it's not capitalism that is causing the forced labor camps in China, it's Communism, racism (Han Chinese superiority), centuries of being evil to your fellow man being ingrained into Chinese culture.
Have you ever reacted to Swedish Tommy Johansson's Yt channel? He is the guitarist of Sabaton, has his own band majestica and sings like a god. Plays all the instruments himself. An amazing person. Listen to his covers of ABBA, Queen, Gary Moore and more and more
oh it's not a knockoff... look at the fretboard this was made in the same indonesian factory as the real Ibanez! just a different label slapped on. Ibanez has been doing this since the 60s
@@TaylorDanley I'm not about to look that shit up again, that was terrifying. Do they really sound like that? If so, I can understand why they got their enemies scared shitless.
I don't understand the logic of guitars like this. They don't stay in tune, they sound like garbage, they don't play well. If anything they'll only put a new player off and end up gathering dust in a closet. By the time you've installed some decent tuners and pickups you might as well have just bought a better guitar in the first place. Just seems like a false economy to me.
Made the mistake of buying some stuff off Temu. Half of it was totally unusable, and my email spam has easily increased 1000% since. Considering all the sponsored content of theirs I've been seeing I appreciate an honest take. On an unrelated note, the flashback to you with short hair made me realize how long I've been following your channel now!
Dude, it was weird seeing the clip when I added it! Thanks for sharing, I'm sorry for your email. I feel like it's probably easier to burn the account than it is to unsub from the email.
Thats funny I bought tons off of Temu and have gotten not one spam message, huh! Yes some stuff is crap and guess WHAT! YOU CAN ASK FOR YOUR MONEY BACK! Imagin that DUH! Yet funny how you dont have a problem with the republicans as we speak forcing children into force labor do you! SMH!
You did an amazing job of discussing the issue and bringing them to light. I had heard about the privacy issues, but not the forced labor concerns . You’re the first person to have brought that up and you couldn’t have handled it any better .
Glad you drew attention to this issue not even just because it concerns temu but the more we rely on buying products from the web the easier it becomes for companies to hide abusive business practices and take advantage of our trust in receiving a product that meets their descriptions
This is definitely true. This one just felt wrong, and I didn't want to scrap the video because I thought it was kind of funny, but definitely didn't want to promote their stuff without a very clear and strong disclaimer.
@@TaylorDanley @jessiehutchings Please remember that U.S. prisoners are used as extremely cheap labour for a great number of products and services in the U.S., and are often forced to engage in that work. Prisons are companies that make a profit from that cheap/free labour (slavery). Penal labor in the United States, allowed by the 13th Amendment of the Constitution, is a multi-billion-dollar industry. Annually, incarcerated workers provide at least $9 billion in services to the prison system and produce more than $2 billion in goods.
the best thing to do to get a cheap metal guitar is get an Ibanez Gio or a used guitar. My first guitar ever was an Ibanez gio and I’ve been playing it for over 10 years now
It's not my first guitar, but my 5th guitar (and the last one I bought) was a Laguna LE122 off a friend for $50 because he didn't quite like how it played, plus hardly played anyway. I bought that thing in 2015, and it's been my primary guitar since then. My Epi Les Paul that my parents bought me for my first REAL guitar back in 2009 and this stupid Laguna have been the only guitars that I keep. This past Christmas I had some extra money from so I decided to buy the Alpha and Omega pickups, new tuners, and a new nut because why not, I've enjoyed it and I wouldn't be out much if I didn't like how it turned out.
The HB R-446 is similar to the Temu strat, but priced at 159€ and it's actually great! It's on par with the 300€ Jacksons and Ibanezes (which are on par with 600€ guitars)...
Harley Benton is no better than this. I reviewed a Harley Benton recently and actually found it worse than this th-cam.com/video/L63UURpbD9M/w-d-xo.html
@@MaximusAdonicus I have the Harley Benton R-446 in blue metallic gloss, I bought it as a b-stock item for $135. It is a beautiful guitar and plays very well.
