Guitar Center - Is it me?

[tadawson]

hey tim no offense taken you made very good points and I agree from the pro audio standpoint especially in the seconday market stores. I used Uncle Marty's friendly discount in Spokane to set up a little garage band studio and the pickins were slim.

Believe me these guys know what they are doing and this privatization is the best thing for them. I dont know how you could open that many stores and be profitable and they did it.

Thanks, BP . . . I think going private is looking better and better these days . . .

I've been upgrading my PA, and looking for some decent tri-ampable trap cabinets and an 8 buss FOH mixer. Even in the stores that claim to be pro-audio centric, nada . . . I found a Mackie 8 buss in a Houston store, and it was only there 'cuz they ordered it, and the customer apparently didn't take it. Soundcraft? Allen & Heath? Crest? They look at you like you are from the moon if you ask for anything over a basic four buss in that stuff . . . And don't get me started about the limited selection in monitor wedges . . . I'm looking to add a couple of those, and GC seems to be mid to low end JBL, or Fred's brand . . . .

Fortunately, we have a good true pro-audio store in town, but it would be nice to see GC leverage their buying power on this higher end stuff, WITHOUT making you order it just to try it out . . . . kinda hard to compare 4 consoles that are 6k or so that way . . . I realize that they have decided to do the public company "maximize profits" trick, and with any luck, going private, and getting all the asshats off their backs about $ $ $, they will be able to widen their product selection. Yeah, always gotta be profitable, but if it is a case of 40 customers at $40 profit each, or 60 at $38, well, taking on a few less profitable items to expand customer base isn't really a bad idea either . . . but hey, here I am preaching to the choir! You obviously know this stuff, or EBMM would not be doing as well as it is! Sorry, BP, for (in all probability) pointing out the totally obvious . . .

- Tim

 

[Urwordsbreakmed]

Come to guitar center hollywood

 

[Big Poppa]

look for the goofy guy with the wires pokin out of his face and tell him youre from the forum...you wont understand a lot of what he says but he means well

 

[tadawson]

Come to guitar center hollywood

Sounds good, but the commute is a bitch . . . .

- Tim

 

[Colin]

look for the goofy guy with the wires pokin out of his face and tell him youre from the forum...you wont understand a lot of what he says but he means well

 

[Marty Albertson]

Hi BP......you know me...golf is the way.....I will encourage as many to come as possible.....since we did not attend NAMM in Austin the guys are looking for some fun....flew up to SV yesterday....great tailwinds...took less then three hours.....

Some of the other posts here are correct in assuming we will be slowing our store grow for the next few years as we reinvest back in to the staff and stores we already have.

 

[Big Poppa]

there you have it.

Marty maybe we can make Enzp the point guy to make sure that we get an adequeate supply of rooms and some of the events are starting to fill up .......

Im in Boise headed for the Gorge in Washington for my warped tour duty. Had a lot of fun yesterday. The weblab looks cool except for the fender headstocks......The EB/GC
first aid station for the bands is going over really well.

 

[Marty Albertson]

sounds good.....I'll get Enzo to lead it....

 

[kirkm24]

Guitar Center is a publically traded company with zero franchises

Then the standard for service at each store should be pretty consistent, at least in theory. That's good to know. I will give them another chance.