[quote name='ianwild16' post='638692' date='Oct 28 2009, 02:05 AM']Ended up takin the strings back......
Loads if ' I've never heard of that happening before!' and 'you must be playing a Fender copy'.....
They finally offered me the Elite strings I originally wanted for the price I paid for them last time - £18.
A lot of fannying about when I could just buy them off the interweb for less.[/quote]
Always buy from your shop whenever you can. Music shops are closing more than opening, and those that open are the big chains. Even in those you can save a couple of pence but end up with little or no personal service. The shops are always useful, especially if you want advice, try something out, or just touch and feel. The lad's snare broke an anchor the other day, local shop found a spare part, fitted it, retuned the top skin and gave it all a clean up. Charge? Nothing. Cost? a drink, which was a pleasure. If we bought all our stuff from the web it would be a month long chase around trying to get the spare part. When we bought the snare he did a good deal for us but still I could have saved a couple of quid on the net. In the end that would have been the wrong decision.
I'm happy to pay a little extra from my shop than buy from the web, I think its worth it.
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[quote name='ianwild16' post='638692' date='Oct 28 2009, 02:05 AM']Ended up takin the strings back......
Loads if ' I've never heard of that happening before!' and 'you must be playing a Fender copy'.....
They finally offered me the Elite strings I originally wanted for the price I paid for them last time - £18.
A lot of fannying about when I could just buy them off the interweb for less.[/quote]
Always buy from your shop whenever you can. Music shops are closing more than opening, and those that open are the big chains. Even in those you can save a couple of pence but end up with little or no personal service. The shops are always useful, especially if you want advice, try something out, or just touch and feel. The lad's snare broke an anchor the other day, local shop found a spare part, fitted it, retuned the top skin and gave it all a clean up. Charge? Nothing. Cost? a drink, which was a pleasure. If we bought all our stuff from the web it would be a month long chase around trying to get the spare part. When we bought the snare he did a good deal for us but still I could have saved a couple of quid on the net. In the end that would have been the wrong decision.
I'm happy to pay a little extra from my shop than buy from the web, I think its worth it.
Greg