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Re: How to supplement your touring income
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2014, 11:19:40 AM »
Their spiritual cousins are on TB re-labeling Squiers as Fenders, while swearing on a stack of metaphorical bibles that THEY would never misrepresent their instrument when selling it.  Of course, they totally disregard what is probably going to happen down the line when the instrument changes hands again.
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Re: How to supplement your touring income
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2014, 11:31:56 AM »
The moral of the story: stick to selling drugs  :-*
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Re: How to supplement your touring income
« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2014, 11:41:02 AM »
Their spiritual cousins are on TB re-labeling Squiers as Fenders, while swearing on a stack of metaphorical bibles that THEY would never misrepresent their instrument when selling it.  Of course, they totally disregard what is probably going to happen down the line when the instrument changes hands again.

Anyone who would do that is a POS. 
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Re: How to supplement your touring income
« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2014, 12:55:04 PM »
Well that's one way to finance touring .....
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Re: How to supplement your touring income
« Reply #5 on: April 11, 2014, 01:02:50 PM »
Anyone who would do that is a POS.

I would bet that some of them are telling the truth that they would inform a buyer that their bass isn't a Fender, but a Squier with a changed headstock decal.  These are the players who seek status by changing a headstock decal - otherwise called "poseurs."

However, their rejection of responsibility for later sales of that same instrument is a farce.
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Re: How to supplement your touring income
« Reply #6 on: April 11, 2014, 01:31:07 PM »
I would bet that some of them are telling the truth that they would inform a buyer that their bass isn't a Fender, but a Squier with a changed headstock decal.  These are the players who seek status by changing a headstock decal - otherwise called "poseurs."

However, their rejection of responsibility for later sales of that same instrument is a farce.

Yes, I agree. 
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Re: How to supplement your touring income
« Reply #7 on: April 11, 2014, 04:49:34 PM »
Re-labeling Squiers as Fenders is wrong -- and the guitar or bass will be sold somewhere down the line, possibly by someone who doesn't know its history.

But that's not in the same category as conspiring to commit fraud on shops across the country. These guys are lucky their punishment is relatively light.

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Re: How to supplement your touring income
« Reply #8 on: April 11, 2014, 07:37:36 PM »
Re-labeling Squiers as Fenders is wrong -- and the guitar or bass will be sold somewhere down the line, possibly by someone who doesn't know its history.

But that's not in the same category as conspiring to commit fraud on shops across the country. These guys are lucky their punishment is relatively light.

I also noticed that the sentencing seemed way too lenient. 
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Re: How to supplement your touring income
« Reply #9 on: April 12, 2014, 04:48:37 AM »
According to the article, their average sale was $340.  I figure they should have had to pay $200 a pop for guitars good enough to pass for a $1k Martin.  Somebody wanted to believe they were getting a good deal.  "Unsuspecting pawn shops'...hah.

Sentence too lenient?  I agree they should have been sentenced to at least as much time as the guys who crashed the economy.

What EXACTLY should their sentences have been?  On a scale of  'tsk, tsk' to lopping off a hand or two. :bored:

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Re: How to supplement your touring income
« Reply #10 on: April 12, 2014, 06:29:55 AM »
The moral of the story: stick to selling drugs  :-*

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Re: How to supplement your touring income
« Reply #11 on: April 12, 2014, 11:12:19 AM »
I'm surprised Norman's Rare Guitars hasn't taken this down.

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Re: How to supplement your touring income
« Reply #12 on: April 12, 2014, 02:21:22 PM »
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Re: How to supplement your touring income
« Reply #13 on: April 12, 2014, 02:45:01 PM »
Breaking an acoustic guitar is a "rock and roll" moment?  Sounds like it could have come right out of A Mighty Wind.
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Re: How to supplement your touring income
« Reply #14 on: April 17, 2014, 11:01:20 AM »
Just what you'd expect of these so-called alternative rock bands. Nuff said. :popcorn:

Stadium rock bands don't do that. They are too scared of their managers finding out.




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