Unusually Fine Tops

Sometimes, when dealing with guitars like Centurion, PRS, Quicksilver, Gibson, JET,  & Gledura  there are situations where the figuring on the top is extra special. In a cases like these, I cannot always guarantee to beat a price.

Back Orders

Sometimes companies like Rickenbacker  and/or PRS get into 18 month backorder situations. When this happens I will not always guarantee to beat the price. However,  I still will guarantee to beat the price if you are willing to order the item.


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Food For Thought

"In mainstream political circles anyone who talks about conspiracies at all is ridiculed. This smug habit is either ignorant or dishonest, since even a little study shows us that there have been many conspiracies in human history, and that some of them had a major effect.  Almost everyone immediately suspects a conspiracy when an assassination occurs in foreign countries: For example, Anwar Sadat in Egypt, or Indira Gandhi in India. But in the USA assassins are all supposed to be crazed loners."

Our country of course is completely immune to Conspiracies.

Ed Roman
Oct 04, 2001

 

Billy Gibbons in the Store Jamming on an Ed Roman RVC Guitar


More Deprogramming From Ed Roman
Please read what I have written below with an open mind 

These Are 2 Major Cliché's That Are No Longer True In The Guitar Business

1.  You Get What You Pay For!!!!

It's painfully obvious to me or to anyone who is not intellectually challenged, today many large corporations, use this tired old cliché to their financial advantage. They are constantly pricing guitars at extremely high prices, so that consumers will think they are actually handmade well built instruments.

I first learned this fact back in 1991, I was employed by Gibson Guitars. The president of Gibson, Henry Juszkiewicz made this statement to me. "The higher the price the better the guitar" "or at least that will be the customers perception."

This may have backfired a little on him, due to the fact that this artificial perception, that a production made guitar has to be so expensive, has made it possible for custom builders like, Myself, JET, Gledura, Jaros, Benedetto, McPherson, Dingwall, & Alembic to flourish. Simply because most intelligent people, would rather have a custom guitar. Especially if they could buy it for the same price or less than a machine made production instrument.

2.  It's Just Too Good To Be True!!!!

That's another Bulls&%t Cliché, The Man & all the large corporations want to instill in your mind.  (Don't you believe that for even one second !!!!!!!!)

A tribe isn't a tribe unless it has one Chief & many Indians. 

The Chief is nothing without Indians!!

The question you must ask yourself your whole life is "Am I A Chief,  Or Am I An Indian"

The Indian will believe the old "It's too good to be true" adage and go back to smoking his peace pipe. The Chief will just go for it  There lies the inherent difference.

Some people play original music, They are known as innovators, Some people play only cover tunes, In Vegas they are known as Lounge Bands.

Now that doesn't make these people bad people, But it doesn't make them Chief's either !!!!

Hell, I like to play cover music myself, I do it for fun !!!

Ed Roman

06/17/05

Monkey See Monkey Do

The monkey will play the same guitar as all the other monkeys will