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Yes he said he has a 10k credit there in the 3rd post above.Man. I remember when I used to want to work at guitar center back in college. They hit me up nearly 5 years later to schedule an interview
On topic, is there any reason you have to buy from guitar center specifically vs sweetwater?
Misread that as he could use 10k in credit to try multiple. Whoops
Basically, I can’t ever remember a situation where the sales dude knew more about their product line than I did. I guess this is too much to ask for these days.
That's just about my mindset as well. What might encourage a visit is some online research first, then perhaps a heads-up phone call. The GC website actually said the closest GC that had what I wanted in store was in NE Massachusetts, but a phone call to my local GC revealed that they had something else that was on my wishlist that I'd not researched.
Well honestly the last time I was there which was the first and only time since the lockdown the selection was very slim. I imagine since this location is located an hour from the PRS factory helped give them an inventory advantage. 15 years ago they had a good many PRS on hand at any time.
Definitely, GC and MF are one and the same. I have already tried to insist MF make sure they don’t send me a GC stocked item. Not sure if they ever listened. When I was buying a lot of gear I got pretty familiar with a specific MF sales dude. He would call every 30 days. Either he moved on to greener pastures or decided I became a dry well. I don’t hear from him anymore. I did get a text from another sales person saying he can take care of me from now on.What makes ordering online from GC even more of a guessing game is all of the other music companies they own and share stock with. I ordered a Charvel from them a few months ago because I had a store credit and Sweetwater didn't have it in stock at the time. The label on the box said Musician's Friend when it got to me. I got lucky, it was a good looking guitar and played well out of the box. That was a little bit of Charvel's doing too I guess
I thought their stock would be the same, it's the same company. Not so?Definitely, GC and MF are one and the same. I have already tried to insist MF make sure they don’t send me a GC stocked item. Not sure if they ever listened. When I was buying a lot of gear I got pretty familiar with a specific MF sales dude. He would call every 30 days. Either he moved on to greener pastures or decided I became a dry well. I don’t hear from him anymore. I did get a text from another sales person saying he can take care of me from now on.
Congrats on the guitar!
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I should clarify that I dont know which way I would go on a guitar. This was mostly small electronic gadgets, etc. one time I ordered some lighting from MF and wanted two of the same thing. It came from two different GC’s one was new and never opened and had all the parts. The other was definitely opened and used and missing a bunch of hardware.
The stock is the same. It’s what condition something will be in when you get it that’s the question. I have to say I think much of this was happening when the lock down and supply chain issue was at its peak. Take the lighting equipment, there was a point where they were scrambling to fill orders and I believe these particular lights were for the most part out of stock except for the few they had at various GC. So they filled the order that way. They came in two different shipments on different days from GC locations a 1000 miles apart. Yet it was MF that ultimately billed the order. It was also Christmas time.
Easy swap, innit?
Older models usually are equipped with Klusons. The more recent ones (2020 moving forward, IIRC) are equipped with Grover Rotomatics. My old Gibby SG had Rotomatics, and were a joy, though they were easy to knock out of tuning because they moved freely within the tuner housing...neither are locking tuners like the Instamatics.
