Always Shop Guitar Center!

[stuco]

 

I have had so many wonderful personal experiences with Guitar Center(Getting lied to as well as being called a liar for example) I just wanted Give everyone a few reasons to go and shop from this amazing corporate giant.  I tried to end this but it's back by popular demand, It's the top ten list.(soon to be edited to perfection I'm sure) have at it: You know you want it:

1. Their(by "their" I mean guitar center for those who may not understand)guitars are nice and "played in" right off the rack.
2.  There is always the ambiance of every kind of popular music imaginable being played at once(breathtaking)
3.  Not always the best price but, hey at least we're supporting a group of owners who love mus..., wait I mean MONEY!
4.  You will always find the greatest (machine made) guitars in the world there.  At least that's what the paid magazine ads told me, so it must be right!
5.  They can usually give you a case with the guitar for a good deal(even if it is supposed to come with the guitar for free)
6.  You can play anything you want and treat it however you want. Awesome( I actually do like this, but for selfish reasons perhaps)
7.  The employes work on commission so they are definately going to get you into the best guitar your MONEY can buy.
8.  They can help to get rid of those pesky "Mom and Pop"  music shops who actually care about the customer(Don't mom and pop know that we live in the 21st century, duh! it's ok to only be interested in the bottom line these days, get with the times)
9.  You will probably hear some amazing renditions of classics such as( the A Minor scale through a marshall stack, or the latest chart buster on MTV. Gotta love it).
10. And finally, God bless America may we always have the right to make this country as bland and commercial as possible by making available the sam exact resturants, grocery stores, hotels, home improvement stores, Malls, Supercenters, Oil change facilities, COFFEE shops(don't get me started), and yes you guessed it MUSIC SUPERSTORES.  Who needs character, or orginality or change or something unfamiliar! Gotta love it!

I'm sorry I just had to say it even though I know this will be beaten to death. 

[unclrob]

UHMMMM.OK.Thanks.

[stuco]

 

Oh yeah, I forgot Doughnut shops (or donuts to us)  :mellow:

[jeremy3220]

"I'm sorry I just had to say it even though I know this will be beaten to death"

Interesting. Sorry, for being so abrasive.

[kilgorekid]

Stuco-I can see this place has brought out your sense of humor!  Better to laugh than hold a grudge. :GRN>

[Ratishna]

Stuco-I can see this place has brought out your sense of humor!  Better to laugh than hold a grudge. :GRN>

Or to laugh instead of receive a letter from corporate attorneys.

E. Shoaf

[roknroll]

Ratish, freedom of speech...He was merely complaining as a customer...proving slander in court is harder than winning the lottery.

[ronmac]

Why take such a negative stance, just because you can get away with it?

I am having a great deal of difficulty trying to understand the negativity some of the members here seem to have the need to promote.

[Ratishna]

Why take such a negative stance, just because you can get away with it?

I am having a great deal of difficulty trying to understand the negativity some of the members here seem to have the need to promote.

Merely conjecture, but it seems that the internet is where people take their life's frustrations to release.  A lot of unhappy people in the world.


E. Shoaf

[stuco]

 

I know the negativity is no good and I'm sorry, but like it or not this world is a not always positive and with the subject which I am addressing I have no choice but to post my views(which may be negative) I haven't simply chosen the internet to "vent" or 'release frustrations". I could simply speak with musicians about this but this is a much more efficient way to reach more musicians. I do not intend to bring anymore negativity than I feel is necessary.   I just want to add one more thing, another man's rant on the same topic:

http://www.edromanguitars.com/rant/chains.htm

I suppose sometimes we must fight negativity with negativity.  This will be my last post on this thread,  I feel that my point has been made so make of it what you want. 
Thank you, Have a nice day

[ronmac]

Stuco,

Don't take it the wrong way. I didn't single you out to slam. I too am ranting.  :WNK>

It urks me when I see the slide this Forum has taken in the last few days...

ps. We don't have GC in Canada, so I guess I really can't feel your pain.  :GRN>

[Caleb]

this thread makes me think of something. . .

with all the complaining that folks do (including myself) about guitar center, wal*mart, home depot, and other large, soulless, money-grubbin', bottom-feeding, corporate pond scum companies, they are still making money.....lots of it.

when's the last time you saw a guitar center or wal*mart go out of business? home depot? lowes? target?

i live in a very populated area and have never seen it.

it just makes me think, ppl talk about conviction and how much they hate these places, but i'd bet that most of them shop there from time to time. i mean, who are all these ppl keeping these corporations in business afterall?....if so many ppl hate them?

