So, knowing this was a scam, I decided to roll the dice and see what happens. I figured when it became clear it was a scam I could dispute the charge on my credit card. So far, I have been getting regular shipping updates... out of China. I paid 100 bucks for a "Taylor Custom All-Koa". I will update when whatever is being shipped arrives if anyone is interested
Check the weight and size of the package they are sending you. The post office can look this information up if there's a tracking number. Many scammers will ship a tiny box with crap inside; once you accept the package they claim you received it. If the weight or package size is way off it's an obvious scam and you can have the postoffice flag it and hold it at the postoffice for you. Then mark refusal at the post office and you won't have any trouble filing a claim to get your money back. If the package size and weight look legit and you flag it to be held at the post office you can then open it in the presence of a postal official to document any shady findings inside the box.
It may also be a fake tracking number. I reported to my bank and got my money back from a fake Zippo ad and the tracking number never worked and I never received anything.
I reported an ad to Facebook selling ninety dollar Gibsons. Facebook said it didn’t violate any rules. Obvious scam and they don’t care. Gonna end FB soon.
If they were really blowing stuff out and going out of business by a specific deadline, stuff would be reduced to dealer cost. I think they're closing brick and mortar and going 100% online. Their website and name are still worth something.
I've been to the NYC store 4 times since they announced the closing.... so far, I bought a pair of sticks, and a drumhead....both were only 5 % off. Each week, the walls becoming more and more bare, but the deep discounts just weren't there. Their website was always just.... blah! Ash family left it that, never updating it, and thinking they shouldn't have to enter that market. Kinda sounds like the Tower Records situation all over again.
Long time ago I was at Montgomwry Wards it was going out of business. I was a kid. The prices were hardly discounted at all. I asked the salesman what was up. He told me "They will get more money throwing it away with a tax write off."
So true? Back in 1987 I worked at Yamaha(Orange County, Southern California) setting up guitars. There were a ton of Yamaha Pacificas and other models that were being thrown into the industrial "compactor" rather than being fixed. Frets, fretboard etc....
People don’t understand tax writeoffs… plus if they sold something for $1 rather than putting it in the dumpster, the store would still “write off” the remaining value, but now they’d have $1 more cash. What the real story is, is that a third party wholesaler will give them $x for the entire lot, and selling it in a single transaction at a discount is more profitable than paying stores to stay open - employee wages, overhead, rent, etc - and trying to sell the items at a higher price.
@@resignator Hahaha the devil is in the details. So NOW, AFTER you made your original comment, NOW you are elaborating that you are SPECIFICALLY talking about their used items. I'm glad you aren't a writer. No one would know the point of your book 🤣
But.... But... Their fact checkers tell us the facts. What they say is 100% accurate! Yeah, right. Suuuure it is. Ol' Zuck laughs all the way to the bank at how many people he's suckered within his social experiment.
I was watching another channel where they were allowed to film inside the store. They mentioned the prices for new was only marked down 5%. Shortly after they said that they were told to shut the camera down. Lawyers probably got involved. Side note, I found a $400 Cordobo with the headstock snapped in a GC Dumpster. Luckily was a clean break. Glued it back together. Nice sounding guitar.
The early days of the Sam Ash close out sale were timid, just 5%, maybe up to 20% off. But I can confirm the FINAL DAYS in NYC were the real deal. 90% off, and even more on the very last day (Yesterday). $200 to $300 top line hard shell genuine brand name guitars cases, $30 to $40. I bought one. And came back over the last few days, and got even more super sayings. And the staff was very nice, right up to the last hour. Sorry to see them go!
The Sam Ash employees lost all ability to make deals when the closing announcement was made 5/2/2024 when control was handed over to a liquidator. Not even the managers can deviate from the prices and discounts set by the liquidator. They've been unable to secure sufficient credit to stay open, so the original plan to only close underperforming stores changed to all stores closing. The scam ads on FB only make the real Sam Ash look bad. I've reported them but nothing happened except I generally don't see them any more.
I once listened to a lecture from someone who deals with scammers, and he suggested they’re more sophisticated than you may think and will actually put mistakes into the ads to catch the people who are really vulnerable. So in this example, they don’t want to put the right MSRP in there, because if you know how much the guitar really costs you’re less likely to fall for it and you’ll do your checks. But if you think that Gibson Les Paul is $800 $900, you’re more likely to fall for it being $130 and therefore more interest to the scammer. It’s the same with emails with poor grammar, it’s not an accident. Apparently it’s a tactic that these people use.
