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Originally Posted by bexarametric  I do believe that the majority of the people on this site make up a VERY small percentage of our sales. But that doesn't make you less important. I am always trying to push product knowledge on my guys. The fact is that the majority of the people that come in to our store would be insulted if you pushed GREAT recording gear on them because they honestly could not tell the difference between a cheap Chinese mic and a U47 (used of course) because they don't even know what they're listening for (they just see $100 vs $10,000). I get customers all the time that say things like "I sure do love my Behringer mixer, it sounds great". I can't, for the life of me, figure out why someone would ever feel that way. But they do. And most of the people that walk into the store are like that. They think that Mackie is the "high end". The average customer sees our Midas board and can't honestly tell us that it sounds better than our Yamaha. They don't know what to listen for. They may recognize a slight difference. That's it. |
I think you're right. I think GC is built to absorb the volume dollar that comes from a prosumer-and-lower customer base.
The only expectation I have from a GC employee is to know price, availability and location of gear sold there, to show some modicum of customer courtesy, and to know when to grab the guitar out of the hands of some dork hacking through "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on a dimed solid-state Marshall mini-combo.
Personally, I find it funny how up-in-arms some posters have gotten over this topic/thread. I mean, the joint's decked out like a discount store, not a Lexus dealership.