Involt
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I recently (one week ago) bought an S2 McCarthy 594 Thinline.
It should be my fourth PRS, after a CORE (CU24), an SE (Hollowbody II Piezo) and a CE (semi hollow).
It will surely be my last PRS purchase, forever.
I find it hard to understand which the policy of PRS is regarding the customer.
I bought my S2 brand new, from an Authorized Dealer. The dealer didn't clearly state which exactly was the production year of the guitar; after all, it's a 2022 MY, and I bought it in the first quarter of 2023.
So, if I would have need some information about the guitar, I could have referred (I supposed) to the PRS site, on which I read that the guitar is equipped with 85/15LT "S" pickups; once arrived I found that the pickups are ordinary 85/15 "S" pickups. Because the specifications on the PRS site are valid only for the 2023 MY.
Then the only chance I have to own a 2023 guitar (even having purchased a brand new guitar in 2023) would be the purchasing a set of 85/15LT pickups, for a sum that is about the 25% of the cost of the whole guitar; furthermore, I should hurry up the purchase due to the small availability of the pickup set. In other terms, PRS is doing a favour to me, selling me the pickups at 500€, if I want an updated guitar.
No update available, by supplying the 85/15LT "S" pickups at reasonable price, and no preferential treatment, neither in supplying nor in purchasing the pricey 85/15 LT set
In actual fact, I bought an obsolete guitar at the same price as the updated ones.
This seems to me a kind of policy that can be adopted by a firm that produces cheap guitar, not by someone that sells at PRS's prices.
I love the PRS guitars, but from now on, my love will be addressed to the guitars I already own. I'll never again buy any PRS guitar, because I like the PRS guitars but I absolutely dislike the PRS policy. The way PRS behaves seems to me at least as unfair as their guitars are beautiful
It should be my fourth PRS, after a CORE (CU24), an SE (Hollowbody II Piezo) and a CE (semi hollow).
It will surely be my last PRS purchase, forever.
I find it hard to understand which the policy of PRS is regarding the customer.
I bought my S2 brand new, from an Authorized Dealer. The dealer didn't clearly state which exactly was the production year of the guitar; after all, it's a 2022 MY, and I bought it in the first quarter of 2023.
So, if I would have need some information about the guitar, I could have referred (I supposed) to the PRS site, on which I read that the guitar is equipped with 85/15LT "S" pickups; once arrived I found that the pickups are ordinary 85/15 "S" pickups. Because the specifications on the PRS site are valid only for the 2023 MY.
Then the only chance I have to own a 2023 guitar (even having purchased a brand new guitar in 2023) would be the purchasing a set of 85/15LT pickups, for a sum that is about the 25% of the cost of the whole guitar; furthermore, I should hurry up the purchase due to the small availability of the pickup set. In other terms, PRS is doing a favour to me, selling me the pickups at 500€, if I want an updated guitar.
No update available, by supplying the 85/15LT "S" pickups at reasonable price, and no preferential treatment, neither in supplying nor in purchasing the pricey 85/15 LT set
In actual fact, I bought an obsolete guitar at the same price as the updated ones.
This seems to me a kind of policy that can be adopted by a firm that produces cheap guitar, not by someone that sells at PRS's prices.
I love the PRS guitars, but from now on, my love will be addressed to the guitars I already own. I'll never again buy any PRS guitar, because I like the PRS guitars but I absolutely dislike the PRS policy. The way PRS behaves seems to me at least as unfair as their guitars are beautiful
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