Everyone has a different concept of what good business practices are and, yes, names should be kept out of this forum if it involves "store bashing". The best thing we can do is identify the really good ones and support them with our $$$.

BTW-Elderly is a great store! Just wish they carried more 000s and OMs especially in the Collings and SCGC lines.

Opinion only.

fred

One of the benefits of having a flexible schedule is that I get to go to guitar stores at 'off peak' hours. Crowded music stores are bad enough, not just because sales staff are stretched thin, but also because crowding = cacophany. Few things are worse than trying to hear your acoustic when some spotty 13 year old immediately sits near you, vainly attempting to 'shred' on a Marshall stack.

I only ever go to guitar stores and cinemas 'off peak' these days. The continued erosion of public decorum was made exponentially worse with the invention of the cell-phone. I don't want to hear your palsied attempt at 'Crazy Train' when I've got a Collings in my hand, I don't want to hear your running commentary during a film, and I don't want to hear your shouted cell conversation about your bowels or your chucklehead kids when I'm peacefully reading in a coffee shop.

I'm clearly old and ornery though I haven't hit 40 yet.

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I was guessing it was Komonawannascratche Guitars in Honolulu. Might be wrong.

sce...: you may be old and ornery, but it's a funny post. and true. i go to my favorite music store friday mornings when they open. noone there. the owners are more relaxed at that time too.

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Originally posted by sceimhlitheoir:
old and ornery

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI6IlXfUdPE

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I was guessing it was Komonawannascratche Guitars in Honolulu. Might be wrong.

Yeah, I can't stand that place -- all the guitars are always in slack-key tuning . . . And they're always saying "aloha" when you come in AND when you leave -- it's a little confusing . . .

You guys are too funny.

I've had numerous bad experiences. But it's never black and white, always grey.

Most of the issues surround people who should not be working with the public doing exactly that.

It's like hiring me to work in a day care. I don't think so.

The icing on the cake for me was being asked once if I intended on buying a guitar or whether I was just doing a tour of guitar stores around the eastern seaboard - after I just drove 11 hours to go to a particular guitar store some year or two ago.

And I had spoken with them in advance.

It happens. Don't it just piss you off.



Stuart

My bad.

I shop Elderly all the time, but it not the best place to really hear a guitar. There are a couple of really bad things about Elderly, unless they know you as a regular.

So, my bad for guessing wrong.

mattmoo

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Most of the issues surround people who should not be working with the public doing exactly that.

Ditto... Difficult enough ferreting out those job applicants who can "add" to a shop's culture - without "taking away" from it.

even with my notorious reputation for guitar and mandolin buying i still get dissed here and there......but i will tell you that i sent the mister in to pick up something at a famous shop recently and they just literally ignored him until he stood at the counter, asked for the owner and announced in a very loud voice that he was Mister Mary Mary......

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even with my notorious reputation for guitar and mandolin buying i still get dissed here and there......but i will tell you that i sent the mister in to pick up something at a famous shop recently and they just literally ignored him until he stood at the counter, asked for the owner and announced in a very loud voice that he was Mister Mary Mary......

LOL...post of the day!!! I love this forum!

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I sent the mister in to pick up something at a famous shop recently and they just literally ignored him until he stood at the counter, asked for the owner and announced in a very loud voice that he was Mister Mary Mary......

Well, that would have definetly gotten my attention!!!