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I was watching that, but I don't need another Thunder. The wonky tuners looked a bit weird.

There might be a clue in that.

Notice it's titled "Ricken"... ...not the full brand name... ...I wonder why.

I sometimes wonder if there are more fake Fenders than real ones.

I think you've nailed it!

I looked again... ...it's worse!

Someone told him he had to study the bass...

Pooples...

Some years back I was looking at building a set of MIDI pedals and I acquired an old electric organ and removed the pedals for the project. Fast-forward and I've got a "proper" set of MIDI pedals, I never did that project, and the organ pedals are still sat here. Would anybody like those barebones pedals for their project? Collection only - they are quite hefty. I'll try and do a picture, later.

Rest your thumb on the corner of the fingerboard. Alternatively, use a plectrum.

...and then I couldn't quite get the right sound from the VT Bass, so I put back in my BDDI as a distortion pedal. So now the board looks like this. There's probably a couple more revisions to do to get it just right.

It's gone, BTW;someone had it via freecycle.

I don't like the price.

The USB on mine is going to a 12-Step MIDI pedals.

I've just put a CIOKS DC7 under my pedalboard; it's good in that every output has the same 4 power options (9/12/15/18V). Plus it has a USB out.

I've looked at these, but the problem is I don't like actually playing an 8-string; I either don't press hard enough and get fret bzz fom the thin string or I press too hard and get a sore finger. I've just bought a Digitech Mosaic octave doubler pedal instead...

Well, after some faffing about, I've gravitated back to the VT Bass pedal I already had; I'm going to add a loop switcher to my pedalboard so I can completely take it out of circuit when it's off. I may keep a space on my board so I can try others out, though...

Were there any bass in the canal?

Absolutely - I reckon there would be slim pickings here for a defence against a charge of purposefully scamming people.

The facts are that multiple people were scammed by a convicted fraudster and have registered independent cases with Action Fraud. Regardless of whether or not some or all of the victims have discussed it online, the fact is that each has their own independent personal set of communications to submit as evidence. The underlying theme and advice of this thread has been to (a) identify the fact that multiple people have been caught out by the same scam, (b) be firm in demanding the refund, and (c) advise people to go the official route for redress. As far as I can tell, there has been nothing which could be construed as collusion or fabrication and the veracity of each victim's story can be established by the evidence they have retained. The mods have certainly done a great job of keeping this thread on-track and should be commended for helping stop the scam being perpetuated over the ensuing months whilst the wheels of justice spun up to speed.

I see what you are saying. People submitting the actual screen dumps of the actual messages they received could not be construed as anything beyond face value. Of course, the fact that people collectively realised that they were being taken in by the same scam and being given the exact same shipment id could not be construed as collusion. But there is some boundary there, yes.

Has he finally run out of harmonics to play?

I think they’ll be able to sort people’s own accounts from shared/anecdotal info.