The Guitar Marketplace Avis 

* Edit. My 1 star review has been amended to a 3 star review, as the team has now finally acknowledged my issue and credited my account. So three stars for honesty, even if it required a lot of frustration on my part and a poor trust pilot review to get there.

Great site great prizes

Great prizes, great fun. Thanks guys.

Awesome competition and a great bunch of guys! I won a dream guitar which is just nuts! Jacob from guitar market place ensured it was delivered swiftly via Royal Mail and kept me updated on the process! I’ve entered a fair few times with these guys and will be sure to continue doing so!

Thanks!

Simon

Really good company and have won a couple of times which is fantastic. All guitars were recieved within 5 days and really good communication beforehand. Thoroughly recommend as a place to enter guitar competitions.

I've seen The Guitar Marketplace pop up on my instagram for quite a while and was always slightly sceptical, but last week I saw they had a Taylor AD17E Blacktop guitar. This is my dream guitar, so I thought it'd be worth a punt. I bought 5 tickets for £12.50. A few days later I spotted an email from them and was completely shocked to find out I had won! They requested confirmation of my address and only 3 days later the guitar was delivered to me well packaged and in a Taylor guitar case. I can't recommend The Guitar Marketplace enough! They often don't sell all tickets which means you get great odds. I'll definitely be buying more tickets to hopefully add to my guitar collection!

What you see is what you get! An excellent company to deal with great prizes at good prices brilliant communication when you win can’t fault the service give it a go!

I suspect that just like many others, one may be a bit suspicious of these sort of sites even thinking they're a scam of sorts.. well, today, Tuesday 18th I received a brand new guitar worth hundreds of pounds after spending a fraction of that on competition entries and winning on Thursday 13th June... five days to deliver a brand new guitar... needless to say, I will be entering more competitons... and as I've heard said.. you have to be IN it to WIN it !!.

I entered on the chance of winning a Fender bass guitar, and was delighted to actually win! Got an email straight away to inform me and it arrived perfectly packaged a week later (with a travel bag which I wasn't expecting)! It is in near perfect condition considering it is second hand and sounds and plays amazing. A great way to win something I could never afford to buy outright. Thank you.

Absolutely chuffed to bits to win a Vintera II '70's Strat - you always imagine these things aren't real, and no one ever wins, but it's completely legit. You can see the odds of winning - someone always does - you can do the maths and see what the probability of it being you and make your own mind up.

The guitar is an absolute beauty - arrived within a week of the draw - could not be happier!

What can I say? I am over the moon with the guitar marketplace! I won an amazing guitar, the kind one only dreams of! The process was fast transparent and straightforward. No shady business. The team answered all my emails very professionally. The guitar arrived in pristine condition.

I can honestly recommend the guitarmarketplace team to anyone.

Who knows? For 2£ you may win your dream guitar.

So first of I am delighted that I won. I only purchased one ticket and by chance it was the winning one!
The team were quick to contact and ship. So everything is legit.

A few reasons I’ve marked this down as 2 instead of 5/5.

I wouldn’t have said this guitar was as described. I’m looking at the page just now and it was a used guitar described as 9/10. Previous reviews, the guitar market place have described 9/10s as, used with a couple of minor scratches and slight fret wear. This guitar has LOADS of scratches, many more than minor, as well as chips/dents. The finish around the edges of the guitar has chipped (it could have shrunk given its nitro) leaving exposed wood. It also has pitting to some of the frets which I would class as more than minor wear.

The output jack for the electronics is loose. The strings are clearly used, and the guitar definitely isn’t clean, on top of not being packed very well as it didn’t come in a hard case, it wasn’t advertised with a case I’m just pointing out that it wasn’t packed well. I’ve worked in guitar stores and build guitars, this one wasn’t packed very well.

It just gives off an air of not caring very much. A quick set of strings and a polish would have made a difference.

The guitar also doesn’t have a richlite fretboard it’s rosewood, so for used guitars I don’t know if I can trust their specs. I’m also fairly confident the back and sides of the guitar are not mahogany, I think they’re bubinga as this model did come in both at different times.

Overall they to me the company is legit in terms of you can win a guitar for not much money. But my caution or perhaps constructive criticism to the company would be, the guitar may not be in the condition advertised, may not even be the specs they advertise, and may show up not very well packed. This was a Gibson as well, and we all know how they’re fond of breaking during shipping!

I know the store I worked at this guitar wouldn’t be 9/10 and wouldn’t even touch an 8, it’s probably 6 or a 7. If we advertised it with the wrong specs as well, we’d be getting an email to fix things so it’s not false advertising/a refund for any disgruntled customer.

Once again very happy I won a guitar but this is just the experience I’ve had and hope the marketplace can take it on board.

I have been playing for a few years and I just won my second guitar! I have won credit and other bits and pieces too. The company is very professional and well run and the selection of guitars they offer is great!

Won a guitar described by them as 10/10 condition, received guitar witch had nemours dents, scratches in body, neck and all the hard wear. Neck had bum notes and an extremely large amount of fret wear.

Great smooth service. Looking forward to the draw later

Won a ltd 401 qm and won quite a few other items also lost loads of times! But thats the gamble.just set your limits because it does become adictive and you have to be prepared to lose,but you cant beat the buzz of wining!
To be fair the lads do a great job but it would be nice if lower limits were set on tickets to stop you from loosing large amounts of money,as it seems to be the same big fish that win most of the time,it would be nice if more people had a equal chance and more prizes but thats the same for all guitar sites,cant grumble as ive just won!

A brilliant way to have fun and win a guitar you might never be able to afford .
Outstanding selection of guitars .

I bought tickets a few times some years ago, didn't win anything, not really bothered. I left Facebook about 4 years ago, I cannot explain why I am suddenly getting emails from these people. I'm treating them as spam.

Do yourself a favour, save your ticket money and buy a Harley Benton from Thomann.

Won another great guitar in these fabulous competitions. I can’t recommend this site highly enough. If there’s a guitar you’ve always craved but could never afford, why not give these competitions a go? You just never know what might happen🤞

I've won 4 guitars, an amp, and a few minor prizes.
It's a gamble, but genuine & fun.