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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 2007.1 | ?????? | GLOWS::COCCOLI | One size fits all... | Thu Jul 25 1991 18:47 | 17 |
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I'd like to perhaps re-open this note.
Musician's Friend is blowing out these guitars at some incredibly
reasonable prices.
A six string, cutaway acoustic w/solid spruce top and mahagony
back and sides w/eq preamp is going for $199.!!!
Has anyone ever seen/played one?.
I have previously dreaded buying a mail-order guitar, but I need
a kick-around guitar and for $200, I may take a chance.
any info?
RichC
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| 2007.2 | Aspen guitars, made of aspen trees right? | GOES11::G_HOUSE | I wanna be sedated! | Sat Jul 27 1991 18:54 | 6 |
| I also saw that ad, Rich, and it kind of blew my mind seeing solid
spruce and ceder tops on these guitars with prices under two bills.
Has anyone seen/played one? What are they like?
Greg
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| 2007.3 | I saw, I ordered, but NO WAY! | TLE::TLE::SLOVENKAI | | Fri Aug 16 1991 12:22 | 34 |
| I called Musician's Friend on 7/15 and talked to the guitar tech.
MF bought out Aspen's inventory after the company (Korean) folded.
The guitar mentioned in .1 was in fact a solid-top with good
balanced sound (acoustically). The electornics left a bit to
be desired - not much base - but still a great deal for the $$.
To make a long story short, I decided to order one and see for
myself. The customer service (oxymoron?) rep said *yes* they
were in stock and *yes* they will have one to me in 10 days.
That was by 8/1. I received a package of strings I ordered
but no guitar. "Backordered" according to the invoice. Remember-
I really grilled the service rep because somehow I doubted they
would have any. I also was charged $9 for shipping... and only
got strings!
After another 2 weeks I called to get the scoop. Turns out that
they *never* had a guitar to send me! They called it a "screw up"
and I should have been notified. Evidently, these sold out
immediately - how immediately, I don't know because I called
the day I received their catalog! I asserted my disgust to the
store manager, who gave me a typical song and dance about mail-
order verses telephone-order taking - then tired to compensate
("make me happy") by discounting another guitar. He was willing
to go down to $400 on a Washburn EA-20 which was, temp. out of
stock. I said forget it and told him I'll probably never order
anything from them again!
Maybe I'm dreaming, but I think he should have taken the loss
and sent me an acoustic-cutaway since they were so quick to take
my money! Now I'm waiting for my account to be credited and
for some of the postage to be refunded.
A warning to all about Musician's (ahem) Friend.
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| 2007.4 | | GLOWS::COCCOLI | One size fits all... | Wed Aug 21 1991 22:41 | 14 |
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I too have had a similar experience with MF. "MF" is right!.
On finding out the Aspen's were on backorder, I ordered a
Washburn D-12 in blue woodstone finish. One was said to be "a week
overdue already" and should be arriving "any day now".
Three weeks later I cancelled. So much for ordering a guit by mail,
something I was extremely hesitant about in the first place.
RichC
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