that headstock logo being THAT off center is an immediate giveaway lol

GCs online used guitar section is like dark web shit from 10 years ago. 2 pictures for a $1000 guitar? get bent.

Ali baba- search  ESP guitar and the very first listing is this very guitar lol

Guitar center has a 45 day return policy in used items. This is justified to use

I use guitar center to window shop and see if there is something that I didn’t know I like. Then I go elsewhere to buy one. 😂

Holy crap.. the E2 logo isn't even in the right position.. probably the worst fake i've seen in my life.

Wrong finish
Wrong font in the logotype
Wrong placement of the logotype
Wrong headstock size
Wrong pickup selector
Wrong knobs
Wrong hardware and color
Wrong binding

Like how is this even passable by the dumbest of employee at GC.

Can’t wait to see this one get re-listed on the GC site 🤣🤣💩

They sold my friend a fake Fender Telecaster. The guitar dude at the pawn shop had to break the news to him.

I have a Guitar Center right around corner from me and I only buy picks and strings from them .  They have the dumbest and most arrogant people that work there .  Thank god for Sweetwater .  Sorry Kyle

The guitar centers I’ve gone to within the last few years have been dreadful. All employees, even the managers seemed suicidal and defeated.

Good on you for recognizing the understaffing/overworking and terrible employee vetting they have these days.  When I walk into a GC that’s my first impression too.  There’s an awesome shop just down the street from my local GC and the owner there is absolutely enthusiastic about everything in his shop.

Guitar center near me had a fake Neumann mic  I told them about it even pointed out the reasons it was fake because I own some real ones. They took it out of the display case when I was there. I was back in a couple months later and it was back in the display case. They don’t care.  I remember the days guitar center was the place

Guitar Center no longer has any kind of actual knowledgeable musicians or salemens for that matter. It's become the walmart of music stores they don't know shit anymore.

I don’t blame you for not calling.

I don’t do business with them OR musicians friend (sister company). I had a nice guitar I bought brand new from musicians friend and when I got it, it had a chip in the headstock. Let me clarify: a new $3000 guitar with a chip in the headstock. Turns out they sourced it from a guitar center and it had been sitting on the rack forever. I called that guitar center personally to talk to the sales manager, and when I started telling them the issue, before I got to it, the manager goes “ohhhh, you got the one with the chip in it”. They knew it was busted and shipped it anyway.

They then tell me I need to return it at all local store. I did this and for a month, they screwed up and never returned my money. So I got to a point that boiled over and the local manager FINALLY tells me this is a process they’re not supposed to do, they took care of me, and I vowed to never do business with those fuckers ever again.

EDIT: the pickups on that guitar are also the wrong ones. That guitar came with 57/66, and those look like a knockoff 81/85 set.

Hey, the GC system works perfectly.
If someone had bought this guitar who didn't know as much as Kyle, they wouldn't have noticed anything.

GC employee 1 “hey dude does this guitar look odd to you?”, GC employee 2 “naahhhh bro this is fine, stick it in the box”

Brooo. Funny enough I thought I saw an obvious fake Les Paul with them the other day. I was 90% sure it was a fake. But there was that 10% of me that was like “nahhh, no way would guitar center fall for fake guitars.. you’re wrong they’re right, they are the professionals” after seeing this I am now 100% confident I’ve found a chibson on there website.

giving the side eye to all my guitars in my music room while watching this.

I have mixed experiences with GC, but my local GC has mostly been positive. Bought a used Traynor amp at a great price that ended up having a broken tube. Dude said if I could get it out, he’d give me a new set. Walked out with a dusty but otherwise excellent 40-watt tube amp with a matched pair of new Tung-Sols for $350.

This is one of the videos where I wish youtube would allow us to comment memes