Ever turn on a product because their current ad campaign is so bad?

OMG! Have you forgotten about the cool kids ad? Many of us temporarily changed our avatars to express our enchantment. @OrganicZed is still honoring it.

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Piing said:
I was already biased against this particular brand, and reaffirmed after this :D


And this
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Yeah I forgot about that second video; what a fucking waste (yeah I know the guitar itself was dumb). They could have done ANYTHING else with them, but I guess seeing that Henry was well off his nut by that point, maybe he figured the write-off was the worth it.
 
RE: the guitar destruction I heard that it was because there was a snafu with suppliers and there was lead in the paint or something like that? Idk if thats true or not though
 
spawnofthesith said:
RE: the guitar destruction I heard that it was because there was a snafu with suppliers and there was lead in the paint or something like that? Idk if thats true or not though
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According to BJ Wilkes, the former Gibson employee that posted the video, it was a “horrible guitar with too much technology all based on Windows 98 or something” (it had USB and many whistles). According to former Gibson CEO Henry Juszkiewicz. “They literally could not sell these guitars and they were on the books,”. “Investors were all trying to clean up the mess before the end of the fiscal year. (1, 2).

At the end of the day, it was all about finance books. An insurance claim from the dealers which required the guitars to be destroyed to prevent them from being sold, and to remove Financial Liabilities: following the ousting of former CEO Henry Juszkiewicz, the new ownership was focused on cleaning up the company's financial situation, and the guitars were a burden.

As someone says at the comments, they could have donated, even a single one of them, to charity education.
 
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