Do you ship amps insured or not?

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Beyond Black said:
I’d say said bro would be SOOL.
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Happened to me. My metroplex was damaged enroute back in March - it still worked and functioned, just didn’t sound right though. I’d made a NAD post over on TGP and they blamed me for not setting it up correctly or having it sound like a pedal and I was getting so many thumbs down it was going to force the YouTube algorithm not to suggest my videos, so I removed the video all together.

I’d went through the hassle to list it and that was when I found out it was fucked. I was in the process of packing it and heard a rattle inside of something loose which ended up being a cathode bypass capacitor that had fallen out of the board. I’m thinking to myself “no wonder I don’t like it, it’s been fucked the entire time.”

Told the buyer the amps not as described and called off the sale - showed him what I found. Money hadn’t been traded yet thank god. He was sad but understood. I then spent a Saturday night reverse engineering the circuit to find out where the component went based on its voltage rating and size, popped it back in, soldered it into place, and it was way, way more aggressive/more gain.

Long story short the insurance claim had long expired and I did the right thing to back out of the sale of an item not as described to save my own butt from hell with a buyer and then fixed it on my own time. George isn’t taking in repairs anymore and doesn’t answer emails unless it involves the purchase of a new amp.

Sometimes shit happens. I got lucky in that I could fix said high dollar amp on my own - I let the previous owner know what happened, but never stomped my foot or demanded anything. He was surprised I was selling it off at all - said it kicked ass for him.
 
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Every time. Only ever had 1 issue and glad I had insurance on that one, so I use it every time.
 
I received a Hayseed 30 that was slammed so hard, the PT was ripped-away from the chassis.
 
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I former bandmate got ripped-off on a guitar. Some years later he sold an old Peavey amp to the same person who ripped him off. Before shipping the amp, he shit into a zip-lock bag, stuffed it into the chassis and shipped it out! :LOL:
 
Does anybody remember that guy named Mark Greco who was supposedly selling a bunch of amplifiers, but shipping pieces of drywall?
Did they ever catch that guy?
 
SQUAREHEAD said:
Does anybody remember that guy named Mark Greco who was supposedly selling a bunch of amplifiers, but shipping pieces of drywall?
Did they ever catch that guy?
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I think he was caught. Roland @xiwiwix got a box of sheet rock instead of a Mesa I think…. If memory serves correct. He’d know more.
 
SQUAREHEAD said:
Does anybody remember that guy named Mark Greco who was supposedly selling a bunch of amplifiers, but shipping pieces of drywall?
Did they ever catch that guy?
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mhenson42 said:
I think he was caught. Roland @xiwiwix got a box of sheet rock instead of a Mesa I think…. If memory serves correct. He’d know more.
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He changed his name, or was just using Greco for the eBay Mesa Scam.

I was completely set on not getting any amps (I got ok's from everyone he ripped off) to make sure he did time. At the very end of it, the Bryan investigator called me up and told me, "take the amps, there's no way he'll see any jail time." I'm paraphrasing.

From my understanding, the deal the DA gave him was: send everyone the amps he promised, all with brand new tubes, pre and power tubes. He over nighted 11 Triple Rectifiers. Everyone got their amps 3 years later. Charges were dropped.

So, no, they never caught him.

Maybe's he turned his life around.
 
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