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Another company doing Freekish Blues or is Joyo a scam??
Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 4:41 pm
by greeny23
Just stumbled across this..
these look a LOT like these:
and we all know they look like this..
any opinions/ideas on this?
Re: Another company doing Freekish Blues or is Joyo a scam??
Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 4:42 pm
by nieh
At least they're not charging ridiculous prices.
Re: Another company doing Freekish Blues or is Joyo a scam??
Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 4:44 pm
by kosta
Pains me to see the good Valco name being attached to this stuff.
Re: Another company doing Freekish Blues or is Joyo a scam??
Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 5:14 pm
by Caesar
It's not a scam. They aren't claiming a quality, booteek, made in usa pedal. It's not uncommon for the same crap to rebranded and packaged.
Valco = cheap crap
Re: Another company doing Freekish Blues or is Joyo a scam??
Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 5:21 pm
by McSpunckle
Yep. You'll find Artec pedals re-branded by cheap brands. And Biyang as well. It's not a scam, just a re-branded generic pedal.
I'm sure they can be "tweaked" according to who ordered them, too. For whatever reason the Valco one seems to use different jacks and doesn't use any hardware on the switch.
Re: Another company doing Freekish Blues or is Joyo a scam??
Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 5:42 pm
by Gone Fission
Frak, there are probably at least twenty brands that Super Fuzz pedals were sold under. Doesn't make them a scam. Freakish was a scam because they were lying their asses off.
Re: Another company doing Freekish Blues or is Joyo a scam??
Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 7:00 pm
by Jero
McSpunckle wrote:Yep. You'll find Artec pedals re-branded by cheap brands. And Biyang as well. It's not a scam, just a re-branded generic pedal.
I'm sure they can be "tweaked" according to who ordered them, too. For whatever reason the Valco one seems to use different jacks and doesn't use any hardware on the switch.
Re: Another company doing Freekish Blues or is Joyo a scam??
Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 7:21 pm
by theavondon
OEM, MOTHERFUCKERS
It's what brought us so many tasty versions of Shin-Ei pedals.
Re: Another company doing Freekish Blues or is Joyo a scam??
Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 7:27 pm
by greeny23
theavondon wrote:OEM, MOTHERFUCKERS
It's what brought us so many tasty versions of Shin-Ei pedals.
i could own every brand of FY-2 and not have enough.
Re: Another company doing Freekish Blues or is Joyo a scam??
Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 12:15 am
by ifeellikeatourist
Yeah, as long as they aren't claiming to be anything other than a cheap Chinese pedal, I think its all good. As previously mentioned, the univox, shin ei, etc stuff is what immediately comes to mind.