Members dahkter Posted September 18, 2007 Members Share Posted September 18, 2007 http://www.1010wins.com/pages/960952.php?contentType=4&contentId=930177 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Alndln2 Posted September 18, 2007 Members Share Posted September 18, 2007 Don't buy your guitar from this guy We don't have to worry about him anymore since he was arrested. What we have to worry about now is people reselling those guitars on the used market(Ebay etc.). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 If they had been real Gibsons, they would have been worth about $90,000 since real Gibsons retail anywhere from $4,000 to $8,000. Not if they were Studios or Specials. OTOH, if the guy was knowingly selling cheap Chinese clones and trying to pass them off as Gibsons, I'm glad they're doing something about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dahkter Posted September 18, 2007 Author Members Share Posted September 18, 2007 We don't have to worry about him anymore since he was aressted. What we have to worry about now is people reselling those guitars on the used market(Ebay etc.). Careful Alndln2,He's out on bail and I just saw him selling Rickenbackers on Broadway and 32nd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MarkZ Posted September 18, 2007 Members Share Posted September 18, 2007 What about the free Louis Vuitton guitar case with every purchase? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members flatfinger Posted September 18, 2007 Members Share Posted September 18, 2007 Crazy! But you know what else is stupid crazy??? A "custom" Relic strat for $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ I'll take my own and drag it behind the car by a rope on a gravel road for a mile instead!! Savings = 1 thousand or more !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted September 18, 2007 Members Share Posted September 18, 2007 I think his punishment will be to destroy the bogus guitars by sitting on them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wagdog Posted September 18, 2007 Members Share Posted September 18, 2007 strat for $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ I'll take my own and drag it behind the car by a rope on a gravel road for a mile instead!! Savings = 1 thousand or more !! Yeah, yeah, yeah... you wanna impress us pick it up and play it before tuning it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Alndln2 Posted September 19, 2007 Members Share Posted September 19, 2007 Careful Alndln2,He's out on bail and I just saw him selling Rickenbackers on Broadway and 32nd. The reality is, the people who got burnt by this guy are going to try to minimize their losses and most likely more people are going to get burnt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Magpel Posted September 19, 2007 Members Share Posted September 19, 2007 Is there any discussion of the craft of his fakes? I mean, did he stick a band of masking tape over the "Epiphone" and Sharpie "Gibson" on it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted September 19, 2007 Members Share Posted September 19, 2007 strat for $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ I'll take my own and drag it behind the car by a rope on a gravel road for a mile instead!! Savings = 1 thousand or more !! Darn straight... I just about laughed my A off when I first saw a Fender Custom Shop "Relic" -- complete with fake cigarette burns. (I have to say that I tend to be hard on my guitars, few are without dings, scratches, etc -- and I used to smoke and drink to excess -- but I don't have a single guitar with a single cigarette burn anywhere. Y'know? There's nothing about my strat that looks like an ashtray to me.) FWIW, this type of thing (counterfeits) was not unheard of around SoCal in years past. I used to occasionally go in little shops filled with crap guitars and look at the logos and go: Hey, wait a second... I don't think Gibson is using $10 tuner sets these days. A lot of times this stuff would be relegated to the "used" rack -- where the guy probably figured he had the fig leaf of being able to say, "Well, gee, the guy I bought it from said it was a Gibson." FWIW, I was once looking at the "vintage guitar wall" at the Guitar Center in Fountain Valley, CA, (some years ago) and saw, IIRC, an "old" Martin I was convinced (for reasons that now escape me) that had been frankensteined. I asked the salesman about it and he said it was all original. I'm afraid I laughed in his face. The guitar manager walked in and I asked him about the guitar... he hemmed and hawed and finally said, well, I'm not sure of its lineage, actually. I said that it sure looked like it had been assembled from at least a couple guitars and he finally allowed as how that might be the case, that it didn't quite look right to him, either... The price on the guitar was in the mid-four figures. Caveat emptor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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