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what difference does that make? I've got a life..I don't sit on forums all day every day talking nonsense about stuff.
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How's about you speak to shops, visit them or call them and get an experience of a shop rather than making assumptions on a forum which is totally against shops and dealers?
Utter bollocks that one mate, I think you'll find very few if any on here are against shops and dealers. But they are against shops and dealers posing as someone/something else, giving some nonsense sob story or whatever else, looking for a bargain that they can then turn over for a healthy profit.
My comment was intended to mean I don't spend hours on here every year when I have other things to be doing. Your comment was about my activity on here which is what I'm responding too. Spending hours on here generally talking about stuff I class as wasting time personally. that's not an insult. That my personal opinion. it's not a slight on people on here, it's my feelings of spending my time.
I dont hide under names or pose as something I'm not so that's not a fair assumption.
If you don't think most people on here are against dealers and flippers then maybe you haven't spent as much time on here as I thought. The general feeling is that the pitchforks come out for dealers and flippers hence this post in general.
stories to get stuff cheap shouldn't be used imo..I agree there.
So I agree with that point. I don't do it and have no intentions to do so, therefore that's not me there.
The fact you have crossed multiple shops off your list based on one response etc says alot about reading into things in potentially the wrong way.
Sometimes at a good price, at least at a fair price.
It's nice to think (and is often actually the case) that these good prices are passed on to the next member of the forum. Y'know like a guitar community.
Not multiple shops. Just two, one from this thread and one from another recent thread.
Coda - this one surprises me still - gave me a derisory trade in on an old Japanese Tokai. I knew what it was, but had gone to impulsively get an amp and said they would sell it for £950. I chopped in a few other things - one Yamaha MSG that I got a rubbish price for too, that I think they sold privately (I didn’t mind so much as I bought it for a good price). 2 months later, the Tokai lists for £1500. I’m all for shops making a profit, but those are two I won’t be shopping at again. Just leaves a bad taste. It’s a business, but customers aren’t there to be ripped off. To top it off - the amp was a lemon, and they were quick to say the store warranty only covers the valves - the manufacturer luckily took care of the output transformer.
ADMIN EDIT: Nope, banned members don't get to chime in, no matter how strongly they feel about it.
Regarding Jim Ramsay of The Guitar Trade Centre, it’s common knowledge here in Glasgow that for years he has used multiple names and accounts across multiple platforms, along with many sob stories, while buying guitars.
He also bought his way in to running a few Facebook buy and sell groups so he gets first dibs.
He is often very creative with the truth when them selling them on.
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That’s a whole of story involving Kenny’s (who are clearly in trouble) crowdfunding over £200k to buy all of Jim’s stock to open their pre-owned department in their Glasgow shop and give him a job…
I do run multiple Facebook groups and do get first dibs.
I am part of a bigger machine now which is also true.
Any costs of the previous business will be paid within agreed times and in full.
Nothing exciting in that revelation..pretty easy to post stuff on here with accusations isn't it.
That's alright then, send me your bank details.