Bleat Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 Has anyone else seen the amount of Bad Monkey pedals now suddenly appearing on ebay going for ridiculous prices thanks to that JHS demo on Youtube. I was looking for a cheap overdrive pedal and thought "Might try a Bad Monkey, they don't go for much".... how wrong I was. Amazing how one man's word can price people out of what is nothing more than a cheap budget overdrive pedal. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GremlinAndy Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 (edited) Yeah. I watched the vid. They are indistinguishable from a Klon which go for up to 4 grand. And they’re oop, so I get that suddenly demand is high. They don’t sell for those silly prices though… they can still be got for £120 …which is high anyway. And it won’t last. They’ll come back down. There’s a lot of them out there so even though they’re oop, they’re not rare. l’ve got one myself. …BNIB! I thought about advertising it to see if anyone is stupid enough to pay, but my scruples objected. There’s a lot of hate for people selling them at inflated prices, but like all things, it a case of supply and demand. After that vid lots of people tried to scoop one up, driving the prices up. Edited March 21, 2023 by GremlinAndy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleat Posted March 21, 2023 Author Share Posted March 21, 2023 Yeah I get all that, just found it funny seeing so many on there. I will just look for something else. I have watched a few JHS vids and find him quite entertaining but I do think he's become too big and influential and knows it. I saw the pedals before I had seen his review. I'll wait until they are worth £25 quid again! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GremlinAndy Posted March 22, 2023 Share Posted March 22, 2023 (edited) Exactly the right thing to do. It’s just a passing fad, with lots of people thinking they’re going to make a quick Buck. The irony is that a lot of people will have bought them at these currently inflated prices (like £120) thinking they can sell at the upper limit (£600), but not realising that the stupidly priced one just don’t sell. Even £120 is preposterous. Edited March 22, 2023 by GremlinAndy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Bisby Posted March 22, 2023 Share Posted March 22, 2023 This sounds like a musician equivalent of Prime 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleat Posted March 23, 2023 Author Share Posted March 23, 2023 8 hours ago, Rob Bisby said: This sounds like a musician equivalent of Prime 😂 ...except the pedal probably tastes better. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewblack Posted March 26, 2023 Share Posted March 26, 2023 I think Josh is hilarious, knowledgeable, entertaining and promotes a hell of a lot of other people's equipment. It's not his fault if the market is so influenced by his videos. It's just silly people being silly and greedy people being greedy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean-Luc Pickguard Posted March 26, 2023 Share Posted March 26, 2023 What I got from Josh's video was that when you disregard all the hype, you can make a budget pedal sound like a klon and other more desirable pedals. Some people seemed to have missed the point though. Heres another video where JHS did a blind A/B test with various expensive pedals versus their budget clones. The Mosky silver horse beat the genuine klon in that one - Addison thought that the $30 Silver Horse was the $7000 Klon. I enjoyed this one as I have a silver horse on my guitar board. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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