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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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I was already biased against this particular brand, and reaffirmed after this
And this
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
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.
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.
That shit really reinforced my standing on never buying anything by Gibson. What a fucking waste. I’d rather play unauthentic.
“[they were] an isolated batch of Firebird X models built in 2009-2011 which were unsalvageable and damaged with unsafe components. This isolated group of Firebird X models were unable to be donated for any purpose and were destroyed accordingly.”
There are many I could say that about, but I'll leave that to myself and not stir any pots.![]()
I have stopped buying products due to advertising as well as company conduct. One of my pet peeves is when companies step into the political arena. That will cause me to steer away from a company pretty fast. I want to hear about your products, not your political beliefs.
To be fair, the company said this about the idea of donating them:
I don’t know, but I don’t have any reason to not believe them. I remember working in food service for sporting events and seeing massive amounts of food thrown away at the end of the day. We asked why they didn’t donate it and were told they wanted to, but there was some sort of bureaucratic reason they legally couldn’t. It took several years of working to find a way around that before they could start donating it. So I know there can sometimes be barriers to donating things that might not be immediately obvious to outside observers.
While that could be very true, the fact that they put up a video of it on YT was a stupid AF decision.
Did the company make the video and put it up?
I've told a couple of local radio stations the truth: Whenever I hear the beginning of one of those ads, I switch to another station for at least an hour.I will most definitely never be dialing 1-877-Kars-for-kids
Last year McDonald’s royally fucked up my family’s order of milkshakes and I vowed to never again have another McDonald’s milkshake, and I never fucking will. The only reason I conceded to continue going to McDonald’s is because my daughter likes their Happy Meals.
I will most definitely never be dialing 1-877-Kars-for-kids