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Calling Babablowfish, are you getting paid for your endorsment of guitars on ebay?

jerime

By jerime
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Queequeg Newbie

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oh yeah. shameless endorsements.

You know he has a gold tooth with diamond inset. I hear he travels with his posse in a stretch Humvee and is set to launch a global marketing campaign for his new clothing line.

He's known in the hood as "3B-fish"

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knockwood Newbie

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Whether intentionally or not, I think the title of your thread may be extremely misleading and potentially offensive. Hopefully you are just kidding around and I've misunderstood, and if that's the case I apologize for being thick. If not, though...

 

What you're seeing from Baba being quoted in that eBay page is a very common HC Gear Review - there are thousands like it on this site, including two or three from me on guitars I own or have owned. Nothing to do with paid endorsement. No $ involved. These reviews are posted by forumites to help others looking into buying a particular model get a read on how satisfied that model's customers are...

 

Baba is an upright cat and a highly respected forumite who wouldn't engage in any such shill behavior.

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Whether intentionally or not, I think the title of your thread may be extremely misleading and potentially offensive. Hopefully you are just kidding around and I've misunderstood, and if that's the case I apologize for being thick. If not, though...


What you're seeing from Baba being quoted in that eBay page is a very common HC Gear Review - there are thousands like it on this site, including two or three from me on guitars I own or have owned. Nothing to do with paid endorsement. No $ involved. These reviews are posted by forumites to help others looking into buying a particular model get a read on how satisfied that model's customers are...


Baba is an upright cat and a highly respected forumite who wouldn't engage in any such shill behavior.

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word.

I assumed jerime was kidding and understood how that happened, especially since the ebay ad includes a date indicating his post is a really old one and couldnt be connected to this ebay sale. baba owns a Parkwood and has stated on a few occasions how much he likes it. The guy selling this shouldn't have used his name without his permission.

Somebody call RIAA.

baba- he's OK in my book. :thu:

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jerime Newbie

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Sorry, I was just kidding. I kinda thought after I posted that I didn't really drop much of a hint at that. Anyway I was just posting half because I thought it was a little amusing and half because (like Queequeg said) I don't really think the guy should have used his name and it should be brought to his attention.

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knockwood Newbie

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Sorry, I was just kidding. I kinda thought after I posted that I didn't really drop much of a hint at that. Anyway I was just posting half because I thought it was a little amusing and half because (like Queequeg said) I don't really think the guy should have used his name and it should be brought to his attention.

 

 

Sorry then, man. Didn't mean to be in your face or anything. As I get older I... what was I saying?

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jerime Newbie

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Sorry then, man. Didn't mean to be in your face or anything. As I get older I... what was I saying?

 

 

No worries.

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babablowfish Newbie

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Hi guys -

 

No offense taken jerime and thanks guys for the kind words of support.

 

Yeah, I wrote this review for Harmony Central when I first got my Parkwood. I still love it, stand by my endorsement of it and think it was a really good buy. I am embarrassed however to see that I wrote that it has a "compensated bidge" What the hell is a bidge? And shouldn't that have been "compensated saddle" anyway?

 

As far as this guy quoting me, I guess I gave up any rights when I posted the review on the web. It doesn't bother me.

 

Here's a picture of me playing my Parkwood at a recent concert in the park:

 

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Great pic of you baba, but couldn't you have gotten a little better shot of the guitar as well? It looks really nice from what I can see of it.


RT1

 

OK, but please get the small children out of the room before viewing - I don't want to get sued for years of therapy.

 

 

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Queequeg Newbie

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Baba, you handsome devil, you.

No wonder the women won't leave you alone.

I'm all the happier now with my decision to follow in Kwak's footsteps of the "headless" video of a week or so ago.

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That is just the lighting in that photograph. In reality I look just like Brad Pitt.
:D

It all become clear now!
:p

Yeah, I guess I need to lose a few pounds. Holding a dread I look like Israel Kamakawiwo'ole.
:D

 

All silliness aside, pic #2 is a great shot of ya...if you've not yet thought of it, it'd make an excellent promo! :thu:

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Add a beard and tattered old cowboy hat and "Gabby" rides again
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I remember Gabby being quite a ladies man.:)

 

Great pics Baba:thu::wave:

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babablowfish Newbie

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Baba-


I noticed in the second pic your 340FM has jumbo dot fret markers. Mine has mini-dots.


Nice pics by the way.
:thu:

 

I had my Luthier, Steve Pierce install those for me. I am amazed at how observant you are.

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recordingtrack1 Newbie

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Is that a 3/4 size guitar you're playing?

 

 

Yeah, no kidding. You make that Jumbo look small. I own a jumbo and people always ask me, "where did you get that big guitar?"

 

By the way, it really is a great looking git. and you look good playing it too!

 

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Yeah, no kidding. You make that Jumbo look small. I own a jumbo and people always ask me, "where did you get that
big
guitar?"


By the way, it really is a great looking git. and you look good playing it too!


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Aw, Shucks!

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