best place to buy gear? i want to get guitar center to price match....

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Posted by discobiscuit on Dec-08-2008 16:53:

best place to buy gear? i want to get guitar center to price match....

waddup i went to djdeals.com and compuplus.com and a couple other sites and guitar center denied all of the price matches. i'm looking to get the technics m5g's and was wondering if anyone could refer me to a site that guitar center could price match.

thanks

Posted by jupiterone on Dec-08-2008 16:56:

www.pssl.com
www.zzounds.com

Posted by bastien on Dec-08-2008 18:17:

that is weird. They priced match my cdj-1000mk3s and djm-800 with some small company I found through Amazon. I saved like $600 :P

Posted by JD8180 on Dec-09-2008 02:31:

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Originally posted by bastien
that is weird. They priced match my cdj-1000mk3s and djm-800 with some small company I found through Amazon. I saved like $600 :P

yeah same here, I'm sure it all depends on the manager that takes a look at it. I bought my Behringer Truths for like $260 for the pair which I found on some random no name shop online. The sales man just took it to the manager who took a quick glimpse at it and signed it off and let me take it.

Try another day, or at another guitar center if there's one near by.

Posted by i got big pants on Dec-09-2008 03:16:

you can always go agiprodj.

i know when i used to work at gc, some people were anal of "authorized dealers"

Posted by theguyoverthere on Dec-09-2008 05:27:

go to the panasonic/technics site here

http://www2.panasonic.com/consumer-...000000000005702

go to find a dealer -> shop online retailers -> and go to provantage

provantage has m5g's for $476.71. I recently did this and gc pricematched plus 10% of the difference. I got mine for around $464. I actually just wanted a 1210MK5 but they didn't have any. hope this works for you and anyone else reading.

Posted by i got big pants on Dec-09-2008 05:38:

if i remember correctly...technics had almost no profit margin on them. i think the profit margin was about 50 bucks or so.

probably reason why guitar center isnt price matching.

they'll usually tell you they cant do anything if theres absolutely no money being made.

Posted by Imagin on Dec-09-2008 06:03:

Go with http://www.Musiciansfriend.com I have bought all my gear from them and they have no problem pricematching so long as you can tell the rep on the phone the webaddress of where you found the better deal.

If guitar center allready said no then pass them up and go with M.F. you will not be disappointed. BTW everything they sell they are an authorized dealer for.

Posted by miamitranceman on Dec-09-2008 15:46:

quote:
Originally posted by JD8180
yeah same here, I'm sure it all depends on the manager that takes a look at it. I bought my Behringer Truths for like $260 for the pair which I found on some random no name shop online. The sales man just took it to the manager who took a quick glimpse at it and signed it off and let me take it.

Try another day, or at another guitar center if there's one near by.

Haha, hell yeah ParkAveElectronics.com!

Posted by Waterproofpaper on Dec-09-2008 19:46:

Interesting.. when i went to guitar center the first time to get serato they price matched agiprodj and didnt even check for price. I picked up serato for 430 with no tax. I came back on black friday to pick up 800mk2's and they looked up the price for me and gave me another 15% because of black friday. I went to get a price quote but came out with 2 new cdjs haha. I guess it depends on which GC you go to.

Posted by miamitranceman on Dec-10-2008 02:26:

quote:
Originally posted by Waterproofpaper
Interesting.. when i went to guitar center the first time to get serato they price matched agiprodj and didnt even check for price. I picked up serato for 430 with no tax. I came back on black friday to pick up 800mk2's and they looked up the price for me and gave me another 15% because of black friday. I went to get a price quote but came out with 2 new cdjs haha. I guess it depends on which GC you go to.

Also, I think because of the economy, they're especially desperate to move some stock out. They had some (for them) crazy sales going on in mine.