We are a small veteran-owned business known as Allstar Guitar that offers music lessons, repairs and sales to the Gig Harbor community.

We recently fell victim to a scammer and thief who purchased two expensive American-made instruments using stolen credit cards.

This sort of scam is so common that it is not covered by business insurance.

Both of these instruments belonged to local folks that put these instruments up on consignment and we are obligated to do our best to compensate them for our collective loss.

This crime could not have occurred at a worse time given the chaos of our economy and the ever-growing dominance of big business.

We are humbly asking the community for assistance and we only wish for an amount that will ensure the owners are fairly compensated.