What happened to the music stores?

Flames1950 · Post by **Flames1950** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 12:15 am

JD wrote:
Flames1950 wrote:I'm still amused that Sam claims someone working at a Guitar Center will come up and try to help you!!
Seriously, when I bought my sunburst 'Paul last week, if my favorite local guy had just been open when I had time to shop I would have gladly paid him $200-$300 more for the same guitar!!! The first stop I made at GC was Friday night when I was out with the family, and the guys "working" wouldn't even acknowledge my presence as I rifled through $2000+ guitars!!! But when I went to the local guy to see if he had what I wanted he was closed already. So I got off work the next morning to go see if the local store had a Les Paul to take home, and......they weren't open yet. So back to GC I went, defeated, to accept shitty service in the name of GAS.
That's what will kill places like GC in the end I hope, someday the utter lack of any service quality will drive us all away...........
Flames, I have a great deal of respect for you and your opinion but I don't understand why you would gladly spend $200-300 more for a guitar that you already picked out? If the price was equal, yeah, I'd definitely buy from the small/local guy...

I'd just much rather keep my smaller local dealer afloat, even for a little extra money.........

chris · Post by **chris** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 11:25 am

not to mention the local guy would actually spend some time setting up the guitar, not try to sell you a case that should be included, not demand your phone number, zip code and address and pseter you with flyer's for "super secret squirel sales" that don't even offer a real discount.

yngwie308 · Post by **yngwie308** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 1:49 pm

Just to add to this Guitar Center stupidity thread,when I did venture back to my Guitar Centre,where I ordered my two HW's from.
The salesman,when I told him I had the amp repaired and modded by George,said "dude you should have had it fixed under warranty!"
I couldn't believe it.
Marshall/Korg,wouldn't ever admit there was anything wrong with the amps to start with.I was having more than 'noise floor'problems.
These guys are so dumb,even bragging that they are a 'specialty'GC,due to the combined years of experience of the salesmen.
It takes all the joy out of buying things,what an expensive neverending nightmare it was,dealing with them on a special order.
Never again.
Yngwie308

JD · Post by JD » Sat Sep 30, 2006 4:07 pm

I guess I had such poor service and lack of knowledge from my local mom and pop shop that I figure just go to the big shop for the same crap service and save the money. Actually, I buy virtually everything online, preferrably used.

saborthw · Post by **saborthw** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 9:33 pm

I go through GC PRO, I get a Discount and dont have to deal with the GC sales staff. alot of times GC does not carry alot of stuff, you have to special order a Hotplate !!

Regards

Scott

BrownSound1 · Post by **BrownSound1** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:06 pm

The closest GCs to me are in Nashville and Birmingham...that's 100 miles in either direction for me, so I pretty much have to go local if I want it that day. GC reminds me of Best Buy or something, just a bunch of kids working while going to college or something.

yngwie308 · Post by **yngwie308** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:22 am

Even bigger laughs today at the GC where I dropped all the big bucks for the HW tragedy.Brought George's modded HW to the store to check out if my background crackling noises werein my houses mains,it was not the case same noises.
Ironically they had my original HW there,sales dude said they had it checked out,no problems!!
I am summoning the courage to send it to George again,after my chassis damaging last FedEx experience.
Guitar center is probably the stupidest music store,if it is a music store,it's more like a musical K-Mart.
The first Super Lead that I got must have been tweaked somewhat,as it was considerably quieter,but had the gawdafull bright cap,which is an icepick to my ears,but A/B'd Georges Metrosexualized head was no contest.
Yngwie308

45auto · Post by **45auto** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 10:20 am

i wonder if you could ship in one of those hard plastic coolers, maybe stuffed with lots of paper or bubble wrap? surely there's a way to keep those characters from destroying our beautiful babies.