Klarinet Archive - Posting 000598.txt from 1996/05
From: B HUDSON <XDPW41A@-----.COM> Subj: Re: A Clarinets (mail order) Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 18:00:28 -0400
Nate wrote:
>The company had required a deposit on one of the clarinets, so my mom's
>credit card was charged $1600. It took a little while for them to credit >the
>card, so she had to pay about $32 in interest while we waited for the
>company to apply the credit (we had to call them twice to ask what was >going
>on; they told us it was possible the paperwork had been put aside and
>forgotten about). So all in all, we payed over $100 in shipping and in
>credit interest to try three clarinets, one of which was plainly a bad
>instrument. The other two were not a whole lot better.
Nate, maybe you should do us all a favor and identify the culprit. I
haven't bought any horns from them, but I'm delighted with the service I
get from Muncy Woodwinds. And when I stopped in last summer Pam and Phil
remembered my, a mere beginning amateur, and teated me as cordially as if I
were first clarinet in a major symphony (well at least I felt that way).
In general I'm sure it makes sense to step into a shop where lots of
instruments are available. But I don't think it's the case that a mail
order facility is as mail order facility ... -- unlike roses (is a rose, is
a rose is a rose ... .)
Bruce Hudson, xdpw41a@-----.com
Raleigh, NC
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