Fodera 2010 price list

[CHRISDABASS]

[url="http://www.fodera.com/pdf/2010_Fodera_Price_List.pdf"]http://www.fodera.com/pdf/2010_Fodera_Price_List.pdf[/url]

Now i know Fodera are expensive but this is just obscene!!

Scroll down to page two!

They charge $499 for a hand made scratch plate made of plastic????

$750 for a wooden back panel cover???

$999 for a different radius on the fret board???


i wont even start on the $24,000 basses!!


Crikey!!

[Brave Sir Robin]

And still people buy them. They must be backordered. Good on them tbh. Make hay while the sun shines.

[AndyTravis]

I just saw lots of numbers.

[thisnameistaken]

How much for a Fender logo on it?

[Kev]

[quote name='CHRISDABASS' post='949877' date='Sep 8 2010, 09:07 PM'][url="http://www.fodera.com/pdf/2010_Fodera_Price_List.pdf"]http://www.fodera.com/pdf/2010_Fodera_Price_List.pdf[/url]


They charge $499 for a hand made scratch plate made of plastic????[/quote]

Can somebody who defends Fodera's prices please justify this?

[Doctor J]

If there's someone out there ready to pay it, well it just makes sense that there's someone out there ready to exploit it

[bubinga5]

ridiculous...sorry IMO, when luthiers charge these prices i think there just taking the piss...what makes a piece of plastic much more expensive than any other luthiers piece of plastic...

[bubinga5]

just noticed the truss rod cover...wait for it...$499

[Dread Bass]

15% lefty upcharge. I hate to see this on custom basses.

[velvetkevorkian]

[quote name='Brave Sir Robin' post='949879' date='Sep 8 2010, 09:09 PM']And still people buy them. They must be backordered. Good on them tbh. Make hay while the sun shines.[/quote]
Yep, you're still looking at a two year wait for your $500 pickguard. Don't like it? Don't buy it. Simples.

Edited September 8, 2010 by velvetkevorkian

[waynepunkdude]

My fave is the extra $4K for the titanium bridge and truss rod.

[Clarky]

Makes the one FS on BassChat look positively bargain basement You can buy a whole Fodera bass on BC for the same price as an aluminium bridge, truss rod and back plate cover!!!!

[Doctor J]

Or, alternatively, you can buy the whole FS section on Basschat for a custom Fodera.

[stevie]

That's nothing! I'm working on a job that involves a car whose tyres cost $25,000 a set. And there's more....

To actually get the tyres changed, you have to send the car back to France, where they charge you $70,000 for the privilege. The world has gone mad I tell you!

Makes Fodera sound quite reasonable actually

[Gwilym]

Sounds to me like they are trying to deter people from asking for extras that are time consuming to make and distract them from building basses.
Also, they have staff to pay a living wage in an expensive city, and probably expensive rent to pay in a prime Brooklyn location.
This is the real world, not some far east sweat-shop.

[waynepunkdude]

$24k for a bit of wood with strings on isn't the real world.

[Colledge]

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='949997' date='Sep 8 2010, 10:11 PM']$24k for a bit of wood with strings on isn't the real world.[/quote]
you sound like my mam.

[BottomEndian]

[quote name='CHRISDABASS' post='949877' date='Sep 8 2010, 09:07 PM']$999 for a different radius on the fret board???[/quote]
That's the one that got me. I mean, I don't usually care about this sort of stuff. People want to pay those figures for these basses, so Fodera can charge those prices, and that's fine, but... $999 for a different radius? F***'s sake.

[Clarky]

[quote name='Colledge' post='950004' date='Sep 8 2010, 10:19 PM']you sound like my mam.[/quote]
I hope for her sake she doesn't look like Wayne too

[EBS_freak]

WALOB

[tauzero]

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='950005' date='Sep 8 2010, 10:19 PM']That's the one that got me. I mean, I don't usually care about this sort of stuff. People want to pay those figures for these basses, so Fodera can charge those prices, and that's fine, but... $999 for a different radius? F***'s sake. [/quote]
You missed the one that got me - $499 for a lined fretless. That is, instead of hammering frets in and stoning them all and crowning them etc, you stick slivers of wood in the slots you've already got cut for the frets and sand them down flat. So you pay them $499 for them to do less work.

[Ou7shined]

Worth every penny if you ask me. Probably makes you play better too.

[AndyTravis]

£20,000 for the Anthony Jackson Model?

Last time i saw one of them it was a single pickup directly wired to a f***ing jack socket, isn't it?

I'll sh*t you a bass made of unicorn tears for £20k, and it'll have a bare minimum volume and tone control.

No doubting they're amazingly well made basses, the NYC Empire 4 is still a reasonable $3000, isn't that similar to AC/Sadowsky/Lull etc?

Edited September 8, 2010 by AndyTravis

[Vibrating G String]

[quote name='Kev' post='949905' date='Sep 8 2010, 01:25 PM']Can somebody who defends Fodera's prices please justify this?[/quote]
I won't defend or justify them but I can understand them. It used to be Alembic with the crazy prices. Now Fodera has the perception of being the best in the mind of those that think you can buy talent. Those are the people you should ask about justifying the price. If someone offered you $500 a week to come and take out your trash you'd be a fool for turning them down.

Outrageous price lists like this create a lot of free advertising and some people just can't break free from the myth that price = quality and the higher the prices go the higher the fans desires go.

As a small business they don't have to worry about selling thousands of basses. They only need a few people and they're getting them. Higher prices creates more desire and they will continue to raise them until they run out of buyers.

At least Fodera does make a very high quality product and are capitalizing on decades of reputation and celebrity endorsement, not like some others that put out mediocre stuff and just price it outrageously hoping to catch a few fresh fish. Ritter for example

Fodera has left the world of quality based pricing and has gone into the same kind of dynamic that makes Picasso's go for millions.

Fodera, while being top notch, can be matched in tone and playability by many other builders. But it won't make you the center of attention at Wooten camp the way a rotted chestnut 6 string with extended B headstock will.

I don't mean any of this as a slam on Fodera, they're just cashing in the same way Justin Beiber is. I would do the same thing.

[theplumber]

At the risk of putting a downer on everything....think of those poor people at the other side of the world who have been flooded,and have lost their homes...yes we are lucky to buy nice guitars .......