leavethatmonkey
Quiet observer.
Hey all. Long time reader, first time posting! I was hoping my first post would be a NGD for a pretty little black number, but I thought I'd share my experience with anyone out there who's interested.
I ordered a DKA8 at the start of April from Andertons in the UK, with an estimated release date of Mid April, to be my first 8 string. April came and went, and so did May. I contacted the store who said they were only receiving 3 of the guitars (I was surprised how "limited" an edition this actually was!) and that the guitar would arrive from Jackson in late July. To cut a long story short - it didn't, and I was told late August/early september.
I called them today to check if anything was definite yet, and was told their estimate on the DKA8 is now December 2013! The operator at Andertons told me that this didn't necessarily mean a release date of December, but more likely that there were production issues and they had no idea when the physical product would be available. In my mind waiting 5 months for a production guitar is long enough, let alone 9, so I promptly asked for a refund.
TL,DR - No Jackson DKA8s for the UK for the foreseeable future, and all of you guys on the board who already have one elsewhere should count yourselves extremely lucky!
If the Slat X Series doesn't suffer the same fate I might pick up one of those as my first ERG, but Jacksons left a slightly sour taste in the mouth. Otherwise it's the Iron Label 8 that I coulda picked up 5 months ago... Oh well!
I ordered a DKA8 at the start of April from Andertons in the UK, with an estimated release date of Mid April, to be my first 8 string. April came and went, and so did May. I contacted the store who said they were only receiving 3 of the guitars (I was surprised how "limited" an edition this actually was!) and that the guitar would arrive from Jackson in late July. To cut a long story short - it didn't, and I was told late August/early september.
I called them today to check if anything was definite yet, and was told their estimate on the DKA8 is now December 2013! The operator at Andertons told me that this didn't necessarily mean a release date of December, but more likely that there were production issues and they had no idea when the physical product would be available. In my mind waiting 5 months for a production guitar is long enough, let alone 9, so I promptly asked for a refund.
TL,DR - No Jackson DKA8s for the UK for the foreseeable future, and all of you guys on the board who already have one elsewhere should count yourselves extremely lucky!
If the Slat X Series doesn't suffer the same fate I might pick up one of those as my first ERG, but Jacksons left a slightly sour taste in the mouth. Otherwise it's the Iron Label 8 that I coulda picked up 5 months ago... Oh well!
