Guitar Center needs help selling guitars on ebay now lol

[roodboy]

When you check completed listings for that seller there are 5 sales for guitar cases in last few months.
Maybe thats where the guitar cases that come with guitars that GC can never find end up.

 

[tubortski]

Call me what you want, I just think it's completely wrong to sell something that isn't yours.

 

[bubbastain]

I was just at that GC and the guitar was not out on the wall. I wanted to snap a picture of me playing it. Besides the wood on the neck, pretty ugly.

 

[lessthan12]

I was just at that GC and the guitar was not out on the wall. I wanted to snap a picture of me playing it. Besides the wood on the neck, pretty ugly.

when I called this afternoon and spoke with the guitar dept manager the guitar was still available for sale through their store lol. That seller on ebay just shot me another email about 2 hours ago changing his story saying he does infact own it…now lol. Probably see it pop up again,at least if it does he does actually have it in his possession

 

[snowdog]

Oh nice. eBay has self-appointed hall monitors now. Good to know.

 

[Justinreagin]

That's pretty shady. Not a fan of GC

 

[marvcus]

If it's a situation where an employee is doing it and works at the store, I don't see any harm in it, as long as the employee represents it in the listing that it is store-owned.

This can be advantageous to the employee if there is a spiff or something like that where he gets a kickback for selling an older/hot to move item. Buying it at cost and selling that way is right out, though.

 

[crankyrayhanky]

Call me what you want, I just think it's completely wrong to sell something that isn't yours.

 

[Bob Savage]

If it's a situation where an employee is doing it and works at the store, I don't see any harm in it, as long as the employee represents it in the listing that it is store-owned.

This can be advantageous to the employee if there is a spiff or something like that where he gets a kickback for selling an older/hot to move item. Buying it at cost and selling that way is right out, though.

Regardless of what it is, there's all kinds of stink on this. If there wasn't the response wouldn't have been "I can take it down if..." nor would the listing have been removed after the contact.

 

[boof]

My response back
me-"yes, its inappropriate to try and sell something on ebay that you don't own. I see you pulled the auction but I'll still be calling guitar center today to clue them in on this. Saved the link and info to the auction and Im going to be forwarding it to their store manager"

Seen similar things here.
There is a guy here in Japan that does that pretty much exclusively. He uses the pics posted by sam ash, drum city guitar land are two I specifically remember off hand.

You could go to the music zoos homepage and see the same master built strat for $5000 and then see the same pics of the same guitar on digimart.net selling for $8000 as new.

Several retail guitar stores here I know buy Suhr from retail stores in the US and then sell them in their shops here as "new" (once it rolls off the lot its used even if its only one foot) I thought it was a bit odd when I asked to see the spec sheet and the name "matts music" was blacked out and the sales clerk quickly pulled the paper away and took the guitar back to the wall rack.....

 

[tubortski]

Gotta make a few bucks on the side, who cares if It's ethical.







HaHa, Captain Obvious...clever

 

[rokket2005]

If it's a situation where an employee is doing it and works at the store, I don't see any harm in it, as long as the employee represents it in the listing that it is store-owned.

This can be advantageous to the employee if there is a spiff or something like that where he gets a kickback for selling an older/hot to move item. Buying it at cost and selling that way is right out, though.

If it's a situation where a gc employee is doing this, this is strictly against gc conduct of sales and is reason for dismissal.

 

[kurtsstuff]

Hmm?? wait..I'm trying...Damn..I could give a rats ass but..I tried..

 

[Bob Savage]

Hmm?? wait..I'm trying...Damn..I could give a rats ass but..I tried..

Nobody likes a quitter.

 

[kurtsstuff]

Hmm?? wait..I'm trying...Damn..I could give a rats ass but..I tried..

Nobody likes a quitter.