I went to the local Sam Ash in Westminster, CA recently to see if there were any deals to be had. Aside from a few really nice acoustics they really weren’t offering much.
To busy selling the cartel lab equipment to manufacture meth and fuel the war on drugs lmao. All of the world is burning in hell. Welcome to the asylum.
I was at my friend's house . He was looking at his e-mail and it had this ad. He was running around looking for his wallet to grab his credit card. I looked at the ad and told him not to do it . He did. I called Sam Ash, and of course, it was a ripoff. He immediately locked his card and called the bank. He got lucky. But had to change his e mail address. There's not much worse than a thief scumbag, to lazy to work themselves, parasites. Be careful my friends. Great show. PEACE
In the early 2000's I used to play paintball. Back then there was an auction site listing great prices on gear, but when you looked at the fine print the bid was for a link where to find the item, not the item itself.
Sam Ash closing 42 retail stores in 16 states, we had one in Cleveland, OH. I never bothered to check out any liquidation sales. I don't see how they can compete online with Sweetwater
It's not only SamAsh... These scammers are doing JoAnns fabric, Lowes, Gibson, Band t-shirts, etc. DON'T BUY ANYTHING OFF OF FACEBOOK or any other Meta platform.
I went to the store when this final sale just started and most of their guitars are gone. And I found weird that they only have a 5% off. You are right. I guess they picked up everything and sent them to their warehouse.
I went by the Margate Florida Sam Ash Store and I saw no deals. They say they are doing the 5 % per week discount thing until they sell out. Good Luck ! Thanks Bread.
so many places that have closed down in the past decade or more here in canada, have done the same thing. they have closing sales, and its not really a sale... its the same prices they had before... Canada is kinda bad for that. at least here in alberta.
They would rather let some liquidation company get it for a deal then the little guy…Quebec is just as bad and even Ontario, though they do have slightly more business sense here
@@mohamedtlass3842 ya man! That way they can avoid bankruptcy maybe? I was thinking of a bunch of IGA stores from 10 years ago, and even Zellers closed down. The sales were shit
Sam Ash sent me the wrong guitar a couple of years ago. I reached out to them to get it resolved and just got the runaround. A few days later I got an angry, somewhat threatening voicemail from none other than Sammy Ash, the owner saying they wouldn’t take the guitar back. Good riddance.
That's such a shame! With all this family is going through already! The CEO, one of the Ash's, sent Phil a note that he shared saying how hard it is after all these years. When he said he was happy it happened now, after Sammy Sr. had passed so he never had to know about it, my eye leaked a little. This was the last big Mom and Pop music store in the country to go down. That's really sad! Thanks for pointing out the scam Brad!! Your so right, 8 something for a new LP?? Crazy!! Peace --gary
I reported it TWICE! I guess ripping people off doesn’t violate FB community standards. Last year, I bought a cheap item off FB. I didn’t get anything like what I ordered, and my bank reversed the charge. It was only like 19 bucks. Don’t ever, ever, buy anything via FB.
These outlets typically will already have pro liquidators that have already pretty much made a bid on everything that is worth taking risks on. It would be a better average return selling it off in bulk to a liquidator, than paying all of the ad and handling costs. That's why you only really find the more budget grade or unpopular products when the prices finally drop on the last 2-3 days. You know there is no way there was a mad rush that just happened to clear out all of the top grade products just in time at barely discounted prices.
It’s ridiculous that some clowns can slap all that together… but you hire pro web people to build you a corporate site, and months and 30k later, they barely have anything done.
I'm glad you put this up I've been shopping Sam Ash since the 70's, I saw the scam website and had sense enough to call my local store in Carle Place NY and then i did a google search and found your video. Like you said no real savings on the actual site
@@delakota555 but its promounced, GA not GO, surley they spelled the word wrong in the dictionary? the other word should be spelled gayge no? hmmm whos in charge of the dictionary? did we vote for them?
@@nebben01 eh...? How would autocorrect correct 'gouge' to 'gauge' when you have just stated that they are both 'real words' which would be found in any English dictionary. Try it... 🙄
I saw that ad on FB. $129 for a Gibson Les Paul. I thought oh hell no. I went to real Sam Ash website and the MSRP on same guitar was $2999. Hilarious. These scammers are idiots. No one is going to believe those prices. They will send you a guitar that is a 3 inch Les Paul replica.
I was in Vegas a few weeks ago and went to Sam Ash and all their “deals” were far from what I’d consider a deal. I was in Nashville Friday and drove by Sam Ash but didn’t even stop. I may be cynical but I just don’t think their “deals” are gonna be any better. BTW, I hope your friends around Dawson Springs are all safe! Those storms rolled through here last night but we didn’t get it near as bad as they did to the east.
