[StevieMac]

Tell us how you REALLY feel.

Actually, please don't.

 

[keto]

When you phone and they tell you it's in stock, tell them you'll place the order when they text you a pic in their hands.

 

[Okay Player]

Fuck them.

I search foR Gibson Les Paul on kijiji? I get ads for mixing boards from Red One.
I search for a Strat? Synthesizers.
Fender amp? I dunno... probably a fuckin’ clarinet.

Fuck them.

 

[2manyGuitars]

Not really. They’ve been doing it for years.

 

[SWLABR]

Tell us how you REALLY feel.

I was hitting “Quote” to write exactly that, when I thought I’d better read on.
Ya nailed it!

 

[Lincoln]

I just found these guys online while guitar "shopping". I had never heard of them before today. They "seem" to have guitars no one else has, but they almost all say "usually ships within 3 days".

Things like that usually make me nervous. Free shipping in Canada. What else matters, right? 😋

I guess my question is, are they big enough to have all the stuff they say they have?

 

[jbealsmusic]

My experience is as follows:

• They had something I wanted, in stock, and at a good price (with free shipping).
• I contacted them to confirm it was actually in stock, and was told, "Yes".
• I placed the order online and received shipping confirmation in 4 business days.
• Products arrived in good condition.
• Satisfactory result.

Can't promise that will be the case for everyone, but nothing out of the ordinary happened for me. Guess maybe I got lucky.

 

[Chewie5150]

Just found this thread and its making me nervous. I just placed an order for a Radial Power -2 power and it seemed a bit vague if item was 'in stock' it made it look like it was and when I placed order nothing about it being 'out of stock' . mind you, i placed order right on xmas so I figured a few business days to see status changes. fingers crossed. On the item it says 'usually 7-14 business days" ...

 

[Chito]

I don't think they scam people. It's just that sometimes it takes forever to get what you ordered. And you can definitely call them to ask for a status.

 

[Chewie5150]

I'll wait another day or two and if i don't see any changes in my order status I may give them a call just to confirm availability. I only placed the order based on it being available. This product not available locally right now

 

[player99]

For the curious:

Power-2 - Radial Engineering

The Power-2 provides filtering against interference along with an innovative slide-out LED tray to illuminate your rack gear

www.radialeng.com

 

[2manyGuitars]

Going back to my original beef with RedOne and their spamming of kijiji ads...

I’m looking for an ‘80s Japanese Westone electric. I enter the name into the “Guitars” category in OTTAWA kijiji and get 11 results. ALL 11 are from Montreal and ALL 11 are from RedOne Music. NONE of them are for a vintage Japanese guitar or a used guitar of any kind for that matter. The 11 results are for;

• “Instruments and More”
• Mandolins, Cigar Box Guitars, and Ukuleles
• Kala Ukuleles
• Reverend Guitars
• ESP/LTD Guitars and Basses
• Dean Guitars - Electric and Acoustic
• Segovia Acoustic Electric Guitar
• Short Scale Acoustic Guitars! Jay Turser and Cort
• Strings, Tuners, Straps, Stands, and More!
• Dean Electric Guitar and Amp
• Stagg Electric Ukulele

I was going to post the screen grabs of the results so you could also all have the pleasure of scrolling through them but unlike RedOne, I’m not an asshole.

BTW, there was an item I was trying to track down a couple weeks back. The only place that had it listed as “in stock” was RedOne. I didn’t buy it.

I’ll say it again...
Fuck RedOne Music.

 

[isoneedacoffee]

@2manyGuitars Out of curiosity, have you reported them? I have for abusing the tagging system. In fact I have reported them at least a dozen times. Their advertising dollars must keep Kijiji happy though so I suspect the rues don't apply to them and they are allowed to do what they want. But the more people that report them the better.

 

[2manyGuitars]

@2manyGuitars Out of curiosity, have you reported them? I have for abusing the tagging system. In fact I have reported them at least a dozen times. Their advertising dollars must keep Kijiji happy though so I suspect the rues don't apply to them and they are allowed to do what they want. But the more people that report them the better.

That’s the exact answer I got from kijiji. They have a separate department for “commercial accounts” and the customer service rep said that’s who I’d need to complain to but that there would be no point because they’re paying money to get their ads there.

 

[2manyGuitars]

…and I did send a note to RedOne complaining about it and explaining how it made searching kijiji almost pointless. It’s waaaay worse if you ever try searching in the PA Gear category. I remember when I was looking for a specific brand of powered PA speaker and regardless of how I refined my search terms, I would get well over 100 results from RedOne for everything from mixers to mic stands, from keyboards to cables. Sometimes it would be over 200 results with one actual hit buried 4 pages deep.

I told them how bad it was and that as long as they were doing this, I refused to ever spend a cent there. I knew that they wouldn’t give a shit but oh well…

 

[colchar]

Going back to my original beef with RedOne and their spamming of kijiji ads...

I’m looking for an ‘80s Japanese Westone electric. I enter the name into the “Guitars” category in OTTAWA kijiji and get 11 results. ALL 11 are from Montreal and ALL 11 are from RedOne Music. NONE of them are for a vintage Japanese guitar or a used guitar of any kind for that matter. The 11 results are for;

• “Instruments and More”
• Mandolins, Cigar Box Guitars, and Ukuleles
• Kala Ukuleles
• Reverend Guitars
• ESP/LTD Guitars and Basses
• Dean Guitars - Electric and Acoustic
• Segovia Acoustic Electric Guitar
• Short Scale Acoustic Guitars! Jay Turser and Cort
• Strings, Tuners, Straps, Stands, and More!
• Dean Electric Guitar and Amp
• Stagg Electric Ukulele

I was going to post the screen grabs of the results so you could also all have the pleasure of scrolling through them but unlike RedOne, I’m not an asshole.

BTW, there was an item I was trying to track down a couple weeks back. The only place that had it listed as “in stock” was RedOne. I didn’t buy it.

I’ll say it again...
Fuck RedOne Music.

I'm with you. I don't care if they are the only source in the country for something I want, I will never ever buy anything from them.

 

[Chewie5150]

Well after placing my order about one week ago I got an email saying they have 'significant delays' and expect an order sometime late January. My spidey senses are telling me to pull out of this order and get refund. It was misleading when i placed the order as it looked like it was in their 'warehouse' and not a matter of contacting supplier

 

[colchar]

Well after placing my order about one week ago I got an email saying they have 'significant delays' and expect an order sometime late January. My spidey senses are telling me to pull out of this order and get refund. It was misleading when i placed the order as it looked like it was in their 'warehouse' and not a matter of contacting supplier

That seems to be all too typical for them. Now they have Covid as an excuse, but this behaviour appears to predate Covid.

 

[Wardo]

Shit.
They claim to have an amp that I was thinking about but not interested in getting the run around.

 

[RyMorgy]

I would say make sure you know you’re keeping what you’re buying - they’ll charge a a 25% restocking fee if you send something back (pathetic already). But they’ll also charge you to send it back, and also pay the original free shipping to get it to in the first place. Also stock problems, and customer service is very slow trying to email back and forth.