Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

Didn't someone mention here a week or two ago that the eBay auctions put up by the various "gcrep" dealers were going to be corrected to have more realistic prices? It certainly ain't happened yet. And there's still this '77 MG (for $2,150) with the picture half blocked out by a gray box; been that way for months, just keeps getting relisted. Is anyone there thinking?

It was Ken. I think the guy was just giving him lip service.

Actually I spoke to him again and he said the same thing.

Ive gone as far as contacting ebay about us [and the rest of the world] having to endure seeing these multiple listings every week but I'm only one person.

I would list the phone # but last time I did the post disappeared so look it up.

Call: Guitar Center corp headquarters in CA, ask for [ext. 2510] Grant Sheffield and complain as I have.

Fortunately, none of those items have sold at those prices. Not paying their inflated rates is the best way to get the message across, period. Guitar Center is way too arrogant and self infatuated to respond to a few complaints from us. THEY are the experts, after all.

In all actuality its really that one Guitar Center in Manhattan that is the worst they have pages and pages of stuff for sale every week at crazy prices, we ought to bombard them with phone calls.

Don't do that!
If you keep their phones busy, it will actually make them
happy.
Management loves to see all the lines lit up!

They have a new group therapy for GCreps ... Over-pricing Idiots anonymous ... the meeting starts out with "Hi, I'm Joe and I am an idiot GCrep who doesn't have a clue on how to price a guitar on ebay" ... and everybody else says "Hi Joe" ... another chimes in ... "I started out overpricing marbles and baseball cards as a Kid" ... another chimes in ... "Gee I have painted my fingernails black and pierced my nose, so I figured I knew what I was doing" ... another chimes in "Ya I listed a 70s Rickenbacker for $3300, I figured if I made a reference to a famous Rickenbacker player that somebody would pay 3 times the price of a new bass to get an old worn out 25 year old bass" ... another chimes in ... "Ya I thought that if I kept relisting the same auction for 5 or 6 years then eventually it would sell" ...

How can [insert name of random gc employee] use [insert name of random instrument that goes on ebay] for their weekend gigs if it sells?

They are trying to apply the utterly ridiculous prices that 70's Fenders are getting to 70's Ricks. This demonstrates clear ignorance of the Rickenbacker marketplace.

Hey how about this? Just avoid GC at all costs!
Don't shop there or even click their auctions. The few times I actually have set foot in the Atlanta one my blood pressure goes up & I walk out shaking my head.

The Manhattan store got a call today actually.

They'll only keep pricing things the way they do if people buy them at those prices. And the eBay auctions don't cost them anything (other than their commissioned employee's time) until they actually sell them. Even then, it wouldn't surprise me if most of the deals are made off eBay anyway.

why are they exempt from the listing fees?

One thing I did learn from last nights mishap.is

I got a your the guy who complained to Grant at corporate.

It apears the change is taking effect.

After a item is listed for a week if they relist they have to drop the price each time.

Notice the lack of GC auctions on the bay.

Grant came down on them hard.

From what I heard last night.

I also spoke w/him today [he was at NAMM] about last nights stuff and the other account in my name.

Hahahaha, the Guitar Center in Atlanta is so ******! They hardly have anything good, basswise . . . the one thing that caught my eye, besides a Warwick Thumb that was so butt-ugly that I couldn't help but stare, was a Pedulla, which I sat down and played. Everything else was like, a wall of P-basses, a wall of J-basses, some Stingrays, and some cheap Ibanez beginner basses. Nothing . . .