800 british pounds = $1400usd
Whatever the price, give or take a few hundred.....it is an absolutely
ABSURD price for a 23. Just boggling.
You can get a completely overhauled 6M or Buescher 400 or Couf Superba (the list goes on) for that money.
I recently sold a "like new" YAS23 for $400.00 with a couple mpc's, case, reeds, strap, swabs, etc. Why would you want to buy a new one when there are perhaps hundreds of them in the used market?
Yup....a used 23 in fabulous shape only runs (at most) about $500-550 (one with aesthetic wear but playing OK about $375-400 or so).....even with international shipping and customs taxes added, you'd come out at $750 at absolute worst...
That retail price has zero connection to market reality....I cannot fathom why anyone would buy a new one for that sorta $....