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The cost of gear is cheap in South Africa.

I walked into a Pawn Shop in Louis Botha avenue, saw a grille cloth sticking out from behind a bunch of old PC printers...removed the printers to find a 1966 Vibrolux Reverb, with the original Jensen Red Label speakers, GEC KT66 power valves, and a bunch of Mullards in the pre-amp....I walked out 5 minutes later with it, I paid R 950.00.

Sold it in the States for $1800.00

 

this is fun I like these stories............. I had a friend see a jag, at a cash converters, for R1000, from what he described it was pretty beaten up, but still sounded good........ by the time i got there it was gone, granted it was like a week later

I had some family visiting the UK in December, I could have got Guitar Rig Mobile for R800 and a set of Creative Powered monitors for R1000, but unfortunatley they were unable to get the stuff due to the weather conditions and delivery in the UK at the time, but I ended up buying my Guitar Rig Mobile from Music Mate in Boksburg for R1800, It was a crap feeling knowing that I could've got the Guitar Rig and the speakers for the same price in the UK. SA prices are up to SH!T, so lets not kid ourselves.

I was in a music shop in Cresta last week, browsing through their music books.  HUGE mark up.  A book that I was interested in, $25 in the US,  selling here for R650!  Being retired is nice because you have a lot of time to kak people out.  I asked them if this book had it's own seat on the plane, amongst other things.  Anyway I know the owner so I'm going to cramp his style shortly as well.

You forget WE are not there market... Marshall Music CPT turns over +- R500,000 to a Million a month, it is NOT on guys like us, it is Dr. and Lawyers who are weekend warriors that want the best, so dropping R100,000 on a PRS and Custom Amp is no problem, also why should they dick around looking for books when a book MAY be had for $30 online, but there time is worth more than that to hunt it down when they can just throw in a R650.00 book into there purchase, it is peanuts.

Matt

Clearly, you are not 'rich', at least financially   I'm in no way in that league at all, but better off than many in SA, I still look for good prices, but sometimes I just pay the extra cash because my time is more valuable than the potential savings... If I have to spend even an hour searching for something on-line and dealing with the admin, it is robbing me of my time that I could be either earning money from, or spending it with my family.

I just landscaped and hardscaped my front garden, I was hands on in that I drew the plans, chose the plants etc, but I'm NOT going to do the work, my time is too valuable to me.

Singemonkey, I have no idea how old you are, or where you are in life, but life changes when you get married, start a family, buy a home(s) and have a mortage/cars to pay off etc, it is then you REALLY learn the value of time/money.

Cheers

Matt