[jeremy3220]

this thread makes me think of something. . .

with all the complaining that folks do (including myself) about guitar center, wal*mart, home depot, and other large, soulless, money-grubbin', bottom-feeding, corporate pond scum companies, they are still making money.....lots of it.

when's the last time you saw a guitar center or wal*mart go out of business? home depot? lowes? target?

i live in a very populated area and have never seen it.

it just makes me think, ppl talk about conviction and how much they hate these places, but i'd bet that most of them shop there from time to time. i mean, who are all these ppl keeping these corporations in business afterall?....if so many ppl hate them?

Good point. But I think most people don't feel that strongly about the issue.Alot of anti-GC post start out "every time I go in there..." So they are at least going into the store. And probably alot of people are buying stuff who "hate" GC.
I rarely go into wally world these days. I feel queezy when I go and it's busy... all those "people"  :WNK>.

[inspector13]

Stuco,

Don't take it the wrong way. I didn't single you out to slam. I too am ranting.  :WNK>

It urks me when I see the slide this Forum has taken in the last few days...

ps. We don't have GC in Canada, so I guess I really can't feel your pain.  :GRN>

Ron I agree with you. This forum is not as pleasant a place to come to lately.

[jeremy3220]

Stuco, now that I look back I think I may have misunderstood your intentions. It seems you were mostly just sharing an opinion or how you felt about GC. But your post seemed to read as a call to action and you were presenting reasons to do so. I suppose that was the reason you got such strong responses. Sometimes it's hard to get across. I still may be wrong. Anyway, Sorry.

[whiskeyjack]

This forum is not as pleasant a place to come to lately. . . . .

I can see why you'd think that.  All things considered and put in perspective, it's always the minority of whiners that give things a negative bent.  I've done it too, to prove a point.  But, by and large, most of the threads here are at worst benign and at best relative to Larrivee guitars or guitar music or technique or gear or. . . .

It's still a nice place.  A little negativity from time to time isn't going to ruin it.  Ignore the trolls, they'll go away.  Consider cynicism as another point to be made.  Move along.

Regarding Guitar Center:  My first impression tells me I'd probably never buy a guitar there.  But I've only been in one store.  'Nice place to browse - with ear plugs - and look at most of what I'd call junk.

[woody b]

It's obvious than Stuco has some history with Guitar Center.   I'm guessing either his wife ran off with a Guitar Center salesman or a Guitar Center salesman ran over his dog
Seriously though,  I read post bashing Guitar Center on alot of forums.  I've got a solution,  Just DON'T GO and then you don't have to bash them.   I've bought 2 guitars from Guitar Center,  a Taylor 710CE and a Martin D18V.  I had good experiences both times.  I also got great prices and the cases came with my guitars.   

[roknroll]

Google Guitar Center Sucks...many like minded folk, stuco.

[MrJones]

I like GC overall:

nobody hovering over you when you play.  I don't like looking over my shoulder like many "mom and pop" shops
good selection (not great, but good)
some sales people are helpful and enthusiastic - takes a while to figure out who
return policy is very permissive

Downside:

Guitars get abused and it seems no one cares  - I once sold them a used Martin DM that was in much better shape than all of their "new" DMs.
Fri and Saturday is loud and crowded.
Too many dreads, too few smaller bodied steel string acoustics (don't know why)
No Larrivees (at least at the local GC)

[NewStrings]

Here is an interesting point:

If a stand up comic does a routine where he/she make fun of people, politicians, government etc, we all laugh and applaud.  But if someone finds humour in a guitar store and the way they conduct business, we quickly shoot him down.  Funny isn't it.... why is that?  There is humour in most things in our life, but I guess it's depends on how it is presented.     :huh:

Just thought I would throw that out there.....

NewStrings