Guitar Salesmen Warns Against Larrivees

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January 31, 2005, 09:40:16 PM #20
Tom no more moving for me.Shop goes in in the next month or so.My wife tells me that the extra I've been paying on the mortgage means if I keep it up its paid for in 6 years.I now have 45 guitars I'd have to move.

sacredground  :lol: ,I BBQ all year round rain or shine.
A REPAIRPERSON,Barefoot Rob gone to a better place
OM03PA
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12 people ignoring me,so cool
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January 31, 2005, 10:05:38 PM #21
I wouldn't worry Rob....if it is anything like the (very) few that I have been in, your business will probably increase from people running to get away from them :o  
"One small heart, and a great big soul that's drivin"
January 31, 2005, 10:43:07 PM #22
QuoteThats where blackwood came from. Its really koa that was charred in the fire.

:lol:  :D



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2004 Larrivee Parlor BW
2003 Larrivee L-03 BW
2002 Larrivee D-03 BW x 2
January 31, 2005, 10:46:20 PM #23
Let me get this straight, a salesman at GC might make something up in order to make a sale?!?!?!  :o

I CANNOT beleive that!!!</sarcasm> <_<  
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2004 Larrivee Parlor BW
2003 Larrivee L-03 BW
2002 Larrivee D-03 BW x 2
February 01, 2005, 12:49:52 PM #24
Ok, let's see how I do:

The hottest model for Larrivee right now is the blackwood, which has a kind of smoky sound.  They just put it out last year.
February 01, 2005, 12:59:32 PM #25
When I first started playing I heard that the same thing happened to Martin, and they lost all their "woodstock" (pun, guys!) in the '80s. I repeated the story to a luthier, and he set me straight. That was B/S (and I don't mean back and sides!!!)

Lets make an urban legend here....the best one we start spreading!!

My entry....um, The Seattle/Tacoma area sued some guitar company for using their name, and now all the........oh, heck....I just can't do this!!! :(  
Don't take no wooden nickles, and don't put beans in your ears.
February 01, 2005, 01:02:44 PM #26
My GC experience

"Taylor doesn't make a 210 or 310 just x14's"

"Martin no longer makes the D-16RGT"

"That top is designed that way with a dip behind the bridge (Taylor314)"
Shad
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February 01, 2005, 01:34:04 PM #27
I can't wait for them to open here..My business in repair alone should jump 200%. :D  
A REPAIRPERSON,Barefoot Rob gone to a better place
OM03PA
Favorite saying
 OB LA DE OB LA DA,LIFE GOES ON---BRA,It is what it is,You just gotta deal it,
One By One The Penguins Steal My Sanity, Keith and Barefoot Rob on youtube
Still unclrob
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February 01, 2005, 02:30:57 PM #28
GC can have it's advantages. I found a botique classical in there and had a gut feeling -talked them down to $800 from $899. They didn't know the name on the label. They couldn't find info on the internet is what it boiuled down to. I brought it home and contacted the maker, and he congratulated me and sent a brochure.

He sells them for $3,400.

They go used for $2,200.

I like GC in a way....
February 01, 2005, 02:41:13 PM #29
QuoteTom no more moving for me.Shop goes in in the next month or so.My wife tells me that the extra I've been paying on the mortgage means if I keep it up its paid for in 6 years.I now have 45 guitars I'd have to move.

sacredground  :lol: ,I BBQ all year round rain or shine.


Uncle Rob: rain or shine we got the 3 burner meat-cooker gassed up and ready!

Greg


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February 03, 2005, 12:26:16 PM #30
My GC story - I was buying a humidifier and the salesman (salesboy?) asked me what it was for.  Then he told me how he had an "custom made Tacoma" but had never "used on of those."
BlueWing
Larrivee SD-50
February 03, 2005, 12:37:40 PM #31
Favorite GC story:

I walk into the acoustic room (I was buying some strings, but wandered in there) and a salesboy walks up to me and asks if I play guitar.  "Yes", I say.

"Really, what kind?" he asks with that genuine tone that you get from someone who is really trying to get to the bottom line fast.

"Blues", I reply.

"Dude - we can get those.  They are special order though."  

Yes, it did happen!!

:D  
February 03, 2005, 12:44:37 PM #32
Guitar Center?  I thought they were nice people.  I did find one odd thing:  a really, really bad new guitar up on the wall.  Satin finish.  Not totally inexpensive.  The neck was actually splintered in back so you could actually gouge your hand if you played the guitar.  Looked like a manufacturing defect.  I just wondered about that one...

Best to find a good, sole proprietorship locally, buy your guitar there if the price is fair, and build a relationship with that store.  Then we'll always have good guitar stores.
February 03, 2005, 03:32:08 PM #33
I heard a rumor that good old GC was coming to my neck of the woods as well.........Upstate South Carolina.    Wonder how that will affect our little shops?
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February 03, 2005, 03:44:40 PM #34
acoustic mom in the long run they've helped to bring people in to the little store's,they've just got to hold on.
A REPAIRPERSON,Barefoot Rob gone to a better place
OM03PA
Favorite saying
 OB LA DE OB LA DA,LIFE GOES ON---BRA,It is what it is,You just gotta deal it,
One By One The Penguins Steal My Sanity, Keith and Barefoot Rob on youtube
Still unclrob
#19
12 people ignoring me,so cool
rpjguitarworks
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February 03, 2005, 04:20:10 PM #35
I have went to GC twice recently in my area just to buy strings. I was looking for Ernie Ball Earthwoods. Both times they didn't have Ernie Balls and the guy acted like I was from Mars.... :blink: Am I missing something here? Ernie Ball is a major player in strings am I right? Anyway I have started ordering my strings by mail and I bought my OM-03 from Dave at Guitar Adoptions. I couldn't have been happier with that transaction. If I can't buy something as simple as strings from GC, why would I go there for anything else?
Dan
Ypsilanti, Michigan

Fender F 265-C
Larrivee OM-03
Gibson SG 62' Reissue
Washburn Rover
Late 60's Crestwood Astral II

February 03, 2005, 05:21:56 PM #36
Yup...that dang fire burned a HOLE RIGHT THROUGH MY L-09!!!

Oh yeah...that's the sound hole.  It's supposed to be there.

:lol:  
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