SAM ASH CLOSEOUT SCAM! ...Don't Be a VICTIM!!! 

So, knowing this was a scam, I decided to roll the dice and see what happens. I figured when it became clear it was a scam I could dispute the charge on my credit card. So far, I have been getting regular shipping updates... out of China. I paid 100 bucks for a "Taylor Custom All-Koa". I will update when whatever is being shipped arrives if anyone is interested

I reported an ad to Facebook selling ninety dollar Gibsons. Facebook said it didn’t violate any rules. Obvious scam and they don’t care. Gonna end FB soon.

Sam Ash closing sales are a joke. 5% discount and won’t budge on prices. I don’t know why I even wasted my time.

I hope there's a special place in Hell for scammers.

With prices like that they deserve to go out of business.

Long time ago I was at Montgomwry Wards it was going out of business. I was a kid. The prices were hardly discounted at all. I asked the salesman what was up. He told me "They will get more money throwing it away with a tax write off."

Fakebook is NOT Reputable?! Imagine that...

I worked in a music store that closed and they will stick it to you for the price right up to and including the last.

Sam Ash in my area was almost completely empty last weekend. Kind of sad times.

I was watching another channel where they were allowed to film inside the store. They mentioned the prices for new was only marked down 5%. Shortly after they said that they were told to shut the camera down. Lawyers probably got involved. Side note, I found a $400 Cordobo with the headstock snapped in a GC Dumpster. Luckily was a clean break. Glued it back together. Nice sounding guitar.

Awe man... I thought I was going to buy the whole store.🤣

I always love your no bs attitude, there is nothing worse than being lied to!!😎

The world is awash with Scambags!... Trust nobody!

Sam Ash put a warning on their website about this scam. Good work Brad!

Even legitimate links on Facebook, I leave and go to the actual site to shop. Never through a link.

i never had the thought but glad to hear and know you caught this

Damn straight. They refuse to give any deals higher than 15%. They said this site is a scam site and warning people.

In the early 2000's I used to play paintball. Back then there was an auction site listing great prices on gear, but when you looked at the fine print the bid was for a link where to find the item, not the item itself.

The Sam Ash in my area have the guitars at a 5% discount. Won't even cover the taxes.

I'm glad you put this up I've been shopping Sam Ash since the 70's, I saw the scam website and had sense enough to call my local store in Carle Place NY and then i did a google search and found your video. Like you said no real savings on the actual site

Thank you for bringing this up. I still currently work at a Sam Ash, and I log about 15-20 calls a day with customers asking if this is legit.

First sight of this sight, I figured that this was a scam, no number to call or direct address tells me this is definitely a scam!

Stay awesome, my dude. Love and liberty!

Thanks Brad 👍🇺🇸

The early days of the Sam Ash close out sale were timid, just 5%, maybe up to 20% off. But I can confirm the FINAL DAYS in NYC were the real deal. 90% off, and even more on the very last day (Yesterday). $200 to $300 top line hard shell genuine brand name guitars cases, $30 to $40. I bought one. And came back over the last few days, and got even more super sayings. And the staff was very nice, right up to the last hour. Sorry to see them go!

Where is hell is the FBI, CIA and homeland security people on these crime?????

Casino Guitar's was live from the Raleigh location until they got shut down. They had a meager 5% off everything.

Still waiting on my $250 Bowling Shoes for $50 and let's not even talk about the 6x6 Lego tow truck😢

Thank You Sir .

I went by the Margate Florida Sam Ash Store and I saw no deals. They say they are doing the 5 % per week discount thing until they sell out. Good Luck ! Thanks Bread.

Thanks for the heads up. I was going to buy something from the website out of excitement but thankfully i held out. It did seem weird that all those high end guitars were going for so cheap...

Every time I encounter a scammer. They are of India decent. Anyone else?

I reported these ads to FB over and over, probably 30 or more variants of these ads and every report was rejected by Facebook's useless system.

A couple weeks ago, i read an article that said Sam Ash was going to auction off all of there stock.

The old saying “If it sounds too good to be true it probably is”!

Thanks, man. They are announcing it on the official site now. Cool.

That's such a shame! With all this family is going through already! The CEO, one of the Ash's, sent Phil a note that he shared saying how hard it is after all these years. When he said he was happy it happened now, after Sammy Sr. had passed so he never had to know about it, my eye leaked a little. This was the last big Mom and Pop music store in the country to go down. That's really sad! Thanks for pointing out the scam Brad!! Your so right, 8 something for a new LP?? Crazy!! Peace --gary

Thanks!

this is a great public service video. Thank you. It, once again, proves the old adage, If it’s too good to be true, it typically is

Got push back from FB for reporting the ads. So I reported the scam to Gibson. 😁

Amazon and ETSY both have scam ads. Sellers claim to have items cheap, and then never ship the goods.

I went to the local Sam Ash in Westminster, CA recently to see if there were any deals to be had. Aside from a few really nice acoustics they really weren’t offering much.

