Some Neck Guitars

Squidgy Black

ohigg84 wrote: »

But back to music, I went to Waltons on George St. yesterday afternoon jus to toy around with the Angus Young Signature SG (the black one), and it took the staff member a good 5 minutes tuning the guitar. He handed me the guitar and went off, but when Iplayed it, the guitar was not tuned properly at all.

I had to tune it up myself.. That just surmises the sometimes bad service you shouldn't get at a top music shop, especially at Waltons.

To be honest, that's not really bad customer service at all, he just may not have been a decent enough guitarist to know how to tune by ear. Most of the guitars they have are taken from the stock room and stuck up on the wall to play, and the store's a big tourist attraction etc, so it gets a lot of footfall so the guitars are well played and that's why they tend not to be in tune. And besides that, if I was testing a guitar that's worth almost 2 grand, I'd be tuning it myself to make sure I could test the intonation and how stable the tuning is, it's not hard. I think moaning about the tuning of a guitar is a bit of a petty blow at the store.

However, I've a couple of truely horrible experiences with Waltons, dropped a guitar in on a Sunday for a quick jack repair and they broke one of my tuners, they refused to haggle on the price of some stuff and when I quoted the thomann price, I was told to go buy off them instead. And another, where I had to buy a guitar with a cheque for a school, paid the cheque up front, was told it'd take 3-5 days for it to clear, called back every couple of days for an update, they never bothered checking it with the accountant for over 2 weeks.

ohigg84

stetyrrell wrote: »

To be honest, that's not really bad customer service at all, he just may not have been a decent enough guitarist to know how to tune by ear. Most of the guitars they have are taken from the stock room and stuck up on the wall to play, and the store's a big tourist attraction etc, so it gets a lot of footfall so the guitars are well played and that's why they tend not to be in tune. And besides that, if I was testing a guitar that's worth almost 2 grand, I'd be tuning it myself to make sure I could test the intonation and how stable the tuning is, it's not hard. I think moaning about the tuning of a guitar is a bit of a petty blow at the store.

Yeah true that, I actually dont mind them at all, but I do prefer the staff at Frederick St., thats where I buy most of my sg's..:D

Really, that was bad, and what happened to the cheque, was it cleared?

Squidgy Black

ohigg84 wrote: »

Yeah true that, I actually dont mind them at all, but I do prefer the staff at Frederick St., thats where I buy most of my sg's..:D

Really, that was bad, and what happened to the cheque, was it cleared?

Yeah the cheque had cleared after around 3 days, they just never bothered to get off their asses and check.