Guitar Center Reviews Summary

Category: Music store

Address: 720 Lehigh Valley Mall, Whitehall, PA 18052, USA

Phone: +16102310616

Rating: 4.3
based on 152 reviews.

Customer Service

Pros:

  • "They're extremely knowledgeable and helpful. You can tell they actually care about music and the instruments used to create music."
  • "Very friendly, knowledgeable staff, but also seems to be very short staffed."
  • "Clean, well staffed, and well stocked store."
  • "I would recommend anyone looking for a musical instrument to go to this location as it is clear they are not just looking for a sale but have customer satisfaction as their focus."
  • "The store manager then reached out to me days later regardless, and stated that we could return the instrument, or get me a compensation."
  • "Griffin the sales rep was infinitely knowledgeable on the topic!"
  • "The name of the salesperson I dealt with is Mike. He is very knowledgeable and polite."

Cons:

  • "Don't sell them any of your used music equipment unless you want to get like a quarter of what it's actually worth."
  • "Questionable Moral: I was in there looking at guitars a few weeks ago with my girlfriend... No staff told him to stop as he continued to shout this out for over 20 minutes."
  • "Be careful with this Company, they do not stand behind the products they sell, and could not care less about customer satisfaction!!"
  • "Unfortunately there's not much literature out there, for these machines. I contacted the store today and no one was able to answer any of my questions."
  • "I was ignored the entire time I was in the store."
  • "The staff could not have been less interested in helping me."
  • "Worst guitar experience of my entire life. DO NOT GO TO THIS STORE TO PURCHASE A GUITAR."

Product Quality and Selection

Pros:

  • "They always have a pretty solid stock of equipment and instruments."
  • "Finaly got the top to the YORKVILLE SET. YEAH IT'S A 15 INC POWER HOUSE, WORTH EVERY DIME."
  • "One of the best places in the Lehigh valley to get instruments and parts."
  • "Excellent choice of instruments for every musician, beginner or professional, doesn't matter, they have it all."
  • "You need it, they've got it. The staff is helpful and knowledgeable, prices are pretty good."
  • "Great, helpful staff. Good instrument variety."
  • "Wide selection of guitars bases and drums as well as keyboards!"

Cons:

  • "Stopped by and looked at the only fender jazz bass in the entire store... mexican, new, overpriced, with a bowed neck."
  • "Bought a Sterling by Music Man Ray34 HH here. 2 tuning pegs were seized, the truss rod was not even engaged."
  • "This place is dark and dingy and never has anything new and cool to check out."
  • "Guitar Center isn't bad; I know they get a bad reputation from some... but they usually don't have boutique, unique, and high end stuff in stock, unless it's used."
  • "However if you're looking for a more higher end guitar they really don't have much of a selection."
  • "They never have what I’m looking for and anything worth trying is locked up."
  • "It has really become a place for low end equipment. The selection is not very good at all."

Pricing and Value

Pros:

  • "Stopped by with the intention to purchase a dac However, after finding this Peavy TNT 1 X 15 for an unbeatable price I just had to look around a bit more."
  • "Prices are about average, however their used/scratch & dent department almost always has some very good deals."
  • "Thanks to Jon and management at Lehigh Valley Guitar Center I have a killer guitar for an outstanding deal that they went way above and beyond in customer service."

Cons:

  • "My only gripe is how expensive a lot of the instruments are."
  • "Drop 750 on a new guitar, they forget to put the tremolo arm on it."
  • "Went in today to buy a sustain pedal for my son piano, they had them mark at $14.99 but told me it's $29.99."
  • "Their rental policy really consumes too much of a customers money."

Online and In-Store Experience

Pros:

  • "Not only did they have everything I called for, they also had set it aside so when I got there all I had to do was tell them who I was and they were on it."
  • "The no-questions-asked return policy on electronics is absolutely phenomenal."
  • "They have a very thorough procedure to keep everyone safe from the coronavirus."

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