Music store tale for the ages!

Posted on Jul 26, 2010 02:02 am
crux
Typo Szar
Member Since: Jul 04, 2002

So a long while back if anyone remembers i posted a rant about a bad experience at a music store involving a very... unattentive salesmen. Well this past weekend i had a music store experience that makes up for that entirely

So i go to this quote unquote high endish type music store here in bkk, which is set up somewat like a car dealership. Big spacious showroom, suits, the whole nine yards.

Second i walk in, a very eager and VERY stereotypical salestype greets with the ol smile and urgent rush in. I ask for a pedal that i wont name just so this doesnt become an ad, but the important details r, its a mono pedal that just came out with a stereo upgrade (if u know wat is.. good for u?) i ask for said stereo pedal.

Guy has no idea wat it is, asks the owner, finds out, shows me. Mono Pedal. I say yeah thanx, but im looking for the stereo version. He doesnt miss a beat and immediately says "well i think this baby sounds way better than that, ive tried that (the pedal he has no idea exists) and this sounds way better". So i realize hes a liar, but ok, hes trying to make a sale.

Look around for a bit, and find a Reverb pedal worth trying out, ask to try out. this is where it starts to get AMAZING.

Guy takes me into a try out room and his first utterance is, how do i plug this thing in? ... i point him to the very large boldface INPUT which he then proceeds to plug a jack into the RIGHT IN, which ofcourse... will not work in mono.... so i correct him fine, thought it was funny he had to ask me but sure.

Looks up and down the pedal, and proclaims loudly that it is 12v and proceeds to get entangled on the ground in a mess of adapter wires and plugs. Pedal does not come on. I point out that it very clear states 9v right on the pedal, he proceeds to plug in a 9v power... Pedal does not come on. I point out that the power is positive outside, negative inside. BLANK STARE OF DOOM. I plug in the correct adapter myself.

The second that pedal comes on and starts doing its thing, this guy looks like he has never heard a guitar do that EVER in his life. He is gobsmacked... at reverb? he even starts to say it "wow man, did not know that was wat that was for".. really? u never heard wat ur trying to sell me has ever done before?

so i fidget about with it for a while longer, and he remembers hes trying to sell me the thing and starts with his pitch, remember pls that he admittedly had no idea wat this pedal did before. "hey kid, u know the other day i saw this concert and all the guitarists had this pedal"..."everybody has it, if ur in a good band u NEED it"..."they had this one, connected to somekind of multi unit"... ok so this reverb pedal which has been on the market all of 3 months is on everyones board connected to a multiunit???

but the whole situation culminates in my favorite part, coz he really turned up the weasel charm on this one. He goes "u in a band kid? wat do u play (does not wait for answer) is it reggae? ska? its ska isnt it. If ur in a ska band u NEED this pedal, this pedal IS ska".

I was litreally making ambient noise the WHOLE time, and he has surmised that i am either in a reggae or ska band and that a ska band would need heavy lush reverb.

so that was a really long post, but i felt i had to share it, i could not let that story just slip out of my mind, but seriously i would have been extremely angry if he were not so completely amusing for the whole time.

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