GSmini hog - What bag is included now?

[liltiki]

I thought the 2014 mini's get the hard gig bag. I notice I got the soft gig bag ($17 added on - discontinued on receipt) on a purchase yesterday at GC. I can't find the answer on the Taylor site and don't trust GC...

Does anyone know?


Thanks

[Doxy]

I just bought my hog mini a few months ago at my local Taylor dealer and I got the hard gig bag.

[Doubleneck]

Is that a GC switch to increase profit? I got a Holden Village from the factory in February with the hard bag. It is a awesome bag, I would not accept anything else.
Steve

[44Runner]

This is the only bag I know of for the mini. Does it look like this?

[liltiki]

The guy at GC gave me a great price on the gs mini ($50 off "because you seem like a cool lady")

The one brought up for me was in the box in a gig bag inside the box. It looks like the same type gig bag I got with my baby Taylor around '00. I wasn't thinking about the gig bag at the moment... Paid and love the guitar.

Today I looked at the receipt - the gig bag serial has "discontinued' under it and $17 added to the total. Made me take a second look.

My receipt says the guitar is a '14 model. I dread going back (woman, mid '50s, usually ignored for an hour before being helped - even though I bought a 314 ce from them 4 weeks ago. I have GC ptsd and should know better.)

[Dulcilo]

There was a previous thread (maybe on another forum) from someone who purchased from GC and they sold him the Mini with a Baby bag. But it turns out, he had actually gotten the Baby price on the Mini--or so he said--someone at the store had made a huge mistake and run it up as a Baby, so they kept insisting they had given him the right bag. I don't know how in the world GC makes these kinds of mistakes.

I know how it feels to be ignored in a music store, or even worse be taken advantage of because of being a middle aged female. However, based on my local GC stores, I think GC is really trying to improve their customer service. Don't be afraid to go back and demand the proper gig bag. There is no mistaking it--it has "GS Mini" embroidered on it.

[liltiki]

Thanks Dulcilo - Can I be sure when I call that I was suppose to get the hard gig bag and not the soft one? It says mini gs on it, but definitely the soft version.

If I had some documentation on the 'net that says new ones are shipped with the hard gig bag, not the soft (as they once were)? I want to be sure.

Thanks for everyone's response.

[Jamos5790]

At the bottom this says hard bag.

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/GSMiniM

This also says hard bag and it is the same as in the image above.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Taylor-GS-Mi...item4d1e110e0d

It is the same bag I have with my spruce top, I like the bag.

[stepchildusmc]

that tan gigbag/hardbag is the same one I got with all 4 of my minis( probably all 5 if the HV unopened in its box has it. I assume it would)

[James_214ce]

My 2014 HV GS Mini shipped with the "hard" gig bag, and it has GS Mini embroidered on it.
I just compared it with the hard gig bag on my 214ce, and the one on the Mini is not as good a
quality - when you squeeze the top, it will compress about two inches, and the 214ce bag will
only compress less than 1/8th of an inch.

[Ted @ LA Guitar Sales]

Taylor ships every GS Mini with the case shown below, says GS Mini right on it. Is this the case you have?

[Jamos5790]

I wonder if discontinued was suppose to say DISCOUNTED?
Just a thought

[SongwriterFan]

Originally Posted by Jamos5790

I wonder if discontinued was suppose to say DISCOUNTED?
Just a thought

Possibly.

And GC always splits the cost of a guitar between the guitar and case . . . this is for inventory control purposes.

On every used guitar I've bought, they charge me a couple of pennies for the case. On new guitars, the cases are somewhere in the $100 to $200 range . . but the total of the case and guitar always adds up to what the agreed upon purchase price was.

[SOR]

Originally Posted by liltiki

Thanks Dulcilo - Can I be sure when I call that I was suppose to get the hard gig bag and not the soft one? It says mini gs on it, but definitely the soft version.

If I had some documentation on the 'net that says new ones are shipped with the hard gig bag, not the soft (as they once were)? I want to be sure.

Thanks for everyone's response.

Forget hard versus soft bag, the only correct bag is the one shown in post #11. If they gave you something else it's incorrect, go back and insist on the correct bag and at no additional cost. If there is a problem return the guitar and get one elsewhere. I don't know what GC is doing with cases but it's ridiculous.

[The Growler]

Originally Posted by James_214ce

My 2014 HV GS Mini shipped with the "hard" gig bag, and it has GS Mini embroidered on it.
I just compared it with the hard gig bag on my 214ce, and the one on the Mini is not as good a
quality - when you squeeze the top, it will compress about two inches, and the 214ce bag will
only compress less than 1/8th of an inch.

Posts 4 and 11 have the correct bag pictured (GSMini embroidered on it). As James says above it is a hard bag, but not as hard as the one with the 100/200 series, which are a step up. The Mini bag is very good.