This is actually refreshing. To see a content creator with integrity and principals. I've seen others, like Jake Tran, promote sites and products they knew were sketchy, but the manufacturers paid him decent money, so yeah, glowing promotion coming up!
Thank you for shining light on the temu subject. Such topics as these are sensitive and sometimes uncomfortable to discuss, but if they're not brought to light, they'll remain in the darkness. On a side note, the same money spent on that guitar can go towards a used Ibanez GIO or Jackson JS and the consumer will definitely have a more playable (and moddable) guitar. Thanks for showing me that I don't really want one of those for a mod project, no matter how cool it looks. Up the horns! 🤘
First, never apologize for raising awareness. It's something more people should do. Second, as sketchy as TEMU may be, there are much, much bigger companies like NIKE, Apple, and Foxconn that are doing the same thing. As with everything, BUYER BEWARE. I'm a big advocate of making informed purchases. Good video, and thanks for being honest!
Damn i downloaded temu a few months ago, never purchased anything, thought all the notifications were annoying af, but just ignored them 😂. Had no idea about this. Just uninstalled it, thanks man.
I've dealt with Chinese guitars. Yes, you can upgrade them. However, what I've found is that that upgrading the electronics can be a real B*tch. I went to replace a neck pickup and the entire inside of the guitar was a wood spiderweb. I had to cut all the internal wiring, router out the splinters, then wire and solder everything. Spend the money and buy an Ibanez Gio. It's on the lower end of the spectrum but they are solid guitars.
R and T are next to each other on the keyboard, the sticker is a typo of START your enjoyment. Edit also. nice presentation, good script reasonable and valid concerns and responses, subbed! (ps i randomly clicked on this)
I seriously admire your take on the political aspect of it. The tragedy with Xinjiang people esp Uyghur muslims stripped off their human rights violated by the Chinese government do not get much coverage nowadays. Thanks for informing and letting people judge for themselves and staying transparent. It's unexpected to hear such things from a channel as you but now quite gratified about your opinions. Huge props and respecc to you.
Thanks. I hate posting stuff like this honestly, I end up getting a bunch of “well actually” comments and I’m not trying to debate this topic.. But I’m glad that most people seem to appreciate what I’m trying to do here. 💪
Please remember that U.S. prisoners are used as extremely cheap labour for a great number of products and services in the U.S., and are often forced to engage in that work. Prisons are companies that make a profit from that cheap/free labour (slavery). Penal labor in the United States, allowed by the 13th Amendment of the Constitution, is a multi-billion-dollar industry. Annually, incarcerated workers provide at least $9 billion in services to the prison system and produce more than $2 billion in goods.
Keep an eye on the prices of the coupon available purchase. I priced a guitar one day. 70 bucks on Temu. So i thought id see what the 300 usd coupon would do... Filled up my cart to make this happen and realised the guitar showed 129.00 with a ridiculous savings retail of 599.00 crossed out. That is super shady. That is your coupon. A lie about the retail they say they saved you. Not no but hell no. Haha
first time watching, IMMEDIate SSUB!! thanks for informing me about temu because i Live in Illinois and i keep using the site because its so cheap but now i know i qualify for the data leak lawsuit! i didn't know about the labor allegations and the data leak at all so thank youuuuuuu
I found a cheap Joyo Uzi pedal on there. I managed to get some decent 80s tone out of it. Im glad you said something about the "indentured servitude" going on. I had honestly not heard about it, either.
I was going to subscribe just for the great review. But the ending solidified it. I can more than appreciate a dude who is completely honest! Keep up the great work!
I applaud you for doing what these big organizations won’t. It’s also a sad day when I get more truthful news from a guitar guy on TH-cam than I will from actual journalists.
In fairness, all the information I got was from actual journalists. I linked the articles I cited if you want to read further, but it was never my intention to try to inform people or get on a soapbox. I just wanted to state my case on why I felt it was unethical. Other guitar youtubers obviously don't feel the same, and that's OK. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions.
