Re: New Guitar Center Policy?

Twibil wrote:
After having a good working relationship with GC for almost 20 years,
I was just informed by our local GCs new manager that GCs are all
going to feature in-house guitar techs from now on, and that he'd
continue to send me the repair work "that's above our new tech's
level" (meaning everything except routine string changes) if I'd start
kicking back 20% of my profits on those referral repairs.

umm .. I don't think a referral surcharge, ie kickback,
is all that out of line .. saves him from hiring another tech and
a staffed work bench ... and it brings you business . maybe I'm missing some finer details.

capitalism ... what a bitch .



P.S. Since GC is paying their new tech the same basic-poverty part-
time wage they pay their floor salesmen, the new techs are extremely
unlikely to have any idea of what they're doing.


bingo.

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