Lespaulnmarshall
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A few weeks ago I was in Köln, and I visited music store professional, it's a huge store, the biggest I know. When I was there I asked if I could try a couple guitars. The guy told me to get the guitar and find a test room and just plug it in and play. I thought that was just normal there, and nobody asked so I just tried them, put the guitars back in their stands when I was done, and left.
A few days ago I orded a flightcase from them. When it arrived at my house I found out there was something wrong with it, the rack rails was only mounted on one side. (one in the front, and one in the back)*
Since I like the store so much (they have almost ANYTHING you can think of in stock) I decided to go to the shop myself and return the case. So after returning it, I bought a new one. After that I was just looking around a bit in the second hand room. I saw an old 80's Midi controller, without a price tag on it. I asked one of the salesmen how much it was. He was searching for it in the computer, but couldn't find it, then he remembered they didn't know what to ask for it, and he tried to sell me some new piece of shit I didn't even want to buy. i told him I wasn't interested in the new controller I just wanted to know if that old controller worked, and what the price was.Then he was like, oh well go see the salesman in the guitar section. The clerk from the guitar section was the same guy that 'helped' me a few weeks ago. I told him wich midi controller I wanted, and he's like wich one?? I tell him again, and again he asks me again, wich one? After telling him for the third time, he's like OHH you mean the old used one? ,that's a 'custom shop' controller from the 80's. (the controller sends PC's and CC's, they didn't even have CC's in the 80's, did they?) he said it was 1000 euros back in the 80's (euros, in the 80's, go figure) and that he could easily get 500 euros for it on ebay. But he wanted 150 for it. (WTF) Later he said 120. Then he started helping other people, and acting like a real 'guitar store' clerk (an assole) After helping all the other people he told me that I had to be very experienced with midi to use the controller and other things like that. After convincing the guy I could use the fucking thing he got it from the second hand room, and he tried to power it up with a regular 9v adapter (one for regular stomp boxes) and stomps one of the switches a couple times, he's like no, doesn't work... Just leave it. He probably didn't even plug the adapter into a wall wart. Then he showed my a behringer footcontroller and an engl Z-12 on his computer. At that point, no matter at what price, I didn't even want the damn midi controller (the old one) anymore, And I left the store. later on my way back home, I figured last time I was there, he was just being too lazy to help me. He just wanted to stay behind his computer.
That guy is the only cure in the world for GAS , LOL !!
Just thought I'd share my experiance.
A few days ago I orded a flightcase from them. When it arrived at my house I found out there was something wrong with it, the rack rails was only mounted on one side. (one in the front, and one in the back)*
Since I like the store so much (they have almost ANYTHING you can think of in stock) I decided to go to the shop myself and return the case. So after returning it, I bought a new one. After that I was just looking around a bit in the second hand room. I saw an old 80's Midi controller, without a price tag on it. I asked one of the salesmen how much it was. He was searching for it in the computer, but couldn't find it, then he remembered they didn't know what to ask for it, and he tried to sell me some new piece of shit I didn't even want to buy. i told him I wasn't interested in the new controller I just wanted to know if that old controller worked, and what the price was.Then he was like, oh well go see the salesman in the guitar section. The clerk from the guitar section was the same guy that 'helped' me a few weeks ago. I told him wich midi controller I wanted, and he's like wich one?? I tell him again, and again he asks me again, wich one? After telling him for the third time, he's like OHH you mean the old used one? ,that's a 'custom shop' controller from the 80's. (the controller sends PC's and CC's, they didn't even have CC's in the 80's, did they?) he said it was 1000 euros back in the 80's (euros, in the 80's, go figure) and that he could easily get 500 euros for it on ebay. But he wanted 150 for it. (WTF) Later he said 120. Then he started helping other people, and acting like a real 'guitar store' clerk (an assole) After helping all the other people he told me that I had to be very experienced with midi to use the controller and other things like that. After convincing the guy I could use the fucking thing he got it from the second hand room, and he tried to power it up with a regular 9v adapter (one for regular stomp boxes) and stomps one of the switches a couple times, he's like no, doesn't work... Just leave it. He probably didn't even plug the adapter into a wall wart. Then he showed my a behringer footcontroller and an engl Z-12 on his computer. At that point, no matter at what price, I didn't even want the damn midi controller (the old one) anymore, And I left the store. later on my way back home, I figured last time I was there, he was just being too lazy to help me. He just wanted to stay behind his computer.
That guy is the only cure in the world for GAS , LOL !!
Just thought I'd share my experiance.
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