adg fly rods and reels??

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Kevin Vang wrote:

In other words, you aren't just paying for the rod, you are also paying
the premium on a lifetime insurance policy against breakage.

Yo, Professor V.

Up your nose widda rubber hose

Vinny Barbarino

Seriously though. Weren't the premium rods $500 before they instituted
these ridiculous warranties? The price didn;t go up did they? Or maybe
the cost of insurance amounted to only $10-$50 per rod.

Mu

In article . umich.edu,
says...

Seriously though. Weren't the premium rods $500 before they instituted
these ridiculous warranties? The price didn;t go up did they? Or maybe
the cost of insurance amounted to only $10-$50 per rod.


Just looking at the Kauffmans website (http://www.kman.com/rods.htm) as
a typical example, the top end of price range for Sage, Winston, Powell,
and Hardy rods is around $750.

My guess is that the cost of the insurance, er, warranty, is fairly
negligible. There is a segment of the market which is willing to cough
up $700 bucks for a fly rod (and a fairly large segment, at that,
apparently) and if offering an extravagant warranty is what it takes
to get a share of that market, then that is what the rod companies
will offer.

Somewhere out there, there has to be somebody who would pay $100,000 for
a fly rod if a replacement rod could be hand delivered in under an hour
by Reese Witherspoon. Yo Bill, there is an under-served market segment
out there for you!

Kevin
Note to Mu: Off my case, toilet face!

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 14:06:21 -0600, Kevin Vang wrote:
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Somewhere out there, there has to be somebody who would pay $100,000 for
a fly rod if a replacement rod could be hand delivered in under an hour
by Reese Witherspoon. Yo Bill, there is an under-served market segment
out there for you!

Kevin
Note to Mu: Off my case, toilet face!

"Reese Witherspoon"?? Kinky - in a "lets pretend you're only 15" sort of way.

For that kind of money you could do WAY better, I'm sure.

/daytripper (I'm thinking Gwen Stefani. Mmmmmm. ;-)

And what can make you wonder is when you can get an outstanding, warantied,
top end blank, custom wrapped with the best components from a rod builder
like Dan Craft for less than those rods, much less. And this is a
presentation quality, can't find a fault even under magnification rod. Also
these rods and blanks have had nothing but good press. And you get to pick
exactly how you want to build it, or have it built.

"Mu Young Lee" wrote in message
. itd.umich.edu...

Seriously though. Weren't the premium rods $500 before they instituted
these ridiculous warranties? The price didn;t go up did they? Or maybe
the cost of insurance amounted to only $10-$50 per rod.


You are correct, the year that Sage, Winston, T&T and Scott switched to
lifetime warranties, there was no "out of the ordinary" price increase (they
had been raising prices every year before).

Each handled it differently, sage retro'd many of their rods, Winston
offered you a chance to buy a warranty on certain rods, T&T and Scott only
applied it to rods purchased going forward.