ped

Thanks. Just had a quick look but couldn't see anything :0(

Not if I send them a link ;0)

Just had my email from Roland who have confirmed that the product is still available, and that they in fact have no less than 23 in stock. Further to the bashing Dawson's music have already received I also mentioned the poor service during my Vbass demo at the bash which I believe was filmed and will be on the internet very soon. Dawsons - I hope you are reading this! ped

People heard ped's in town!

BTW I mainly bought this camera for its superb macro performance, focusing on things touching the lens!!

Cheers - some are out of focus and others oversharpened due to an export fail in Lightroom... you can see better ones on my Flickr page. The camera is a compact, believe it or not. A Ricoh CX1. I love it, take it everywhere. More often than not I shoot in B/W with the ISO at 400 and a limit on the slow shutter speed so it takes great 'action' shots. Great camera! Cheers ped

Cheers - bit annoyed myself because lots of them are out of focus - I didn't put enough attention into taking the pics, I was too busy checking out stuff and planning my Vbass demo thing (left it to literally the last min of course!!) Cheers ped P.s anyone else have pics??

[quote name='silddx' post='622720' date='Oct 10 2009, 09:43 PM']Thanks mate. Great to meet you too! That VBass demo of yours has really got me thinking![/quote] Thinking about giving me bass lessons, probably!!

Done! That's lucky, I thought I messed it up and lost yer' pics! Great to meet you today :0)

Hi everyone, What an awesome day Ihad today - really nice to put a few more faces to screen names and I got to play lots of basses through lots of amplifiers and listen to some super talented people talking about what they do best. Massive thanks to all involved, for setting it up, for coming along, and for making it such a great day. Here are some pics taken on my camera. I didn't take many as I was so busy chatting to people and listening to the seminars! Add your pics here! Cheers ped

[quote name='MB1' post='621906' date='Oct 9 2009, 06:36 PM']MB1. ....So they are a Gents Outfitters!.......obviously not much of a Music Shop!....."Doesn't Suit you Sir!" You should be able to take this stuff back to your nearest Dawsons and get a refund there....[/quote] There isn't one very near Oxford I don't think - though it might be worth the trip so I can brick some windows! ped

Earlier Dawsons sent me this: Hi Chris, Just a quick update to let you know where we are at. The blemished bass guitar has turned up at our office and the new one is still on order. We're hoping it will turn up early next week so as soon as it enters our warehouse I'll notify you and send it on its way. Regards, Having no idea what they were on about I replied to find they had sent the email to the 'Wrong Chris' Then I was sent this: "I believe you spoke to my colleague on Wednesday as I wasn't in, and now today its his turn not to be in. Did you discuss the options with him? I phoned up Roland, and apparently they have never sold this bass pickup kit (or at least not for a long time) hence why they kept sending through the wrong item. I have told our technical department so it should be off the system very soon and I can only apologise for not seeing this sooner (I would have expected our purchasing department to have spotted this but it must have been overlooked). It is unfortunately company policy not to give a refund until the item is back in our office which I hope you can understand so if you could let me know where we are at with regards to sorting out a collection for yourself then we can refund you as soon as possible." To which I replied: "Sorry alex but that is unacceptable. I have had six weeks wasted by Dawsons and I won't be sending either of the items back until I have a full refund. With the mail strikes at the moment I don't want to wait another few weeks until I get my money back. You might nit be aware that I own the biggest bass guitar forum in Europe www.basschat.co.uk and our thousands of readers will be very interested in how I am treated in this matter" And then my phone rang. Some bloke who said he simply wouldn't refund me until they had the stuff back. It's 'company policy' which I thought a little short sighted when they have wasted so much of my time and been utterly useless. I have always had to phone them, they don't check things before sending them on, etc. So now I am stuck with the choice of sending them back myself, risking Royal Fail strikes and general incompetence or they can send TNT to pick them up as long as I can waste a day waiting for them which is impossible. I mean - I understand the policy, totally, but when the f*** up is as long winded and completely-not-my-fault as this one, surely there should be some flexibility? No offer of any sort of compensation from them, not that I would risk accepting something (it could turn out to be anything), and a generally pretty rigid and non customer centric approach to the whole matter. Make of this what you will - this is just my experience. Perhaps they are amazing most of the time, but I won't be going anywhere near them again. ped

Useless. They don't answer email either and I have been rather busy during their opening hours so haven't been able to call them yet. I will do so tomorrow and see if they are enjoying this publicity as a fairly useless mail order company.

So much for that - several weeks later and a new parcel - the GUITAR VERSION AGAIN!!! I have asked for a full refund. in the meantime I have two guitar GK3 kits which I can hold onto until the refund arrives. Cheers Dawsons/Roland, 6 weeks wasted.

Cos I suck ass