Experience with Temu or westcreekguitars.com?

[Jontycaster]

Lately I have been gassing for a semi-hollow. I have been researching budget models, and I settled on a WestCreek 333. Everything I have read and seen indicates that it is an excellent guitar for the price. There is a natural brown finish model on Amazon and it is beautiful.

I would have been thrilled with this guitar...


...until I saw the blue one.

I think I am in love. The problem is that the blue one is harder to find. It is available through Temu or westcreekguitars.com. (It is cheaper on those sites, too.) Amazon is a known entity, and I trust Amazon's customer service after the sale. I have no previous experience with Temu or westcreekguitars.com. I saw someone on Reddit claim that they ordered a guitar from westcreekguitars.com and received a box of rocks. While I am very skeptical about that, I don't know anyone who has purchased anything from that site and can vouch for it. So my question is, have any of you purchased guitars from Temu in general, or westcreekguitars.com in particular? If so, how did it go?

 

[Donny Osmond fan]

Lately I have been gassing for a semi-hollow. I have been researching budget models, and I settled on a WestCreek 333. Everything I have read and seen indicates that it is an excellent guitar for the price. There is a natural brown finish model on Amazon and it is beautiful.

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I would have been thrilled with this guitar...


...until I saw the blue one.

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I think I am in love. The problem is that the blue one is harder to find. It is available through Temu or westcreekguitars.com. (It is cheaper on those sites, too.) Amazon is a known entity, and I trust Amazon's customer service after the sale. I have no previous experience with Temu or westcreekguitars.com. I saw someone on Reddit claim that they ordered a guitar from westcreekguitars.com and received a box of rocks. While I am very skeptical about that, I don't know anyone who has purchased anything from that site and can vouch for it. So my question is, have any of you purchased guitars from Temu in general, or westcreekguitars.com in particular? If so, how did it go?

Amazon sells Westcreek guitar. All the videos I watched online said they were really good. I love the double neck and a few others myself. Get them from Amazon.

Temu is trash.

 

[Happy Enchilada]

There's love, and there's infatuation, and then there's GAS.
Know the difference before you pull the trigger.

 

[guitar_paul1]

Right now, I'm thinking Temu is evil, and wouldn't patronize them.

 

[1guy]

I bought something from Temu...maybe guitar accessories, and it was all good. But afterwards, I was swamped by emails and texts...I had to delete the app it got so bad.

And then it's the little stupid games they want you to play...spin the wheel for a discount...it's all bs.

Aliexpress? I've bought a buncha stuff and a few guitars from them...no problems ever

 

[Marc Morfei]

My advice is to just get an Epiphone or Ibanez. They both make budget-friendly semi-hollows that are well-known and proven quantities.

 

[Dukex]

For this type of purchase, I'd go with Amazon.

 

[getbent]

I dig the tobacco look! looks like a swingin deal!

 

[effzee]

For those kinds of prices, maybe consider a DIY guitar kit?

For example:

Harley Benton Electric Guitar Kit HB35-Style

HB35-style electric guitar kit Complete self-build set, Construction: Semi-hollow body with mahogany sustain block and bolt-on neck, Body with arched top: maple (wood colour may vary), Bolt-on neck: maple, Fingerboard: Amaranth, Dot fingerboard,...

www.thomannmusic.com

 

[runstendt]

Temu is great for cheap and ridiculous Hawaiian shirts, but I’d rather get a guitar through Amazon because they are a known entity with a decent return policy.

 

[badinfinities]

I would just go through the Westcreek website. I don't see anything that raises any flags. They are UK based.

The blue 333 is on Amazon.ca.

 

[Silent Otto]

Right now, I'm thinking Temu is evil, and wouldn't patronize them.

Right now I'm thinking that Amazon is also evil, and wouldn't patronize them.

 

[Gladhander]

There's love, and there's infatuation, and then there's GAS.
Know the difference before you pull the trigger.

Damn! Good advice!

 

[Gladhander]

Hey I’d never heard of Westcreek before.