Bass Centre

[theosd]

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='61722' date='Sep 17 2007, 03:42 PM']Don't want to be pedantic, but there's a bit of completely understandable confusion here.

The Bass Centre is the one in E1 (sometimes called Wapping). The shop in Denmark Street is The Bass Cellar.

Almost inevitably, much of The Bass Centre is in the cellar, while none of The Bass Cellar is in a cellar.

Still with me? Good.

Anyway, they're equally rude ...[/quote]

Fair point!

[Oldhand]

I have visited the Bass Centre three times in the last year. The first time around, they told me they could order-in a Roscoe bass on my behalf. I gave them the details of what I wanted - they never rung me back. The second time I visited, they roundly ignored me for about 20 minutes, whilst the "assistant" behind the counter held a 20-minute conversation with what appeared to be a friend of his. I clearly don't learn from my mistakes, because I tried for a third time about two weeks ago. I expressed interest in a particular bass and asked to try it (it was new). After trying to get it to work, the assistant realised there was no battery in the bass and asked me to wait whilst "our guy upstairs" fitrted one. 15 minutes later, I walked out of the shop and vowed never to return. I have been a bass-player for 30 years, and I have never been treated with so much contempt by a retailer. I completely fail to understand how these people are still in business. I would urge anyone to think twice before trying to shop there.

[bassbloke]

They're still in business because the British public still cannot grasp the concept of voting with it's feet. We're renowned for tolerating long queues, crap food, dirty expensive trains and being kept on hold for 15 minutes by our telephone or cable company because they've screwed up our online bill.

[Sean]

[quote name='bassbloke' post='63644' date='Sep 21 2007, 02:59 PM']They're still in business because the British public still cannot grasp the concept of voting with it's feet. We're renowned for tolerating long queues, crap food, dirty expensive trains and being kept on hold for 15 minutes by our telephone or cable company because they've screwed up our online bill.[/quote]

Hurrah! Couldn't agree more. This is exactly the reason I shop at Waitrose now and have abandoned Tesco. Vintage English Perry 8% ABV at £1.49 had nothing to do with it! Seriously though, get yourself down to Waitrose and ask to be shown to something you can't find, or ask to taste something on the deli counter before you buy, it makes you feel valued as a customer - what a feeling! Why can't I be made to feel the same way when I buy £1000 worth of bass as I do when I buy £30 worth of groceries?

I bet the olive counter in Bass Centre is rubbish too!