Guitar Salesmen Warns Against Larrivees

[davideo0]

I talked to a guitar salesmen at guitar center, and he pointed out to me that the main larrivee factory burned down taking all the woods, and guitar making tools down with it. He says that they were out of business for awhile but are now selling guitars again, but not making as good quality guitars because they lost all their aged woods or something. Any part of this true, or he's saying this cuz the store didn't carry any larrivees

[Zach]

Haha, the great things you hear at Guitar Center.  :D

He didn't point out anything to you, he made it up.  There was a small fire at the factory in Canada last year, but as far as I know, no wood or tools were lost.  It certainly didn't stop them from making guitars, or hurt the quality.

[sublro]

Yeah, come to think of it, I suspected my new D-03 and OM forum guitars are both made from popsicle sticks. Man, I had no idea such spectacular sound and playability could come from balsa wood!  ;)

That guy wants your money. All else is secondary.

Yes, Larrivee had a fire. Not sure what if any materials they lost. One way or another, they've still got their hands on first-class materials, as their guitars are still and always have been spectacular for the money you pay. They were not out of business. Not sure what happened between them and GC, but it's just as well IMHO since in my experience GC doesn't take very good care of the acoustic guitars in its showrooms, and the salespeople I've talked to there were not always particularly knowledgeable about acoustic guitars (the guy you talked to being a prime example).

I've been on this forum for some time ,and I would in a HEARTBEAT buy a Larrivee sight unseen from any of the various dealers on this forum over GC, as they'll help you more and in the end back up the deal to make sure you are happy with what you get.

[Randy_R]

Thats where blackwood came from. Its really koa that was charred in the fire.

:lol:  :D



ps. I really like my new bw parlor...

[unclrob]

Randy :lol:  

[hsojeel]

:lol:  

[unclrob]

By the way I can't wait Guitar Center is comin to Tally.That will make 8 music store here. :)  

[damianip]

I thought my guitar smelled a little "smokey".

Hmmmmm...

[kwakatak]

I'm starting to lose faith in music shops - even after taking lessons in one for most of my youth. I'm not quite as young anymore - and only marginally less naive - but I would think that that was definitely an uninformed ploy to steer you toward their "big sellers"! I was similarly warned against Larrivées once by a salesperson once recently - even after the tech at that very store raved about them. Believe it or not, but it wasn't even at Guitar Center!

It seems like most music stores I go into now are run like car dealerships! :(

BTW, I heard that the fire was only in the finishing section of the factory. Any way you look at it, that's an old story and they've since recovered and opened a second factory in California.  

[MaRio]

They are always out to "burn" you at GC.  :blink:  

[jcbuggs]

Oh yeah, the fire. Wasn't that just before Larrivee put out those limited edition ash guitars?

[tubeornot2b]

I live a few blocks from the local GC. All of the sales guys there have nothing but good things to say about Larrivee. The story they tell is likely the truth. Larrivee had a hard time supplying the minimum number of shipments required by a store like GC. In all honesty, we all realize that the brand recognition of Gibson, Martin and even Taylor, does cost Larrivee a lot of market share.  

[sublro]

Then there's the flip side. at the hoiti-toiti chi-chi guitar store I frequent (where most of the guys are really nice straight shooters) the manager looked at my OM-03

AS I WAS BUYING IT  :blink: ,

and commented that the 03's were Larrivee's "night shift" guitars. So, there's boneheads everywhere you go...

[charliep]

Must be the same guy that told me Taylor doesn't make a 210 series guitar. Oh well............I eneded up with a Larrivee from my local dealer. ;)  :D
charliep
ps: the excellent beautiful, rosewood on my OM is a little dark now that I think about it. A little smoky maybe?

[jwieties]

I bought a thumb pick from guitar center a few weeks ago.  The sales guy picked up the pick and said he really wanted to try one of these.  He then looked at me and said "what do you use these for anyways?"  I preceded to explain to him what a thumb pick was used for.  He was disinterested after about two words. :)

Although I rarely go there, I have generally had pretty decent service at guitar center.  Every once and a while you run into a real piece of work.  Of course this can happen at any shop.
-josh

[lewivee]

Guitar Center's (at least at the two in this area I've been to) not stocking -- and their sales staff's not even KNOWING about -- a partial capo tells me a lot about them. I mean, neither their stores nor staff can be ALL bad, but for a store with a name like that... ya know what I mean???

[dbirchett]

Thats where blackwood came from. Its really koa that was charred in the fire.

:lol:  :D



ps. I really like my new bw parlor...

NOT FUNNY, RANDY!  




Ok, yeah it is! :lol:  

[onetubetone]

Most salespeople at the GC in my area are idiots who enjoy throwing around made up jargon rather than telling customers useful info about instruments.  

[sacredground]

Blackwood good! Man want barbeque! :D  

[orsino]

By the way I can't wait Guitar Center is comin to Tally.That will make 8 music store here. :)

You need to move to Winter Haven bro!