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Is Linny a member of this forum where someone can say they know him? AFAIA, he is something of an unknown quantity. We do know he sells leather guitar straps because he told us that. So there is a business incentive to him making clickbait content for guitar players, whether you want to acknowledge that or not.
What reason do you think he has for now making a video about the manufacture location of CTS pots, if it's so unreasonable of me to suggest that he's making clickbait videos for business purposes?
- Gibson didn't have a replacement to offer (which is not the same as not offering one when they have one available). Asking for one would've been pointless. How hard is that for you to grasp?
- My experience validates the claim that customers can deal with Gibson directly and don't have to go through a dealer in every situation, (even though you haven't discovered this for yourself), and thus counters the argument that the guy who made the video couldn't have dealt directly with Gibson.
BTW it's a Royale.
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With respect, it's not me failing to grasp anything. You're missing the point by a country mile that the question at hand is specifically about whether Gibson will send a replacement to a guitar purchased via a dealer. It doesn't matter if Gibson didn't have your particular model in stock, nor that you would have said no to such an offer. Utterly irrelevant.
I'll break it down one final time: it's not uncommon for companies to say "We don't have an exact replacement but we have this one, would you like it?" and Gibson did precisely that with me, they had no 2014 models in my colour left, and offered me a different model (still a Les Paul, just a different year, colour, and a bump from Plus to Premium). I'm not suggesting you should have taken a LP Junior instead of an SG, I asked if Gibson offered a different type of SG from the one you ordered.
So no, despite your protestations, it doesn't validate the claim that you can buy a guitar from a retailer and then bypass the retailer for an exchange from Gibson. You've shown it's possible to talk to Gibson when the dealer is out of options.
I suspect this is now a matter of you "won't" rather than "can't" grasp the difference, so consider me done with this particular tangent. My question was a fair one, and I wasn't the only one asking it. I haven't said it's definitely not possible either, I've said it's counter to what I've heard from 10 years ago and 3 days ago, and am trying to enquire if anyone knows differently. But an answer needs to be actually comparable to the scenario we've been shown, and not that someone has proven it's possible to speak to Gibson.
I take with a pinch of salt this video as your man only has a couple of vids, a few hundred subscribers, holes in the story and just photo shots of damage. Which raises suspicions as its easy to do it properly on film these days with a second hand £150 iphone.
Come on, admin close this discussion down, how many times have we had this discussion, going right back to the music radar forum. Very boring now.
I did wonder when the Music Radar forum shut down had something to do with the same discussion that's going on now about Gibson QC or lack of it. Considering how much money Gibson most likely used to spend with the magazine, I wonder if they threatened to withdraw their advertising because of us constantly having a go about Gibson poor quality.
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Why make it up?
- He is trying to get a replacement for a guitar he knows he probably cant get legally.
- He is being paid to do it by a competitor.
- He wants to get a name for himself and hits as you have said. Why do a youtube video if you dont want to get hits?
- A couple of stoneheads mucking about with AI in videos having a pop at gibson.
- They are a member on here , spoofing it, knowing full well it will go nuts with people bickering about sweet fanny adams.
Maybe he has been sold a chibson and victim of a warehouse/postie side hustle. Either way....Why doesnt he correct it with another video? A full film close up of that guitar is easily done and further explanations of the holes in his story. Im sure thats incoming as views and comments increase, otherwise its pinch of salt stuff surely. Receipts, correspondence e mails, COA that kind of thing. Like any normal person would do.
Until then, who cares.
Why? Look at the very start of the video description box on YouTube — links to his leather guitar straps. Gibson is a massive brand in the guitar industry and taking a critical look at big players is a near-guaranteed way to get fast attention, which I dare say is why he’s followed that video up with a critical look at CTS pots. Now he’s got a fairly large pool of people that will see videos in YouTube’s recommendations thanks to their engagement on this video, some of whom may decide to buy his straps or whatever other guitarist-related accessories he releases.
What would your better way of getting hits look like?
But this thread has some great work and is shaping up to be a bit of a classic.
If my offspring ask me if they should take up guitar I will show them this thread.
1. Gibson have a problem with quality and consistency.
2. We can’t always believe what people say in YouTube videos.
3. You don’t win arguments on the internet.
I don’t think any of those come as a surprise.