It won’t arrive. They’ll send notice that it had been delivered, and tell you to contact your local post office. PayPal is complicit in this scam also.
And the very sad part is you can report this ad to Facebook over and over and over and they won’t do a damn thing about it…. People can get scammed out of money and report this to Facebook and you will eventually get a Facebook response of no action taken as this quote does not violate Facebook community standards”
That's called a phishing scam. There's an old saying "if it's too good to be true, it probably is". If you get taken it's your fault . Greed speaks and they know you are greedy.
Bought a set of Fishman Fluence Classic hums off Reverb through Sam Ash, claiming they were closing stores. Got a hell of a deal. Bought them, then the next morning got an email and an instant refund saying they hadn't updated their inventory and they were actually out of stock. Then they still had it listed for sale. 🤔 But I did get a refund, and then I made an offer to another company selling some, and got an equally good deal as the Scam Ash deal I was supposed to be getting. Oh well, I won't be shopping with Scam Ash after that. That was my first and last shopping experience with them.
I can’t access Marketplace. Happened today . Said it was possibly because I live in a country where marketplace isn’t allowed , I’m not of age , ect .. none of which is true . Even the icon disappeared
It's rare to get a great deal on something like a guitar. Best deal I got from a closing music store was a guitar stand for $14.99, originally $24.99, I still have and use the stand 20+ years later.
I think most the actual deals are going to be in store only. It’s also a process over a period of time while they get rid of inventory-they aren’t drastically reducing prices right away but I’m sure they will the closer it actually gets to them closing. They’re only starting out like 5% off then probably that will slowly increase over time. I bet by the time it gets to their final week will be the only time you might see heavy discounts like 40-50% off & by that time I’m sure all their good inventory will already be long gone.
Fixtures and signs: I’d expect the employees who are losing their jobs would take first dibs on any non-inventory items that they could load up their car and sell on Craigslist, etc - but it wouldn’t hurt to ask the store. As for the scam ads - they PAY Facebook to place those ads. Facebook is full of them. If they kicked out all the scam ads, their ad revenue would tank!
I learned my lesson about purchasing from ads on FB thankfully the easy way. Ordered a baseball jersey for like $29 bucks and got something not worth $5, of course from China. Thanks Brad, because I could have assumed that site was Sam Ash, but I will admit the prices, even for a going out of business sale, would have had me scratching my head. A little higher and I could have fallen for it.
I did a big "Yea' No"! A $2100.00 guitar for $150.00. I feel bad for anyone who falls for this. On the flip side, big tech tells us not to trust any phone calls or web help from India or Pakistan. ....but all the tech support for cell phone companies and computer systems are "farmed" out over there. Oh the irony!
Saw this ad and figured it was a scam but couldn't find a way to confirm other than common sense and knowing prices of equipment and checking prices on reputable sites.
We got furniture stores and others that use the going out of business banners but years go by and there still going out of business, funny how that can work sometimes.
Sam Ash knows the value of the gear. When all is done and they are done trying to milk what they can out of us through this non-event, some investor will come along and buy it all up in a single big purchase.
Went to sam ash in phoenix last week: only michael kelly guitars and a couple used amps... store looks like it was looted, nothing of interest or value there.
I almost bought the yellow drum set but I noticed everything at $129 I was like nah! looks suspicious so I went to the store and was more than half empty and the prices were normal, some things like 10-15% off like cables, straps, strings things like that, we asked a guy about the website and said it was a scam, ended up buying two straps and a guitar cable, each 15% off
Thanks... I saw this this morning and knew right away something was WAY off on that shit site. It's like they didn't even try. $129 for anything and everything! 😂🤣😂😂
I'll check out my local store to see what I can get. I think online wouldn't show any deals due to the minimum they can advertise. I'll report back if I find anything good. Fixtures, etc. would be nice
Weird how they've had almost non-existent Internet presence for the past 20years until this. Ive been having a feeling that its for marketing exposure for a minute now too
I was looking for a gig bag for a super budget bass I bought. They didn't have any but the "discounts" that they had on the instruments were a joke. 5% off retail. GTFO.
Sam Ash isn’t going out of business. They are closing most of the stores and switching to online sales. Their website has always been behind competitors like Sweetwater.
Teresa Jones is the scammer. other stores will take the guitars or buy them and hold them. Makes since to not kill the Market by selling to cheap, to people when companies may but them sit on them.
