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My contempt for the pudds currently running Gibson is pretty well known. Wrecking a perfectly good guitar company with fourth-right greed.
About 8 months ago, I bought a couple of Standard limited Ed's. One looked good the other is a fuggin' Pig! I got them from a " new-to-me" dealer in Wichita Kansas, who wanted to give me a hard time about sending the one sub-Standard back.
Fine...(never buy from EM Shots, again)
I ended up calling an exec with Customer Service at Gibson and running over the problems with him. They know me, I know them, it's a long story. He's like "fine, send it in, I'll look it over, if it's defective we'll replace it". This is the company that "CUTS DEFECTIVE GUITARS IN HALF" and disgards them.
For some retarded reason, I filled out the warranty pamphlet..I never do that, because sometimes I end up selling; if I don't groove with the guitar (you know what I mean). Gibson sends me an acceptable replacement, which looks fine and new. Not perfect but "good enough"...so I go about my life, like normal.
Last week, I get an e-mail from a guy. Right...right..right out of the blue. It's the guy that has the guitar now. Turns out he had a problem with a LP Standard LE and sent it to Gibson. They decided to replace his defunctoid for him with a BRAND NEW Standard (sounds fukin familiar?). They sent him my rejected return LE and told him it was HAND PICKED from BRAND NEW MANUFACTURER's STOCK. Some retard pulled the thing from the rejectoid scam stack and never checked the warranty card. It was the same serial number, same problems, same fukin guitar.
The dude asked me to write him a letter about what happened on my end and have it notorized. He was infuriated, I agreed. No freakin problem, brother.....
About 8 months ago, I bought a couple of Standard limited Ed's. One looked good the other is a fuggin' Pig! I got them from a " new-to-me" dealer in Wichita Kansas, who wanted to give me a hard time about sending the one sub-Standard back.
Fine...(never buy from EM Shots, again)
I ended up calling an exec with Customer Service at Gibson and running over the problems with him. They know me, I know them, it's a long story. He's like "fine, send it in, I'll look it over, if it's defective we'll replace it". This is the company that "CUTS DEFECTIVE GUITARS IN HALF" and disgards them.
For some retarded reason, I filled out the warranty pamphlet..I never do that, because sometimes I end up selling; if I don't groove with the guitar (you know what I mean). Gibson sends me an acceptable replacement, which looks fine and new. Not perfect but "good enough"...so I go about my life, like normal.
Last week, I get an e-mail from a guy. Right...right..right out of the blue. It's the guy that has the guitar now. Turns out he had a problem with a LP Standard LE and sent it to Gibson. They decided to replace his defunctoid for him with a BRAND NEW Standard (sounds fukin familiar?). They sent him my rejected return LE and told him it was HAND PICKED from BRAND NEW MANUFACTURER's STOCK. Some retard pulled the thing from the rejectoid scam stack and never checked the warranty card. It was the same serial number, same problems, same fukin guitar.
The dude asked me to write him a letter about what happened on my end and have it notorized. He was infuriated, I agreed. No freakin problem, brother.....
Or was that a exagerration?? I dont think any company can survive if they start destroying every defective guitar. Even a "defective" gibson is worth at least a $1000. 
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