GC new mail catalog

lol I feel your pain, but this is nothing new. Just about every catalog from most music stores that I've ever received has had little to no bass-related gear in them. And when there IS something, rarely is it anything to whoop about (IE a starter bass, some strings I'm uninterested in, etc). Never worth it to get your hopes up when one of those comes in the mail.

 

Mine go directly into the trash, don't even take them inside.
and I've called those jokers (& Sam Ash) more than a couple of time to ask them to cancel those snail mail catalogs

Makes me wonder how much money gets wasted on unwanted catalogs, since I have the same problem with Gamestop, Harbor Freight, and others I probably forgot about.

 

I toss the small catalogues.
My local GC usually has 80 to 90 basses hanging up.
98 last time I checked.

 

Thumbed through.Straight to trash.
Sweetwater catalog gets saved.

 

It's definitely kind of odd. There's usually at least two pages devoted to drums, whereas when they put basses in, there's one or two on a page with guitars. I can understand there being far more guitars than anything else, but I doubt they sell substantially more drum sets than basses.

 

I look forward to them because no one else corresponds with me via USPS, except my grandma (birthday and Christmas).

 

I toss their catalogs and mailers as soon as they show up. Straight into the recycling bin on the way from the mailbox back into the house. They never even cross our threshold.

 

I work for the USPS and my own MOTHER used to complain about all the "junk" mail she got. I told her; "mom, I work for the USPS...that's how I feed your grand-kids. Is it too much to ask that you take this fine bulk business mail out of your mailbox and put it in your recycle bin?" She'd smile and say ok...until the next time.

 

It's just a catalog, if you have 5 pages to sell something you gonna advertise the sellers.

GC does this weird thing though, they have stores where you can actually go in and play any one of the huge selection of basses they have hanging on the way. If you ask, they'll even set it up for you. It's crazy I know, but you should try it.

They don't sound good in the catalog anyway. really thin sounding.

 

Per usual, the GC experience varies hugely by store and region. My local GC (Braintree Mass) usually has around 30 basses hanging, but only 4-5 bass amps, including the used ones. They don’t do any setup at all prior to sale, so most of the basses have high action or other issues. Not a great sales tactic IMO. I haven’t bought anything beyond strings for a couple years, so they dropped me off the mailer list.

 

My local has a few basses and a few amps..but....not one single cotton pickin effect for bass...ever!

 

They go right in the recycling.
Small price drops on all the junk they can't sell - no thanks I'll pass..

 

I’m guessing about 5 are worth a [email protected]?

 

I've wondered the same thing. I guess it would be a difficult thing to accurately quantify. For me though, it's very rare that I purchase something without first already knowing what I want through researching it online. Maybe some people do look through those catalogues and say "hey, I want that" but I can't imagine there are all that many people that buy that way these days.

 

I don't know if it's like that at other GC stores but the one I have closest (2 hour round trip drive) stocks a pathetic shopwing of basses and bass gear. They normally have basses ranging in the 200-$500 range and that's it. Nothing has a decent setup on it when you do try one. It just seems as though the whole corporation forgets about the bass players.

 

Obviously, you don't have pen pals, from around the world...