Reverb bought by Fender parent company

Hopefully this will turn out to be a good thing. Not gonna hold my breath, but I'll be cautiously optimistic.
 
I suspect that some things will be much better or a little better. Some things will be the same and other things will be a little or much worse. Overall I think people will continue, start or stop using it.
 
ihave27frets said:
Now called Reverb Deluxe.
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They need to fix the security concerns with needing my social, my drivers license, my name, address, credit card info, and everything else that shit hole of a company demanded be on file to use the site. The fees were just icing on the crap cake they created of Reverb. They also need to fix the shit return policies buyers have taken advantage of. Even if they fix all of that, the help center needs revamped. After all of that is accounted for I’ll consider making an account again. Otherwise I’ll sell local or eat the loss at guitar center that doesn’t ask for anything but my DL.
 
glpg80 said:
They need to fix the security concerns with needing my social, my drivers license, my name, address, credit card info, and everything else that shit hole of a company demanded be on file to use the site. The fees were just icing on the crap cake they created of Reverb. They also need to fix the shit return policies buyers have taken advantage of. Even if they fix all of that, the help center needs revamped. After all of that is accounted for I’ll consider making an account again. Otherwise I’ll sell local or eat the loss at guitar center that doesn’t ask for anything but my DL.
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What would it take to become Super Reverb?
 
The article says they are looking at future enhancements such as dropping gear off locally without having to list or ship. I wonder if that means they take your gear, post it and ship it for you? That would mean they have brick and mortar in place in your city. I think that would be cool, kind of like consignment. I would unload a shit load of gear if they offered that.

I would expect they inspect your gear do there’s no arguing with buyers. That’s something I’d pay for.
 
stratjacket said:
The article says they are looking at future enhancements such as dropping gear off locally without having to list or ship. I wonder if that means they take your gear, post it and ship it for you? That would mean they have brick and mortar in place in your city. I think that would be cool, kind of like consignment. I would unload a shit load of gear if they offered that.

I would expect they inspect your gear do there’s no arguing with buyers. That’s something I’d pay for.
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I think they mean offsite sales person to person but still tracking for taxes and return policies.
 
I see this as Fender finally finding a way to get money from their biggest competitor.....they former selves and products :)

Now they will get a piece of new and used Fender gear being sold, among others.

I am still expecting a big gear sell off as the guitar playing population continues to age.
 
if fender bought guitar center/musician’s friend, could they be the new sweetwater with a more guitar-centric twist and a tighter grip on the used market?
 
I'm hopeful it will get better, but it will be at the margins. I liked them prior to Etsy but can't see them clawing back many of those changes (increased fees, requesting too much personal info, etc.). Perhaps they become less tone deaf, a little more creative and actually stick up for sellers too. One can dare to dream.
 
It’s not being sold to Fender, so they’re not going to have too much say. I’m sure the investment firm will try to get Reverb and Fender and other companies in its portfolio to do business together though.
 
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