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It's just a guitar. If you didn't know all the stuff about it it would be either a nice example of an old guitar or just an old guitar that maybe wasn't that great. I have played quite a few old guitars that were just that, old guitars. Starting back then, when they were only 15 years old. Guitars are functional objects that perform well or don't, and they happen to be beautiful things to look at. All the rest is guitar players making stuff up in their heads. rct

You really have no idea how this all works, do you? rct

If they sell at 2500 on average every day everywhere else, then he can sell it for 2500. Get a calculator and figure out 60% of 2500, which is Hey! 1500. That's what a music business typically gives the average trade, about 60% of what they can sell it for. That's the most they will give you for it Then they will sell it for 2500, hopefully, and the rest is theirs. They don't give you what they sell it for or what you paid for it and call it even, that isn't how it works. rct

Trading is not for the faint-hearted. Your demands for a trade based on current eBay/Reverb/Craigslist/Facebook retail tomfoolery is way out there. They can only trade you based on what they themselves can sell the guitar for, not what some joker on the internet a thousand miles away says he got for his. How much you paid for something means absolutely nothing when you trade. rct

I am sorry for your loss. It is hard to lose a person, even harder when that person is your music partner. rct

"Specifications subject to change without notice" pretty much covers whatever left the factory that day. rct

So the Slytherins won? rct

I'm not sure if I'm mortified or turned on by this sentence. Remarkable! rct

Two major American guitar companies and the largest American musical instrument retail concern have attempted public ownership, more than once. It doesn't work when any of them are reasonably healthy, so I don't see where anyone with any sense would take a barely up and walking company public. With no public reporting requirements, you can only assume they are on the brink of paying off their bondholders. You have to agree, it would also be an opportune time to have a raging fire sale and part the company out for as much as possible. rct

The only thing that has happened in 4 years is that Gibson has almost made their bondholders whole. "Economically stable" in this instance is just a company that can possibly start looking at having private ownership again and a board that is not just the bondholders. There won't be an IPO. These companies are barely floating as private entities, there is not a way to please shareholders and make money in this business. rct

How is it that anyone knows that a hedge fund/capital asset management entity knows anything about the guitar industry, and what indicators are there that an IPO would be a good idea? Just curious. rct

Are them some bubbles or what? Just divine, multiple sizes. What a great bite of champagne. Dammit I want some. rct

I fixed it for clarity, so you could edit yours and we could rewrite history. rct

I just can't facepalm hard enough. rct

Korbel is an Epiphone, Cristal is a Custom Shop Les Paul. So yeah, you drink it because you can. rct

We were sitting in Epcot one night during the Christmas holidays time a couple years ago, they have these concerts every night and such. We were sipping some bubbly from Fffrraanntz and on came Al Stewart. We sat there at least an hour listening. He did this one. It was nice! rct

You can drive over on the chunnel and get some straight from Louis. I am so jelly. rct

I last stocked up in late 2021, a bottle of Cristal was $239 or so, picked up three. Today? $349, no box. Holy crap. rct

Did you just box it up and ship it with a note that said FIX THIS, LOVE LARS or did you go through a dealer or what? How did you go about this stuff that you are espousing only half of. Great, I'm glad you did that, I am glad it worked out for you. How did you go about it? rct

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This was about a customer attempting to make a 7.5 year old claim on the Gibson Lifetime Warranty, not about the fitness of any repair shop anywhere. If you buy a guitar and you don't like it within the 30 or 45 day return time, do you ship it back to Gibson and hope they give you your money or return it to the place you actually bought it, the dealer? It's pretty simple, Lars, but you are Mr. Bojanglein it all over the place to avoid it. There is a lifetime warranty, and if you take it to an authorized dealer you can start that process. Telling people to go straight to Gibson is bad for everybody, which you don't seem to be able to grasp. rct

And Pat Badger was the hardest-working bass player in show business. Seriously, every show, every time. He had to be with Nuno on the other side, flailing away at that thing. rct

Indeed. And a line or two further they clearly state how you are to invoke the warranty. Through an Authorized Dealer. So if you want them to honor the warranty, shouldn't you? rct

How To Obtain Warranty Service In the event of malfunction of your Gibson instrument, you should notify your nearest Authorized Gibson Dealer. That's what the CEO and The Board of Tone Directors are going send back to you, registered, certified, insured, signature required, return receipt requested. rct

No, it isn't. It's a dealer network, out in front of a manufacturer. They need each other, you need neither. Your beef about the car, guitar, refrigerator, whatever, is with whom you bought it from, and you didn't buy it from Ford. Or Gibson. Or Frigidaire. The dealer you bought it from has beef with the manufacturer, not you. rct