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Sometimes I love Guitar Center...

Unread post by VoodooChile » Sun Dec 18, 2005 1:52 pm

About two years ago I was a happy owner of a Martin D-18, which was my main guitar and I loved it. One day I was in GC picking up some strings and noticed a OM-28V, brand new, for $1600, 2K off the list, brand new. I couldn't resist and bought it, best thing I have EVER bought. I've played many nice guitars but this one is amazing, the only thing compairable is the D-41 and a few Taylor special editions. I put electronics in it and now she's my main performing guitar, the D-18 is my practice guitar. I don't know why I wrote this, I've been jamming out all day and just couldn't stop grinning :D
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Unread post by brian_ok » Sun Dec 18, 2005 2:21 pm

is the OM-V28 the jumbo-ish style martin? if so, I agree with you. very nice sounding guitar.

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Unread post by guitardmb » Sun Dec 18, 2005 8:39 pm

Glad you had a good experience with guitar center. My last experience consisted of me buying $1,000 of equipment including a new guitar, where the pedal didnt work properly and the electronics in the new guitar didnt work at all. Guitar Centers incompetence cost me an extra $120.
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Unread post by Davy28 » Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:13 pm

I always go there and sneak a few licks on their D-28s.

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Unread post by czech » Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:30 pm

guitardmb wrote:Glad you had a good experience with guitar center. My last experience consisted of me buying $1,000 of equipment including a new guitar, where the pedal didnt work properly and the electronics in the new guitar didnt work at all. Guitar Centers incompetence cost me an extra $120.
how is that their fault?
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Unread post by brian_ok » Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:38 pm

guitardmb wrote:Glad you had a good experience with guitar center. My last experience consisted of me buying $1,000 of equipment including a new guitar, where the pedal didnt work properly and the electronics in the new guitar didnt work at all. Guitar Centers incompetence cost me an extra $120.
didn't you try them out at the store?
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Unread post by guitardmb » Mon Dec 19, 2005 8:41 pm

czech wrote:
guitardmb wrote:Glad you had a good experience with guitar center. My last experience consisted of me buying $1,000 of equipment including a new guitar, where the pedal didnt work properly and the electronics in the new guitar didnt work at all. Guitar Centers incompetence cost me an extra $120.
how is that their fault?
Its their fault that they put faulty guitars on the floor and refuse to fix them when taken in. :wink:
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Unread post by czech » Tue Dec 20, 2005 12:49 pm

guitardmb wrote:
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guitardmb wrote:Glad you had a good experience with guitar center. My last experience consisted of me buying $1,000 of equipment including a new guitar, where the pedal didnt work properly and the electronics in the new guitar didnt work at all. Guitar Centers incompetence cost me an extra $120.
how is that their fault?
Its their fault that they put faulty guitars on the floor and refuse to fix them when taken in. :wink:
FYI, the manufacturer is supposed to do the quality control, not the store. and they arent supposed to fix shit on new equipment, the manufacture is.
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Unread post by 6_strings_for_life » Tue Dec 20, 2005 2:19 pm

I have never been to one of these.. I might have to have a road trip to check this place out.
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Unread post by czech » Tue Dec 20, 2005 2:21 pm

6_strings_for_life wrote:I have never been to one of these.. I might have to have a road trip to check this place out.
they suck, but you can haggle them down a lot.... ...just like every other guitar retailer.
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Unread post by jellyfish » Tue Dec 20, 2005 2:46 pm

6_strings_for_life wrote:I have never been to one of these.. I might have to have a road trip to check this place out.
Not worth the ride.
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Unread post by CWMCALL » Tue Dec 20, 2005 3:59 pm

I drive past one on the wat to and from work everyday...I don't think that I would ever buy a high end guitar from them but I do enjoy stopping by once in a while to play a few of them. They have a very liberal policy when it comes to playing the guitars on the wall...

Once at GC I saw a middle school kid drag a stool across the acoustic room, stand on it so that he could reach the $3000 Taylor 814ce, jump off of the stool with the guitar in hand then procede to sit and play it for quite a while, all while the GC employee watched without concern. I was amazed.
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Unread post by mlb1399 » Tue Dec 20, 2005 5:57 pm

It's annoying having to check your receipt with someone before you leave. I also don't the fact that they expect you to give your mailing info to them. Some kid tried giving me grief because I wanted to buy guitar strings and didn't want to give out my address. I put him in his place real quick.
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Unread post by brian_ok » Tue Dec 20, 2005 6:19 pm

mlb1399 wrote:It's annoying having to check your receipt with someone before you leave.
If I had a store with easily millions of dollars worth of merchandise, I would sure as hell make sure that people left with what they bought, and nothing else.
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Unread post by DJR » Tue Dec 20, 2005 6:28 pm

CWMCALL wrote:I drive past one on the wat to and from work everyday...I don't think that I would ever buy a high end guitar from them but I do enjoy stopping by once in a while to play a few of them. They have a very liberal policy when it comes to playing the guitars on the wall...

Once at GC I saw a middle school kid drag a stool across the acoustic room, stand on it so that he could reach the $3000 Taylor 814ce, jump off of the stool with the guitar in hand then procede to sit and play it for quite a while, all while the GC employee watched without concern. I was amazed.
quite true, i've seen similar things happen everytime i've been there it seems - although it is still nice to go and be able to play that same taylor on $2000 bose amp system :D :D
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