My recollection was that nothing else came close to the PRS markups. I think it was a punter was arguing he could import one with all taxes vastly cheaper than the best deal we could do, so we'd worked it out and were amazed. Gibson price difference between the US and UK came down after Rosetti vanished (though the guitars themselves got more expensive, and the supply managed to get even worse, and Rosetti were a joke...) and weren't ever as big.
Mesa has a big difference, too, yeah. Various PA manufacturers. Maybe Martin too. But in terms of electric guitars, at that stage PRS were the worst by a long way. I've not worked in guitar shops for a year and a half though.
Also, the above was the case when I was working for Sound Control, who got the cheapest prices on pretty much everything, it's not like I'm basing it on a small independent who got hammered because they only bought three or four guitars from these companies a year.
