What's the catch with The Guitar Center's sale?

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song writer wrote:
> The Guitar Center is having this amazing sale up until January 31st. What I
> want to know is why? What' the catch?
>

Hahahaha.

Hurry, sale ends soon!

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song writer wrote:

> The Guitar Center is having this amazing sale up until January 31st. What I
> want to know is why? What' the catch?
>

What's so amazing about the sale? And what make you think there's a
catch? Are the prices just unusually low?

--
Eric

www.Raw-Tracks.com

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On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 04:00:46 GMT, song writer
<iwritesongs@verizon.net> wrote:

>The Guitar Center is having this amazing sale up until January 31st. What I
>want to know is why? What' the catch?

Hey look, the Mutant's friend. (co-conspiritors) are ALSO having a
HUGE SALE, having dropped their catalog prices again. Some kind of
final monopoly game push before the Last Man Standing has TOTAL MARKET
DOMINANCE!! Not just in your neighborhood, song writer, but ALL OVER
ZA VAAUULD! Then your anus will feel the TOTAL MARKET PENETRATION as
you pay $25 for guitar strings, etc.
Pay a buck more and keep the competition alive a few more years, I
say.
Slime marches on,..

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"play_on" <playon@comcast.net> wrote in message news:r0j1v0hjiothl9ulrad9rebmcn4a688sm4@4ax.com...

> They are reducing inventory before tax time. Most retailers blow
> stuff out this time of year.

My mother taught me a long time ago... Do your Christmas shopping
for next year, right after Christmas this year. I guess it still applies.

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What was such a great deal ? [ always be prepared to walk away ! ]

regards gkb



"song writer" <iwritesongs@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> The Guitar Center is having this amazing sale up until January 31st. What
I
> want to know is why? What' the catch?
>

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play_on wrote:
> They are reducing inventory before tax time. Most retailers blow
> stuff out this time of year.


Guitar Center never blows anything out. The "sale" prices last 365 days
a year. Just ask for them.

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>The Guitar Center is having this amazing sale up until January 31st. What I
>want to know is why? What' the catch?

I bought cabling listed for $540 for $110..no catch..they have to dump store
stock.


John A. Chiara
SOS Recording Studio
Live Sound Inc.
Albany, NY
www.sosrecording.net
518-449-1637

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On 1/20/05 11:14 PM, in article 35bdsaF4jg31sU1@individual.net, "Joe Sensor"
<crabcakes@emagic.net> wrote:

> song writer wrote:
>> The Guitar Center is having this amazing sale up until January 31st. What I
>> want to know is why? What' the catch?
>>
>
> Hahahaha.
>
> Hurry, sale ends soon!


LOL! Don't get my wrong. I don¹t' work for the Guitar Center. I was just
wondering why they had such a big sale. Could it be the next generation of
high quality audio equipment is coming out?

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song writer wrote:


> LOL! Don't get my wrong. I don¹t' work for the Guitar Center. I was just
> wondering why they had such a big sale. Could it be the next generation of
> high quality audio equipment is coming out?

Guitar center has a big sale for Christmas, for Valentines day, for
rocktober, to celebrate Fender, to celebrate Gibson, to celebrate their
anniversary, for 4th of July, etc., etc., etc.

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"hank alrich" <walkinay@thegrid.net> wrote in message
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> song writer wrote:
>
>> LOL! Don't get my wrong. I don't' work for the Guitar Center. I was just
>> wondering why they had such a big sale. Could it be the next generation
>> of
>> high quality audio equipment is coming out?
>
> No, it's because at the end of every company's fiscal year they must
> take inventory so they can then prepare financial statments and
> importantly, tax returns.


True enough but fiscal and calendar years are not the same animal. Model
years and associated price changes however, typically do stay in sync with
the calendar year and are the most likely reason for the January sales.

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"JoeT" wrote:

> True enough but fiscal and calendar years are not the same animal.

They don't have to be the same but the y certainly can be.

> Model years and associated price changes however, typically do stay in
> sync with the calendar year and are the most likely reason for the January
> sales.

The reason for the sale is that GC always has a really big sale going
on. I was around a GC more than I anticipated last summer, and in six
weeks there was no stopping the one big sale after another. People get
excited when they smell money, even if it's play money.

--
ha

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"hank alrich" <walkinay@thegrid.net> wrote in message
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> "JoeT" wrote:
>
>> True enough but fiscal and calendar years are not the same animal.
>
> They don't have to be the same but the y certainly can be.
>
>> Model years and associated price changes however, typically do stay in
>> sync with the calendar year and are the most likely reason for the
>> January
>> sales.
>
> The reason for the sale is that GC always has a really big sale going
> on. I was around a GC more than I anticipated last summer, and in six
> weeks there was no stopping the one big sale after another. People get
> excited when they smell money, even if it's play money.
>
> --
> ha

Any more, every retailer is always having a "Big Sale". I can remember when
The word "Sale" meant special pricing on given items. Now it's merely used
to imply that while simply being used in the classic sense that things are
indeed "for sale".. lol

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> You don't pay taxes on inventory.

This is the case here in Michigan now.

Used to be there was an inventory tax here.

At the Fed level? I know not.

J


"Wayne" <ybstudios@aol.com> wrote in message news:20050122175651.08434.00000238@mb-m06.aol.com...
>Everything they inventory they have to pay taxes on at the end of their
>fiscal year (1/31, generally) so they try to dump as much as possible of
>it during January.

You don't pay taxes on inventory. You pay taxes on profits resulting from the
sale of inventory. When they purchase equipment and parts for resale, it is
put on the books as an inventory asset. When it's sold, the cost is subtracted
from the selling price, leaving profit and the cost is also removed from the
inventory asset register.

My business only has a small inventory of parts and finished goods (equipment)
(approx $500,000 net) and I've never been required to pay taxes on inventory.
I do pay personal property on fixed assets, but again, that does not include
inventory assets stocked for resale purposes.

Business 101.

--Wayne

-"sounded good to me"-

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In article <E9BId.12100$Vj3.637@newssvr17.news.prodigy.com> JesseJ2@LogicalArts-remove-to-reply.com writes:

> > You don't pay taxes on inventory.

> This is the case here in Michigan now.
> Used to be there was an inventory tax here.
> At the Fed level? I know not.

It's strictly a state thing. Some states have inventory tax, others
don't.


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