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I'm also very reluctant to ever do business with Reverb again and am very tempted to close my account with them over this.
Super uncool to promote and sell wares from a known scam-artist!! Why do that? My mind boggles to think this crook is still in business. And then to see a seemingly reputable company cooperating/conspiring with him to boost sales of his shoddy tripe.
We live in a crazy world.
He'd have us think he's best friends with every musician that's ever lived.
Come off it Mr Vertex, it's not big and it's not clever. It's just tacky.
He abuses relationships and friendships for his own gain.
Seriously, I am baffled how he is still in business and seems to be selling pedals.
A forumite on here told me that he had spent time in North America and he said they are very trusting and take people at face value, which may in part explain how Mason is still in business. It seems that people, most like a lot of Americans, have accepted his apology and they believe that he's moved on and won't scam or con again. We probably don't buy in to his apology as quickly as they do. Someone doesn't change their behavior that quickly IMO.
In the original interview posted there was this line:
This has now been edited out but it was as if to say "you can trust good old Mason from the USA, choosing a good American contractor who does good military work. God bless trustworthy Mason and God bless America." It's all a load of shite and typical of how Mason tried to manipulate the interviewer into writing that - how would an interviewer even have that information or even think about researching the factory from that angle?
Good job Reverb took it out because it made the interviewer look like a dick.
http://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/if-you-are-buying-your-first-handgun-what-would-you-get.1737282/
lol that page being blocked at work.
Only if you mess with their daughters or sisters.
*edit* I'm obviously not being serious. Jokes guys.. It's fun to joke about the whole TGP gun thing. lol
As far as Vertex goes, I too am incredulous that anyone would buy his wares given the enormous amount of reliable / truthful / decent-human-beings making pedals out there. It's not even as if what he makes / rebrands / are that esoteric or hard to get other versions of.
Bewildering.
If only they applied those same Christian principles to their indiscriminate gunning down of unarmed black people.
I actually applaud Reverb for their approach. The article didnt need to be a witch hunt and it also gave plenty of references so that if you wanted to find out more (sordid ?!?) information on the whole thing you could. It was a professionally written piece of online journalism that continued to highlight the problems with this guy, his company and his ethos.
I'm glad the article was put out as it has enlightened me to Vertex's criminality and if it does that for others who were previously out of the loop then its been a success.
This particular scam passed me by at the time, so I am grateful that the dirt has been dug up again just to make sure that I dont fall into the trap of putting money into this particular jokers pocket.
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But I wouldn't be surprised if Mr Vertex cloned a few Danelectros. He could pick them up for pennies and stick his "custom made in the USA" labels on them.
To me there's a difference between that lazy approach and what Vertex did, which was to buy in pedals, swap the nameplate on them and sell them at more than double the original price.