When Mars Music went out of business, I got a bunch of store brand stuff for super low prices. Same when MF took over WWBW and grr… there was another business they took over. The store brand items that MF couldn’t sell were clearanced out on WWBW (or whatever site it was…), and the other stuff was just merged with MF inventory. Not seeing Sam Ash clear much out, except they did have one brand near half price. That might have been a store brand. Wasn’t priced cheap enough to roll the dice on though. Meanwhile Fender just had a direct sale on some items for 30-60% off. They had Fender (G&G) x Levi denim hardshell cases for $99. Was very tempted. Luckily they sold out quickly.
Pretty obvious to spot the scam pages. The web site domain name, lack of capitalization, inconsistent font usage, the strike through of the prices without any sale image/sign.
Did that Gibson 12 string even have a bridge saddle? Looked missing. Dunno. I checked their prices last week - tiny discounts on some stuff. Not even big discounts on accessories that notoriously have high markups. Was really surprised they weren’t selling stuff for cost plus 10-15%.
So, knowing this was a scam, I decided to roll the dice and see what happens. I figured when it became clear it was a scam I could dispute the charge on my credit card. So far, I have been getting regular shipping updates... out of China. I paid 100 bucks for a "Taylor Custom All-Koa". I will update when whatever is being shipped arrives if anyone is interested
Check the weight and size of the package they are sending you. The post office can look this information up if there's a tracking number.
Many scammers will ship a tiny box with crap inside; once you accept the package they claim you received it.
If the weight or package size is way off it's an obvious scam and you can have the postoffice flag it and hold it at the postoffice for you.
Then mark refusal at the post office and you won't have any trouble filing a claim to get your money back.
If the package size and weight look legit and you flag it to be held at the post office you can then open it in the presence of a postal official to document any shady findings inside the box.
I hear ya. $140 is nothing. I can eat & drink that at lunch tomorrow, after tip
It may also be a fake tracking number. I reported to my bank and got my money back from a fake Zippo ad and the tracking number never worked and I never received anything.
You can use virtual card numbers that can't be reused. Provides protection from them trying to make more charges or sell your card info.
@@bebop425 I still like to use Paypal as my first order of defense. That keeps card numbers out of the scammers hands.
I reported an ad to Facebook selling ninety dollar Gibsons. Facebook said it didn’t violate any rules. Obvious scam and they don’t care. Gonna end FB soon.
The chibsons are more than that! 🤣
Fb gets an egregious amount of money for ads
I deleted my account 4 years ago and don’t miss it. F them.
I deleted mine 4 years ago too, but created another just for Marketplace and nothing else.
@@vayabroder729Bad news .....you can't delete Faceberg.... your page still exists
Sam Ash closing sales are a joke. 5% discount and won’t budge on prices. I don’t know why I even wasted my time.
If they were really blowing stuff out and going out of business by a specific deadline, stuff would be reduced to dealer cost. I think they're closing brick and mortar and going 100% online. Their website and name are still worth something.
The store near me in FL was accepting offers on everything from nuts n bolts, ladders, carts , to the signs on the wall .
@@timothymeadows8326Dolphin Mall location in Miami?
@@TheGuitologistright. They aren’t going out of business. Just using the move to online for marketing.
I've been to the NYC store 4 times since they announced the closing.... so far, I bought a pair of sticks, and a drumhead....both were only 5 % off. Each week, the walls becoming more and more bare, but the deep discounts just weren't there. Their website was always just.... blah! Ash family left it that, never updating it, and thinking they shouldn't have to enter that market. Kinda sounds like the Tower Records situation all over again.
Long time ago I was at Montgomwry Wards it was going out of business. I was a kid. The prices were hardly discounted at all. I asked the salesman what was up.
He told me "They will get more money throwing it away with a tax write off."
So true? Back in 1987 I worked at Yamaha(Orange County, Southern California) setting up guitars. There were a ton of Yamaha Pacificas and other models that were being thrown into the industrial "compactor" rather than being fixed. Frets, fretboard etc....
I mean SO TRUE! Not "?" Sorry
People don’t understand tax writeoffs… plus if they sold something for $1 rather than putting it in the dumpster, the store would still “write off” the remaining value, but now they’d have $1 more cash.
What the real story is, is that a third party wholesaler will give them $x for the entire lot, and selling it in a single transaction at a discount is more profitable than paying stores to stay open - employee wages, overhead, rent, etc - and trying to sell the items at a higher price.
Give some to me and I'll fix them up myself
That, and they wanted to bleed the customers, because why not?
Thanks!
No problem!
With prices like that they deserve to go out of business.
