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Guitar Center Screwed Me Again

#101
Green Lantern said:
Nothing is wrong with what he is doing? Your reading into something that is not there. I have friends who buy and trade gear all the time. Just was curious as 200 is a lot of basses to buy and was hopeful he was having a successful business with buying and trading. If not selling them I was intreqied as most people end up with under 10 bass guitars in a life time.
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Admittedly I am pretty intense when it comes to bass. I love gear and thanks to all the many sources of used gear, it is very affordable. It's not like guitars wheremso many used and discontinued models skyrocket in value and become vintage

If I were a guitarist with these impulses I would be broke. Thankfully for bass it is mostle just used gear.

I vaguely remember reading an interview years and years ago where Jesse Keeler of Death from Above 1979 said "I don't use vintage gear that everyone wants. I use vintage gear that no one wants!"

That's pretty much me too!
 
#102
bassgod76 said:
Oh, he made it seem like GC had three more of the same item
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There were a few USA subs until recently. And they will get more.

And I noticed they seem to "shelve" used stuff that gets cold and then reliant it.

And there is an identical sub but a 5 string which I said I would buy for $100 more if they could do that ...

No luck.
 
#103
bassgod76 said:
In this circumstance, I would probably call them and explain the situation. I'm sure if you called Guitar Center's corporate headquarters, they would probably make it right. We're not talking about a high dollar item here, so it would probably not be a lot of skin off Guitar Center's nose.
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Any idea if the best way to get a hold of GC corporate?
 
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Start there. GC wants to move inventory. It never hurts to ask.
 
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#111
Dr. Cheese said:
Not updating inventory instantly given today's technology is inexcusable. If GC cannot do that, they have no business selling online.
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Again, this is today's technology. That's how it is setup to work. Optimistic Locking allows more than one party to browse an item, even when there is just one.

The reason GC (and all other retailers) uses Optimistic Locking rather than Pessimistic Locking is that if it were designed with Pessimistic Locking, when the second party began to browse, the item would have been labeled with "Sold" or "No Longer Available" banner somewhere on the webpage as another customer began to browse that item. The downside of Pessimistic Locking is that if Customer #1 then decided not to purchase, GC would have lost the sale as Customer #2 already left when they saw the "No Longer Available" banner. So Optimistic Locking allows both to browse, but whose ever purchase transaction got logged into GC's servers first gets the item even though both parties completed the transaction.

Unfortunately, the way databases work, there is no way to let customer #2 know that customer #1 just completed his transaction when you are in the shopping cart/transaction page. Nothing underhanded going on, nothing skeevie either. Everything is above board and in compliance with consumer protection laws.

Now before any developers or computer science folks get to exited here, I may have the terms 'optimistic' and 'pessimistic' reversed, but for the purposes of this post, you all get the point
 
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#114
At this point, Guitar Center exists solely to piss people off. They were sitting there, laughing... Boy! Did they have a good laugh.

But the good times only go so far, and then things get dark. I'm concerned that they know your name and where you live. These are things most people would never share with Guitar Center.
 
#116
Mvilmany said:
At this point, Guitar Center exists solely to piss people off. They were sitting there, laughing... Boy! Did they have a good laugh.

But the good times only go so far, and then things get dark. I'm concerned that they know your name and where you live. These are things most people would never share with Guitar Center.
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Sure.
 
#120
DigitalMan said:
Reverb an ebay don't have the problem of dealing with point of sale or a separate inventory system.
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All of which could easily be integrated into a single system, but GC would rather get a certain percentage of customers upset than spend the buck on streamlining the procedure.

Do I understand the mentality? Of course. The side effects of shareholder's revolution from three decades ago.

Do I agree with the approach in question? Absolutely not, but they couldn't care less about what I think about their business practices.
 

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