Two points without digging through all this again: 1. Although I personally never said otherwise, I still want to add that - as a customer myself - I don't think Riv customs are overpriced. They're designed by a guy who's been doing this a long time, built by a trusted builder who's brazed a lot of frames, and painted by the best in the business.
Yes you can find a cheaper custom builder, but I think some folks get googley eyes over the phrase "hand built" and just assume everyone doing that job is super great at it and all customs are equal quality. This seems unrealistic to me. 2. I'm not sure where employee pricing crept into this discussion. Vaughn hasn't worked there in, what, 10 years? If $3300 was 'at cost' at the time of this build then I presume he paid the $3500 buy-in that was available until recently (it's $4000 now). My understanding is there isn't much of an employee discount on ANY Riv frame, and I'm confused how this entered the thread. I'm sure Vaughn paid full pop, and the buyer of that "mistake" frame paid pretty close. That is all. It's Sunday, let's ride! Joe Bernard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/8a472dcd-0b2a-4f0c-ac8b-a6ee4fd2548e%40googlegroups.com.