You understand that the prices are set by the manufacturers, right? Lol
You must be young and not understand how things work...
@@Jimmy-rd5ig Used prices at a store liquidation are set by the manufacturers? Imagine believing or defending this.
@@resignator Hahaha the devil is in the details. So NOW, AFTER you made your original comment, NOW you are elaborating that you are SPECIFICALLY talking about their used items. I'm glad you aren't a writer. No one would know the point of your book 🤣
@@Jimmy-rd5ig Frothing at the mouth over a quick comment that wasnt as pedantic as you would like. My deepest condolences to you and yours, jackoff.
I hope there's a special place in Hell for scammers.
There is!
It's called Bangladesh
@@joemartina6228 🤣😂😂😂
Yes. Right next to all those that rejected Jesus Christ.
i was just going go post that !
Fakebook is NOT Reputable?! Imagine that...
But, but... I get all my News from Facebook Memes!!!!
But.... But... Their fact checkers tell us the facts. What they say is 100% accurate!
Yeah, right. Suuuure it is. Ol' Zuck laughs all the way to the bank at how many people he's suckered within his social experiment.
Sam Ash in my area was almost completely empty last weekend. Kind of sad times.
I worked in a music store that closed and they will stick it to you for the price right up to and including the last.
I was watching another channel where they were allowed to film inside the store. They mentioned the prices for new was only marked down 5%. Shortly after they said that they were told to shut the camera down. Lawyers probably got involved. Side note, I found a $400 Cordobo with the headstock snapped in a GC Dumpster. Luckily was a clean break. Glued it back together. Nice sounding guitar.
Even legitimate links on Facebook, I leave and go to the actual site to shop. Never through a link.
The world is awash with Scambags!... Trust nobody!
The Sam Ash in my area have the guitars at a 5% discount. Won't even cover the taxes.
Sam Ash put a warning on their website about this scam. Good work Brad!
Thank you for bringing this up. I still currently work at a Sam Ash, and I log about 15-20 calls a day with customers asking if this is legit.
The early days of the Sam Ash close out sale were timid, just 5%, maybe up to 20% off. But I can confirm the FINAL DAYS in NYC were the real deal. 90% off, and even more on the very last day (Yesterday). $200 to $300 top line hard shell genuine brand name guitars cases, $30 to $40.
I bought one. And came back over the last few days, and got even more super sayings. And the staff was very nice, right up to the last hour. Sorry to see them go!
I always love your no bs attitude, there is nothing worse than being lied to!!😎
Damn straight. They refuse to give any deals higher than 15%. They said this site is a scam site and warning people.
The Sam Ash employees lost all ability to make deals when the closing announcement was made 5/2/2024 when control was handed over to a liquidator. Not even the managers can deviate from the prices and discounts set by the liquidator. They've been unable to secure sufficient credit to stay open, so the original plan to only close underperforming stores changed to all stores closing.
The scam ads on FB only make the real Sam Ash look bad. I've reported them but nothing happened except I generally don't see them any more.
Awe man... I thought I was going to buy the whole store.🤣
I reported these ads to FB over and over, probably 30 or more variants of these ads and every report was rejected by Facebook's useless system.
I once listened to a lecture from someone who deals with scammers, and he suggested they’re more sophisticated than you may think and will actually put mistakes into the ads to catch the people who are really vulnerable. So in this example, they don’t want to put the right MSRP in there, because if you know how much the guitar really costs you’re less likely to fall for it and you’ll do your checks. But if you think that Gibson Les Paul is $800 $900, you’re more likely to fall for it being $130 and therefore more interest to the scammer. It’s the same with emails with poor grammar, it’s not an accident. Apparently it’s a tactic that these people use.
First sight of this sight, I figured that this was a scam, no number to call or direct address tells me this is definitely a scam!
I went to the local Sam Ash in Westminster, CA recently to see if there were any deals to be had. Aside from a few really nice acoustics they really weren’t offering much.
Where is hell is the FBI, CIA and homeland security people on these crime?????
To busy selling the cartel lab equipment to manufacture meth and fuel the war on drugs lmao. All of the world is burning in hell. Welcome to the asylum.
CIA? 😆🫵🏽
HOMELAND SECURITY?😆😆🫵🏽🫵🏽🫵🏽
Isn't Fakebook actually RUN by them? I mean, they run the "Dark Web" too.
Too busy going after MAGA supporters...
They're too busy covering for Biden.
I was at my friend's house . He was looking at his e-mail and it had this ad. He was running around looking for his wallet to grab his credit card. I looked at the ad and told him not to do it . He did. I called Sam Ash, and of course, it was a ripoff. He immediately locked his card and called the bank. He got lucky. But had to change his e mail address.
