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Don Rickert Musical Instruments (www.FiddleandBowStore.com) will bargain with you on the price of our instruments (which we want to become YOUR instruments)
We believe that we are the first company our our type (innovative and custom musical instruments) EVER to offer our customers the opportunity to trade stuff that they no longer want or a service they can easily provide in exchange for price discounts unheard of.
Our Instruments Can Be Expensive if you compared them to a Chinese-made equivalent instrument (of which there are none anyway): We know that our instruments are not cheap, especially now that we have raised prices to reflect their real cost (a seemingly stupid thing to do during a recession, eh?). Here is a genuine opportunity to obtain many of our instruments for a price that you feel is affordable.
It is very simple: make us an offer on price (by email only PLEASE: drickert@bellsouth.net) and tell us what thing or service of value (see our posting on "Bartering Scenarios..." you will trade us to make up the difference between your proposed price and our listed (usually discounted 10%) price. This process of trading one thing for another is called bartering (see our posting on "What Is Bartering?").
A typical transaction with our new way of selling might be...
"I will give you $900 for that $1,600 fiddle, plus, I will play the instrument on my next recording, give attribution to Don Rickert Musical Instruments on the CD jacket AND produce 3 high quality YouTube videos of me playing the instrument, all within 45 days, to boot."
Another example that involves actual goods exchange: Say you want a Travel Master Pochette, but can only afford to pay something in the $500 to $700 range, but you happen to have in the closet a old but WORKING Hohner "Pokerman" model (or similar) Melodeon (button accordion used in Scottish and English Morris and Contra Dance music) in D/A (the keys it plays) or D/G. You could offer us the Melodeon and $600 and the Travel Master Pochette would be yours...pretty good, eh? Now, if your Melodeon plays the keys of C/G, our response would be "No thanks." Not the end of the world though, right?
Some things to keep in mind
- NOT taking us up on this offer, provided that you really want the instrument, IS CRAZY!
- Fear of rejection: Most of us are afraid to ask for what we want for fear of hearing that aweful word "NO!"
Besides, what is the worst that can happen...we might respond with a counter-offer or say "no thanks"...that is not so aweful, is it? If we know our customers, and we think we do, there will be far more accepted offers than "No thanks" responses.
- If you feel that what you are offering us in return for reduced price is ridiculous or insulting, it probably is.
See our posting on "Bartering Scenarios..." to see some hypothetical examples of how a transaction might go and, perhaps more importantly, what is of value to us.
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