Ian Elson Guitars - AVOID!!

mendy

 

GoldenEraGuitars

mendy said:

GoldenEraGuitars said:

I decided to have a nosy at the business page, it appears to be gone. 

Who smelt it dealt it

Very much not my style. But, in the spirit of the forum all I can say is *insert blowing a raspberry soundclip*

mgaw

Couldn't help but chuckle at the phrase "huge part of my business gone in a second" Not unlike his reputation then

Benm39

Awww nuts! I was just about ready to pull the trigger on a new (*possibly new, new to me) custom build... ah well...

andrewaward

poopot said:

GoldenEraGuitars said:

I decided to have a nosy at the business page, it appears to be gone. 

And his bullshit continues… apparently his page was hacked

Seriously? Who’d hack that?

A music fan

Tadragh1

Ouch. Being an amateur(ish) luthier is one thing, but this is definitely crossing the line towards scamming. And taking into account he started this whole venture a couple years ago already, he'll probably never learn how to make a proper guitar

Tannin

Congratulations all! I've had more laughs out of this absurdist parody thread than ever came out of the Friday Funnies. Great stuff, and it gets funnier and more ridiculous with each passing day.

skunkwerx

FTFY cos its probably what actually happened… 

digitalscream

Ohhhh, I've seen something like this before.

I'm not saying he'll do this, but when it happened before it was in preparation for claiming that tFB "hacked" their business.

poopot

digitalscream said:

Ohhhh, I've seen something like this before.

I'm not saying he'll do this, but when it happened before it was in preparation for claiming that tFB "hacked" their business.

Thing is, if someone hacked his account they would have pulled his personal page as well no?

you have to log into Facebook with your personal account to administer your business page!…

it’s all crap, he’s pulled that page himself and claiming “hackers”…

twunt of a bloke… 

fosk

I knew that Anonymous were targeting small guitar companies based in Norfolk, but never thought they'd get one of the bigger boys Facebook pages down.

sev112

Do Trading Standards have any interest in this whole sorry tale, does anyone know?  Would they have any interest at all?

crunchman

After all the bad publicity, he'll probably rebrand.  Keep an eye out for a new brand named Sonelian guitars.

TeleMaster

Seems like someone performed a public service 

Fiftyshadesofjay

It’s funny how these hackers always target the dodgy dealers. The guy that neglected to tell me about the pickup swap in my old Suhr also got hacked when I raised the issue with them. 

TrentGuitars

He can’t think that people would be that gullible to believe he was hacked?

SteveRobinson

TrentGuitars said:

People really can't be that gullible can they?

Have you seen the polls recently?

GoldenEraGuitars

SteveRobinson said:

TrentGuitars said:

People really can't be that gullible can they?

Have you seen the polls recently?

I’m still holding out for that tree fiddy million bro

TrentGuitars

To clarify - I mean about his Facebook being ‘hacked’ now those people he tricked!

scrumhalf

I think that more people are concerned about him hacking his guitars rather than some unknown villain hacking his website.