My friend got a tele - style guitar off Temu and he had me set it up. The gigbag had started ripping from the time he left home to the time I got it home!! I was afraid to hold it by the handles. The frets were sharp and not polished at all. Everything looked shiny and new, but you can just tell that the materials are questionable. The neck has a gloss finish, but it was so soft that my fingernails made indentations in it. The tuning machines were rough when turning. The pickups sound okay. I say it is a waste of $100. I got a sweet Cimar strat by Ibanez for $80 at a pawn shop that was made in Korea and is FAR better.
Amazon's lobbyists are working hard to stop temu lol before temu there was amazon walmart and so on working with Chinese cheap factories now they're afraid of compitation.
The selector thing could be that is not well put in the cavity. It happened to my the same thing with an Ibanez RG i got from a second hand store. Whoever checked or set up the guitar for the last time (i bet no one in the shop did) put it the wrong way and I could not access to all 5 positions until I corrected the position of the switch inside.
Thats called integrity and you should be proud to speak up against that kind of intrusive behavior from a merchant. Dont apologize dude, you did the right thing
I just want a Mesa cab with a 5150 head with axe fx and I'd be sooooo happy. Your jam room is unbelievable 100k worth of equipment in 1 room fuck man your collection is insane
New guitars basically never stay in tune, because the new strings are still settling, so we can basically dismiss that issue. If you have to, you can also just lock down the bridge. Back when I was a kid, I got my first Charvelle, and I signed up for lessons at a local guitar shop. My teacher taught me how to stretch out the strings and tune my guitar, and the techs at the shop worked on the action and got it up and running. Thus, being perfect from the factory also isn't an issue (just ask Gibson!). If a parent has a kid that doesn't always follow through with things, but the kid is begging for a guitar, this makes total sense. I see some comments on here calling this a "false economy" and I couldn't disagree more. As if feeling a new hobby out with minimal investment is somehow dimwitted. As if when someone decides to keep going with this hobby, and they do actually decide to upgrade parts over time to make their guitar better, the student won't have a deeper connection with a guitar they modded themselves. You'd think all these nay-sayers worked for big guitar companies. These geniuses must buy Ferraris for their children when they're learning how to drive too.
Yes. I would also prefer to spend the extra to stay in some semblance of tune. I find that rather important. That demo was crazy... Many thanks for the unbiased video, mate.
@@TaylorDanley American media have been talking about Xinjiang for a while now. The situation is way more relaxed in reality. Regarding privacy, anything from meta is way way worse, but you won't see people complaining about it because it was created in the West and west good, east bad 😕
It's not a scam, it's a direct distributor of Chinese goods. Like Amazon but with the middle man cut out. As to the data privacy concerns, they don't do anything many other companies already do. Only reason it's a controversy is because the US government is worried about competition for cheap goods, I.e. cutting out Amazon, so there has been some government investigation. Much like there has been on many companies. I personally will never use Temu though
I've twice tried to post a thoughtful response to this issue, trying to view it from both sides and within seconds the post disappears. I'm not sure what is going on.. but it's not a good sign for the future.
I dot. Know about you guys, but I do understand and value the quality of a well set up and well built instrument. One of my best friends bought a used Spector neck through for half of its worth, and it to this day is one of the best playing basses I’ve ever held. Same goes for another friend’s Ken Smith. And by best playing, what I mean is a comfortable and predictable action, string height, arc of the saddles, proper nut height, all in the name of good tonality, intonation. We all have some experience with how intervals SHOULD sound, even if you’ve never touched any instrument, you’ve no doubt been listening to music enough to know when it’s right, maybe not realize when it’s a hair off, and also maybe not know why it’s off, but generally you’ll be able to tell when that fifth doesn’t sing like it did in that one sing. An instrument with poor dynamic stability will never intimate properly, but those are very rare. It even the lowliest of manufacturers WANTS to sell you a piece of shit, in relative terms. Yes, the tuners might be shoddy, but it WILL tune, maybe just not consistently. Maybe the neck has an imperceptible twist and that’s why it doesn’t feel right, but this isn’t the 1980’s. The supply of decent stock is plentiful, and believe it or not, the high end throw away wood is often better than your mediocre axe in your hand right now, and the smart guys are harvesting that wood and doing exactly this. Turning one man’s trash into another man’s cool and decent musical instrument.
