My apologies for double posting, but this original post was lost in a Wanted to Buy thread, and I need an answer for the store soon.
My Vector import arrived the day before yesterday. After waiting a full 24h for the guitar to acclimatize, I opened the box, and I was horrified to discover that the seller only used a single box with bubble wrap inside--it was not even double boxed! Combined with the fact that last week the temperature dropped to -40F en route, this guitar suffered. Brace yourself for the images.
The good:
Not bad for a $315 USD shipped guitar! It plays very well, and sounds great. Also good:
But here is the bad:
I am pretty sure that these are finish cracks only, even the one on the back of the neck, and although you can feel the neck crack (the worst of the lot) with your nail, you cannot feel it with the back of your thumb, and you cannot feel any of the other cracks at all. The neck crack extends from one side of the nut right to the other, and the other parallel neck cracks reach from one side of each affected fret to the other. Who here has ever seen weather cracking this bad on a poly finish?
Amazingly, the rest of the guitar is fine. The back looks great, and so does the front. One point of interest, if you compare shots from the original ad,
exactly none of the affected areas are shown. This may not be likely, but is it possible that the shop had this beautiful guitar with this neck damage already, and then decided to post it on Reverb right before the weather forecast showed a period of extreme cold looming? I was considering contacting the shop to wait to ship it to me until the coldest weather had passed, but they shipped it almost immediately.
Conspiracy theories aside, what would you do with this $315 guitar? Keep it, or send it back?
Update: I shared photos of the damage with the store, and they offered a $160 USD refund if I choose to keep the guitar. This means that I am out only $155 USD which, believe it or not, is less money that I usually pay for shipping only from the USA to my home here in Canada.
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My apologies for double posting, but this original post was lost in a Wanted to Buy thread, and I need an answer for the store soon.
My Vector import arrived the day before yesterday. After waiting a full 24h for the guitar to acclimatize, I opened the box, and I was horrified to discover that the seller only used a single box with bubble wrap inside--it was not even double boxed! Combined with the fact that last week the temperature dropped to -40F en route, this guitar suffered. Brace yourself for the images.
The good:
Not bad for a $315 USD shipped guitar! It plays very well, and sounds great. Also good:
But here is the bad:
I am pretty sure that these are finish cracks only, even the one on the back of the neck, and although you can feel the neck crack (the worst of the lot) with your nail, you cannot feel it with the back of your thumb, and you cannot feel any of the other cracks at all. The neck crack extends from one side of the nut right to the other, and the other parallel neck cracks reach from one side of each affected fret to the other. Who here has ever seen weather cracking this bad on a poly finish?
Amazingly, the rest of the guitar is fine. The back looks great, and so does the front. One point of interest, if you compare shots from the original ad,
https://reverb.com/item/38681898-hamer-vecf-hb-lawsuit-model-v-electric-guitar-2019-honey-burst
exactly none of the affected areas are shown. This may not be likely, but is it possible that the shop had this beautiful guitar with this neck damage already, and then decided to post it on Reverb right before the weather forecast showed a period of extreme cold looming? I was considering contacting the shop to wait to ship it to me until the coldest weather had passed, but they shipped it almost immediately.
Conspiracy theories aside, what would you do with this $315 guitar? Keep it, or send it back?
Update: I shared photos of the damage with the store, and they offered a $160 USD refund if I choose to keep the guitar. This means that I am out only $155 USD which, believe it or not, is less money that I usually pay for shipping only from the USA to my home here in Canada.
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