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Bricks And Mortar? Who Cares?

James
6 hours ago
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Today I went to a music shop, Dawsons to be precise. They're a chain and sell all sorts of musical instruments. I knew exactly what I wanted and had done research for prices online. I made a spreadsheet. I took a printout of the spreadsheet into the shop with me.

Hello, I said, I'd like this guitar and this amp, and this is how much I can get it for online. Can you match it?

The guy serving me was young and very nice, he had to ask the manager. The manager, rather dismissively, said he wouldn't match the two lowest prices because those shops weren't "bricks and mortar", they were web based shops. However he would match one of the shops that was "bricks and mortar", knocking £29 off the guitar. I could get it £5 cheaper online but thought I'd let it pass.

Next: gig bag and guitar lead. The gig bag was £15 more expensive than online. I asked them to match it, the manager said no.

So all in all I could get the package £20 cheaper online. Sorry, I said. I'll get it online. The guy serving me was helpless and said sorry, then goodbye.

I left and bought it online at GAK. After all £20 is four packs of strings.

How strange that a shop would say no to me spending a few hundred quid for the sake of twenty quid. Of course I don't know their margins, perhaps they would be making a loss selling it to me for that price? It seems unlikely though. Either way, why would I buy it there and not online?

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There was a time where work would have been a problem too, but if last year's events have thought me anything, is that, aside from the 7 hours I'm being billed and unavailable, what goes in the office stays in the office...

...aside from the odd oblique reference in a blog from time to time, of course!

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An unrelenting flow of destruction heading down my way...

Business as usual.

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Silvia
3 days ago
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My favourite songs at the moment. One is performed by Dan Balan, a Moldovian singer, who performed in the band O-ZONE and the second by Lady Gaga, who doesn't needs any comments.