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Chinese Thunderbirds??

#4
hey ToleranceJ, I just clicked the first link in the first post in that thread..the lefty is strung up righty with the E on bottom... just another factory defect to add to the existing JUNK -- PERFECT for Jim Haslip ( AND ME ) -- and is no longer available, :( not that I would want it anyway ;)

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#14
TMBTC said:
+ 1 ...... and when you get it and it's damaged or something, do you send it back to china????
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sending something back to china?

hah.

i remember reading a thread where somebody was spec'ing out having a chinese factory build him basses here... and there more or less is "nobody" to send it back.

If you want to take a $300 gamble, then fine.

I'd just as soon an epiphone for $250 on craigslist or guitar center.
 
#15
I wouldn't trust that website/supplier mainly because of this taken from the link:
This Violinis of the finest quality, and yet it is only raction of the cost that you would normally pay. You may be wondering how such an amazing product could be so cheap, It is possible because it has been manufactured in china, where labour is cheap. Cheap labour does not mean that quality has been compromised; all parts are of the highest quality and have been imported from overseas.n
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If they can't even be bothered to get the instrument name in the description correct or spell properly...
 
#16
I bought a junk chinese copy for 75 bucks expecting it to look like the pictures...well you know what?...it did look EXACTLY like the pics but:


The pickups were junk the p had 3.9k ohms, the MM had 5k ohms and ONLY HAD 2 WIRES and not 3 so you couldn't split it, and the tone knob did so little from a bogus cap on it I thought my ears were plugged or something--all replaced.
the neck was so twisted I took it in the bathroom for a week in clamps to steam it straight again ---done.
the bridge was so cheap it flexed when you pushed down on the backside where the strings go thru --swapped out.

fortunately, I have a huge parts bin, and it now plays like any other bass I have, BUT had I just bought it thinking it would play out of the box ---WRONG--- If I put all those parts into it would have cost a whole lot more than it was worth, and the thing was not worth more than 50 bucks in the first place.

and ship it back to China??..no frikken way, that would have cost me more than the unit was bought for --hahaha!!!!
 
#20
I think what people are not getting here is those Chinese companies ARE NOT catering to the USA,UK/AU/NZ or anywhere else EXCEPT for China. Those websites are not written in anything BUT Chinese, and what we all see is translated and you laugh about grammer? :rollno:

there's probably 891 threads on "Chinese knockoffs" here on the board, and they all say the same thing...garbage, no returns, you try one before I do crap, and I ESPECIALLY LOVE the "how dare they use a name brand design for their garbage copies"

however, with China being the #1 populated country in the world, they could give a **** about a handful of USA people and others laughing at their stuff, and they also could CARE LESS if we bought 5 or even 5000 units, because over there they sell 10's of thousands of units yearly, and make a good living from it.
 

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