to apply to guitar center or not?

[The4455]

do it and flip stuff for ilfers, you'll become a millionaire!!!

[eatyourguitar]

They will fire you if you buy gear at cost and flip it. They dont always catch you. But if your constantly buying gear thats more than your paycheck, its pretty obvious.

[the Life Aquatic]

haha but what if im currently buying gear thats more than my paycheck

[The4455]

I've had friends and relatives buy things for other people before using their employee discount, since those things are usually gifts and not every single day the companies didn't "find out."

[skip]

do it, good experience

[dubkitty]

might as well apply...if they hire you and you hate it you can always quit, yes?

[The4455]

I went to GC today, and it was a new guy, it was amazing. He was enthusiastic and we talked for like half anhour about gear and stores and stuff. It was really cool. that's teh kind of guy you have to be, it sucks be blown off by those guys, especially when you like "so I'm gonan spend $500" and they're like "Ugh there's some shit in that corner you'll like since you suck." Really GC, really.

[eatyourguitar]

I would get in trouble if I spent 30 min on one customer. also, some people dont want to be bothered by sales people. GC cant please all the people all the time.

[My name is Mudd]

I would get in trouble if I spent 30 min on one customer..

Serious?

[eatyourguitar]

Yep. That meant that they could run the store short staffed and the manager would get a 5000 bonus for hitting payroll goals. He got another $10,000 for hitting sales goals. In the other store where the manager was nice, he got fired for not hitting goals

[My name is Mudd]

That's truly sad. And FWIW, I have mgmt experience myself.

[Gearmond]

yeah it depends on the store.

first time i went into a store to buy a pedal, it was for a digitech bass multi-effect.

the store had a guy come in and sell his RP300artists, basically the RP350 before it came out, and i was told that digitech sound the same through bass or guitar (not sure if its true overall, but i do think a few effects work better in the higher register) for less than half the price. and for a first pedal i'd say it was an upgrade from what i intended to buy

[snipelfritz]

What if you fucked a customer...

...If they also bought gear, what amount would make it just go away?

Like if eatyourguitar let somebody bone his ass behind the dumpster, but that same person then bought a new MIA Strat. Does a ~$1000 get you off the hook? More? Or is this even just like a pack of strings and some Chiclets from the machine by door on their way out? Isn't that just why they give you a commission?

[eatyourguitar]

oh yeah, I almost forgot, they pay us to have sex with customers. are you high?

[aen]

FUCK YES apply at guitar center, and take them for everything you can! DISCOUNT man, DISCOUNT. And fat hairy shredders selling their dads 60s fenders for $100.