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Nothing wrong with Anderton's customer service from a friendliness/initial responsiveness point of view. Their powers of procurement are a worry though. Last year I tried to get a price out of them for some custom shop DiMarzio pickups. By the time I had a response, the pickups were already on their way across from the USA courtesy of an eBay seller who didn't give a monkeys about geographical restrictions. Now this might have been them getting poor service from their distributor, but I got fed up chasing it and took matters into my own hands. Between that and declaring most (but not all) of Scotland north of the central belt to be "remote", I think they're having a bit of a 'mare with some of their internal workings right now.

You can shoot me for harbouring such an opinion, but as far as I'm concerned this is more for placating gear racists than acheiving higher quality.

I think their system is needing an overhaul in general. I had to get a custom quote made up to cancel out the postage charge because at some time in the last year it has decided that Aberdeen is "remote", yet my parents' place in rural Aberdeenshire, 3 miles from the nearest village up a single track road isn't! Bonkers, innit?

I have been making my own enquiries and I was told this afternoon that the shipment has made it to the UK and is now going through customs. So HMRC will be sitting on them for a wee while, I guess.

Hmm, I'll believe it when I see it. Thanks for the info though.

I got an email about 10 minutes ago. I ordered mine on 1st August.

New ETA, 12th Sept. FFS. Not happy.

New ETA - 12th September. FFS. I might die before this effing Z7 arrives

Not yet. Don't worry, I'll update if something shifts today.

I've been on hold for over a month already and had the date changed on me 3 times. If it happens on the day of supposed ETA that's a new low in dangling one's customers on the end of a string, and I will be having words. I'd rather they kept it vague like Thomann instead of this cycle of raising and dashing hopes because they insist upon tieing themselves to specific (and as it turns out, unfeasible) dates.

Can the pedal take a battery? If so, try powering it with battery and see if the noise goes away. Cheap power supplies can be noisy.

It sounds reasonable, but give it time, the Z3 and Z7 have had a complication strewn birth. It had to be reworked twice, once because the Big Poppa got butthurt about someone having the audacity to use a 3+1 headstock arrangement, and once because Internet moaners made a noise loud enough to be heard about the bottom horn. Today, I'm waiting for the sowwy/not sorry email from Andertons, despite today being the day of stock ETA.

If they eff us over tomorrow, I am going to be super unimpressed.

Nine Lives next outing is this Friday, at the Butchers Arms in Inverurie. Probably yelling into the void here, but I suppose it's better than not yelling into the void...

Well, if you don't get in on this tranche you probably won't get anything until December anyway. Xmas pressie?

Bite their hand off - worst thing that'll happen is they cancel your order because it was a pricing error...

I'm at the stage when I'm wondering if it wasn't a figment of my imagination. Waiting for the email from Andertons to inform me that the stock ETA has been bumped for the fourth time in just over a month...

This is 100%, grade A bullpoop.

Noted, but to keep it the same for everyone (and so I don't have to go back in time and revise my monthly reports), I mark it down as the date of reporting.

Hold my beer, we'll be right down Oh, wait, you said a "good" band. nvm

@TorturedSaints, @MacDaddy - despite your late registration, I have nevertheless documented your journey on the road to hell paved with good intention!

Right, before I deal with that, here's August's report: Two more drop out, leaving 21 remaining. 4 months to go - you can do it. Maybe.

So, what are the odds the ETA will get bumped again tomorrow? At least the gap between the various dates we've been fed is shrinking...

When that happened to us (incidentally it was also a football social club) there was also zero audience save for the bar staff. The difference was that at half time, they told us we could stop and paid us in full, which was decent of them, both in the financial sense and from the not flogging a dead horse sense.

We are our own worst critics. I'm all for self improvement, but not self flagellation. Live performance will always have wee fluffs, they are but fleeting moments in time. Save the "perfection" for the recording studio, I say.