Guitar Center Tip - $5 String bucket

[Guildedagain]

Is there even such a thing as commission at GC?

I always really disliked the bouncer at the door having to look at your goods and receipt, right after checking out, really?

 

[fronobulax]

I always really disliked the bouncer at the door having to look at your goods and receipt, right after checking out, really?

That's Walmart and not Guitar Center in my experience in my market.

 

[Westerly Wood]

Is there even such a thing as commission at GC?

I always really disliked the bouncer at the door having to look at your goods and receipt, right after checking out, really?

Like Frono says above, I have never seen this GC bouncer you speak of.

 

[Guildedagain]

Cutbacks?

 

[Westerly Wood]

Cutbacks?

It might be specific to the GC location/franchise, whether they employ a bouncer or not. The most aggressive I have ever seen a GC is the electric scanners as you walk out.

 

[adorshki]

Is there even such a thing as commission at GC?

I always really disliked the bouncer at the door having to look at your goods and receipt, right after checking out, really?

There used to be, it's how the employees funded their gear purchases. Employees were always their strongest customer base.

I used to belong to their String Club. I don't recall the details but it was something to do with a pack of strings each month. I found my String Club card not long ago while cleaning out a drawer and wondered if they still had that.

it only lasted like a year

There's nothing like first person historical accounts.

 

[Westerly Wood]

he knew he was making zero dollars in commision off of you. I would have walked away also (but not slowly)

so good. But I have spent a lot of cash with GCs over the years. So when they look up my number, they should really just give me the string bin.

 

[Guildedagain]

Some of my favorite GC moments.

Clerks that can't find strings you're pointing to.

Strings you desperately need right at closing time - 7pm - that they told you they had over the phone but they don't have them, and the clerk who answered the phone and told you they had them just gives you a blank look and then walks off.

Cute high school diva changing strings on really expensive PRS's on the counter right next to the register while ringing people up, and then accidentally gauging the headstock with a pair of nippers while trimming the ends.

Naive but cute young hiree, offering to sell me a whole drawer full of whammy bars that probably went to guitars on the wall, for $20.

Clerks half your age with haughty attitudes because they play in a local band.

Watching clerks trying to pull guitars down from near the ceiling, so I could have a better look. Stand way back.

Clerks that play Enter Sandman badly while not helping you.

Clerks trying to bs their way out of a simple question.

Drum clerks who don't know much about drums.

 

[adorshki]

so good. But I have spent a lot of cash with GCs over the years. So when they look up my number, they should really just give me the string bin.

Uh-huh. Like giving a heroin addict unlimited access to dope. Don't go callin' me from the hospital.

 

[adorshki]

Some of my favorite GC moments.

Clerks that can't find strings you're pointing to.

Strings you desperately need right at closing time - 7pm - that they told you thy had over the phone but they don't have them, and the person who answers the phone just gives you a blank look and then walks off.

Cute high school diva changing strings on really expensive PRS's on the counter while ringing people up, and then accidentally gauging the headstock with a pair of nippers while trimming the ends.

Naive but cute young hiree, offering to sell me a whole drawer full of whammy bars that probably went to guitars on the wall, for $20.

Clerks half your age with haughty attitudes because they play in a local band.

Watching clerks trying to pull guitars down from near the ceiling, so I could have a better look. Stand way back.

Clerks that play Enter Sandman badly while not helping you.

Clerks trying to bs their way out of a simple question.

Drum clerks who don't know much about drums.

Clerks who keep adjusting their hearing aids.

 

[Westerly Wood]

Uh-huh. Like giving a heroin addict unlimited access to dope. Don't go callin' me from the hospital.

ya know, Al, if I were to apply for a job at GC....hmmmm....

 

[DrumBob]

I haven't been in a GC in almost a year. I'm waiting for them to shut their doors.