Talk:Musician's Friend

Advert?
Another case of a company using Wikipedia to advertise. Makes me sick. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.113.215.5 (talk)


 * Chroniss\ I wanted information on it, and this gave it...so I dont see what the issue is, fulfilling Wiki's purpose is it not?
 * No I agree with the first poster; this article was either written by someone affiliated with the company or was ripped from a press release. I'm rewording the POV content now. Hesper ides  20:30, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
 * And in addition to that, the article didn't follow Wiki guidelines (e.g. Musician's Friend was bold in every paragraph...further evidence someone's been using this page as a marketing ploy). Hesper ides  20:36, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I have removed all external links for each subsidiary of the company, and have left only the official site, which, of course, is commercial. -- Alucard (Dr.) | Talk 17:37, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Conflict of Interest
Does it pique anyone's interest that one of the largest sites on the internet for independent gear reviews (Harmony Central) is actually essentially "owned" by Gibson Guitars? Guitar Center owns Harmony Central and Gibson "owns" Guitar Center, in the sense that they (with proper economic incentive, I'm sure) recently refused to allow their guitars to be sold anywhere else. Might be worth mentioning. Bullzeye Complaint Dept./Contribs) 17:32, 19 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Actually, that's incorrect. Gibson does not own Guitar Center, and Gibson guitars are sold many places other than Guitar Center and it's sister companies (check out zzounds, for example). 146.82.13.124 23:39, 16 September 2007 (UTC)Henry


 * Ok if put my business on Wikipedia which does the same thing as these guys mine gets deleted. I say this should get deleted too. —Preceding unsigned comment added by ErikHamm (talk • contribs) 20:34, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Corporate Restructuring
This wiki is a bit out of date it seems. Two major points of change are lacking. For one, Guitar Center was bought by Bain Capital last year for about $2billion (don't quote me on that). That made Guitar Center AND Musician's Friend go from being a public company to a private company. Huge change. Secondly, Rob Eastman has announced his retirement and Craig Johnson will become the new CEO on 1/1/2009, with Rob having a 3-year chair on the board as an advisor before officially retiring. Another huge change.

I would love to see some paragraphs about the Bain acquisition and transition period between going private, the 5-year plan, and the presumed plan to go public again. -- feelie75 (talk) 09:24, 8 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your suggestion. When you believe an article needs improvement, please feel free to make those changes. Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit almost any article by simply following the  link at the top. The Wikipedia community encourages you to be bold in updating pages. Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes—they're likely to be found and corrected quickly. If you're not sure how editing works, check out how to edit a page, or use the sandbox to try out your editing skills.  New contributors are always welcome. You don't even need to log in (although there are many reasons why you might want to). Katr67 (talk) 03:26, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Competitors?
One thing I've noticed about many corporate/retail entries in Wikipedia is a brief listing or mention of the company's chief competitors. I wouldn't even no where where to start with this entry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.23.28.10 (talk) 03:05, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

Merge - poor decision
It's a shame that this article was deleted. This company, before ever having been acquired by Guitar Center, was still noteworthy, as were Music & Arts, Music 123, and Woodwind & Brasswind. Simply rolling these all together into a Guitar Center article because they were acquired really dilutes their individual places in the overall history of music instrument retailing. Granted, the articles need to be legitimate on their own, relevant, referenced, objective, etc., but they still deserve to be articles. synthfiend (talk) 01:14, 9 August 2011 (UTC)