problem with a guitar

Nukumai

OP - I empathise with your son. I was a professional musician (guitar/bass) for some years, until soon after I was married, and still have a nice little collection of guitars that I rarely now play, but cannot bring myself to part with

Take a look here, at Fender's Color Catalog (Arctic White is #80) :

http://www.fender.com/support/color-chart/#filter-type-white

And, here is the 2012 Fender Catalog (top left), including Squier Affinity Series :

http://www.fender.com/support/library/

Match your son's guitar with the correct catalog, and you should be able to cross-reference the color-availability against what your son has purchased/was sent.

Either way...if he is not happy, send it back!!

somethingcorporate

Guardsman wrote: »

My car is described as being Arctic white and it's obvious to anybody that it's very white. To me Arctic white is the colour of fresh snow.

I have bolded the important part of your post. "Fluffy" colour names are completely subjective - even standard primary colour names mean different things to different companies.

The issue here is really that the guitar represented on the advert being obviously very white does not match what they were sent which is cream. Whether the cream guitar is arctic white or not is really not massively important, unless it means that the OP cannot actually get a truly white guitar.

markelock

keep it and learn how to play...

within weeks it will be scratched and chipped.

that colour looks pretty good anyway, unless he's planning on doing something for brian ferry, or randall and hopkirk the musical?

pulliptears

Guardsman wrote: »

My car is described as being Arctic white and it's obvious to anybody that it's very white. To me Arctic white is the colour of fresh snow.

Colour is subjective. A colour can appear in many different ways for example on my MacBook Pro the top guitar is not so bright and I can see the difference in the faceplate colour, on my old iPad its not so obvious. Many screens will render images differently and of course that then doesn't account for the viewers perception of colour either.

One way to guarantee a colour would be to give its pantone number, but that would depend on the buyer having a very expensive swatch of colours to hand to compare it with.

If colour is important in an item be it a guitar or a pair of curtains then the best way by far is to see it in person because each and every one of us will perceive it differently.