2 Silos at GC Sunset

[paranoid70]

I was killing some time in LA yesterday so I went to the Guitar Center on Sunset. They had two Silhouette guitars that I tried out. It was actually the first time I had played a new Silhouette and I loved them.

However, the weird thing is that the prices of the two guitars were way different. One was a Saphire Black, Rosewood, Matching and the other was Candy Red, Maple, Non-Matching. The Maple one was priced about 50% more than the other! Except for the color and fretboard they were essentially identical as far as I could tell. I talked to the Sales guy and he said that for some reason or another is was priced higher. I told them I thought it was an error, but since I wasn't going to buy it right then and there, I didn't push the issue.

Funny thing is I was talking to a different Salesman about the EBMM guitars and I was practically selling him on MM's vintage trem. He said that he only played Floyds (he has an old EVH) and was surprised when I was telling him how good the vintage trems are on the MM guitars. I could tell the guy was new, but he was actually really cool.

Anyway, I only left with a box of Pinky Slinkys.

 

[Sweat]

I was killing some time in LA yesterday so I went to the Guitar Center on Sunset. They had two Silhouette guitars that I tried out. It was actually the first time I had played a new Silhouette and I loved them.

However, the weird thing is that the prices of the two guitars were way different. One was a Saphire Black, Rosewood, Matching and the other was Candy Red, Maple, Non-Matching. The Maple one was priced about 50% more than the other! Except for the color and fretboard they were essentially identical as far as I could tell. I talked to the Sales guy and he said that for some reason or another is was priced higher. I told them I thought it was an error, but since I wasn't going to buy it right then and there, I didn't push the issue.

Funny thing is I was talking to a different Salesman about the EBMM guitars and I was practically selling him on MM's vintage trem. He said that he only played Floyds (he has an old EVH) and was surprised when I was telling him how good the vintage trems are on the MM guitars. I could tell the guy was new, but he was actually really cool.

Anyway, I only left with a box of Pinky Slinkys.

Thats funny the same thing is occuring at the North Dallas GC, they had 3 new Silos, a white, maple, non match, a graphite match with an upgrade pick guard and a candy red, maple non match and the candy red was double the price, I pointed it out, they said it must be an internal invoicing mistake, but did not know how to check the problem, guy took my number and said he would call with the right price, never heard back went in a week later still priced wrong, must be a system wide GC error, I was going to buy the candy red but since they seemed in no hurry call me bought from Pete D, kinda crazy, going to stop by again just to see if they fixed it out of curiousity.

 

[somesmerized]

Same thing @ the San Jose GC...

 

[paranoid70]

Is there an upcharge for Candy Red?!

 

[Aziah]

Thanks for the heads up on this! I'm going to give the guitar buyer a call and see what's up

 

[Aziah]

Is there an upcharge for Candy Red?!

nope

 

[Sweat]

Is there an upcharge for Candy Red?!

No it is not, just an internal GC issue they have not resolved, by the posts it is system wide, the one I looked at was at BFR prices.

 

[Sweat]

Thanks for the heads up on this! I'm going to give the guitar buyer a call and see what's up

Hope you have better luck than I, nice guitars, would have loved to had one.

 

[mbgreene]

By coincidence I was in GC in Manhattan today - same thing.
Graph pearl trem/matching was slightly more than White trem non matching (as expected). Candy red maple trem non-matching was over 50% more. I brought it to their attention, they took it down scanned it and checked the computer and told me that it was correct. I said it didn't make sense, they agreed, but just shrugged it off.

Odd

 

[pjc812]

maybe it's cos candy red's such a cool color

 

[PeteDuBaldo]

Maybe it was a special run for GC where the Candy Red is really candy?

 

[koogie2k]

Funny Pete!

 

[Aziah]

Just to follow up on this...the pricing has been corrected and should be reflected in the stores by Saturday

 

[Sweat]

Just to follow up on this...the pricing has been corrected and should be reflected in the stores by Saturday

Thats nice but a few weeks too late, but they are beautiful axes

 

[mbgreene]

Aziah Rocks

 

[Orpheus]

The same thing happened to mein Boston

I was triying a Silho and it was $1400 (Carbon blue), and there was another candy red like $2600 or something. WT HEck.... I asked the guy about the difference and he didn't know he started saying stupid things like - The red one has maple neck, white pearl pickguard. But I knew that was not the reason. I just told him- It's ok let me see the blue one( which is the one that I'm gonna get this monday Memorial day.) But he didn't know why there was a difference.

I was killing some time in LA yesterday so I went to the Guitar Center on Sunset. They had two Silhouette guitars that I tried out. It was actually the first time I had played a new Silhouette and I loved them.

However, the weird thing is that the prices of the two guitars were way different. One was a Saphire Black, Rosewood, Matching and the other was Candy Red, Maple, Non-Matching. The Maple one was priced about 50% more than the other! Except for the color and fretboard they were essentially identical as far as I could tell. I talked to the Sales guy and he said that for some reason or another is was priced higher. I told them I thought it was an error, but since I wasn't going to buy it right then and there, I didn't push the issue.

Funny thing is I was talking to a different Salesman about the EBMM guitars and I was practically selling him on MM's vintage trem. He said that he only played Floyds (he has an old EVH) and was surprised when I was telling him how good the vintage trems are on the MM guitars. I could tell the guy was new, but he was actually really cool.

Anyway, I only left with a box of Pinky Slinkys.

 

[paranoid70]

Exactly the same response I got. How long ago was this?

 

[Orpheus]

Exactly the same response I got. How long ago was this?

It's happening right now cuz I went yesterday to buy a Silho and the candy red was there. It's like $2600 or similar!!!

 

[paranoid70]

I guess that Silo will be sitting on the rack for a while.

 

[Dargin]

GC is working on getting the correct prices to the stores as we speak...thanks for the heads up.

Scott