Essex studio

Tat2dstesh

After reading about this guy, I thought what a douche.
Don't mind people making a few bucks here and there but to way over inflat price and make up stories on history is another thing! 

Any way I have a Gibson studio I'm selling and has a buy it now at £625 ( only for eBay as I would quite happily take £525 from a fretboarder) but has offers on it!! Essex guy has made an offer of £250!!! 

Wonder how much he would try to sell it for or which rock star it came from etc! 

Iamnobody

Haha what a knob!

Just a thought...

Why don’t you adjust your preferences so people can’t make silly offers?

Set it to automatically decline anything less than £450 maybe?

Tat2dstesh

I have now. Was wondering if I would get a message saying why his offer is best 

heavyrocker

What a sad individual he must be. Trawling eBay constantly making silly offers in the hope that someone is desperate enough to accept. I bet on the rare occasions that they do accept, he then feels like a “winner”. Pathetic really.

carlos

Look at this piece of junk he's selling - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ibanez-RG-Prestige-Custom-Tour-Guitar-Owned-by-Endorsed-Grammy-Nominated-Artist/183477076698
By the way, that's not a prestige at all. It's Made in Indonesia, with the crappiest in-house pickups Ibanez makes and probably the worst Edge tremolo they ever done which is the Edge III. It says the model name on the headstock so it's like I'm making it up. Full spec here - http://ibanez.wikia.com/wiki/RG5EX1
This is a £200 OBO guitar on gumtree, not a 4 figure guitar.

DB1

He did a bit better with me - £500 on a £785 advertised price. It was politely declined. 

boogieman

carlos said:

Look at this piece of junk he's selling - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ibanez-RG-Prestige-Custom-Tour-Guitar-Owned-by-Endorsed-Grammy-Nominated-Artist/183477076698
By the way, that's not a prestige at all. It's Made in Indonesia, with the crappiest in-house pickups Ibanez makes and probably the worst Edge tremolo they ever done which is the Edge III. It says the model name on the headstock so it's like I'm making it up. Full spec here - http://ibanez.wikia.com/wiki/RG5EX1
This is a £200 OBO guitar on gumtree, not a 4 figure guitar.

To be fair he says in the description that the neck was swapped for the cheaper Indonesian one and the pickups aren’t the originals. He’s still overpriced it massively though. 

skullfunkerry

I feel a bit offended that he hasn't sent me a silly offer for my Jackson, tbh!

Tat2dstesh

Think we should put silly offers on his guitars 

FelineGuitars

he has a Reverb shop too 

https://reverb.com/uk/shop/essex-recording-studios

Arktik83

I wonder if he has a mate who owns a studio so he can go in there, take some photo's of the guitars in a studio setting and subliminally people think they're worth paying the kind of money he's asking as they're "professional grade" instruments.  Not saying they aren't pro grade but I do think being in their "natural habitat" might swing some buyers.

Just reading his reverb feedback: "The buyer was a 0 feedback member using a fake Chinese name for his Reverb profile. He states I "refused to talk to him" and yet we had multiple phone calls about this guitar. This buyer got increasingly awkward, abusive and refused to accept any information given to him. He decided to start stalking me online and calling my home dozens of times a day from blocked numbers. It got so out of hand his local police force took action against him. Buyer reported to Reverb, feedback being removed"

Sounds like he's from the Donald Trump school conflict resolution.

dbphoto

Arktik83 said:

I wonder if he has a mate who owns a studio so he can go in there, take some photo's of the guitars in a studio setting and subliminally people think they're worth paying the kind of money he's asking as they're "professional grade" instruments.  Not saying they aren't pro grade but I do think being in their "natural habitat" might swing some buyers.

https://www.essexrecordingstudios.com/pages/about-us

Legionreturns

dbphoto said:

Arktik83 said:

I wonder if he has a mate who owns a studio so he can go in there, take some photo's of the guitars in a studio setting and subliminally people think they're worth paying the kind of money he's asking as they're "professional grade" instruments.  Not saying they aren't pro grade but I do think being in their "natural habitat" might swing some buyers.

https://www.essexrecordingstudios.com/pages/about-us

I think this guy has already proved capable of some of the most tenuous, brass bollock claims...but that one there takes the biscuit!

I might put in a call asking them to mix my latest tracks for me. I'll be sure to ask for a direct dial / mobile number where I can ring at 2am because inspiration has struck and I need to record right then. 

This bloke is more Del boy than a Trotter! 

What a prick!

horse

dbphoto said:

Arktik83 said:

I wonder if he has a mate who owns a studio so he can go in there, take some photo's of the guitars in a studio setting and subliminally people think they're worth paying the kind of money he's asking as they're "professional grade" instruments.  Not saying they aren't pro grade but I do think being in their "natural habitat" might swing some buyers.

https://www.essexrecordingstudios.com/pages/about-us

 It seems funny given some of the bollocks that the biggest success listed is "produce and record one of BBC Essex Introducing's top 12 tracks for 2017 that later went on to be played on Radio 2"

I mean, I'd be pleased with that myself, but then again I haven't "assembled the largest collection of premium gear in any UK studio"

skullfunkerry

skullfunkerry said:

I feel a bit offended that he hasn't sent me a silly offer for my Jackson, tbh!

I'm unoffended - he's just made me two offers! I've got it listed on eBay for £440, to cover the fees etc. First offer was £300, I declined that, and then got another offer of £350 a few seconds later. Declined that one too...

John_A

Had an ESP Eclipse up for sale for £800, he offered £650 and I accepted.  I've got rid of a guitar I didn't want and have £650, he's got the guitar up for sale at a big mark-up but so far hasn't  sold it.  No problem at all with his business model, like 'we buy any car' for guitars, he doesn't force anyone to sell to him

sherpa_man

Sold him a snakebyte a few months ago, he has put it up for twice what i sold it him for. Also its not described in the condition its in.

Listed as mint but has quite a few player marks and swirls in the finish

chrisj1602

John_A said:

Had an ESP Eclipse up for sale for £800, he offered £650 and I accepted.  I've got rid of a guitar I didn't want and have £650, he's got the guitar up for sale at a big mark-up but so far hasn't  sold it.  No problem at all with his business model, like 'we buy any car' for guitars, he doesn't force anyone to sell to him

That's fine but he seems to then be lying about condition etc when selling them on.

Legionreturns

I have a grand scheme hatching, where we rebadge a load of shit Berringer pedals with Vertex stickers, then sell them to this bell end and watch the fallout. 

HarrySeven

horse said:

 It seems funny given some of the bollocks that the biggest success listed is "produce and record one of BBC Essex Introducing's top 12 tracks for 2017 that later went on to be played on Radio 2"

Damned by faint praise, or what?

That's like those ads for dire Sci-Fi shite conventions where they've managed to blag some bloke who was once the third alien from the left in a 1976 episode of Space 1999.

duotone

https://www.essexrecordingstudios.com/pages/services

“MIXING: £150 per track - All mixing performed by world class engineer James Curtis-Thomas

MASTERING: £50 per track - All mastering performed by world class engineer James Curtis-Thomas”

I had to Google him, as I’d never heard of James Curtis-Thomas before