There's not much worse than a thief scumbag, to lazy to work themselves, parasites. Be careful my friends. Great show.
PEACE
In the early 2000's I used to play paintball. Back then there was an auction site listing great prices on gear, but when you looked at the fine print the bid was for a link where to find the item, not the item itself.
Casino Guitar's was live from the Raleigh location until they got shut down. They had a meager 5% off everything.
Casino? Dudes wrecked an upcoming channel when they went after Clapton. Idiots.
Amazon and ETSY both have scam ads. Sellers claim to have items cheap, and then never ship the goods.
Sam Ash closing 42 retail stores in 16 states, we had one in Cleveland, OH. I never
bothered to check out any liquidation sales. I don't see how they can compete
online with Sweetwater
It's not only SamAsh... These scammers are doing JoAnns fabric, Lowes, Gibson, Band t-shirts, etc.
DON'T BUY ANYTHING OFF OF FACEBOOK or any other Meta platform.
Meta is the worst. Just an evil corporation.
I went to the store when this final sale just started and most of their guitars are gone. And I found weird that they only have a 5% off. You are right. I guess they picked up everything and sent them to their warehouse.
I reported one of these fake Sam Ash ads on Facebook also.
I went by the Margate Florida Sam Ash Store and I saw no deals. They say they are doing the 5 % per week discount thing until they sell out. Good Luck !
Thanks Bread.
so many places that have closed down in the past decade or more here in canada, have done the same thing. they have closing sales, and its not really a sale... its the same prices they had before... Canada is kinda bad for that. at least here in alberta.
They would rather let some liquidation company get it for a deal then the little guy…Quebec is just as bad and even Ontario, though they do have slightly more business sense here
@@mohamedtlass3842 ya man! That way they can avoid bankruptcy maybe? I was thinking of a bunch of IGA stores from 10 years ago, and even Zellers closed down. The sales were shit
Scam Ash is absolutely Correct ✅
A couple weeks ago, i read an article that said Sam Ash was going to auction off all of there stock.
Sam Ash sent me the wrong guitar a couple of years ago. I reached out to them to get it resolved and just got the runaround. A few days later I got an angry, somewhat threatening voicemail from none other than Sammy Ash, the owner saying they wouldn’t take the guitar back. Good riddance.
I reported these ads to Facebook because I called sam ash and they told me it was a scam, Facebook come back telling me they didnt remove the ad.
i never had the thought but glad to hear and know you caught this
Every time I encounter a scammer. They are of India decent. Anyone else?
They will always introduce themselves as a Bill or John Smith or some made up American name. 😆
If it’s a scam 90 percent chance they are Indian
Yep, because the Nigerians aren't smart enough for this type of scam.
India and Nigeria are the low hanging fruit. Russia and China are more sophisticated. They'll just straight up hack you instead of just fooling you.
Don't count out the Nigerians!
800.7 is not a price you will ever see on any American website!
That's such a shame! With all this family is going through already! The CEO, one of the Ash's, sent Phil a note that he shared saying how hard it is after all these years. When he said he was happy it happened now, after Sammy Sr. had passed so he never had to know about it, my eye leaked a little. This was the last big Mom and Pop music store in the country to go down. That's really sad! Thanks for pointing out the scam Brad!! Your so right, 8 something for a new LP?? Crazy!! Peace --gary
I checked my SA out recently...the closure prices are really for those who are not in the know....people who don't know what a deal is.
Still waiting on my $250 Bowling Shoes for $50 and let's not even talk about the 6x6 Lego tow truck😢
I'm still waiting for my kevlar satin FJB table cloth & napkins . In red. 😆🫵🏽
I reported it TWICE!
I guess ripping people off doesn’t violate FB community standards.
Last year, I bought a cheap item off FB. I didn’t get anything like what I ordered, and my bank reversed the charge. It was only like 19 bucks.
Don’t ever, ever, buy anything via FB.
These outlets typically will already have pro liquidators that have already pretty much made a bid on everything that is worth taking risks on. It would be a better average return selling it off in bulk to a liquidator, than paying all of the ad and handling costs. That's why you only really find the more budget grade or unpopular products when the prices finally drop on the last 2-3 days. You know there is no way there was a mad rush that just happened to clear out all of the top grade products just in time at barely discounted prices.
It’s ridiculous that some clowns can slap all that together… but you hire pro web people to build you a corporate site, and months and 30k later, they barely have anything done.
LOL everyone is fucked today. Insane world.
