Marion Music

I have not dealt with the music store sales staff as others leaving reviews; but rather I brought my guitar to Pat, the guitar luthier who does work for them. One of the most down to earth guitar techs I have ever had the pleasure of meeting with VERY reasonable prices! He replaced the stock pick ups in my coveted Paul Stanley mirrored iceman guitar with aftermarket Seymour Duncan's as well as performed a set up with only a 3 day turn around time. Highly recommended whether one desires a simple set up or custom guitar work.\r more

""Guy P"", where do I begin? Start with you are NOT going to see ""an empty store and the owner on the street."" Marion Music has had an excellent reputation since it opened in 1985, and my mother and I have known Bruce Marion since then. My mom was organist at Palm Bay UMC for over 25 years, and Bruce came to her funeral. I didn't even know that till I went into the store a year later. He is that nice and unassuming. Everyone compares their stuff to prices they see on ebay, and FYI, these are the ASKING prices, not the prices they actually sold for. Bruce hardly is running a ""pawn shop."" Ever try selling musical instruments on your own? Get to know what getting hosed REALLY is! People want you to give your guitars and pianos away. Face it, in this economy there are more sellers than buyers for musical instruments. Mr. Marion's consighnment of your musical instruments is an opportunity for every musician in the area to see your guitars or whatever, AND compare them to what else is selling by others. Wanna try selling your stuff on eBay or Craig's List? More power to you. Bruce Marion, the owner you speak of, is NO THIEF. BTW next time you post, try writing in English. Your ""review"" is one long sentence and an incoherent rant. If you have a beef, write it up on a word processing program, spell and grammar check it, clean it up, and then think about posting it. Nobody takes your kind of post seriously. Yes, you can call my review a Recommendation.\r more

These guys have a pawn shop there basically they want your guitars and your money and if you dont know your guitars they will screw you in a second. I took 1900 dollars worth of guitars and the prices are what they are selling for on ebay not trying to sell but sold on ebay for 1000 and 900 for the other they told me they would do a trade they told me their guitar was a custom shop and it wasnt spo it was worth maybe 800 bucks. Then the owner told me that my guitars werent enough and that I had to come up with 700 dollars on top of the guitars so he tried to steal around 1200 dollars from me and If I would have been a mom buying for her son or a dad that doesnt know or grandparents shopping for their grandson will get ripped off because they dont know any better. Its a shame that there are people in the world like that I took to much knowing that they have to make a living but it wasnt enough even though it was a over a thousand dollars to much. Please avoid this place I want to go there in a couple of weeks and see an empty store and the owner on the street . more