I remember before the internet, say (1983), i wanted an electric guitar so much. No temu, but we had newspaper for sale adds. The guitar i bought for $60 1983 was infinately worse. Mine had a 2cm body thickness, surface mount pickups, i mean microphones, machine heads without headstock hole liners and two switches, on or off, and a tone and volume pot. But i didn't know anything about solid body guitars. I had been taking classical nylon lessons since grade 3 so on i got to tune it (an hour) which you needed pliers for because the string posts had pulled into the wood because of the lack of hole liners. I was so green i didnt even cut and shove some pipe in the holes to fix that. My teacher just shook his head and said at least its got a truss rod, which seemed important to him- i had no idea. Ok so my amp was dads old hi-fi amp and with some repurposed oval car dashboard am radio speakers, it made it sound loud. The guys at the music shop were great. They found a lead with guitar jack one end and hi-fi or rca jacks other end. And so my electric guitar journey bagan. The point of this comment is that temu would have given me better eqiupment and and saved the pain of learning to play on a hard to play guitar. Temu would've been great for my level. So give a thought to those "poor" people who cant just spend their dads car value on good gear. And i learned so much from trying to fix that dog that i ended up building my own guitar in school woodwork class, and when i could afford a real guitar i knew what to look for. Even so, i still remeber smiling from ear to ear the first time i played Wild Thing
Taylor, this just gave me 1000x more respect for you. Love ya bro, thanks for being one of the REAL youtubers, as in ":real" being youre a real motherfucker, if u get my meaning. Thanks, being a good person goes a LONG way with me. Most people will know Temu does this shit and still buy from there or promote it. People have no code anymore, atleast most seem to not have one, unlike you and I and some others out there. thanks again bro, proud to of been a subscriber to ya for a few yrs now
I neither knew Taylor, nor his band, nor his channel. But this dude is fun to watch, he seems quite intelligent, eloquent and has a good sense. Sacrificer is quite nice. Thx.
As far as the guitar staying in tune or not staying in tune in my opinion I can’t tell if it’s in tune or not playing death metal. It all literally sounds the same to me
First time watching one of your videos but you’ve got yourself a sub! Really appreciate the info on Temu - I don’t think they have quite the reach here in the UK but I’ve seen other TH-camrs do content on their products and they always seem sketchy as hell. Looking forward to checking out your other vids!
I rarely post any comments unless something just really blows me out of the water and just the first two minutes of listening to this video, this guy is very professional, and has a lot of wisdom in how he comes across
Hey T, I just wanted to say you handled that situation with more grace than most could. I've been bashin' out the Metal since my first Iron Maiden concert in 1981. That being said , I also served 23 years in the U.S. Army Infantry. I am a patriot that believes everyone gets to choose whatever they wish. You handled that superbly. Thanks and keep the cool content rolling. 🤘💀🤘 B.L.S. Berzerkers FTW S.D.M.F.
Major points for the transparency. I've seen multiple other guitar channels doing the Temu sponsorship and they haven't said anything about the issues with this company. I have a feeling doing this video the way you did is going to benefit you in the long run, because the key to these review channels is whether you can trust them.
