Why are people like this?

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PedalPCB’s hottest new build is:

Cheap eBay Fisher Dude’s Custom Request

Yesyesyesyesyes.

If you’re a burned-out builder who loves solder fumes and emotional confusion, I have the place for you.

This build has *everything.*

Strymon-level expectations…

a Behringer-level budget…

a YouTube channel with three subscribers and a ring light from 2014…

drone synths that sound like a Roomba trapped in a cathedral…

It’s that thing where a guy says
“I don’t know what I want” but somehow knows it costs $1,200 retail.

This place has ambient musicians who press one key and stare at you like you’re the rest of the band…

FV-1 chips being asked to recreate the birth of the universe…

and payment plans based on “exposure” and vibes.

And look over there, is that a pedal demo?

No, it’s a guy holding a note for nine minutes while nodding like he’s solving climate change.

This build has that weird guy who calls himself a “sound architect” but lives in a studio apartment with 14 reverb pedals and no bed.

And when the clock strikes midnight?MTV's Dan Cortese appears and whispers “modulation…”

And just when you think it’s over, a man in a wizard robe asks if you can make it sound “more lavender.”

Because the hottest club in DIY right now is unpaid R&D.
 
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Pauleo1214 said:
The lo fi pedal is a levitation reverb into the low tide into a Sherwood drive. The current price of that is $69 on auction with no reserve.
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That seems like it would barely cover the cost of parts. Sounds like this thing is already a bargain.

P.S. found the EBay listing, this thing looks cool too! Diggin’ the giant cassette aesthetic 🤘
 
You’ve got a couple cool combo pedals for sale!

I imagine/ hope the prices on both of those will spike right at the end of the auction per normal eBay behavior.

Do you normally list pedals that way? If nothing else, it’s exciting to watch people fight over them! 🤣
 
Pauleo1214 said:
Seriously, nobody goes into a department store and tells a worker to decide what underwear they should wear.
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I've been doing this wrong?


Pauleo1214 said:
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Leaning toward a polite no, unless his definition of “custom” comes with a definition of “paid.”
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Hey hey hey...Everybody's got to be paid, except hopeful pedal-builders and budding musicians wanting exposure;
so... how much are you willing to pay him for the exposure?





Aentons said:
I would rehouse a mooer an sell it to them at 1000% markup
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Yeah!
Then once the dust settles and Pauly's been found out to be the latest Freakesh Blooze / Sustained Paunch / Veritext / Jay8chesS / Devee Evharr / etc scandal, Pauly will be poised to start a wildly successful ViewToob Eau-de-Chanel — he'll clean up all the algoriddims with his ambient-combo-pedal-building workchop seriesly.

It's a time-again-tested formula to proven success!
 
Erik S said:
You’ve got a couple cool combo pedals for sale!

I imagine/ hope the prices on both of those will spike right at the end of the auction per normal eBay behavior.

Do you normally list pedals that way? If nothing else, it’s exciting to watch people fight over them! 🤣
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Most of the time I throw it up with a starting price that covers materials but no labor. I thought I would changeresist.

Had a few people win auctions and not pay and I have to wait 7 days to relist.

@pricklyrobot , the price now doesn't cover cost of materials. The fact he is still fishing tells me he would pay in exposure or try to tie the price down to a low auction.
 
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Aleph Null said:

Not sure how I feel about this, but it's an interesting perspective. Maybe you need to raise your prices?
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In principle I agree with the “price higher, attract better buyers” idea, but the DIY market is pretty saturated right now with secondhand gear and builders, so it’s not a clean formula.

What gave me pause here wasn’t price — he never mentioned one. He kind of danced around it with bizarre requests, tooting his own horn while the auction is still low, which reads more like feeling out whether there’s a deal angle than a serious commission.

Interestingly I saw a analagous event occur at Anthropologie while my wife was shopping. A couple kept circling a fragrance display over and over, debating small vs large bottles, asking staff about ordering, leaving, coming back, then trying to convince an employee to sell them a sample tester at a discount. They harassed the employee non-stop for the sample bottom even asking to speak to the store manager. The price they were agonizing over was like $30 for a small bottle and $70 some for a large It wasn’t about affordability, it was about chasing the “win.”

At this stage I’m trying to keep things simple and low-friction. Burnout has made me value straightforward buyers who know what they want and just buy the thing.
 
I feel like it's best to cut people off before they can ask for free shit. I stopped telling people that I built my EUB at gigs because I was constantly getting asked to trade one for exposure. Friends, fellow musicians, strangers, they all seem to want free instruments just the same. Homey don't play that.
 
Pauleo1214 said:
Most of the time I throw it up with a starting price that covers materials but no labor.
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It's been a while since I listed something on eBay.... I used to start all of my listings at $1.

I have a bunch of pedals waiting to go on Reverb, maybe I should give that a shot just for S&G.... although I really don't want another 1099 to deal with... (or whatever they're calling that extortion these days)
 
Robert said:
It's been a while since I listed something on eBay.... I used to start all of my listings at $1.

I have a bunch of pedals waiting to go on Reverb, maybe I should give that a shot just for S&G.... although I really don't want another 1099 to deal with... (or whatever they're calling that extortion these days)
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Holy shit, I just noticed your profile pic… what have I done

I mean technically this is on Spi
 
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I've had a few people recently come at me with some AI bullshit for their "dream" builds.
Here's one where the commissioner was even kind enough to provide a schematic
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I doubt he's got the scratch to pay for any of my KunSack or ∆eplop

What really baffles me is these people see my YouTube and Instagram vids, and think I'm the guy to go to for a clean boost or an amp sim in the first place. Like- motherfucker, I make a the noise🤌🏻
 
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