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View Poll Results: To tag or not to tag? | |
Large clearly marked tags?
|    | 51 | 92.73% | |
Play it and sort out the rest later?
|    | 4 | 7.27% |
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11-24-2012, 04:58 PM
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sales geek Portland Music co. | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: portland or | | | Tagged or not?
As you can see I work in a musical instrument retail store.
I have a question - When you walk into a guitar store do you want to see large, clearly marked tags with Make, Model, and Price?
Or do you want to just look at the basses, pick the one that appeals to you, play it and figure out the rest later? |
11-24-2012, 05:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | | Clearly marked tags. I wouldn't want to feel like I was at an auto dealership.
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11-24-2012, 05:02 PM
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Independent Contractor to Bass San Diego | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Groom Lake, NV | | | Clearly marked tags.
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11-24-2012, 05:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Texas | | | Clearly marked tags, please. |
11-24-2012, 06:13 PM
| | | | I HATE places that do not put price tags.
There is a place around here like that and I don't shop there. Tired of trying to get a salesperson to price things for me. Just don't need the aggravation or wasted time.
Don't the sales clerks get tired of hearing, really that much, it's way over my budget. |
11-24-2012, 06:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Utah | | | If I have to ask, I can't afford it!
At least with hang-tags, I know that I'll be in the right price range for my ability (about 0.02c, generally!)
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11-24-2012, 06:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: madison, wi | | | tagged
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11-24-2012, 06:26 PM
| | | | Largely doesn't matter cuz I shop on the internet then go to the local mom and pop store armed with that info. |
11-24-2012, 06:39 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: New Jersey | | | Very clear hang tags that are attached to either a tuning machine or the strings on the headstock. As much at that may seem like common sense to most, it's apparently lost on others.
I've seen some shops that used price stickers on the body of the instrument. Really? Do I need to go on a scavenger hunt for the price? So now I have to get some goo-gone in order to clean up the residue from the price sticker. And this also doesn't tell me what model instrument I'm trying out.
And then there's the tag that's attached to the strings over the fingerboard. WHY? It just causes buzz on the fingerboard, and I can't tell if it's the tag or a bad setup. Setups on stock instruments cost the dealer time and money.
Other issues with tagging in stores? Put the instrument's year on the tag, too. This is more important with vintage and used instruments, obviously. But it's also helpful in letting a customer know that the dealer is showing off NOS (new old stock). Some customers want to know how long an instrument has been in stock and hanging in the store. Some manufacturers change features and options in different years. Case in point: Fender made a big shift in the construction of their American Standard series instruments in 2012. The finishes are a little thinner, and they're offering Fender Custom Shop pickups in their guitars and 4 string basses. |
11-24-2012, 07:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: New Jersey | | | Tags, without exception
Maybe it's just my paranoia talking, but my gut feeling is that if a retailer refuses to publicly post a price for an item then they're too shady for me to trust 'em
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11-24-2012, 07:56 PM
| | | | tags with all info..thanks |
11-24-2012, 07:57 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA | | | I absolutely want to see clearly marked tags, or I'll be back out of the shop in seconds.
My least favorite bit is when all of the "affordable" gear is clearly marked and the nicer gear is not. It makes me feel like the retailer wants to look you over and figure out how much they can get out of you. |
11-24-2012, 08:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | | Clearly tagged.
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11-24-2012, 08:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Somewhere in the maritimes. | | | Ya know... When I'm trying out basses in a music store, every one always has the tag... until I find the one that I'm really interested in. It's always that ONE bass that has no price tag, and it drives me nuts!
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11-24-2012, 08:29 PM
|  | Less barking, more wagging! | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: San Diego, CA | | | Clearly marked tags, please. Preferably with a description that's complete enough to facilitate easy comparison of different instruments, e.g.:
Scale length
Active or passive
Description of electronics if active
String spacing at nut & bridge
Weight
Finish
Wood species
Mother's maiden name
Shoe size
etc. |
11-24-2012, 08:35 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Fender Basses, Ampeg, Curt Mangan Strings | | Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: South Shore, Massachusetts | | | Clearly marked tags. Nothing frustrates me more than when I walk into a music store and have to take a bass of the wall and inspect it in order to find out where the bass is made. This is especially true with Fenders. I only buy MIA and I would prefer to not have to take every Jazz and Precision off the wall to find out where it was made.
Some store owners do not tag there instruments because it forces the potential buyer to speak with an employee. The feeling is that this allows the employee to interact with the customer and have a better chance of making the sale. If prices are clearly marked, there is a chance that the customer will walk out without ever speaking to a store employee.
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11-24-2012, 08:45 PM
|  | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | | Clearly marked tags facing forward. I like to see how much it's gonna cost me from 20 feet away.
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11-24-2012, 10:10 PM
|  | Registered Spector Addict | | Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Highlands Ranch, CO. | | | Tags please.
I won't shop at any kind of store where product prices are not clearly posted.
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11-24-2012, 11:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: ottawa, ontario, canada | | | Clearly tags , you have to find more creative ways to mess with people than outright telling them you will be randomly selected to be screwed monetarily by omitting vitals. |
11-24-2012, 11:15 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Brooklyn Park, MN. | | | Tagged
Price
Year
Model
With HSC or gig bag
I can figure the rest out
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