Is This a Real or Fake Paul Allender?
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Damn. I wonder if GC will give me a refund.
They better! Sorry, buddy.
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DOH!
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Fake and let’s leave it at at that.
No need to help the forgeries get any better.
No need to help the forgeries get any better.
Ha! I bet they were. Understanding and helpful I believe. Confused? I doubt it. ANYone working at a guitar store should have been able to spot that as Not-A-PRS from across the room.
It's just possible they'd have been wiling to keep your money under those false pretenses had you not gotten wise yourself.
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I bought the guitar used online from another state. This store and employees had no hand in any deception and were just confused. I do agree that the original store *should* have done their research before even buying it off of someone. It's pretty annoying that they didn't do any checks into it or even realize it wasn't a PRS.
Right. I didn't mean to imply the store and its people had a hand in the deception, just that they were either lazy and oblivious to the point of utter incompetence not to know it wasn't a PRS - and/or had YOU not recognized it, they would happily have kept your money. A sin of omission on their part, perhaps, but still yet another thorn in GC's crown of shame.
It's possible the person who traded it in didn't know it wasn't PRS, so the original deception goes further back. It's just the more I think of it, the less likely it seems that no one in the GC organization knew it was a counterfeit. It's hardly worth tracking down, but was the guitar a trade-in at the same store you bought it from? Or did it come to that store from another.
Because I've overheard any number of trade-in conversations at the counter at GC, with the buying agent looking for every possible deficiency in order to knock their cost down. It just seems highly unlikely that a manager or buyer making the trade-in decision on GC's part wouldn't have recognized the non-PRSness of that piece. If no one at GC (that store and beyond) recognized it...well, that's just hard to fathom.
It's possible the person who traded it in didn't know it wasn't PRS, so the original deception goes further back. It's just the more I think of it, the less likely it seems that no one in the GC organization knew it was a counterfeit. It's hardly worth tracking down, but was the guitar a trade-in at the same store you bought it from? Or did it come to that store from another.
Because I've overheard any number of trade-in conversations at the counter at GC, with the buying agent looking for every possible deficiency in order to knock their cost down. It just seems highly unlikely that a manager or buyer making the trade-in decision on GC's part wouldn't have recognized the non-PRSness of that piece. If no one at GC (that store and beyond) recognized it...well, that's just hard to fathom.
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