Look at these cheap Chinese T Birds!!!!

[Bionic-Joe]

http://www.aliexpress.com/cheap/cheap-thunderbird-bass.html

They even say Made in USA!!!!

[TBird1958]

That and some say Gibson on the TRC. Craptacular.

[Nocturnal]

They probably sound as good as they look 

[Lightyear]

"if you need a guitar Headstock pictures, please contact us"

Riiight!

[uwe]

Vely fline blasses, allel of them! Not buying now, savel you lotsa money!

[neepheid]

Oh dear, how were these designed - verbal description over the phone?

[Dave W]

These have been around for years now.

[ack1961]

I believe that the Alibaba e-commerce company is scheduled to go public and pop at $20B+ USD some time in the next week or so.
Not sure if this has relevance at all - I'm just hoping that more and more people don't fall victim to these cheap (and mostly illegal) knock-offs.  I have a feeling that any (if there are any) current international shipping restrictions might be...less than stringently enforced once these guys go public.

It's pretty easy for most musicians to take one glance at a bad picture from a Chinese e-Commerce site and start counting flaws, but can imagine what happens when US marketing specialists (and lawyers) get a crack at making millions by selling dog poo to strangers?

Imagine some uninformed aunt/uncle unwittingly buying a Gibsun LP on Amazon for $138 - thinking they're doing a great thing for their niece/nephew...

I weep for the future.

[Pilgrim]

Alibaba is HUGE in China - makes Ebay look like a junior brother.  It's a primary means of commerce there.  You can just imagine that every fake and knock-off created in China is available there. 

I haven't reviewed it to see if there are any safeguards for buyers, but I wouldn't believe it even if I read that there were.

[Basvarken]

Alibaba is HUGE in China - makes Ebay look like a junior brother.  It's a primary means of commerce there.  You can just imagine that every fake and knock-off created in China is available there. 

I haven't reviewed it to see if there are any safeguards for buyers, but I wouldn't believe it even if I read that there were.

Our fellow Outposter John Schoen ordered a Rickenfaker a while ago and he posted his ideas on the bass in the Rickenbacker corner.

http://bassoutpost.com/index.php?topic=8898.0

[Aussie Mark]

That's an appallingly limited colour range.  If they had some cool custom colours they might actually sell a few.

[OldManC]

Those still look better than Nikki's Schecter.

[TBird1958]

ROLF!

So true!

[Bionic-Joe]

Ya got that right, G. Nikki's schector looks Like dog poop!

[John Schoen]

Alibaba is HUGE in China - makes Ebay look like a junior brother.  It's a primary means of commerce there.  You can just imagine that every fake and knock-off created in China is available there. 

I haven't reviewed it to see if there are any safeguards for buyers, but I wouldn't believe it even if I read that there were.

Our fellow Outposter John Schoen ordered a Rickenfaker a while ago and he posted his ideas on the bass in the Rickenbacker corner.

http://bassoutpost.com/index.php?topic=8898.0

I bought my Rickenfaker on DHgate, Alibabas smaller cousin, because they have a system where you pay DHgate for the goods and DHgate releases the payment to the seller when you indicate that you have received the goods and there is nothing wrong with them. Didn't have to try to get a refund because I am very happy with my Lemmy faker.