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Billy 2 Pedals and all the demands on his time.
Safe the say the hype is totally of his making now at that price.
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"They take soo long to make"... I'm sure he's got 10's if not hundreds lined up in a row, ready to ship, when his "friend" who clearly needs some financial advice, has her next financial crisis.
Anyway, fair play to him. It needs to be a good product to start with to get the following, then you cash in, by slowing down supply and making out there are supply issues. I love it when amp and pedal builders make out components are in short supply and the new resistors just aren't as good as these 50 year old ones, that we only have a handful (never specific) of left. BTW, I appreciate with germanium resistors, builders need to buy a ton, to find the good ones.
I wonder how much you'd need to pay John Mayer to post an Instagram of your pedal on his pedalboard.... surely a good way to make money in this game. I wonder how much, this stuff goes on?
Anyway I fall for it all the time.
The hype's gone to his head.
He thinks he's some sort of celebrity rock star.
Fair play to him. Made one of the most iconic and most copied pedals ever and absolutely should be able to make some money from it. It's not like he's getting rich off them.
On one hand, free market, he can do what he wants, plus if its true, that’s also fine.
On the other hand, why the need for the story? If he wants to make a sell one even because he is bored, just do it, I am sure people will buy it. Is the charity thing a pre-text so he can sell it at market price, or one may call it inflated price. But without a story, if he is just making it on the regular then people will ask why he isn’t selling it at his original $400 price. It seems like he likes the value of what his pedals has become and he is cashing in on it, even for a friend. He has the power to make them a regular thing, say $800, double his old profit, and it would sell. He must also know that by doing so he would crash the used market for the old pedals from $2000 to $800 (or whatever he now sells it for). But then he would make a lot more money than a single £2k payment for his “friend”.
https://www.gearnews.com/bill-finnegan-is-selling-the-original-klon-centaur-overdrive-again/
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*genuine question, I vaguely remember reading that somewhere, and that's why its got the script about "I didn't start this hype" on it.
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If you've already got another full time job but have a unique position to make a product and sell it for great money then surely it'd be mad for him not to. Pretty sure he's not loaded and if he can make money from his legacy then fair enough. The used market ones aren't putting food on his table or paying his mortgage.
If you could make and auction 1 for $2k or build 5 and sell them for $400 each what would you (honestly) do yourself? 5 times the work for the same money and having to do it full time rather than as and when to fit in around your current life? I know what I'd do.
Bottomline is, as a consumer, I don’t care WHY he is making it and WHY he is selling it. The seller sets a price, if it’s another random user selling his for $2k, nobody would bat an eyelid. As the original maker of the product, it is strange that he has or even felt needed to give a reason. Is it because without it people would ask “you are exploiting the market?”.
I think “totally” would be the answer.
But if its for “charity”…
I think he has let the hype gone into his head.
There are 4 competing bidders above U$1200, one is 0 feedback.
If that is account is shill then it's a problem. 100% bidding activity (two items) from the same seller.