Guildedagain
Enlightened Member
Accepted an offer on a guitar, over $500 off, seemed like the guy deserved it if he was going to take care of a guitar I've loved for 20 years.
Over 24 hours after delivery, and not one word, he contacts me to tell me that "he took it to a shop, and the neck has a "ski jump" that can't be adjusted "because the truss rod is maxed out." I've never had to do anything to the truss rod the whole time I've owned it, there hasn't been an issue, in fact the guitar has a dreamy neck and fingerboard, a cut above normal.
The best shop in the whole state he says.
I don't like this shop, they've always had a bad reputation, they've been brought up on forums for trying to pass off a refin as original, not uncommon, but not very impressive either.
I browsed a couple of their ads at the $5k price point, you get zero description of anything, nut width, fret life, etc, etc, you don't need to know.
I've never had a good outcome from someone taking a guitar they just bought, or even pre sale, to a shop. You're not buying a guitar from them, why should they tell you anything good about it?
One went like this before, selling a nice SG, dude wants to take it to his buddy at X guitar store. Guitar was $900. His buddy looks at it, "the neck's f'd up - gee, just like this one - "but I can fix it for $300", so price of guitar instantly went down $300 and I took it in disgust, and left, bad flavor in my mouth.
Back to the lame Reverb transaction, my guy says his first tipoff that something was wrong was "an inability to play harmonics at the 5th fret, due to a bow in the neck".
I'm thinking the harmonic nodes of a string are totally unaffected by the wood underneath, I don't care it if's pretzeled, or propelled.
He says the guys at the shop said the neck had a "ski jump".
After pressing for a description of this "ski jump", he says it's like excess relief under the strings - mind you I just shipped this to Seattle, one of the wettest cities on the West coast - and that "the shop couldn't fix it because the truss rod is maxed out"
I swear that thought of taking a guitar back someone reefed or broke the truss rod on is giving me super high anxiety.
Then dude goes on to insult the guitar "maybe it has a whole bunch of problems" and he's "going to give me a bad Wright up" all his comms are auto corrected like this, and that he's "definitely getting his money back" never actually said one word about shipping back.
I kept trying to get him to tell me that someone was actually tweaking on the truss rod to deem it "maxed out", and he would not answer the question, repeatedly.
Then told me to "stop communicating with me, I'm getting no where with you". Isn't nowhere a word? Nowhere Man, what's wrong with kids these days?
Wow, wow, and wow.
I could give a p00p about the money, I'd take that guitar back in a flash, but I don't even know what they did to it.
Caveat emptor my foot...
Over 24 hours after delivery, and not one word, he contacts me to tell me that "he took it to a shop, and the neck has a "ski jump" that can't be adjusted "because the truss rod is maxed out." I've never had to do anything to the truss rod the whole time I've owned it, there hasn't been an issue, in fact the guitar has a dreamy neck and fingerboard, a cut above normal.
The best shop in the whole state he says.
I don't like this shop, they've always had a bad reputation, they've been brought up on forums for trying to pass off a refin as original, not uncommon, but not very impressive either.
I browsed a couple of their ads at the $5k price point, you get zero description of anything, nut width, fret life, etc, etc, you don't need to know.
I've never had a good outcome from someone taking a guitar they just bought, or even pre sale, to a shop. You're not buying a guitar from them, why should they tell you anything good about it?
One went like this before, selling a nice SG, dude wants to take it to his buddy at X guitar store. Guitar was $900. His buddy looks at it, "the neck's f'd up - gee, just like this one - "but I can fix it for $300", so price of guitar instantly went down $300 and I took it in disgust, and left, bad flavor in my mouth.
Back to the lame Reverb transaction, my guy says his first tipoff that something was wrong was "an inability to play harmonics at the 5th fret, due to a bow in the neck".
I'm thinking the harmonic nodes of a string are totally unaffected by the wood underneath, I don't care it if's pretzeled, or propelled.
He says the guys at the shop said the neck had a "ski jump".
After pressing for a description of this "ski jump", he says it's like excess relief under the strings - mind you I just shipped this to Seattle, one of the wettest cities on the West coast - and that "the shop couldn't fix it because the truss rod is maxed out"
I swear that thought of taking a guitar back someone reefed or broke the truss rod on is giving me super high anxiety.
Then dude goes on to insult the guitar "maybe it has a whole bunch of problems" and he's "going to give me a bad Wright up" all his comms are auto corrected like this, and that he's "definitely getting his money back" never actually said one word about shipping back.
I kept trying to get him to tell me that someone was actually tweaking on the truss rod to deem it "maxed out", and he would not answer the question, repeatedly.
Then told me to "stop communicating with me, I'm getting no where with you". Isn't nowhere a word? Nowhere Man, what's wrong with kids these days?
Wow, wow, and wow.
I could give a p00p about the money, I'd take that guitar back in a flash, but I don't even know what they did to it.
Caveat emptor my foot...
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