I just want to say also, that I just happened to stumble across it AFTER the video was shot and I was looking for B Roll during the edit... I'm sure a lot of guitar channels don't edit as much, and were probably oblivious to it... but also, I'm sure that there are some of them that just don't care 🤷♂️
Well played. A great way to deal with this situation. I was approached by Temu as well and had agreed to a sponsored video. I backed out BEFORE they sent me anything because I had made a reasonable request for something I thought would contribute to a good video. They said no giving me some lame song and dance and I just felt their response was a little "weird." So feeling their brand didn't align with mine I just told them politely I was out. You exit was far more entertaining! :)
After watching the last little bit of this video I instantly subscribed strictly because you refused a sponsorship based on "forced labour". I know you mostly did this to protect your channel in the future, but as you said it is our job as consumers not to support these companies. Kudos to you.
I bought an SX superstrat guitar 10 years ago (maybe more). Which has the same body and pickup config. The only difference is the headstock. It was my first and only guitar until i got a Squire yesterday. It served my teenage self very well to be honest
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it's not capitalism that is causing the forced labor camps in China, it's Communism, racism (Han Chinese superiority), centuries of being evil to your fellow man being ingrained into Chinese culture.
One of us. One of us.
Shoutout pls
Have you ever reacted to Swedish Tommy Johansson's Yt channel? He is the guitarist of Sabaton, has his own band majestica and sings like a god. Plays all the instruments himself. An amazing person. Listen to his covers of ABBA, Queen, Gary Moore and more and more
And.... It's gone. (not available)
...A knock-off Fender sticker on a knock-off Ibanez 😂😂😂
hey now.. what's wrong with. ibanez... XD
@@johnmcclary754 ...They don't make enough lefty models...other than that, nada
I'm a big fan of their products
oh it's not a knockoff... look at the fretboard this was made in the same indonesian factory as the real Ibanez! just a different label slapped on. Ibanez has been doing this since the 60s
Most guitars are knock-offs.That's not the problem.
The uneven spacing of the middle single coil is killing me.
slightly unrelated but the aztec deathwhistle fr jumpscared me dude
Sorry 😂
Hehehehe
@@TaylorDanley I'm not about to look that shit up again, that was terrifying.
Do they really sound like that?
If so, I can understand why they got their enemies scared shitless.
I got two.
same here, honestly scared the hell out of me.
That cheap of a guitar and still shipped in better packaging than a purchase from guitar center 🤣
Trust me, guitar center has their fair share of s*** guitars
Guitar center buying from Temu and selling 3 times the price
@@RmX. That's a low blow.
Guitar center is right where they belong, in Bankruptcy, lol!
@@Steve19345 🤔🤯😓💩💩💩🙊💣💣💥🤘🤘
Mad respect for the transparency, this is my first time watching your content but for sure not the last now. respect \m/
same here
I don't understand the logic of guitars like this. They don't stay in tune, they sound like garbage, they don't play well. If anything they'll only put a new player off and end up gathering dust in a closet. By the time you've installed some decent tuners and pickups you might as well have just bought a better guitar in the first place. Just seems like a false economy to me.
money
It is a false economy. They are basically making a quick dollar off of parents or beginners that don't want to sink real money into a guitar
I agree, but don't try to tell people that because then they think your shilling for companies that make good stuff lol
It's not only guitars. Many cheap products made in Asia are just fast mass produced copies of things that really work.
@@TaylorDanley you’re just saying that because Temu wants you to say that about the other guitar companies. Cmon we can see through that jazz…
Made the mistake of buying some stuff off Temu. Half of it was totally unusable, and my email spam has easily increased 1000% since. Considering all the sponsored content of theirs I've been seeing I appreciate an honest take. On an unrelated note, the flashback to you with short hair made me realize how long I've been following your channel now!
Dude, it was weird seeing the clip when I added it! Thanks for sharing, I'm sorry for your email. I feel like it's probably easier to burn the account than it is to unsub from the email.
Thats funny I bought tons off of Temu and have gotten not one spam message, huh! Yes some stuff is crap and guess WHAT! YOU CAN ASK FOR YOUR MONEY BACK! Imagin that DUH! Yet funny how you dont have a problem with the republicans as we speak forcing children into force labor do you! SMH!
