GC owes me a sales comission?

caeman · #1 02-20-2010, 05:10 PM

This has probably happened to others, as well.

So, my buddy is wanting to look at a new effects processors for his guitar. His 25-yr old unit decided it was done and doesn't want to work anymore. So, I head to Guitar Center with him.

While he drooled over effects processors, I headed to the bass guitar toy room and researched possible future bass guitars. A used Line5 LowDown Pro400 (2x10, 400w) was sitting all lonely in the corner.

So, there I am striking and awe and wonder into unsuspecting ears the sounds of...Amazing Grace, a 12-bar blues pattern done a few different ways, the G and D major scales. You know, the kind of stuff that gets one signed onto national acts.

A gentlemen walks in, over to me and starts talking about the amp. He was impressed by the depth of the sound (the DEEP button was on). He liked the relatively small packaging, the combo nature, some of the built-in effects and talked about what he was looking for for his bass player at church (needing an amp as a monitor).

Thanks to my awe-inspiring performance and general friendliness, he talked with his bass player on the phone and they were going to return later to buy one. Church funds, limited funds, that sort of thing.

I think GC owes me a sales commission.

capnsandwich · #2 02-20-2010, 05:18 PM

I had a guy playing an MTD Z6 talk his girlfriend/wife into letting him buy it by playing it myself. At first she didn't like the way it sounded with him playing it. I was chatting with them, talking about the different basses and stuff, and he offered it to me to play so I could help him make a decision on that bass or an Ibanez 6'er, which was cheaper and also the one the girlfriend/wife wanted him to get. I started playing some stuff up and down the fretboard and she told him it sounded better than the Ibanez now. Before she was the other way around.

GC owes me some commission since I sold them a more expensive bass.

BDL1991 · #3 02-21-2010, 02:22 AM

not at GC or anything, or a bass, but i talked a guy to buy a pretty nice Fender Jag Guitar from my local shop, it needed a nice home after the last owner had it, he cudn't take care of a guitar if his life depended on it.

bbmagic · #4 02-21-2010, 10:58 AM

I bought an acoustic 600 watt head and 4x10 cabinet last week. Some guy was sitting by me trying out the 200 watt head and 4x10 and we got to talking bass stuff. Within 2 minutes I had him playing the Ibanez SR505 I was holding (it's what I have at home and wanted to make sure I like the sound of it with the Acoustic set-up). Fast forward ten minutes and he's buying the amp AND the bass!

Randall · #5 03-01-2010, 01:39 PM

Amazing on how knowing something about bass gear gets the sale made.

I hate it when i know more about gear/cars etc than the actual "salesman".

Rick Auricchio · #6 03-02-2010, 05:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by capnsandwich

I had a guy playing an MTD Z6 talk his girlfriend/wife into letting him buy it by playing it myself. At first she didn't like the way it sounded with him playing it.

But your basses sound different when someone else plays them. So I don't understand. Isn't he gonna sound the same at home as he did earlier?

Just like me trying to drive a Formula racer. It ain't gonna be the same as a good driver.

armywalaby · #7 03-02-2010, 09:48 PM

So much tone is derived from our hand sausages. I believe most of us can make a Ibanez GSR 200 sound good, cuz we have trained sausages.

Herrlster · #8 03-03-2010, 12:32 PM

You're so awesome. GC wouldn't be able to survive without you going into their store and noodling around in the bass section. Bravo good sir, Bravo.

That's what you wanted right? Is that good?

Mo'Phat · #9 03-03-2010, 01:44 PM

Silly caeman, thinking GC salesman work on commission. I suppose they do, in theory...in theory.

E_String_Dave · #10 03-03-2010, 06:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Randall

Amazing on how knowing something about bass gear gets the sale made.

I hate it when i know more about gear/cars etc than the actual "salesman".

It's even worse when your sixteen! I walk into any guitar store and the sales person tries to talk to me like I don't know how to tune a guitar. Three or four minutes later they're asking me what I'm talking about (I almost always know exactly what I want when I go in. Watts, speaker cab material, ect.)

It's pretty fun watching jaws drop though

BassZilla5 · #11 03-03-2010, 07:35 PM

I had the opposite happen to me when I was working at Sam Ash last year... A guy apporached me about something (don't remember what) and I started doing my salesman thing. Another bass player walked up and started just raving about the (whatever-it-was) that he had bought the year before. Next thing I knew, I was leaning against an amp, listening to this guy do my job for me. And he sold the guy lock, stock and barrell. All I had to do was ring the customer up and carry it out to his car for him! lol... (And I cut that other guy a HUGE discount on whatever it was he was getting that day. The least I could do!)

Brad Johnson · #12 03-03-2010, 07:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by caeman

This has probably happened to others, as well.

So, my buddy is wanting to look at a new effects processors for his guitar. His 25-yr old unit decided it was done and doesn't want to work anymore. So, I head to Guitar Center with him.

While he drooled over effects processors, I headed to the bass guitar toy room and researched possible future bass guitars. A used Line5 LowDown Pro400 (2x10, 400w) was sitting all lonely in the corner.

So, there I am striking and awe and wonder into unsuspecting ears the sounds of...Amazing Grace, a 12-bar blues pattern done a few different ways, the G and D major scales. You know, the kind of stuff that gets one signed onto national acts.

A gentlemen walks in, over to me and starts talking about the amp. He was impressed by the depth of the sound (the DEEP button was on). He liked the relatively small packaging, the combo nature, some of the built-in effects and talked about what he was looking for for his bass player at church (needing an amp as a monitor).

Thanks to my awe-inspiring performance and general friendliness, he talked with his bass player on the phone and they were going to return later to buy one. Church funds, limited funds, that sort of thing.

I think GC owes me a sales commission.

If that were the case they'd owe me a department.

Brad Johnson · #13 03-03-2010, 07:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rick Auricchio

But your basses sound different when someone else plays them. So I don't understand. Isn't he gonna sound the same at home as he did earlier?

Just like me trying to drive a Formula racer. It ain't gonna be the same as a good driver.

I make a point of pointing that out... but by that time most people have stopped listening and headed straight to stardom.