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A musician named Dave Carroll recently had difficulty with United Airlines. United apparently damaged his treasured Taylor guitar ($3500) during a flight. Dave spent over 9 months trying to get United to pay for damages caused by baggage handlers to his custom Taylor guitar. During his final exchange with the United Customer Relations Manager, he stated that he was left with no choice other than to create a music video for youtube exposing their lack of cooperation. The Manager responded : "Good luck with that one, pal."

So he posted a retaliatory video on youtube. The video has since received over 5.5 million hits. United Airlines contacted the musician and attempted settlement in exchange for pulling the video. Naturally his response was: "Good luck with that one, pal."

Taylor Guitars sent the musician 2 new custom guitars in appreciation for the product recognition from the video that has lead to a sharp increase in orders.


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo"]YouTube- United Breaks Guitars[/ame]
 
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That is awesome, funny video. Serves UA right, it'll teach them a lesson in customer service.
 

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That is awesome! Taylors are the shiz and I would have been devastated if that was mine. That sucks that UA would not pay to have fixed...glad to hear Taylor took care of him! Good for him all around!
 

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Last time I flew with my Taylor I carried on and just looked at them dumbly without saying anything until they gave up making me check it and stowed it in a forward crew compartment.
 

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That is awesome! Taylors are the shiz and I would have been devastated if that was mine. That sucks that UA would not pay to have fixed...glad to hear Taylor took care of him! Good for him all around!
Fixed....they would have been better off being him a "new" one. I wouldn't have taken one that had been fixed!
 
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That's awesome. I've been very afraid to fly with my musical instruments, and have yet to find a solution i'm comfortable with.
 
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