I bought a lot of stuff on temu. Not a single spam email. 90% of it still works.
stg i bought pedals off there and they sound better than ogs
@@Neolisk
i am at the state where i am too poor to buy shitty things made from chinesium...
Thanks for the honest with the review, and not just glossing over the issues.
You did an amazing job of discussing the issue and bringing them to light.
I had heard about the privacy issues, but not the forced labor concerns .
You’re the first person to have brought that up and you couldn’t have handled it any better .
Hell yeah. I love guitar stuff, but you were the first TH-camr to speak out about the issues aroud Temu, so that earns a sub in my book.
I agree, except for the "China is more evil than Apple" bit (my previous comment)
Glad you drew attention to this issue not even just because it concerns temu but the more we rely on buying products from the web the easier it becomes for companies to hide abusive business practices and take advantage of our trust in receiving a product that meets their descriptions
This is definitely true. This one just felt wrong, and I didn't want to scrap the video because I thought it was kind of funny, but definitely didn't want to promote their stuff without a very clear and strong disclaimer.
@@TaylorDanley @jessiehutchings Please remember that U.S. prisoners are used as extremely cheap labour for a great number of products and services in the U.S., and are often forced to engage in that work.
Prisons are companies that make a profit from that cheap/free labour (slavery).
Penal labor in the United States, allowed by the 13th Amendment of the Constitution, is a multi-billion-dollar industry.
Annually, incarcerated workers provide at least $9 billion in services to the prison system and produce more than $2 billion in goods.
Yooo, FINALLY a TH-camr with the balls to say NO to temu.... now matter how much yuan they throw at you.
Now that's some 'tegrity right there!
His integrity is one of the reasons I had subbed in the first place.
Chinese money is commonly call RMB not Yuan. The Renminbi (RMB) is the official name of China's currency.
@@tihzho they are interchangeable words.
CNY (yuan) is the official ISO 4217 abbreviation for China's principal currency.
@@moonboogien8908 True, however it is as I said, it's called Renminbi and is the official Chinese name.
😂nyse says it's yuan .@@tihzho
the best thing to do to get a cheap metal guitar is get an Ibanez Gio or a used guitar. My first guitar ever was an Ibanez gio and I’ve been playing it for over 10 years now
It's not my first guitar, but my 5th guitar (and the last one I bought) was a Laguna LE122 off a friend for $50 because he didn't quite like how it played, plus hardly played anyway. I bought that thing in 2015, and it's been my primary guitar since then. My Epi Les Paul that my parents bought me for my first REAL guitar back in 2009 and this stupid Laguna have been the only guitars that I keep. This past Christmas I had some extra money from so I decided to buy the Alpha and Omega pickups, new tuners, and a new nut because why not, I've enjoyed it and I wouldn't be out much if I didn't like how it turned out.
This guitar in the video is literally an Ibanez GIO model grg (lol)
they're great guitars, just needs setup when it comes straight from the factory,
Firefly guitars are also a killer option on a budget. I hot-rodded one that I play over my USA Jackson on stage
Just get a Harley Benton!
@@CapnFlappyJaw42 I also got a epi les Paul as my first real guitar and I love it. I pick it up more than my strat for sure.
I don't know if I wanted to spend near 150 I'd just go HB. The guitar is currently 140.98 as of this morning on Temu. Maybe for 40 or 50 bucks
The HB R-446 is similar to the Temu strat, but priced at 159€ and it's actually great! It's on par with the 300€ Jacksons and Ibanezes (which are on par with 600€ guitars)...
Harley Benton is no better than this. I reviewed a Harley Benton recently and actually found it worse than this
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@@MaximusAdonicus Then you can invest another $50 on better tuners - if it needs them. Still a good price.
@@MaximusAdonicus I have the Harley Benton R-446 in blue metallic gloss, I bought it as a b-stock item for $135. It is a beautiful guitar and plays very well.
