Norio wrote
It's such a pity that so many stores sell guitars in a completely unplayable state. It makes it impossible to see if you'll really like a guitar because of its rusted strings, dry fretboard, sharp frets, etc. (That was my experience with a JS1200 @ a popular store in JHB).
So I'd like to build a list, in this thread, of stores that sell guitars that are setup and ready to play/take home. Even if the list only has 3 stores, that's better than nothing and, hopefully, the other stores will take the hint and start setting up their guitars before putting them up for display!
Please, no naming and shaming of "bad" stores here - just tell us which stores you've been to that had their guitars in good nick and ready to play. Let's show the industry just how important this is to us.
The List:
Music Connection - Which branch(es)? I'll add only those branches here.
Andy McGibbons - 4 Main Street, Bordeaux, Randburg
Walked into a Braamfonteen (JHB) shop earlier in the week, thought of getting a short scale less expensive bass. They had a Fender Jaguar on the wall. When picking up the guitar from the wall I could feel the frets sticking out by more then 0.5mm on the G-string side of the neck and not just one but all of them. So bad that when you moved your hand along the neck it ripped the flesh out your fingers.
Put the guitar back and forgot about it , didn't even look where it was made. It was a new one (not second hand) It had no price on maybe I should have put in an offer to take of their hands ? Am sure it's still hanging there. Maybe it slipped trough QC at the factory but the shop should never hang a guitar on display like that.
