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- Thread starter samc2527
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True story.
I met the 'Platinum Site' Manager a few months ago(he came to my store because we sell a lot of high end guitars), and I asked him point blank why he hated bassists & why we have "fender, musicman, and 2 modulus" on our platinum site. He rambled off a couple of excuses and told me to send him an email with gear bassists use. I sent him a list of gear people ask for a lot(in my store, and on here).
Whether or not this has something to do with more bass gear being in the stores...I don't know...but I keep barking up the tree of buyers to get better gear because it sucks when I walk into my store and see my bass room with: Fender, Musicman, Ibanez, Schecter and a couple straggler Deans, Yamahas & the predictable 'beatle bass'. Hopefully somebody's listening
I met the 'Platinum Site' Manager a few months ago(he came to my store because we sell a lot of high end guitars), and I asked him point blank why he hated bassists & why we have "fender, musicman, and 2 modulus" on our platinum site. He rambled off a couple of excuses and told me to send him an email with gear bassists use. I sent him a list of gear people ask for a lot(in my store, and on here).
Whether or not this has something to do with more bass gear being in the stores...I don't know...but I keep barking up the tree of buyers to get better gear because it sucks when I walk into my store and see my bass room with: Fender, Musicman, Ibanez, Schecter and a couple straggler Deans, Yamahas & the predictable 'beatle bass'. Hopefully somebody's listening
I went up to Seattle and dropped into GC after BassNW just for the hell of it. One of the sales guys started chatting with me and found out I'm from the LA area. He started asking about the Hollywood store in reverent tones. Told him flat out it's barely any different than any GC. They had a few Moduli, a few MTD Koreans, and a $#!*** Warrior last time I popped in. You'd think competing with Mesa and Carvin across the street would compel them to stock better gear. It doesn't.
OH, yes they also have vintage Fenders for 15k. How awesome is that.
OH, yes they also have vintage Fenders for 15k. How awesome is that.
The new vintage buyers aren't any better, offered me $200 for an ovation ultra bass with a kahler trem. USA of course, not saying it was worth thousands but it sold for $600 off craigslist in two days...
Well, let's look at it from an outside perspective, not even in a GC state of mind.
"let me base my market value on certain items on one of the most inflated markets around - hollywood, ca" bad idea.
As far as who offered you $200 for that bass, it's hard for us in stores to move some gear. I don't know the whole situation, but either dude didn't know exactly what it was - so he couldn't assess a real value to it - or he felt he couldn't sell it for $xxx.xx. We're not perfect, sometimes we make bad business decisions; we're human. Kudos to you for selling it for $600 though.
samc2527 said:
I bring in the amount I want to pay. That day I brought in 350. But I had my gf hold the remainder of the cash and I put the cash on the table told the guy I want that bass and if he couldn't make it work the money would go back in my pocket. He knocked it down to 4 I said I only have 390 and asked my gf for "her" money he took it and I got my bass for an awesome price
They actually took pictures and sent them some where, the whole process took like two days, either way the end result was good
Right on, that's pretty standard procedure for vintage gear. Glad it worked out in the end for you, because I know I've been given some terrrrrrrrrrible prices from them on gear I wanted to buy in. So bad I just told the customer I couldn't buy it.
refer to sig.
Yea, I live south so i frequent the mopac location more often but was running early to work so I decided to take a trip to the anderson lane one
Was going to say, it's the one on Anderson Ln. That Modulus has been there for a quite a while, same with the Korean MTD. I go in there every month or two, check out the used stuff and watch what goes in and out. If you are looking for something, I'd suggest you look for it on GC's website under used - call up the store that has the goods and you get it shipped to you. You can usually fax the no-tax forms if it is in Texas, and have it shipped to you pretty cheap.
I'm up in Amarillo and the GC here just plain sucks! Very few nice basses and those have been hanging on the wall so long they've got wear on them. Bass amps? Ha! Forget it. It is equiped with the standard issue emo-metal kid slaying scale progressions at rediculous volume. The staff is super nice, but their stock blows.
How was the set up on them? I have noticed over the years that most basses are put out on display and never touched and sometimes are nearly unplayable. I guess modulus would at least be likely still be set up well from the factory being a composite neck.