I reported these ads to Facebook because I called sam ash and they told me it was a scam, Facebook come back telling me they didnt remove the ad.

Been watching your videos for quite a while and just now found out you also live in Louisville. Small world

I think most the actual deals are going to be in store only. It’s also a process over a period of time while they get rid of inventory-they aren’t drastically reducing prices right away but I’m sure they will the closer it actually gets to them closing. They’re only starting out like 5% off then probably that will slowly increase over time. I bet by the time it gets to their final week will be the only time you might see heavy discounts like 40-50% off & by that time I’m sure all their good inventory will already be long gone.

The King of Prussia and Philly stores had there last day today. I didn’t go. I just bought the Kramer Lzzy Hale sig Voyager. I’m tapped! 😀

I reported one of these fake Sam Ash ads on Facebook also.

I fell for it last night. Fortunately, the connection with PayPal was questionable so I backed out. So glad I did…….✌🏼

I can’t access Marketplace. Happened today . Said it was possibly because I live in a country where marketplace isn’t allowed , I’m not of age , ect .. none of which is true . Even the icon disappeared

I'd be interested in the whereabout the fixtures are going

I just saw a Facebook ad on this Sam Ash going out of business. Yea, take everything you see with a grain of salt. Stay vigilant.

We got furniture stores and others that use the going out of business banners but years go by and there still going out of business, funny how that can work sometimes.

Ive been keeping an eye on this. Nothing looks like its selling at all lol.

I went to the store when this final sale just started and most of their guitars are gone. And I found weird that they only have a 5% off. You are right. I guess they picked up everything and sent them to their warehouse.

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Reminds me of the add on the back of comic books in the 70's selling a submarine .

Thanks... I saw this this morning and knew right away something was WAY off on that shit site. It's like they didn't even try. $129 for anything and everything! 😂🤣😂😂

I went to the one in Dallas yesterday. Everything was marked down 90%………to full retail lol

I saw that yesterday as well. It was screaming "fake".

I was at my friend's house . He was looking at his e-mail and it had this ad. He was running around looking for his wallet to grab his credit card. I looked at the ad and told him not to do it . He did. I called Sam Ash, and of course, it was a ripoff. He immediately locked his card and called the bank. He got lucky. But had to change his e mail address. There's not much worse than a thief scumbag, to lazy to work themselves, parasites. Be careful my friends. Great show. PEACE

This is the liquidator, not Sam Ash. The days of good deals when a company goes out of business ended years ago.

I knew something wasn't right about this ad.Thats how I found your video. They are now being advertised for $47.98. 🤦🏽‍♂️

Did that Gibson 12 string even have a bridge saddle? Looked missing. Dunno. I checked their prices last week - tiny discounts on some stuff. Not even big discounts on accessories that notoriously have high markups. Was really surprised they weren’t selling stuff for cost plus 10-15%.

just a amp question , Krank amps gave a bad reputation as lifleless amps , is that because they have 2 x 100 uf in the power supply ?

I just seen this today on FB.

Crappy deals and no way am I buying anything on their website unless it’s a steep discount.

I learned my lesson about purchasing from ads on FB thankfully the easy way. Ordered a baseball jersey for like $29 bucks and got something not worth $5, of course from China. Thanks Brad, because I could have assumed that site was Sam Ash, but I will admit the prices, even for a going out of business sale, would have had me scratching my head. A little higher and I could have fallen for it.

When I went on to Sam Ash there were no real deals on anything except the outdated electronics no one wanted.

I bought my 1st Ibanez AS-50 Semi Hollowbody used at Sam Ash in NYC in the 1980's and it was awesome!

Appreciated

Great public service, let everybody know. Having someone from Sam Ash on the channel would be cool.

I knew it was a scam when I saw Gibson Les Paul ads going for 70% off lol!

Time to do some dumpster diving at Sam Ash 🤘🤘

These outlets typically will already have pro liquidators that have already pretty much made a bid on everything that is worth taking risks on. It would be a better average return selling it off in bulk to a liquidator, than paying all of the ad and handling costs. That's why you only really find the more budget grade or unpopular products when the prices finally drop on the last 2-3 days. You know there is no way there was a mad rush that just happened to clear out all of the top grade products just in time at barely discounted prices.

Ah. I think you're right. When I first started looking at the guitars - new - sorted by price... I did see a new demo PRS SE Silver Sky show up briefly for under $200, but it sold within an hour or two... But at the same time, I've heard the stores are bare... So that is probably it... Maybe anything unboxed in the stores got discounted and is gone... and anything in a box is still at market price and will get shipped somewhere... or returned... or??? I hadn't thought of that. (FWIW, my guitar center suddenly has the best inventory I've seen them carry... hmmm.) Looks like most of the current "deals" are on their Michael Kelley brand, etc. Thanks for the video.

yeah i tried ordering a bass and my order got canceled 3 times

It’s ridiculous that some clowns can slap all that together… but you hire pro web people to build you a corporate site, and months and 30k later, they barely have anything done.

