Members delayed delay Posted June 21, 2011 Members Share Posted June 21, 2011 The Mod Scott Peterson just posted this on TGP : Due to possible legal action we cannot allow further discussion of Freekish Blues FX company or their pedals, Thank you for understanding while this situation is worked out. All... and I mean ALL Freekish Blues threads have been deleted... Also... on a similar note... I posted this on another FS thread, where some douche was trying to sell his Alpha Drive: "Alpha Drive..... lulz...." ... and then got a warning from both Moderators... freaking funny stuff. Has anything to this 'scale' happened before in the effects world? First their employees pose as random posters pumping their products, and then we find out pretty much all of their products are actually other pedals entirely... Or am I just naive? I mean, I know there are a lot of 'rip-offs' and Klones and T00bscreamers out there.... but I honestly haven't heard of any pedal company actually using someone else's pedals - not just as their platform, but as their actual pedals ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members houseofglass21 Posted June 21, 2011 Members Share Posted June 21, 2011 Yeah the moderators are douchebags over there. This thread (http://www.thegearpage.net/board/showthread.php?t=914542) was started right after the whole Freekish thing got deleted from their forum, and it's clearly just the maker of Freekish pedals trying to start some {censored} by implicating other pedal makers to take the heat off himself. I mentioned that and was told to stop arguing and to never bring up that topic again and threatened with infractions. LOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members houseofglass21 Posted June 21, 2011 Members Share Posted June 21, 2011 Goderators Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thecornballer Posted June 21, 2011 Members Share Posted June 21, 2011 what's weird is i dont live under a rock & i dont know what freekish gate is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SnorkelMonkey Posted June 21, 2011 Members Share Posted June 21, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members houseofglass21 Posted June 21, 2011 Members Share Posted June 21, 2011 TGP, great forum if you need to know the best OD pedal to get for your next "fly date" gig at Dave's Sports Bar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members delayed delay Posted June 21, 2011 Author Members Share Posted June 21, 2011 I'm honestly quite pissed off. Phil, honest question.... without throwing their moderators under the bus... would you have handled the situation and/or our conversation that way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members King Rat Posted June 21, 2011 Members Share Posted June 21, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LSDis4me Posted June 21, 2011 Members Share Posted June 21, 2011 Good for you for calling the moderators out on that B.S. They are, by default, siding with the fraudulators. Gotta love that capitalistic mindset! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Edkoppel Posted June 21, 2011 Members Share Posted June 21, 2011 TGP is just covering their asses.They want to be able to say that they controlled their forum and deleted all slanderous talk. Phil is doing what the mods at TGP should have done, which is not even weigh in on the subject or even enter the threads. That way HCFX can say that they had no idea these threads were even here, and it still allows us to talk about it freely. at least that's how I see it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members delayed delay Posted June 21, 2011 Author Members Share Posted June 21, 2011 Good for you for calling the moderators out on that B.S. They are, by default, siding with the fraudulators. Gotta love that capitalistic mindset! I don't really have a problem with capitalism in it's root form... but this is just bulls**t. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Pewtershmit Posted June 21, 2011 Members Share Posted June 21, 2011 After receiving the warning from Scott Peterson for my comment in the FS thread, I had this PM exchange with him... my jaw hit the floor: I think you were a bit out of line. the guy selling the pedal was taken, he was ripped off It wasn't his fault, you don't got to rub it in ya know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members El Gallo Negro Posted June 21, 2011 Members Share Posted June 21, 2011 EVERYBODY IS {censored}ED. ALWAYS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members stjames Posted June 21, 2011 Members Share Posted June 21, 2011 I laughed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members delayed delay Posted June 21, 2011 Author Members Share Posted June 21, 2011 I think you were a bit out of line. the guy selling the pedal was taken, he was ripped off It wasn't his fault, you don't got to rub it in ya know? Wait... I don't have to rub it in that he's trying to scam someone else now?? So what you're saying is that if you get ripped off, it's okay for you to rip off someone else with the same pedal? :poke: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Naterel Posted June 21, 2011 Members Share Posted June 21, 2011 I still want this pedal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members triviani Posted June 21, 2011 Members Share Posted June 21, 2011 TGP is full of sheriff-wannabes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SnorkelMonkey Posted June 21, 2011 Members Share Posted June 21, 2011 I still want this pedal I would rock one just to win the BOTB contest next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SnorkelMonkey Posted June 21, 2011 Members Share Posted June 21, 2011 It's the most un-TGP pedal to ever been made, a shoe-in to win BOTB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members stjames Posted June 21, 2011 Members Share Posted June 21, 2011 It's the most un-TGP pedal to ever been made, a shoe-in to win BOTB. I would vote for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lou Speed Posted June 21, 2011 Members Share Posted June 21, 2011 TGP is just covering their asses.They want to be able to say that they controlled their forum and deleted all slanderous talk.Phil is doing what the mods at TGP should have done, which is not even weigh in on the subject or even enter the threads. That way HCFX can say that they had no idea these threads were even here, and it still allows us to talk about it freely.at least that's how I see it? I'd guess that Phil isn't even aware of any of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Grueller Posted June 21, 2011 Members Share Posted June 21, 2011 I want a pedalboard like the one with the eight DS-1's, except with Alpha Drives. Toan for daiz. Any one naive of the whole situation now would have had to be living under a rock. Or living under the impression that there's nothing wrong with Freekish Blues, seeing as everything about them on TGP has been deleted. And we have you to thank for it, Scott Peterson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members delayed delay Posted June 21, 2011 Author Members Share Posted June 21, 2011 I want a pedalboard like the one with the eight DS-1's, except with Alpha Drives. Toan for daiz. Or living under the impression that there's nothing wrong with Freekish Blues, seeing as everything about them on TGP has been deleted. And we have you to thank for it, Scott Peterson. Exactly what I told Scott. But he responded and said, "they're not deleted, just removed from public view until we get it straightened out with our lawyers..." freaking bs!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gambit Posted June 21, 2011 Members Share Posted June 21, 2011 does TGP have sponsors they have to placate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ChuckNorris1982 Posted June 21, 2011 Members Share Posted June 21, 2011 You know as much as I'm all for freedom of speech, on my forum (see sig) we started that thing up as a totally free environment where people could say what they want and suffer the consequences themselves, and it didn't work. I got threatened with legal action, and being that our site is not for profit, that was pretty scary on my part. I didn't have the money to fight the battle, and I ended up having to remove the offending posts. I fought it as far as I could, talked on the phone with the dude's lawyer, told him that if he's sueing me then I have a counter claim to sue him right back. he agreed, but said his client was prepared to take that risk unless we removed the content in question. If I'd had the money to fight it, I would. Believe me the guy is a **** and everything that was said is entirely true, but I just didn't have it in me to lose everything I had over an internet feud. It pained me to remove the content, it went against everything I believed in, but for the sake of my family I couldn't afford to leave it up. Now as a forum user I agree entirely with what everyone is saying about these Freakish Blues guys, but as a forum owner I can actually sympathise with the TGP guys. And I hate admitting that, because I hate the TGP guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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