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Guitar Center shipping to Ireland...

  • 24-01-2011 9:28am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭


    Any one see this yet?

    Are they shipping from the US or do they have a European entity?

    Any used them yet?


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Coooool why do things like this happen when im broke???


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭artvandulet


    Looks like its a very limited selection however. I don't think they are selling any Fender products for instance.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    After looking at the site, it seems completely pants. No fenders! Terrible selection. Let's hope it gets better, it's a waste of time otherwise


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    Doesn't Guitar Center use www.MusiciansFriend.com as their online vendor ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,004 ✭✭✭68 lost souls


    They wont be able to sell more products because the distrubution agreements that exist. Guitar Center US Im sure would not be allowed sell most products i.e. Yamaha and Fender outside of the US as they do not have the EU distribution rights.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,635 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ravelleman


    Yes, this is true. As Dublin Guitar pointed out in his post on the long thread about Irish shops, most companies have extremely selective supply lines, especially in Europe. The selection Guitar Centre can offer is terrible. Music 123 used to do this with a good selection until they went under and were absorbed by musiciansfriend.

    If you want to buy something from the US, you'd be just as well to buy it on ebay as the amount of actual second hand items being 'auctioned' on ebay is very small these days. It's mainly just used by smaller non-national stores, which have good reputations locally or state-wide to sell new items with buy it now prices. I don't see too much difference between that and getting whatever you want online from Guitar Centre.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,635 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ravelleman


    But that being said, many of these ebay stores aren't allowed to sell 'Fender family' products (including Gretsch and Charvel) new outside the US. A lot of them just arbitrarily label stock as used to get passed the clause in their contract with Fender.

    One of the more prominent examples of selective supply lines in Ernie Ball Musicman, who absolutely won't allow dealers to sell new to outside the US. Check it out on ebay, it never happens!


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