Exactly the same in Australia ..

i will swing by the Hollywood store this week and report back

Agreed. It is indeed a lazy, lame attempt at scamming. The trouble is, the world is full of lazy, lame, easily scammed people. And any media company who facilitates the promulgation of fraudulent practices such as this, are a disgrace! Are part of the problem! Much kudos to you for this advisory.

this scam keeps showing up on Facebook. I reported it as a scam but it keeps showing up

If they offered prices like that the employees would snatch it up.

I fell for it the first time. Now I warn people that it's a scam.

Thanks for sharing this! Unfortunately, I think that most of us (subscribers of this channel) would see that something isn't right, especially when we see the initial price of $800,70. The potential victims are our friends and family members who don't know how much a guitar costs, they see a price like 120 bucks for a nice looking guitar and decide to buy it for us for our birthday or Christmas or whatever. I've seen a couple of comments here about someone reporting a Facebook ad that's clearly a scam but Facebook said it didn't violate their terms of service. The same thing happened to me. Maybe, if enough people tell Sam Ash (or whatever company name is being used to scam people) about it, _they_ might report it to Facebook and maybe then, Facebook will do something about it. Like I said, *_we_* will most likely realise that it's a scam but it would break my heart if my brother or my mother would lose their money because they wanted to be kind and buy me a gift! So let's share this with them!

imagine still using failbook in 2024, knowing they steal all of your information

It's just a new version of an old scam. But I hadn't seen this new version. I happened to open FB while while your video was on. Boom 3 versions of it right back to back on my feed. Sale wise I stopped in a few days after the announcement and it seems the plan was to start at 5% off and walk down over a couple of months. Well that store had already had trouble getting inventory. So it was pretty picked over. But I think the store might already be closed.

Weird how they've had almost non-existent Internet presence for the past 20years until this. Ive been having a feeling that its for marketing exposure for a minute now too

Oh believe me they tried to up tic the price a hell of alot

This is now common with all online shopping

Bought a set of Fishman Fluence Classic hums off Reverb through Sam Ash, claiming they were closing stores. Got a hell of a deal. Bought them, then the next morning got an email and an instant refund saying they hadn't updated their inventory and they were actually out of stock. Then they still had it listed for sale. 🤔 But I did get a refund, and then I made an offer to another company selling some, and got an equally good deal as the Scam Ash deal I was supposed to be getting. Oh well, I won't be shopping with Scam Ash after that. That was my first and last shopping experience with them.

suprised no one buys it out

Yes, of course. Why not? Ask them what's going on.

I once listened to a lecture from someone who deals with scammers, and he suggested they’re more sophisticated than you may think and will actually put mistakes into the ads to catch the people who are really vulnerable. So in this example, they don’t want to put the right MSRP in there, because if you know how much the guitar really costs you’re less likely to fall for it and you’ll do your checks. But if you think that Gibson Les Paul is $800 $900, you’re more likely to fall for it being $130 and therefore more interest to the scammer. It’s the same with emails with poor grammar, it’s not an accident. Apparently it’s a tactic that these people use.

I have seen more than just ads for Sam Ash on Facebook and it's the same concept. They all sell Gibson's for ridiculously low prices. I appreciate you bringing this up especially to people that really don't know that much about new guitar prices. If these website would have been real I would have maxed out a credit card and then either kept or resold these guitar. You could make a fortune. Shame it's a Scam!!!!!!! There's a sucker born every minute but it's not me..............

It would be great if Sam Ash filed a lawsuit against Facebook for allowing the ad to be posted.

Thanks for warning ppl about this, kinda disappointing that I haven't seen anyone else talking about this. I noticed the msrp on some of that stuff too, pretty suspicious to say the least. Then again the $129 you were seeing was dropped down to $45 on the version I saw, they actually had a USA Core PRS Wood Library listed for 45 bucks, lmao. I knew there was no way this could be for real, but I went ahead called customer service at Sam Ash anyway and before I even finished my sentence or mentioned FB the guy was like "we don't advertise on FB." Definitely understandable, dude was probably getting a thousand calls about these bunk ads. I actually clicked on the page transparency section afterwards and sure enough it brought up a bunch of stuff written in the characters of a language from the Far East, lol. Doing an interview with a Sam Ash manager is great idea, btw. Gets my vote for sure.

Music go round on hurstbourne Had a 69 B-25-12 string for 800$ That thing sat on the shelf for a little while before they sold it.. I eyeballs it and played it 2 times. Went back week later to actually buy it. And it was sold.. that's my luck. Anyways. How can I get ahold of you. I have an amplifier I bet you would love to checkout.

It's rare to get a great deal on something like a guitar. Best deal I got from a closing music store was a guitar stand for $14.99, originally $24.99, I still have and use the stand 20+ years later.

Sam Ash sent me the wrong guitar a couple of years ago. I reached out to them to get it resolved and just got the runaround. A few days later I got an angry, somewhat threatening voicemail from none other than Sammy Ash, the owner saying they wouldn’t take the guitar back. Good riddance.

800.7 is not a price you will ever see on any American website!