snarf.rocks
thoughts and musings from the mind of snarf
  • Snarf.Rocks
  • About Snarf
    • Snarf's Gear
  • Snarf's Blog
  • Contact Snarf

12/9/2022

my Annual Raffle Ticket

0 Comments

Read Now
 
Last week was the day to try to get in on the annual Premier Guitar Mystery Stocking. I've tried to get in on it every year since I first heard them say they were doing it. Some years have been better than others, but this year is the first year I can honestly say that I've been disappointed in it. In fact, not only am I disappointed in what I got, I really feel like PG phoned it in on this one.

Over the years, I feel like I've been a pretty loud voice in my circles reminding folks that PG doesn't promise them anything other than the fact that, if you get one, you're going to get $xx amount of stuff. They never say it's going to be good stuff. They never say it's going to be stuff that you're going to use. They never say it's going to be stuff that you'll like. They just say that, if you'll give them $40 (this year's price), then they'll give you at least $40 worth of stuff. That's all they say. And every year, including this year, that's what they do.

The very first year they did the Mystery Stocking, I actually got a pedal. I don't remember which one...a distortion of some sort that I've long since sold to get something else. That was super cool! And that is also why I continue to buy one every year. Every year since, I've gotten the standard box. That includes this year. At least I think I got the standard box this year. I may've actually gotten the "what do we have left after all the other boxes have been sent out" box this year. If I didn't, and this is indeed the standard box, they just think they've had folks complain about the box contents in years past.

Here's what I got:
  • Fender Neon Monogram Strap. Yes, that's your standard Fender strap with the Fender logo all over it. Third year in a row that I've gotten one of these in my box. Retail price: $17 at Sweetwater
  • D'Addario Auto Lock Strap. This is a strap I haven't seen before. I'm sure that it's not going to take the place of my nice wide Lakota Leather strap, but I might toss it in my gig bag in case I need a backup strap. I like the idea of it. I use those beer washers on the outside of my strap as a strap lock. This strap doesn't use the washers, but has a mechanism on the ends that is kind of the same concept. Retail price: $30 at Sweetwater
  • Epiphone Guitar Picks (heavy). I spent way too long on my pick journey to finally find what I use. These are regular celluloid picks. Not what I use. These will go in my giveaway box and I'm sure I'll end up giving them to somebody. Retail price: $5 - I only found them on the Epi website.
  • Gibson Brite Wire Nickel Plated Strings (9s). I don't use 9s, and I have a bunch of sets of what I do use in the closet, so these will go in the giveaway box that I take when I'm playing with friends. The deal is, if it's in there and they want it, they can have it. Retail price: $10 - I couldn't find this specific set of strings anywhere online, so I just kind of threw out an arbitrary price in the range of the other Gibson strings.
  • Reverb Sticker. They included a Reverb sticker that I haven't actually seen before. Retail price: $0 - It's a sticker so I'm going to call it a gimme.

So this year, in the box, I got about $62 worth of stuff. I might use the D'Addario strap. I have several Epiphones (and really like them), so I might keep a couple of the Epi picks just because I don't have any picks that say Epiphone on them. Everything else will go in the giveaway box.

PG promised $40 worth of stuff. The dollar value of what I got was right at $60. So why did I say up at the beginning that they phoned it in this year? Why did I say that, if this was the standard box, more people were going to complain this year than have done so in the past? Simple. Two guitar straps. Did they have so little stuff this year from which to choose that they couldn't put a strap and something else in every box?

Or maybe I'm just a little salty because this is the third year in a row that I've gotten one of those standard Fender straps.  No, I don't think that's it. I'm just disappointed that they stuck two straps in the same box. That just seems lazy to me.

So now the question I always conclude with. Will I do it again next year?

Absolutely I will! If they do it again and I am able to get my name on one of them, I still think they're a lot of fun. Like I said, that first year I got a pedal out of it. I also know a guy on a forum I'm on that got a guitar from it 4 or 5 years ago. So I know that they really are giving away the good stuff too. This year, even though I'm disappointed in the box I got, PG still did what they said they were going to do. I gave them $40, and they sent me at least $40 worth of stuff.

At least $40 worth of stuff for $40. That was the agreement. They never said that I would like what that $40 worth of stuff was. They just said they'd send me stuff in a box. Disappointed this year, but I can't wait til next December to do it again.

Share

0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

Details

    Author

    Snarf is a wannabe musician who currently resides in the great state of Texas.  His wife is his favorite.  He believes chocolate milk made from milk that is anything less than whole milk is basically water and deserves to be dumped down the sink so nobody has to suffer through it.  He hates having to shop for clothes. But he has a thing for really cool bags, and, consequently, has more gig bags than guitars and a closet full of messenger bags and backpacks.  He still misses his dog who was taken by cancer 5 years ago.  Check out his Reverb shop and see if he has any gear he's trying to get rid of.  

    Archives

    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    April 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    September 2021
    July 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    May 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    November 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018

    Categories

    All
    50s Les Paul
    ABY Switch
    Acoustic
    Acoustikar
    Affordaboard
    American Design Experience
    Astronomy
    Axle Grease Delay
    Backpacks
    Back Packs
    BGU
    Bigsby
    Blues
    Blues Breaker
    Blues Guitar
    Blues Guitar Unleashed
    Boss
    Boss Pedals
    Caline
    Capo
    Cork Sniffer
    Creme Brulee
    CruzTools
    Dallas Guitar Show
    Danelectro
    Daypacks
    DIY Guitar
    Dumble Amps
    Effects Pedals
    EHX
    Electric Guitar
    Epiphone
    ES 335
    ES 339
    ES-339
    Fender
    Fender Stratocaster
    Filtertron
    Fort Richardson State Park
    Franken'Tron
    GarageTone
    Gator Gig Bags
    Gator Guitar Case
    Gibson
    Gig Bags
    Greasy Groove
    Gretsch
    Gretsch 5120
    Griff Hamlin
    Griff Hamlin's Blues Guitar Unleashed
    Guitar
    Guitar Cases
    Guitar MultiTool
    GuitarSetup
    Highway One
    Hiking
    Hiking Adventures
    Horseman
    Hwy 1
    Hybrid Guitar Case
    Ibanez Guitar Case
    Incase Gig Bags
    Inspired By Gibson
    Klon
    Klone
    KTR
    Lake Jacksboro
    Lakota Leathers
    Learning
    Les Paul
    Looper
    Mono Gig Bags
    Mooer
    Morning Star
    Multi Effects
    Mustang Floor
    Not Guitar Related
    NuX
    Outdoor Products
    OwnTheTone
    Parker Gig Bags
    Patio Gardening
    Pedalboard
    Pegasus
    Play What Makes You Happy
    Polyfoam Guitar Case
    Probag
    Probag Gig Bag
    Probag Gig Bags
    RC 20xl
    RC-20xl
    Reunion Blues Gig Bags
    Route 66
    Saddleback Leather
    Sonicake
    SoulFood
    Spinning Speaker
    Splattercaster
    Splatter Strat
    Strat
    Stratocaster
    TC Electronics
    Teton Sports
    Texas State Parks
    They're Not Investments
    Tone Bakery
    Tone Snobbery
    Tools
    Totally My Opinion
    Travelite Case
    Tru Arc Bridges
    Tru-Arc Bridges
    TrueTone
    TS9
    TU2 Tuner
    Tube Screamer
    Tumnus
    TwiggyBlues
    Valvetronix
    Visual Sound
    Wampler
    WhatsInYourGigBag
    YMMV

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Snarf.Rocks
  • About Snarf
    • Snarf's Gear
  • Snarf's Blog
  • Contact Snarf