Monoprice Reviews

"I ordered the bass guitar on Feb 7th. It arrived on Feb 10th. Packaging on the guitar was poor. Only thin cardboard with gig bag and absolutely no padding. Mine arrived with cardboard ripped open but the guitar appeared ok.\r\nOnly ONE color was available online. It was a Jamm Flamed Maple guitar. This is my first guitar. Mono price offers a learning course which is a joke a few free lessons then you have to pay which I don't plan to use after looking further into it. I purchased some books instead. When it arrived, it was the wrong color (Charcoal) or nearly all black. I would have perhaps taken a price reduction instead of sending it back, but they didn't offer that to me, and upon further investigation, the E string 13th or 14th fret was not right. When placing finger on fret it would fret out also the fret near it making an irritating buzzing sound. All the strings were way loose (out of tune). Not a big deal since I purchased a $ 5.00 tuner from them which worked great. I liked having the choice of 2 pickups and 2 knobs for volume and 1 for tone. However, a switch to toggle between them would have been nice also. The return process was a bit of a hassle. Many automated emails with instructions followed by the customer service rep emailing you something different. Automated email said I had to take the guitar with return label to the FED EX. Why should I? Then shortly after received an email from representative asking what time would work for a pickup (that's more like it). Not a huge deal but not \"personalized\" service by any means. Now I will have to take a day off work for the Fed Ex Drop off and wait for the replacement. The guitar was sent back on February 16 I received an email on Feb 23rd stating that I would receive a replacement. I received the replacement on February 27. AGAIN! The wrong color (charcoal) guitar. I contacted Customer service who said they would contact the management team and they would give me 15% off on my next order. I never received a response from management team. Also the 2nd time I returned the merchandise they kept asking for photo after photo of my purchase. Very annoying. I am sending it back not stealing it! Today is March 5. I will return this guitar once again and NO I won't be buying another. I left a review and it was never posted so that tells me they only post reviews that they want the public to see. Not the truth. Also the lady C.S. Was from Manilla and when I wanted to rake her over the coals for such horrible service for 2nd return I never received an email asking me to rate customer service. I purchased a guitar from Sweetwater was very happy. Monoprice has Terrible Customer service and not recommended."