
And are willing to radically overpay for it. And people buy parts and part their way to the guitar they want. The used market is huge, which prevents new Fenders from being sold.

I bought a barely used MIM Tele instead of a new one. Seen that, too.Īdditionally, there are plenty of people who don't want to buy a used guitar for a number of reasons - they worry the frets might suck, or the neck might be messed up and they don't know enough about necks to tell.īut I get your point. There are also the kids who say "Daddy, I would like to learn electric guitar" and Daddy pulls out the checkbook and buys them a PRS and a thousand dollar amp. I was in Sam Ash two weeks ago and a 16 year old kid with his mom bought an American Special Strat.

Or they end up here and they mod their MIM Strat. Well, there are lots of kids getting their first guitars - and then maybe those kids move up from their Squire Bullets to MIM Strats.
