Talk:Guitar Center
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As a former employee for Guitar Center i smell bad, I can say that the company's fixation on expansion and stock growth has severely hampered their ability to provide customers with the right products.
The nature of the market is such that customers are extremely unknowledgeable when it comes to underlying concepts such as acoustic theory or analog to digital to analog conversion. This puts the sales staff in a position to lead potential customers blindly down any number of different purchasing avenues. Unfortunately Guitar Center pays salespeople strictly on commission. This means that many employees will often lead customers to purchase the wrong product, or to purchase an expensive product that does far more than a customer may need.
Guitar Center's sales staff is also constantly changing. Though the figure varies store to store, the average tenure of a salesperson is less than six months. The extreme attrition rate can most often be attributed to dissatisfaction with pay. In my experience with the company, quite often I was required to be at work or to perform non-sales duties (such as cleaning bathrooms, vacuuming, or preparing for large sales) despite the fact that the hourly pay I received for the time would be subtracted from my commissions at the end of the month.
If you find yourself at a Guitar Center and decide that you need to purchase something, you will be best assisted by asking for a Department Manager or an Assistant Manager. These people will be best able to suggest the right products for your needs, though they will aggressively hold to Guitar Center's "Guaranteed Lowest Price". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.160.187.201 (talk • contribs) 23:51, 7 January 2005
Interesting, you should probably add this in the criticism section... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.66.90.164 (talk • contribs) 19:21, 27 August 2006
Does anyone have knowledge or can link to articles discussing Guitar Center's monopoly on big companies, especially Gibson? I'm referring to the fact that Guitar Center virtually blackmails major suppliers into allowing their individual stores to carry lines that local shops might already have, ignoring regular zoning practices local shops must follow, at the threat of the entire chain not carrying a line at all. Also, a discussion about their recent Gibson "buy out," where only Guitar Center may now carry major Gibson products, as well as the lawsuit following it, would be nice. I'll be looking for good quality articles on the matter, but if someone already knows of some, that would be great.
Yes, more should be added in the criticism section. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.119.35.38 (talk • contribs) 16:17, 17 October 2006
[edit] Stubb?
Should this be marked as a stubb. Would be nice with a list of artists in this hall of fame. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 88.88.89.36 (talk) 17:27, 12 December 2006 (UTC).
Done.(Trampton 11:48, 12 March 2007 (UTC)).
I think the whole guitar center story reads like an AD. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.80.254.7 (talk • contribs) 05:45, 2 July 2007
[edit] Clearly an add
The nature and quality of this company has changed so dramatically since they went public and yet there is no discussion or criticism of that change; I'd like to to see a criticism section so folks who have had really awful GC experiences can share them. 207.114.139.254 (talk) 20:56, 6 May 2008 (UTC)BigOldHarry in San Diego
[edit] Best Buy now entering the market
I just spoke to a local BB manager - he mentioned that Best Buy has now opened larger musical instrument sections in 6 west coast stores. Seems they are now entering the market space for instrument/pro-audio sales/service. He stated the east coast location will dedicate 3000 sq ft of retail space to the venture. Wamnet (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 17:11, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