When I went on to Sam Ash there were no real deals on anything except the outdated electronics no one wanted.
I'm glad you put this up I've been shopping Sam Ash since the 70's, I saw the scam website and had sense enough to call my local store in Carle Place NY and then i did a google search and found your video. Like you said no real savings on the actual site
Even at Bankruptcy they still want to gauge you, on the real website
Gauge...? Surely you mean gouge? 🤔
@@delakota555 but its promounced, GA not GO, surley they spelled the word wrong in the dictionary? the other word should be spelled gayge no? hmmm whos in charge of the dictionary? did we vote for them?
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@@mikejones-vd3fg wut? Gouge and Gauge are both real words, and OP's comment very likely auto-corrected Gouge to Gauge.
@@nebben01 eh...? How would autocorrect correct 'gouge' to 'gauge' when you have just stated that they are both 'real words' which would be found in any English dictionary. Try it...
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I saw that ad on FB. $129 for a Gibson Les Paul. I thought oh hell no. I went to real Sam Ash website and the MSRP on same guitar was $2999. Hilarious. These scammers are idiots. No one is going to believe those prices. They will send you a guitar that is a 3 inch Les Paul replica.
This is the liquidator, not Sam Ash.
The days of good deals when a company goes out of business ended years ago.
100% this. The liquidation firm now controls the daily operations of Sam Ash locations. Discounts will increase over time. This is how it’s done.
imagine still using failbook in 2024, knowing they steal all of your information
They don’t get much from me.
I just saw a Facebook ad on this Sam Ash going out of business. Yea, take everything you see with a grain of salt. Stay vigilant.
I was in Vegas a few weeks ago and went to Sam Ash and all their “deals” were far from what I’d consider a deal. I was in Nashville Friday and drove by Sam Ash but didn’t even stop. I may be cynical but I just don’t think their “deals” are gonna be any better. BTW, I hope your friends around Dawson Springs are all safe! Those storms rolled through here last night but we didn’t get it near as bad as they did to the east.
It won’t arrive. They’ll send notice that it had been delivered, and tell you to contact your local post office. PayPal is complicit in this scam also.
those prices are terrible. when's the real closeout?
And the very sad part is you can report this ad to Facebook over and over and over and they won’t do a damn thing about it…. People can get scammed out of money and report this to Facebook and you will eventually get a Facebook response of no action taken as this quote does not violate Facebook community standards”
Please document all of this with screenshots.
Got push back from FB for reporting the ads. So I reported the scam to Gibson. 😁
That's called a phishing scam. There's an old saying "if it's too good to be true, it probably is". If you get taken it's your fault . Greed speaks and they know you are greedy.
Bought a set of Fishman Fluence Classic hums off Reverb through Sam Ash, claiming they were closing stores. Got a hell of a deal. Bought them, then the next morning got an email and an instant refund saying they hadn't updated their inventory and they were actually out of stock. Then they still had it listed for sale. 🤔 But I did get a refund, and then I made an offer to another company selling some, and got an equally good deal as the Scam Ash deal I was supposed to be getting. Oh well, I won't be shopping with Scam Ash after that. That was my first and last shopping experience with them.
I saw that yesterday as well. It was screaming "fake".
I can’t access Marketplace. Happened today . Said it was possibly because I live in a country where marketplace isn’t allowed , I’m not of age , ect .. none of which is true . Even the icon disappeared
this scam keeps showing up on Facebook. I reported it as a scam but it keeps showing up
Sam Ash in Columbus closed, but, it was always a poorly run store
It's rare to get a great deal on something like a guitar. Best deal I got from a closing music store was a guitar stand for $14.99, originally $24.99, I still have and use the stand 20+ years later.
I figured a Mexican Strat could be marked down to $130. It took five minutes with my credit card company to reverse the charge.
I think most the actual deals are going to be in store only. It’s also a process over a period of time while they get rid of inventory-they aren’t drastically reducing prices right away but I’m sure they will the closer it actually gets to them closing. They’re only starting out like 5% off then probably that will slowly increase over time. I bet by the time it gets to their final week will be the only time you might see heavy discounts like 40-50% off & by that time I’m sure all their good inventory will already be long gone.
Fixtures and signs: I’d expect the employees who are losing their jobs would take first dibs on any non-inventory items that they could load up their car and sell on Craigslist, etc - but it wouldn’t hurt to ask the store.
As for the scam ads - they PAY Facebook to place those ads. Facebook is full of them. If they kicked out all the scam ads, their ad revenue would tank!
I fell for it the first time.
