Quoth Mixed Bag
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These were high-end, professional-level musical instruments, whose manufacture requires hand-finishing.
And, no two instruments sound exactly alike. Once the Strat's neck was broken, that unique sound was gone forever, even if the neck would have been super-glued together again.
The store in question will never have that exact instrument to sell, ever again. Charging the SC full retail price is absolutely justified.
Still don't quite buy that <pun intended>? Then let's try an experiment. Take a bottle of acid and toss it onto the nearest painting by, oh let's say, Picasso. Think you can get away with destroying that painting by offering to pay what Picasso paid for the frame, canvas, paints, and brushes? (That was a rehtorical question, the answer being "NO!")
And I'm sorry to sound so snarky, but the "Oh, well, it's just a musical instrument" 'tude honks me off just as much as entitlement whoredom and rationalizing/excusing SCs' wantonly destructive behavior in places of business.
PS -- it costs to re-build the displays and fix the wall damage, too.
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