Fire Guitars - caution

TimmyO

It's no longer on their Reverb store - maybe they saw this.

f it happens again just edit your source images to dick pics or an image saying "Fire Guitars do not own this guitar" lol 

ChrisCox1994

funny, they had an '89 ES335 for £1499 which is a GREAT price, i texted the guy and got a one word answer "Sold" followed by another "i run a vintage shop, got lots more"

digitalscream

TimmyO said:

It's no longer on their Reverb store - maybe they saw this.

f it happens again just edit your source images to dick pics or an image saying "Fire Guitars do not own this guitar" lol 

I brought it to their attention, along with suggesting that they look into all the other items on there - looking at the picture backgrounds, he seems to have as many houses as he does guitars...

rico

He had a LP on ebay for sale not too long ago that I put in an offer for (which was refused) and then he started bombarding me with messages saying I wouldn't find another as good as this at that price blah blah blah. I told him to naff off but he pestered away regardless.

I do wonder whose photos he had stolen for that one!

DLM

TimmyO said:

If it happens again just edit your source images to dick pics  

https://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/168955546/Page_8.jpg

TimmyO

or better still an image with the address of the thread on here

MtB

Reverb.com have confirmed to me that they have removed the advert.

Gassage

I have to say, this is criminal fraud.

pmg

Is it time to lock the classifieds to established posters?

digitalscream

pmg said:

Is it time to lock the classifieds to established posters?

That would result in two things:

1 - Almost zero site growth (which leads directly to eventual site death)
2 - People who can access the classifieds get less exposure for their ads, which means less chance of a sale

Short answer: no

Gassage

digitalscream said:

pmg said:

Is it time to lock the classifieds to established posters?

That would result in two things:

1 - Almost zero site growth (which leads directly to eventual site death)
2 - People who can access the classifieds get less exposure for their ads, which means less chance of a sale

Short answer: no

What's the long answer?

NOOOOOOO?

capo4th

Fire guitars will love a review of their services and operations.

The power of the internet. 

I can't stand people who operate and sell goods in this manner just ripping people off.

meltedbuzzbox

digitalscream said:

pmg said:

Is it time to lock the classifieds to established posters?

That would result in two things:

1 - Almost zero site growth (which leads directly to eventual site death)
2 - People who can access the classifieds get less exposure for their ads, which means less chance of a sale

Short answer: no

Bass chat is still going strong and they charge per classifieds ad

capo4th

£2 via PayPal to post an ad would work a treat.

Would also eliminate a lot of the overpriced 40 post overdrive for sale threads

ICBM

Back in the late 80s there was a proper guitar shop in Ealing, can't remember the name of it but it was down by the park.

It caught fire.

Maybe this one nicked the idea too...

Alnico

ICBM said:

Back in the late 80s there was a proper guitar shop in Ealing, can't remember the name of it but it was down by the park.

It caught fire.

Maybe this one nicked the idea too...

Stolen Calor ?

Too Tenious ?

Gassage

I can't do anything but repeat this is criminal fraud (attempted).

TimmyO

digitalscream said:

pmg said:

Is it time to lock the classifieds to established posters?

That would result in two things:

1 - Almost zero site growth (which leads directly to eventual site death)
2 - People who can access the classifieds get less exposure for their ads, which means less chance of a sale

Short answer: no

I'd be careful about how I expressed that - it implies that user experience is 2nd to having lots of users, of whatever quality and motivation

digitalscream

meltedbuzzbox said:

digitalscream said:

pmg said:

Is it time to lock the classifieds to established posters?

That would result in two things:

1 - Almost zero site growth (which leads directly to eventual site death)
2 - People who can access the classifieds get less exposure for their ads, which means less chance of a sale

Short answer: no

Bass chat is still going strong and they charge per classifieds ad

They used to have an order of magnitude more traffic than they have now. That's not something that we want to volunteer for.

The central point is that this is a public forum, which carries all the pros and cons that go with being public. Closing the classifieds off because of this incident is a really silly suggestion; people quite comfortably put stuff up for sale on eBay, Gumtree, Reverb etc all the time and none of that is private. The exposure to Google is a big part of how things sell.

TimmyO said:

digitalscream said:

pmg said:

Is it time to lock the classifieds to established posters?

That would result in two things:

1 - Almost zero site growth (which leads directly to eventual site death)
2 - People who can access the classifieds get less exposure for their ads, which means less chance of a sale

Short answer: no

I'd be careful about how I expressed that - it implies that user experience is 2nd to having lots of users, of whatever quality and motivation

Which bit of says that our members come second to lots of users? And how many people would be well served by a slow death of the site (which is demonstrably what happens to any site which doesn't actively court growth)?

It strikes me that one person nicking photos to try a scam doesn't really warrant closing the whole classifieds section off to the wider Internet; besides, I think our track record with regard to scammers is self-evident, and speaks far more about how much we care about our members' experience.

Blaendulais

I think this is the same group that I raised queries about on the fretboard a while ago re an ES 339. When I called and wanted to see it was 'in a shop on Tin Pan Alley'.

Ealing Broadway    
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/76208/es-339-advert#latest