Alembic Guitars Club
Connecting => Swap Shop and Wish Lists => Seen on craigslist, eBay, and elsewhere => Topic started by: gtrguy on March 19, 2021, 11:01:30 AM
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Alembic Orion fs at Guitar Center
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https://www.guitarcenter.com/Used/ALEMBIC/Orion-Owls6-Electric-Bass-Guitar.gc
Note: this is the 2nd or 3rd time I have seen them post this bass for sale. I think that means it has been returned to them multiple times for some reason.
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I think that means it has been returned to them multiple times for some reason.
i got a love/hate relationship with GC that goes back many years.
on the love side, they have an absolutely no-questions-asked (90-days i think, it may be longer now) no-hassle return policy on instruments. a couple of years ago, I had purchased a certain brand from them that's billed as the poor man's alembic, played it for 89 days, decided that it sucked (plus someone had put a real alembic elan up on ebay at a killer price that i jumped on), took it back and 10 minutes later i was out the door with all my $ back. try that on ebay, reverb, any of the flippers that lurk therein or your local mom-and-pop (if there's any still around - that's the hate side of it).
so it wouldn't surprise me if it's a return. The condition of their used instruments is usually...used. sometimes well used. with lotsa issues that you don't notice until you've played it for a while. could be someone unloaded an abused instrument on them and now it's a frequent flyer.
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I bought this one, btw… it certainly arrived “imperfect”, but it’s still immensely playable and sounds fantastic. After new strings and a setup, it’s incredible. It’s a fretless 6-String - total surprise - and feels wonderful.
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>>>>It’s a fretless 6-String - total surprise - and feels wonderful.<<<
now that's pretty cool. imho, ymmv, etc & so forth 🧐