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Hey all

Finally got my paypal account verified, so i've been able to retrieve the funds from my recent polytune fundraiser. thanks again johno and willin.

where's the best sites to go online to order a polytune? what sites you been using for your gear fixes?

any to avoid or recommend above others?

Music 123 usually has some kind of 15% coupon going on. ProGuitarShop has a insane return policy and always gets great customer service reviews. Not sure if they ship to the uk though.

Dolphin music for pedals, I love that website. Thoman.de is pretty good too as is imuso.

Thomann's price on the polytune is pretty good, although you get absolutely raped on the postage if you don't order much...

£69 + £10 postage.

I would recommend Gear 4 music... also GAK and DV247.

http://www.imuso.co.uk used to be alright, but their range appears to be shrinking and the prices aren't as low as they used to be.

I'd go with gak. Pretty reliable.

GAK and Thomann in general, although i have no idea what a polytune is. Thomann charged me 10 euros to ship a guitar from Germany so im not sure what Willin got raped on.

Fran wrote:although i have no idea what a polytune is.

... Surely ? you're just too rock Fran...

othomas2 wrote:

Fran wrote:although i have no idea what a polytune is.

... Surely ? you're just too rock Fran...

No idea mate, cant be bothered to google it either although i suppose i should. Lost interest in gadgets some time ago.

Haze wrote:Music 123 usually has some kind of 15% coupon going on. ProGuitarShop has a insane return policy and always gets great customer service reviews. Not sure if they ship to the uk though.

Pretty sure they (ProGuitarShop) do... AND they have free international shipping.
You'll still be slapped with duty/taxes from Customs, but you'd get that anyway. But, taxes on my Hellcat VI that just arrived from them was <$30Cdn. Should be pretty low on a Polytune.

proguitarshop ships internationally. When I got a couple of pedals, they marked them as warranty repairs, which was of no benefit for me as Australia has a reasonable limit on online/overseas purchases unlike Scandinavia and a few other places. They had a free international shipping for a while when the US $ pwned everything else, but that's over now.

I have used Dolphin, GAK, DV247 and HotRox for pedals and stuff with no issues at all.

HotRox are very fast shippers and generally have good prices in my opinion.
GAK are pretty much standard big shop affair.
Had a good experience with Andertons when I bought my Baja Telecaster.
Ditto Reidy's for my Telecaster Deluxe.
I remember I bought my Marshall DSL401 from soundslive and that was fine.
Dolphin and DV247 are also good stuff.
Thomann are great for Harley Benton stuff but shipping is slow.

I forget which is the shop that advertises shit they don't have in stock. Avoid them.

Progrockabuse wrote:
what sites you been using for your gear fixes?

www.shortscale.org

ebay.

Mike wrote:I forget which is the shop that advertises shit they don't have in stock. Avoid them.

That'd be Gear4Music - if it's really in stock (phone them) they're good, otherwise they're fibbing bastards.

I usually do a shopping search on Google UK, then on eBay, then on Amazon (marketplace sellers are getting very competitive lately), and just plump for whichever's cheapest. Bear in mind that a lot of these sly foxes will just bump up postage in order to counterbalance having a lower price than their competitors.

Despite some early bad experiences, my top recommendation nowadays would be for HotRox (know your product, people), closely followed by Dolphin.

But (and an important point, I feel): £70 on a fucking tuner? You could buy a fun pedal with that. In fact it's over half way to Fran's amp.

I'm also not getting the Polytune love. It's a fun app for a Phone maybe, but I tune maybe twice a show and I do it while being Erudite and sexy at the same time.

Second hand Korg DT-10 does it for me anytime.

Mike wrote:HotRox are very fast shippers and generally have good prices in my opinion.

Ditto Reidy's for my Telecaster Deluxe.

I've always had a good experiance with using HotRox, but Reidy's not so much. About a year ago I bought a classical guitar from them that came with a hard case. Some tool at some point along the line put the keys in with the guitar not in the storage compartment, this meant by the time the guitar had got to me it had been scratched, gouged and dented to fuck.

Then it took almost a month of getting shit off them down the phone, sending photos and having my emails ignored before they actually booked a courier to swap the guitars over.

Yep, Reidy's couldn't have been more belligerent and unhelpful when I was looking to buy a Baja. Mike, didn't you buy from the store rather than mail order when you used them?

EDIT: more belligerent and unhelpful, not less; my apologies if I made them sound good for a couple of hours.

Nah the Deluxe was right off their website, it was pretty seamless to be honest. I guess I must have been the lucky customer in 100?