I was shopping in the one of the local malls when I happened to discover it. It horrified me. It sickened me. It made me want to run to the nearest employee and start screaming. The store was F Y E, a record store which just happened to have a few beginner's guitars for sale. There was nothing exciting about them, they were just cheap things. It is the steps that the store's management took to prevent the theft of the display models (Lordie, I sure hope that they were just display models!) that REALLY got me fuming. Did they display them in a high place, out of reach of sticky fingers? NO! Did they display them in a locked case? NO again! What the IDIOTS did to prevent their theft was to remove all of the strings!!! Do they not realize that by doing this they have destroyed a perfectly good instrument?! Were these guitars ever to be restrung, the sudden tension would snap the brige right off! This is a lesson that I learned very painfully back in my days as a beginner. If the folks running the store know nothing about guitars, which is obviously the fact, then they should not be selling them!
OK...rant finished....
