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Ive wanted to try one of these out and dont see them used often enough to snag one or get a great deal on one used. Why does Kurt not stock these at Rondo anymore?

no one understands Kurt.

I'd guess slow sales rising cost for them. The problem being everyone waiting for a deal and not buying does not pay his bills.

fatjack wrote: ↑Sun Jun 21, 2020 10:33 am I'd guess slow sales rising cost for them. The problem being everyone waiting for a deal and not buying does not pay his bills.

I'd say this is the most likely explanation. You can usually buy a decent MIC pre-2011 Epi G-400 for under $250 and an a post 2011 G-400 Pro which have excellent build quality for under $300. And other than the headstock, they look like SGs rather than a Viper. At least the last several years of Valkyries look like Vipers, the original ones have a symmetrical body and horns...

i had one for a little while. I let it go though. Harley Benton's was a better deal for me.

I thought Kurt was trying to get rid of the Agile brand?
There aren't any Agiles for sale on his website.
At least not on the lefty part which is the only part I look at.
Well, there is one Exhaust Gas Recirculator with 8 or 9 strings,
but that isn't a guitar.

mickey wrote: ↑Sun Jun 21, 2020 3:55 pm I thought Kurt was trying to get rid of the Agile brand?
There aren't any Agiles for sale on his website.
At least not on the lefty part which is the only part I look at.
Well, there is one Exhaust Gas Recirculator with 8 or 9 strings,
but that isn't a guitar.

There are plenty of right-handed advance order AL-3100MCCs and AL-3200MCCs. Because the price difference between the AL-3010SEs and AL-3100MCCs has narrowed so significantly, we might have seen the last of the former...

tobijohn wrote: ↑Sun Jun 21, 2020 4:26 pm

mickey wrote: ↑Sun Jun 21, 2020 3:55 pm I thought Kurt was trying to get rid of the Agile brand?
There aren't any Agiles for sale on his website.
At least not on the lefty part which is the only part I look at.
Well, there is one Exhaust Gas Recirculator with 8 or 9 strings,
but that isn't a guitar.

There are plenty of right-handed advance order AL-3100MCCs and AL-3200MCCs. Because the price difference between the AL-3010SEs and AL-3100MCCs has narrowed so significantly, we might have seen the last of the former...

I have never seen a backwards guitar on Rondo's site. I only look at the leftys.

tobijohn wrote: ↑Sun Jun 21, 2020 4:26 pm Because the price difference between the AL-3010SEs and AL-3100MCCs has narrowed so significantly, we might have seen the last of the former...

It would be a prophecy being fullfilled...

"The AL-3010-SE is being discontinued..." spoken just before they started overrunning the Rondo pages, for what seemed like years.

Partscaster wrote: ↑Sun Jun 21, 2020 5:30 pm

tobijohn wrote: ↑Sun Jun 21, 2020 4:26 pm Because the price difference between the AL-3010SEs and AL-3100MCCs has narrowed so significantly, we might have seen the last of the former...

It would be a prophecy being fullfilled...

"The AL-3010-SE is being discontinued..." spoken just before they started overrunning the Rondo pages, for what seemed like years.

Yes, I have at least one of last lefty AL-3010SEs, a CSBF which I only bought after Kurt's dire warning. However, before that last one even arrived down here, there was a new bunch of lefty AL-3010SEs on the site. There have been a number of other left-handed AL-3010SEs that showed up after that batch too.

This time I think it's different though. Back then, the difference in price between the AL-3010SE and the the AL-3100MCC was over $75. Based on the last ones in the lefty section, it was only around $25...

not sure, but I just sold mine...

I’ve wondered this so many times! My first ever Agile was a silverburst Valkyrie... the guitar that got me hooked! Kicked butt over any esp/ltd viper or any jabroni level faded SG I ever played. The offset Shape and the Strap button placement made it balance way better.