Boss Tonebender pre order through Macaris

stevrossthepipe · April 2021

Hahah . If he posted it at £1000 it would probably sell. I emailed Ant about an address change and he didn’t mention anything about it being late not that he would really. Think originally was early May. I would presume Macaris would get theirs first ish? I can’t imagine boss would start shipping before they are finished and so can only imagine it’s pretty close.

Cols · April 2021

Well, one’s sold for the princely sum of £1280.14. Free shipping as well, not like the previous cheapskate.

https://reverb.com/uk/item/40257721-boss-tb-2w-tone-bender-waza-craft-free-shipping?show_sold=true

RaymondLin · April 2021

Ouch, that's set the bar now. £1300. Which is crazy!

Vintage-T · April 2021

You’d have thought Macaris would have been the first with stock

RaymondLin · April 2021

Vintage-T said:

You’d have thought Macaris would have been the first with stock

Well, he would have got one ahead of time, like the video he shot, like the head engineer picked one out and shipped it to him personally. But in terms of production distribution, I suspect he is just one of all the stores worldwide on a list. Which is done by a different department.

Whitecat · April 2021

Another one popped up on Reverb this morning for around £1500 delivered - also from Japan so I think it’s safe to assume they are shipping there properly now.

ThePrettyDamned · April 2021

I had a tonebender built for me a few years back for under £100.

Lol.

Slash'N'burn · April 2021

Cols said:

Well, one’s sold for the princely sum of £1280.14. Free shipping as well, not like the previous cheapskate.

https://reverb.com/uk/item/40257721-boss-tb-2w-tone-bender-waza-craft-free-shipping?show_sold=true

Seller putting fake bids/purchases on to try and set the used price?

Vintage-T · April 2021

I fail to understand how anyone could be desperate enough for them to pay upwards of a grand for this, yet wasn't able to pre-order one at the £300 price? They didn't exactly sell out in a minute, took a good few hours to all go, and if you're that cock-a-hoop over this collaboration, surely you'd have been ready to pre-order one?

The mind boggles???

Saying that, the flipper price is obscene, and surely enough that it would make you think about shifting your own on if you had one in hand at this current moment in time.

I'll be happy to get mine and happy to keep it too.

RaymondLin · April 2021

Vintage-T said:

I fail to understand how anyone could be desperate enough for them to pay upwards of a grand for this, yet wasn't able to pre-order one at the £300 price? They didn't exactly sell out in a minute, took a good few hours to all go, and if you're that cock-a-hoop over this collaboration, surely you'd have been ready to pre-order one?

The mind boggles???

Saying that, the flipper price is obscene, and surely enough that it would make you think about shifting your own on if you had one in hand at this current moment in time.

I'll be happy to get mine and happy to keep it too.

I guess it was because people were expecting it to drop in April (order and ship the same time), not with a order in Feb and release in April timeline. I only got one because I was sitting in front of my computer and saw the email come through, didn't even go to forums to check (i knew there will be a thread on it), and just order it first.

That was at 8:59am. I recall Maraci, Peach all had their stock gone by about 9:15. But GuitarGuitar wasn't online until about 10:30am. That went quick once it was.

So in a way you got to be lucky you were online at the time. If i had been driving or out and about then I too would have missed it. If I had though it would have been just one of those things, I would never pay over RRP for something like a pedal. There are a million pedals out there, I would just get something else. The Benson one looks good as an alternative.

Whitecat · April 2021

https://www.guitarworld.com/news/boss-waza-craft-tb-2w-tone-benders-are-now-available-and-already-being-sold-for-dollar2000-on-reverbcom

The Boss man is angry…

If it carries on I can imagine Boss not doing anything like this again where the numbers are limited. Scalpers just create bad will towards the brand, even if unintentionally. It’s not good PR for Roland/Boss.

Vintage-T · April 2021

Anyone who couldn't see this coming has no business being the head of a company like Boss.

Literally every product for the last 5 years at least that is in anyway limited, and in-demand has been a hot bed for scalpers.

If they wanted to avoid this they should have either a) not done it or b) produced more so that demand was equalled by supply. Appreciate due to scarcity of parts that it may not have been possible.

But Derr! how can they be surprised???

stonevibe · April 2021

It's the dickheads that pay £2k for Klons that are to blame. They started all this crap. LOL

RaymondLin · April 2021

Just got an email from Andertons that they are not getting their stock until June. Which might make this drag on even longer since there won't be like a flood of them coming onto the market.

Sassafras · April 2021

In other news, Boss received an order for half a million empty pedal enclosures from Musicground.

ICBM · April 2021

Nothing exposes the utter idiocy of the boutique pedal market like scalpers trying to charge thousands of dollars for a Boss pedal - except for other morons being willing to pay it...

I really do hope Boss find a way to remanufacture the transistors and put it into production at half the original price. (And not just because I'd probably buy one, at £150.)

Redlester · April 2021

I think I said this earlier, but surely they could make a COSM or some other kind of digital version of this. I mean it's a fuzz. Can't be too hard can it?

ThePrettyDamned · April 2021

Would be *incredible* if boss doubled down and announced they now can produce them as a regular production pedal for regular production price.

Cols · April 2021

ThePrettyDamned said:

Would be *incredible* if boss doubled down and announced they now can produce them as a regular production pedal for regular production price.

And utterly hilarious for whoever just spaffed two grand up the wall on a Boss pedal.

Niallseroreilly · April 2021

Cols said:

ThePrettyDamned said:

Would be *incredible* if boss doubled down and announced they now can produce them as a regular production pedal for regular production price.

And utterly hilarious for whoever just spaffed two grand up the wall on a Boss pedal.

But sure everyone knows the tone of the original run will be much more authentic...

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