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Old 04-26-2004, 01:52 PM   #2 (permalink)
MUSICandCHARACTER
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Take a look at how clean the shop is:

http://www.jinbaomusic.com/doce/jj.htm

I hate the fact that the sellers of these horns hoist them on unsuspecting parents (like .99 and $69 shipping). And the Chinese have a lot to learn about making western instruments.

A look at eBay show hundreds of these India or Chinese made horns selling for $80 to $150 new. You can't buy a decent case for that price. Yet someone is making a lot of money selling them at this price. After importing them, distributing them and those related costs, how do they sell them at $80?

If someone came and offered you a brand new car for your 16 year old kid (of course cars are regulated, instruments are not so this couldn't happen) and said, "Look, this car is just as good as a Chevy ... it has doors and tires and even an airbag ... new for only $1000." Would you want your kid driving it?

Yugo tried that ....

I keep waiting for these cheap horns to fall under their own weight. They compete against each other and the prices are going down all the time. I guess a lot of parents buy them for $100 and find out they are crap, and go a buy a real horn. Save the first $100 dollars and these guys would fall. Until then, we have to keep helping the uninitiated.

I started my website basically because of this problem. See: http://www.ibowtie.com/buyinghints.html Of course I sell ZeuS (made in the USA!) but I also help parents buy horns and try to get them to avoid wasting their money.

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