It would be a nice stage prop for the grand finale. The part of the show at the end when they smash guitars on stage.
This is actually refreshing. To see a content creator with integrity and principals.
I've seen others, like Jake Tran, promote sites and products they knew were sketchy, but the manufacturers paid him decent money, so yeah, glowing promotion coming up!
Thank you for shining light on the temu subject. Such topics as these are sensitive and sometimes uncomfortable to discuss, but if they're not brought to light, they'll remain in the darkness.
On a side note, the same money spent on that guitar can go towards a used Ibanez GIO or Jackson JS and the consumer will definitely have a more playable (and moddable) guitar. Thanks for showing me that I don't really want one of those for a mod project, no matter how cool it looks.
Up the horns! 🤘
This is a good way to drop a topic of concern. I appreciate your clean, candid delivery of what you know of to create awareness and curiosity. kudos.
Glad it was helpful!
@@TaylorDanley Temu is more closer to WISH , how could you not see that? also both companys have their products come from China
First, never apologize for raising awareness. It's something more people should do. Second, as sketchy as TEMU may be, there are much, much bigger companies like NIKE, Apple, and Foxconn that are doing the same thing. As with everything, BUYER BEWARE. I'm a big advocate of making informed purchases. Good video, and thanks for being honest!
damn it, i didnt know your channel but just because you gave up on the sponsorship even after recording the video makes me appreciatte you a lot
Damn i downloaded temu a few months ago, never purchased anything, thought all the notifications were annoying af, but just ignored them 😂. Had no idea about this. Just uninstalled it, thanks man.
your camera angles and prod. are cool, keep up the good work
I saw that the cheap guitar has a tremolo bridge and wanted to see how bad it was lol
That's funny I didn't even notice it. I don't think it came with a trem arm!
I've dealt with Chinese guitars. Yes, you can upgrade them. However, what I've found is that that upgrading the electronics can be a real B*tch. I went to replace a neck pickup and the entire inside of the guitar was a wood spiderweb. I had to cut all the internal wiring, router out the splinters, then wire and solder everything.
Spend the money and buy an Ibanez Gio. It's on the lower end of the spectrum but they are solid guitars.
I got a squier made in China, am I fucked?
R and T are next to each other on the keyboard, the sticker is a typo of START your enjoyment. Edit also. nice presentation, good script reasonable and valid concerns and responses, subbed! (ps i randomly clicked on this)
I seriously admire your take on the political aspect of it. The tragedy with Xinjiang people esp Uyghur muslims stripped off their human rights violated by the Chinese government do not get much coverage nowadays. Thanks for informing and letting people judge for themselves and staying transparent. It's unexpected to hear such things from a channel as you but now quite gratified about your opinions. Huge props and respecc to you.
Thanks. I hate posting stuff like this honestly, I end up getting a bunch of “well actually” comments and I’m not trying to debate this topic.. But I’m glad that most people seem to appreciate what I’m trying to do here. 💪
It isn't that bad in Xinjiang...
Please remember that U.S. prisoners are used as extremely cheap labour for a great number of products and services in the U.S., and are often forced to engage in that work.
Prisons are companies that make a profit from that cheap/free labour (slavery).
Penal labor in the United States, allowed by the 13th Amendment of the Constitution, is a multi-billion-dollar industry.
Annually, incarcerated workers provide at least $9 billion in services to the prison system and produce more than $2 billion in goods.
The way you handled that situation is excellent. I really appreciate this video and I'm glad you released it.
Keep an eye on the prices of the coupon available purchase. I priced a guitar one day. 70 bucks on Temu. So i thought id see what the 300 usd coupon would do... Filled up my cart to make this happen and realised the guitar showed 129.00 with a ridiculous savings retail of 599.00 crossed out. That is super shady. That is your coupon. A lie about the retail they say they saved you. Not no but hell no. Haha
My mom bought me some Christmas gifts off Temu. She got me a kalimba. It's very nice actually.
