Recent Price Drops on Robot LP?

[Hydrophish]

Greetings all,

 

I'm wondering if anyone has opinions or insight into the recent price drops on the Robot guitars? I'm thinking of buying one of the Les Pauls as a Wife-authorized Christmas present :) It doesn't seem typical of Gibson to knock $1000.00 off a sticker, so I'm treading cautiously. Are these being discontinued? Are they coming out with a better 3rd gen version? Appreciate your comments, theories, insight, whatever.

 

Thanks,

phish

[Out_Of_Control]

If you look at eBay you'll see the resale market is only getting about $1400 out of them.

 

I owned one of the originals, it was a nice guitar, loved the feel, but hated the electronics.

 

I've played a couple others and found they don't tune as well as Gibson would like.

 

If you can snag one with neck binding for under $1400, you might be getting a reasonable deal, considering that's about where a normal Studio would be priced. Without neck binding, I wouldn't go more than $1000.

 

I'm personally waiting for Broken Down Robot's to hit eBay, score one cheap, and convert it back to a normal guitar.

 

Just my $0.02

[Tim Plains]

I can't comment on reliability...but I think the price drop is just to promote them as they are not selling.

Every higher end Gibson has jumped up in price $300 to $500 in the US; yet the Robots dropped down $1,000? Something isn't right. I highly doubt Gibson won't discontinue the Robot.

 

My local music store has had two purple ones (1 LP, 1 SG) since day one and they can't sell them.

They just got a silverburst LP, too. We'll see how long that one hangs on the wall for...

[ThrashPirate]

I think they're definitely a niche market. I remember seeing them when they came out and thinking "well that takes all the fun out of it!" but hey, if you like it now is the time to buy!