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What others have said about the rental of the production facility and the part of the workforce finding new living and work situations has certainly got to be a huge challenge for the company. Many of those jobs require specialized skills and experience so it'll likely take Collings quite a while to grow their capacity back.
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Waterloo guitars arguably cannibalize sales from more profitable instruments.
So wouldn't surprise me if they dropped the line, just like Rainsong dropped their Concert Hybrid Line.
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Profit margins on higher end Collings have got to be way higher. Cost of living in Austin has skyrocketed over the past ten years, according to a good friend who lives there. You just can’t keep high skilled labor at the kinds of wages you need to sell a guitar at that price. They need a Mexico factory to make that happen.
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If you could make 10 guitars at $3000 or 10 guitars at $6000 a year with the same work force what would you choose?
Business is business. Collings has bills to pay. I’d also expect their dealer network to shrink. Why supply instruments to shops that stagnate inventory? And don’t expect a small run of anything under $8k. |