Kapo_Polenton
Well-known member
I'm sure we all have one of these so I will start. We all know Christmas is about spending money so let's talk about times when we spent and lost with nothing to show for it!
About 1.5 years ago, I bought a killer modded JCM800 100 watter from a builder up here in Canuckistan. Great communication, prompt shipping, well packed, awesome product. I liked it so much that we got to talking and settled on a price for him to do me a modded Traynor. A mish mash of hotrod plexi with some switchable voicings. Would have been awesome because of the pedigree this guy had and the work he has done for other people. Power scaling, preamp mods, big traynor iron etc. So I drop my deposit. 1200$. Now I realize that's what, 200$ US dollars now?? But it was still substantial enough for me to show I was committed to the project. Well soon after.. a quick job became a relocation, breakup, and major health scare. I get all that. Those things can happen and I fault nobody for that and I do believe in giving people time to recover psychologically and mentally from major events in their lives. But a year in with little to no communication I figured let's wrap this up and just send me all the parts purchased for the amp and the chassis plus any $ not spent and I would just do the project myself over a year. I did get a response on this which I would call a "string along" message promising to get it done and make me whole but nothing since despite texts or emails.
This far gone, I am never getting this amp and guessing the cash is long burned. It is incredible to me how people can appear to be reliable and then completely flake. I guess that is always the chance we take when we go with smaller builders and modders. I have had to wait on guitars in the past and keep knocking at the door but at a certain point do you just say f-ck it? I'm not going to name the person as i don't think they have been active here for years but I also don't mind them seeing this and knowing that honesty and backing out of the project would have been more honorable than just flaking. Who knows though. Life can get tough and there could be other factors like lawyers, addiction, foreclosures. Builders are a bit like stocks I suppose. You go in hopeful but ultimately can lose it all.
Some of you guys got hit big on the whole Cameron fiasco. Did anything ever trickle down to you years later? Some of you even lost the physical amp I think. That would be a pisser. Another reason to only buy what you know you will get.
About 1.5 years ago, I bought a killer modded JCM800 100 watter from a builder up here in Canuckistan. Great communication, prompt shipping, well packed, awesome product. I liked it so much that we got to talking and settled on a price for him to do me a modded Traynor. A mish mash of hotrod plexi with some switchable voicings. Would have been awesome because of the pedigree this guy had and the work he has done for other people. Power scaling, preamp mods, big traynor iron etc. So I drop my deposit. 1200$. Now I realize that's what, 200$ US dollars now?? But it was still substantial enough for me to show I was committed to the project. Well soon after.. a quick job became a relocation, breakup, and major health scare. I get all that. Those things can happen and I fault nobody for that and I do believe in giving people time to recover psychologically and mentally from major events in their lives. But a year in with little to no communication I figured let's wrap this up and just send me all the parts purchased for the amp and the chassis plus any $ not spent and I would just do the project myself over a year. I did get a response on this which I would call a "string along" message promising to get it done and make me whole but nothing since despite texts or emails.
This far gone, I am never getting this amp and guessing the cash is long burned. It is incredible to me how people can appear to be reliable and then completely flake. I guess that is always the chance we take when we go with smaller builders and modders. I have had to wait on guitars in the past and keep knocking at the door but at a certain point do you just say f-ck it? I'm not going to name the person as i don't think they have been active here for years but I also don't mind them seeing this and knowing that honesty and backing out of the project would have been more honorable than just flaking. Who knows though. Life can get tough and there could be other factors like lawyers, addiction, foreclosures. Builders are a bit like stocks I suppose. You go in hopeful but ultimately can lose it all.
Some of you guys got hit big on the whole Cameron fiasco. Did anything ever trickle down to you years later? Some of you even lost the physical amp I think. That would be a pisser. Another reason to only buy what you know you will get.
