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The end of GC Used Online??

Ha! Ok, I figured it out... I just started using a VPN recently and I was going through a server in Canada. Apparently, there's no used section for Guitar Center's Canadian visitors. Once I set it to a US server, I got the familiar home page.

Whew! That's a relief!

That happens to me all the time. For whatever reason my home access directs me to Canada out of the blue.
 
It's still there,.......the thing that bummed me though, is there's no longer a "brand" list,... i.e. used basses , sort by brand dropdown . Huge mistake on their part I think,.......if it IS still there somewhere, will someone point me to it please?

I think it's sloppy dropping off a query like this.
Maybe they are trying a new DB.
Maybe their existing DB isn't maintained properly and everytime they hit a boundary limit and their DB auto shards it reaches beyond the query constraints they had.

Normally it's an easy fix, but it's a music site, so who in we what weird usability change they think it a good idea.

Sometimes people deploy changes just to look busy.
 
It seems they did just eliminate the "brand" filter option though, which stinks and will only make it harder to find specific items.

It's still there,.......the thing that bummed me though, is there's no longer a "brand" list,... i.e. used basses , sort by brand dropdown . Huge mistake on their part I think,.......if it IS still there somewhere, will someone point me to it please?

I have noticed that they have deleted the list of brands in the search engine. Now you have to manually type the brand you are looking for in the search area. But I am glad the site is still up and working.

Hover over Products -> Bass -> click Electric bass

In the filter, Condition = Used

Then you can filter the brand. You can also filter the number of strings if you want.

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Normally you link the most used queries to give your customers a frictionless experience.
It's easy to see where people drill down.
Most companies aren't so into driving their sites with relational databases, but it's a music retail site so I don't expect much.
 
I actually had someone misconfigure sessions so they were sticky. Problem is that we were doing the standard split btw 2 different sets of functionality. Users would be locked in to whatever they saw, and when connections should have been drained to the other code they got left on the other code.

Either way, a lot of guys working web properties sadly suck at networking so if you create usability issues like literal peeling of table root to ui or straight up DB root sort to ui you get a mess.
 
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