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Re: GR-55 GK cable missing in product delivery - normal?



Thanks, Dustie. Good to get some perspective on this. I just found a
cable locally here that I will buy tomorrow morning at a local music
store. Learning the GR-55 is second priority now since I just picked
up a composing engagement that I want to do max-time, but it's great
anyway to have a cable so I can fiddle on the GR at free time now and
then.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.boysen.se
www.perboysen.com
www.looproom.com internet music hub



On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Dust Bunnies <mech@m3ch.net> wrote:
> Per Boysen wrote:
>>
>> I just passed by a place to pick up my Roland GR-55 but unfortunately
>> the GK cable was missing (the 13 pin cable to plug into the mic on the
>> instrument). One person I was talking to here says he did not get a GK
>> cable either with his GR-55. I thought it would come with the GR-55
>> packaged because the PDF manual says so.
>
> Per,
>
> Almost every piece of VG/GR-based gear I've gotten has included at least 
> one
> 13-pin cable (even second hand ones; usually someone selling their gear 
> used
> even throws one in for free).  Every new piece has had one thrown in.
>
> I'd contact the local Roland rep about this immediately.
>
> I've heard a few reports of this elsewhere.  Every once in a blue moon, 
> it's
> simply a QC oversight.  In many cases, however, it's due to an 
> unscrupulous
> retailer or distributor who is separating the cable from the gear, then
> resealing the box.  They then sell the cable for an extra $50 or so off 
> the
> top -- pure profit.
>
> If there are other reports of this sort of thing occurring, I'd 
> definitely
> run it up to the Roland rep.  There's a very good chance that somebody in
> the supply chain is skimming.
>
> If Roland says you should get a free 13-pin cable, contact Roland and get
> it.  Even if you have to get a new cable yourself in the meantime, get 
> the
> replacement so that you have a backup.
>
>        -m-
>
>