get some good things from them while you can then move on. it always looks good at first. there sale people get jacked and the customers get bent over alot of diseption in their advertising.
I've just experienced a LOT of disappointment with my local Guitar Center in Scranton, PA. I went there looking for some Jackson guitars a few months back and they didn't have any.
About two months ago I went up there to look at cabs, and they have next to none. Only one Marshall stack, that was it.
Then to add insult to injury, I went up two days ago for a few packs of strings. All I wanted were 13-56 Dean Markley Blue Steel. Yep, they had none. Not even regular Dean Markley strings.
What ever happened to the Guitar Centers that carried both high-end and low-end stuff? I remember going to GC and seeing PRS after PRS on the walls, Mesa cabs on the floor and really nice Gibson and Fender guitars. Now it's all lower-end stuff and MAYBE a used PRS. Economy tank that bad they can only serve lower-income folks now?
There's really quite an easy explanation to all of this "Guitar Center sucks" talk:
At least 80% of the population is retarded - therefore, at least 80% of the people working and shopping at GC will be retarded. That's just how life is. Expect retards.
To everyone that's said that I'm making way more than they are/were when they were my age - I have to spend 1/4 of my paycheck on gas. 40 miles, 6 times a week, in my parent's 8 seater van that gets 20 mpg highway at best.
To everyone that's said that I'm making way more than they are/were when they were my age - I have to spend 1/4 of my paycheck on gas. 40 miles, 6 times a week, in my parent's 8 seater van that gets 20 mpg highway at best.
To everyone that's said that I'm making way more than they are/were when they were my age - I have to spend 1/4 of my paycheck on gas. 40 miles, 6 times a week, in my parent's 8 seater van that gets 20 mpg highway at best.
To everyone that's said that I'm making way more than they are/were when they were my age - I have to spend 1/4 of my paycheck on gas. 40 miles, 6 times a week, in my parent's 8 seater van that gets 20 mpg highway at best.
LOL-ok lets get into this pissing contest :laugh2:
I worked for my dad who OWNED two Gas Stations and I still had to pay for my own gas. After I graduated from H.S. I worked 6 days a week-10 or 12 hour shifts and nearly every holiday (no overtime). I started off at 7 bucks an hour. I drove 17 miles each way of stop & go traffic in a 1978 Bronco with a 351 Windsor that was lucky to see 10 MPG in that situation.
Glad you are workin' hard bro- but my story is "pansy" enough, there are plenty of people out there who struggled alot more than you , or I, did at that age. One of my former manager's at 17 yo was taking care of her 12 year old brother after her mom had some kind of nervous breakdown and abandoned them- they had no other family and fled the system as they did not want foster care. For a while they were staying in abandoned buildings or under bridges at night.
^ not trying to make it a GC vs. Sam Ash thing...i've met assholes at Sam Ash too. The one I went to in Florida the same day I stormed out of that GC had the most condescending employee I've ever met. Here was our transaction:
Me, playing a Fender with Duncan humbuckers in it: Hey man, what kind of Duncans are in this guitar? Do you know?
Employee: Umm lemme see... (he leans in for a closer look) ...ah, yeah, they're SEYMOUR Duncans.