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BrentD
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May 29th, 2012 08:39 PM Edit Profile Print Topic Search Topic
So you buy a new guitar. Do you take the floor model that you actually played and that you like the feel of, or do you opt for the minty untouched one in the box?
(This message was last edited by BrentD at 08:47 PM, May 29th, 2012)

geetar37
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May 29th, 2012 08:50 PM Edit Profile Print Topic Search Topic
Floor model but try to get the price down.

Deacon Blues
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May 29th, 2012 08:52 PM Edit Profile Print Topic Search Topic
Depends on the condition of the "floor model" and how the "minty" one feels.

reverendrob
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May 29th, 2012 09:10 PM Edit Profile Print Topic Search Topic
I always bought the model I demo'd.

If the floor model was trashed in a way I wouldn't own it, or they wouldn't come down to what I could afford, I'd play a boxed one and see how it was and make my decision based on that.

Now that I mail order, well....

Fred132
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May 29th, 2012 09:55 PM Edit Profile Print Topic Search Topic
I like the one without someone else's schmutz on it.

mr.gibson

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May 29th, 2012 10:17 PM Edit Profile Print Topic Search Topic
There is far too much difference between any two guitars, for me to buy one I have not played and chosen. It mostly is a matter of no two (or three, or five....) pieces of wood being sonically identical, but there can of course be a number of other quality control differences.

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May 29th, 2012 10:42 PM Edit Profile Print Topic Search Topic
Yeah. In amps, I usually take the minty one in the box, but for a guitar, I can't imagine buying one I hadn't played. I guess I'd make an exception for mail/net order, but I've never bought a guitar that way.

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May 30th, 2012 05:49 AM Edit Profile Print Topic Search Topic
I can do both. My last purchase was from a Mom & Pop and had to be ordered from Fender's next model run.

5Strats
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May 30th, 2012 09:10 AM Edit Profile Print Topic Search Topic
You buy the guitar you try out and like, HELLO? (;oD

Seriously, I very rarely order guitars online because I have to play them first.

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May 30th, 2012 09:11 AM Edit Profile Print Topic Search Topic
I bought an AmDlx Strat in the 90's from GC. I tried about 6 of them in the store to find the right one.
Bought a new Mesa Lonestar Special that died within a weekend. Probably the rec tube. I took the amp back to GC and they shipped me a new one in a box.

I have bought guitars and amps from a lot of places around the country and it's usually the ones that I demoed.

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May 30th, 2012 09:55 AM Edit Profile Print Topic Search Topic
I've gotten guitars online and it's usually worked out for me.

But if I'm trying something out in a store, I'm buying the one I played. I wouldn't have picked it up if I wasn't interested (i.e., it was damaged or otherwise not acceptable).

Same goes for amps - and pedals.

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May 30th, 2012 10:01 AM Edit Profile Print Topic Search Topic
I've only bought one new guitar in my life. I opted for the box one after playing it of course.

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May 30th, 2012 10:44 AM Edit Profile Print Topic Search Topic
I rarely buy a guitar out of a shop, most of my purchases are online. I guess I am not too particular, I'm not the guy who plays ten of the same model and then picks "the one".

Whenever I have purchased from a shop, its either been a used piece or if new, the only one the shop had, so the minty option wasn't there.

BrentD
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May 30th, 2012 11:22 AM Edit Profile Print Topic Search Topic
Thanks for the input! I normally buy used so there is no box option. When new and an instrument, I take the demo warts and all because it has to have what I want (weight, tone, feel, etc.).

One time I bought a Vox Pathfinder 15R and took the one in the box. The reverb was dead. I returned it for the next one in the box, and it had something funny going on with the volume being low and weird noise. Oh, and the reverb on that one was *almost* dead.

Those were all the boxed ones they had! I took the floor model and I haven't had a problem. Speaker was broken in, too. XD
(This message was last edited by BrentD at 11:23 AM, May 30th, 2012)

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May 30th, 2012 01:12 PM Edit Profile Print Topic Search Topic
Depends.I will buy online if the price is right.Been sorry a few times, but as long as they have a return policy.I just bought a Gibson trad plus in the store , I checked it out really good and is my best guitar thus far.I have a epi es 335 pro on order though.
(This message was last edited by budg at 04:40 PM, May 30th, 2012)

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May 30th, 2012 07:17 PM Edit Profile Print Topic Search Topic
You take home the one that plays the best.

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May 30th, 2012 08:48 PM Edit Profile Print Topic Search Topic
Wish i could have that option

being a lefty and in Australia all the shops have is the lower end models or some other brand in lefty

i have never seen a lefty les paul, 52 RI Tele 62 RI Strat or any other high end model

it's we can order one in for you

i like to play before i buy if i can, i feel like saying get 5 or 6 in and i'll pick the one i like i might just do that one day.

reverendrob
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May 30th, 2012 08:55 PM Edit Profile Print Topic Search Topic
I've taken the amp and most effects units that I tested as well, I'm not worried about minor cosmetic scuffs generally that I'd put on myself if they're even present on the floor model.

Think I've only bought a couple units in person that were NIB that I didn't take out and test myself because it was the first one in and the shop handed it to me to demo.

Usually were the 'stack of them' on clearance at GC or its ilk.

But I've bought every amp but I think one used in my life, new was a HRD and I took the model I played, broken in speaker and all.

I've only bought a few guitars new as well, so the option hasn't generally been there.

LudwigVonFender
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May 30th, 2012 09:52 PM Edit Profile Print Topic Search Topic
Hmmm? Interesting. Thinking about the guitars I've bought as 'floor models', I'be bought 5. Three of them were Rickenbackers, all bought at different locations.

The rest of the considerable amount I have were bought on-line, sight unseen amd everyone a keeper.

As far a amps go, I've got only one of 7(?), I think, that wasn't a 'floor model'.

Twangmeister
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May 30th, 2012 09:53 PM Edit Profile Print Topic Search Topic
I don't recall ever buying an instrument or amp out of a box. Effects--sure.

I like to check out the setup and playability. And the music stores I buy from have their entire stock on display.

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