GOOD Guitar Center experiences?

[PBass101]

just cause i don't(or ain't) know how to play 12 bar blues,well just cause someone can't play it doesn't make them a bad musician.

...It's 12 bars of a minimum of 3 chords; it's not rocket science.

I've had nothing but good Guitar Center experiences. Of course, I don't go in everyday just to sit around with my paws all over their property, I go in with a mission having done extensive research on a product and I either get what I need or I don't.

You people who complain sound like you expect the young kids who work there to know everything about instruments and gear. As far as I'm concerned, it's the customer's job to do the research and decide whether or not something is of use to them. The only GC guys I ever need are the cashiers.

And maybe the guy with the ladder to get the nice basses off of the top of the wall. He's helpful too.

 

[xgator4u]

I haven't had a bad experiance with Guitar Center in about 4 years. (oh yeah, I got so pissed 4 years ago that I said I would never go into one agian. Hey it worked)

YUP, NOT going into their store is an excellent G.C. experience.Most certainly the best I ever had.

 

[mightypog]

My partner works at GC, and can attest and frequently does that most people who work there are pretty miserably underqualified, but there are exceptions. Anyway, I get the sick discount now, so GC is great with me these days!
Got my first Pedulla at GC, too.
The problem is that GC guys aren't trained in their own gear. I for example just bought an Ampeg cab and asked the guy about the knob in the back, and he said to keep it at zero unless I liked a lot of attack. That didn't sound right, so I went to the Ampeg site and watched a wonderful video of the correct use of an L-Pad antenuator and now it's set at 5 which is recommended and works great for me. This sort of thing happens ALL THE TIME at GC. But the guys working there make miserable money, commissions are pretty close to negligible a lot of the time, and they and aren't granted a ton of incentives to get super educated.
There's good people there. But you have to know your own stuff before you get there.

 

[rhapbus]

one time i went into gc and then i left and then i never went back