Klarinet Archive - Posting 000571.txt from 2000/06

From: mus_ldj@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] ebay bassethorn
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 13:35:32 -0400

No, it's the company because what I paid $299 for I could have got for
$250!!!

William Wright wrote:

> <><> Daniel Leeson
> Now is it my imagination or has Woodwind and Brasswind gotten to the
> point of
>
> I've tried twice during the last three months to buy the simple
> sort of stuff from them that you'd expect of a beginner, namely a Benade
> ligature and a bass clarinet stand. After waiting 30 days for the
> ligature, I called and they told me, "Its on backorder, and it will be
> another 60 days." This is not the slightest bit of exaggeration. This
> is exactly what they said. So I ordered it from International, who
> shipped it the next day (I looked at the UPS sticker).
> When I tried just this week to buy a stand for my newly-rented bass
> clarinet, they told me, "We don't have it in stock right now, it's on
> backord..." I didn't bother to listen to the rest. Perhaps he was
> going to switch me to the high-priced spread, I don't know. But the
> clerk's voice was so 'dead' that I felt like he was going to say "It's
> on backorder" no matter what I asked for, and he knew that I knew that
> he knew.... and he didn't give a sh__ anyway.
>
> I was wondering exactly as you were whether I was overreacting to
> an unusual pair of circumstances. But I did throw their catalog in the
> trash can this week.
>
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