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Dumb Salesman at GC

#125
LBS-bass said:
Never mind the fact that those guys work for minimum wage. Exactly what do you expect? Do you think they go home and spend hours poring over the latest tech magazines and pages in order to understand every detail of every piece of gear so they can sell it to you? If you wanted that, you really shouldn't have started squeezing the full-service independent, commissioned retailers to the point at which they had no choice but to go out of business.

Because that's why that guy in GC isn't well informed. He's not paid to be.
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Who is squeezing what now?
 
#129
Bubble said:
I saw a salesman playing Guitar on a Twin Reverb, I asked him if the Twin Reverb has an alternator. He was very puzzled, cocked his head at the amp, but I didn't tell him what it is. LOL
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Back in the early days of the Twin Reverbs, cheap efficient high power solid state inverters had not been invented to be able to power it in remote areas with no electricity to plug into. Since the Twin Reverb needs AC to run, one solution was to use a DC electric motor connected to an alternator in order to generate 120 volts AC.
 
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#132
I like that look they give when I ask them if they still have that red bass for $200.

ultra60 said:
"I saw a salesman playing Guitar on a Twin Reverb, I asked him if the Twin Reverb has an alternator. He was very puzzled, cocked his head at the amp, but I didn't tell him what it is."

Aside from the title of this post, why does the above sound like a Steven Wright line?

He's a comic genius.

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#134
Bubble said:
I like that look they give when I ask them if they still have that red bass for $200.
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How old are you? Heck..do you even have a real job yourself ?

This MAYBE is excusable if you are under 21, or even 25 because at those ages you really have no clue how hard and cruel life is yet.

Messing with people who are working and trying to earn a living is just simply not cool at all.
 
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My jobs included the hazards of being sliced by lasers, exposed to microwave, x and gamma radiation, working in the jaws of machines that close with more than 200 tons of force, thrown across the concrete floor by robots that carry 500 lbs across an 8 foot arc in 2 seconds, machines that can slice my arm or head off in a finger snap, roasted by 440 volts ac, 150,000 volts dc, falling 40 feet from a crane into jagged machinery, vomit dust that comes from inside CAT scanner beds when you open them for repair, the stress of being depended on by several thousand people to protect them from a mid range threat of 32 or more missiles approaching at near 3,000 mph,
and working in close quarters for two years with a super hottie that I loved but she didn't love me until near the end.
A little joke like that is a gnat's sneeze to me.
(oops 150,000 volts dc not 250,000) You should see the arcs it SSSSS makes.
 
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