Now I warn people that it's a scam.
I learned my lesson about purchasing from ads on FB thankfully the easy way. Ordered a baseball jersey for like $29 bucks and got something not worth $5, of course from China. Thanks Brad, because I could have assumed that site was Sam Ash, but I will admit the prices, even for a going out of business sale, would have had me scratching my head. A little higher and I could have fallen for it.
I went to the one in Dallas yesterday. Everything was marked down 90%………to full retail lol
I dont see any real DEALS on their entire website. Even DJ gear is overpriced. And also, they NOW have a fake website warning on their homepage!!
Ive been keeping an eye on this. Nothing looks like its selling at all lol.
The old saying “If it sounds too good to be true it probably is”!
I did a big "Yea' No"! A $2100.00 guitar for $150.00. I feel bad for anyone who falls for this.
On the flip side, big tech tells us not to trust any phone calls or web help from India or Pakistan. ....but all the tech support for cell phone companies and computer systems are "farmed" out over there. Oh the irony!
Saw this ad and figured it was a scam but couldn't find a way to confirm other than common sense and knowing prices of equipment and checking prices on reputable sites.
We got furniture stores and others that use the going out of business banners but years go by and there still going out of business, funny how that can work sometimes.
I'd be interested in the whereabout the fixtures are going
If they offered prices like that the employees would snatch it up.
Sam Ash knows the value of the gear. When all is done and they are done trying to milk what they can out of us through this non-event, some investor will come along and buy it all up in a single big purchase.
Went to sam ash in phoenix last week: only michael kelly guitars and a couple used amps... store looks like it was looted, nothing of interest or value there.
I almost bought the yellow drum set but I noticed everything at $129 I was like nah! looks suspicious so I went to the store and was more than half empty and the prices were normal, some things like 10-15% off like cables, straps, strings things like that, we asked a guy about the website and said it was a scam, ended up buying two straps and a guitar cable, each 15% off
Thanks... I saw this this morning and knew right away something was WAY off on that shit site. It's like they didn't even try. $129 for anything and everything! 😂🤣😂😂
I'll check out my local store to see what I can get. I think online wouldn't show any deals due to the minimum they can advertise. I'll report back if I find anything good. Fixtures, etc. would be nice
I report ads like this once or twice a month from different sources. FB doesn't care as long as they are getting revenue from it somehow.
Weird how they've had almost non-existent Internet presence for the past 20years until this. Ive been having a feeling that its for marketing exposure for a minute now too
I knew something wasn't right about this ad.Thats how I found your video. They are now being advertised for $47.98. 🤦🏽♂️
Ive been seeing these on FACEBOOK. When I do see them I report them as scams!
Thanks, man. They are announcing it on the official site now. Cool.
I was looking for a gig bag for a super budget bass I bought. They didn't have any but the "discounts" that they had on the instruments were a joke. 5% off retail. GTFO.
Sam Ash isn’t going out of business. They are closing most of the stores and switching to online sales. Their website has always been behind competitors like Sweetwater.
Pretty sure you needed to pick specific store to shop by selecting a location. You didn’t select a store.
It would be great if Sam Ash filed a lawsuit against Facebook for allowing the ad to be posted.
Teresa Jones is the scammer. other stores will take the guitars or buy them and hold them. Makes since to not kill the Market by selling to cheap, to people when companies may but them sit on them.
No they won’t. The prices aren’t lower than dealer cost.
@@TheGuitologistthey may do a bulk buyout for a deal that the public wouldn’t hear about
Haven't had a deal at Sam's Ass since 2003, and that was from a guy named Butter
When Mars Music went out of business, I got a bunch of store brand stuff for super low prices. Same when MF took over WWBW and grr… there was another business they took over. The store brand items that MF couldn’t sell were clearanced out on WWBW (or whatever site it was…), and the other stuff was just merged with MF inventory.
Not seeing Sam Ash clear much out, except they did have one brand near half price. That might have been a store brand. Wasn’t priced cheap enough to roll the dice on though. Meanwhile Fender just had a direct sale on some items for 30-60% off. They had Fender (G&G) x Levi denim hardshell cases for $99. Was very tempted. Luckily they sold out quickly.
Pretty obvious to spot the scam pages. The web site domain name, lack of capitalization, inconsistent font usage, the strike through of the prices without any sale image/sign.
Did that Gibson 12 string even have a bridge saddle? Looked missing. Dunno.
I checked their prices last week - tiny discounts on some stuff. Not even big discounts on accessories that notoriously have high markups. Was really surprised they weren’t selling stuff for cost plus 10-15%.