Members XorAxAx Posted September 30, 2006 Members Share Posted September 30, 2006 Went to Guitar Center yesterday. They had a used V-Synth. For US $2359. I laughed and asked the guy if it was a joke. He replied, with all seriousness, "No, that's what they're going for these days." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members -groovatious- Posted September 30, 2006 Members Share Posted September 30, 2006 Bargain...should have tried to get 2 at that price... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pizzamon Posted September 30, 2006 Members Share Posted September 30, 2006 A few weeks ago I went to GC to buy a new dj mixer. It retails for about $300. The mixer had a sign on it stating it was selling for $250. I went to buy it and the sales guy goes ... Oh, that will be $350....wtf. He goes, "that sign is a mistake, I cannot sell it to you at that price". The old bait and switch routine. I got the guy to give it to me for $275, so all came out o.k., but dang that put a sour taste in my mouth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pighood Posted September 30, 2006 Members Share Posted September 30, 2006 I'm lucky to have a GC rep who takes care of me. I see his unit price on the monitor, he adds a leeeelte bit, and sells it to me werry werry weeeeasonable like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khazul Posted September 30, 2006 Members Share Posted September 30, 2006 Originally posted by pizzamon A few weeks ago I went to GC to buy a new dj mixer. It retails for about $300. The mixer had a sign on it stating it was selling for $250. I went to buy it and the sales guy goes ... Oh, that will be $350....wtf. He goes, "that sign is a mistake, I cannot sell it to you at that price". The old bait and switch routine. I got the guy to give it to me for $275, so all came out o.k., but dang that put a sour taste in my mouth. In the UK that kind of mistake is tough {censored} for the dealer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pizzamon Posted September 30, 2006 Members Share Posted September 30, 2006 I actually came out getting it $25 cheaper than I would have found it anywhere else, so I went ahead and bought it feeling like I won the battle. Lesson learned for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kazper Posted September 30, 2006 Members Share Posted September 30, 2006 You need to reach up and pull out alitle more of the inner asshole out and then get it for $225 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Array Posted September 30, 2006 Members Share Posted September 30, 2006 Originally posted by XorAxAx Went to Guitar Center yesterday. They had a used V-Synth. For US $2359. I laughed and asked the guy if it was a joke. He replied, with all seriousness, "No, that's what they're going for these days." Yeah..when I was at Guitar Center on Thursday they had a used Virus KB for $1700! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sleepin' Deeper Posted October 1, 2006 Members Share Posted October 1, 2006 Originally posted by Khazul In the UK that kind of mistake is tough {censored} for the dealer. Same here. The dealer gotsta sell it for what it says on the tag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted October 1, 2006 Share Posted October 1, 2006 Originally posted by Khazul In the UK that kind of mistake is tough {censored} for the dealer. Originally posted by Sleepin' Deeper Same here. The dealer gotsta sell it for what it says on the tag. It is the same here. GC would have to sell it at the advertised/tagged price. The thing is... Originally posted by kazper You need to reach up and pull out alitle more of the inner asshole out and then get it for $225 :D :D :p :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members The Audacity Works Posted October 1, 2006 Members Share Posted October 1, 2006 Originally posted by pighood I'm lucky to have a GC rep who takes care of me. I see his unit price on the monitor, he adds a leeeelte bit, and sells it to me werry werry weeeeasonable like.That unit price is GC's actual cost from the manufacturer, plus shipping to their warehouse, plus shipping to the store, plus an "operating charge", which can be anywhere from 15 to 30% or more. It's absolutely, positively not anywhere close to what GC actually pays for the product. I know because my store used to routinely mark certain products lower than GC's alleged dealer cost. At the end of the day, GC is always making a decent (if not hefty) profit on you, even if their own salespeople don't know it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pizzamon Posted October 1, 2006 Members Share Posted October 1, 2006 I wish I had you guys to talk me up when I was in the store. If anyone has some swampland in florida...I might be interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Darkstorm Posted October 1, 2006 Members Share Posted October 1, 2006 If a place wont sell it to you for the priced marked or lower, walk away & buy elsewhere. Me I'd walk away & probably phone the mfg and inform the that this store was trying to sell their products for higher then the price stated on the sign. That often can result in the mfg pulling their products from the store. I once went to a stereo store whose salesmen where asking more then mfg srp for Denons componants. Even showed saleman print out of Denon website mslp. They claimed prices just went up! Politely notified Denon & asked them to reccomend another auth dealer in my area, they jumped the offending store big time. And the salemen where fired on the spot. It was either that or lose their dealership. Anytime your paying more then the price on sign your purposely letting yourself get screwed imo. Anytime your willing to pay more then mfg slp your a fool imo. Its not uncommon for mfg to pull their products from disreputable dealers stores. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pizzamon Posted October 1, 2006 Members Share Posted October 1, 2006 There is no where else I could found it new for 275. It's a new product. But I do wish I had put up more of a stink. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sleepin' Deeper Posted October 1, 2006 Members Share Posted October 1, 2006 Originally posted by Darkstorm If a place wont sell it to you for the priced marked or lower, walk away & buy elsewhere. Me I'd walk away & probably phone the mfg and inform the that this store was trying to sell their products for higher then the price stated on the sign. That often can result in the mfg pulling their products from the store. I once went to a stereo store whose salesmen where asking more then mfg srp for Denons componants. Even showed saleman print out of Denon website mslp. They claimed prices just went up! Politely notified Denon & asked them to reccomend another auth dealer in my area, they jumped the offending store big time. And the salemen where fired on the spot. It was either that or lose their dealership. Anytime your paying more then the price on sign your purposely letting yourself get screwed imo. Anytime your willing to pay more then mfg slp your a fool imo. Its not uncommon for mfg to pull their products from disreputable dealers stores. This post cracked me up in the South Park sort of way! :D :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tony Scharf Posted October 1, 2006 Members Share Posted October 1, 2006 the GC near me (arlington heights, IL) has a used electrix filter factory tagged at $499. The keyboard guy who is stuck with it told me some idiot in the guitar department took it in at that price thinking it was some high end FX box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dejavoodoo Posted October 2, 2006 Members Share Posted October 2, 2006 Back when they first came out the second time (oh, early 1990s or so), I saw a new Korg CX-3 with a price tag of $1,000. I knew it was more than that. Not wanting to say anything and bring the boulder of Karma (no pun intended) crashing down on my head, I sneaked out without looking like I was going to buy anything and went home to ask my wife if we had the money. We didn't, but just as well. They had the price tag fixed the next day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Silent Heart Posted October 2, 2006 Members Share Posted October 2, 2006 Originally posted by Sleepin' Deeper Same here. The dealer gotsta sell it for what it says on the tag. Dealer: Whoops, that Bentley is supposed to be $100000.00, not $100.00 like it says on the tag. Customer: Too bad! Gimme my 100 dollar Bentley! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ozenix Posted October 2, 2006 Members Share Posted October 2, 2006 That's why car salesmen are rigorously trained people with highly attuned senses, sorta like casino croupiers but even more so. They make one mistake every 1,000,000,000 times. And yes I made that up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members noizyb Posted October 3, 2006 Members Share Posted October 3, 2006 Most GC's have new ones on the floor for $ 1195. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted October 3, 2006 Share Posted October 3, 2006 I was looking at the name of your subject in your topic and thought something else like this would be better: Guitar Hilarity Center Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members program_insect Posted October 3, 2006 Members Share Posted October 3, 2006 yo pizza, what mixer was it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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