Hey man first video of yours I watched... I have been trying to figure out the Temu drama and you have explained it very well, thank you for that!
first time watching, IMMEDIate SSUB!! thanks for informing me about temu because i Live in Illinois and i keep using the site because its so cheap but now i know i qualify for the data leak lawsuit! i didn't know about the labor allegations and the data leak at all so thank youuuuuuu
Massive respect to you brother for staying true to yourself and not selling your morals.
I found a cheap Joyo Uzi pedal on there. I managed to get some decent 80s tone out of it. Im glad you said something about the "indentured servitude" going on. I had honestly not heard about it, either.
Thanks for spreading awareness, I had no idea. (about Temu)
Temu ain't that bad tbh
My mom got me a switch off of Temu. Its the best thing we got this christmas.
I love this guy, not only are his reviews top notch but he also sets his moral values higher than money, big W
I don't want to give my money to temu.
No temu or tik tok for this guy.
the ending requires balls of steel to make :) I like how you did it without eny drama
Thanks for the extra info on Temu, much appreciated and so important.
the messages on your whiteboard tho 👌
Easter eggs for super fans 💪
Great vid, the fact that you pointed out you weren't the best to weigh in on the issue got me to like and subscribe. You deliver the fact well.
I was going to subscribe just for the great review. But the ending solidified it. I can more than appreciate a dude who is completely honest! Keep up the great work!
You handled this perfectly! Nicely done ❤
I applaud you for doing what these big organizations won’t. It’s also a sad day when I get more truthful news from a guitar guy on TH-cam than I will from actual journalists.
In fairness, all the information I got was from actual journalists. I linked the articles I cited if you want to read further, but it was never my intention to try to inform people or get on a soapbox. I just wanted to state my case on why I felt it was unethical. Other guitar youtubers obviously don't feel the same, and that's OK. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions.
My friend got a tele - style guitar off Temu and he had me set it up. The gigbag had started ripping from the time he left home to the time I got it home!! I was afraid to hold it by the handles. The frets were sharp and not polished at all. Everything looked shiny and new, but you can just tell that the materials are questionable. The neck has a gloss finish, but it was so soft that my fingernails made indentations in it. The tuning machines were rough when turning. The pickups sound okay. I say it is a waste of $100. I got a sweet Cimar strat by Ibanez for $80 at a pawn shop that was made in Korea and is FAR better.
Amazing video, thanks for the quick heads up!
I liked the part where he said "eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eg eheheh eh eh eh"
Whomever that guitar is made by they nicked Ibanez's shark tooth inlay design.
i mean its literally a fake rg
yeah, and the headstock too is pretty much just a copy of ibanez’s headstock
no one ever accused the Chinese of originality or craftsmanship
Glad you continue to be very honest in your reviews and inform others of what they could be buying into. Please keep up the great work!
Amazon's lobbyists are working hard to stop temu lol before temu there was amazon walmart and so on working with Chinese cheap factories now they're afraid of compitation.
It looks like a copy of some Ibanez gio. So it is a Chibanez guitar for one-time use.
That's like saying I tried the worst cheeseburger in the dumpster.
The selector thing could be that is not well put in the cavity. It happened to my the same thing with an Ibanez RG i got from a second hand store. Whoever checked or set up the guitar for the last time (i bet no one in the shop did) put it the wrong way and I could not access to all 5 positions until I corrected the position of the switch inside.
Thats called integrity and you should be proud to speak up against that kind of intrusive behavior from a merchant. Dont apologize dude, you did the right thing
Just get a harley benton 😭
Ibanez imitation from Temu into Soldano head is going to be better than an Ibanez into a Soldano imitation from Temu. :)
0:10 erm the caption
I just want a Mesa cab with a 5150 head with axe fx and I'd be sooooo happy. Your jam room is unbelievable 100k worth of equipment in 1 room fuck man your collection is insane
I love the way this guy talks. I'm totally not into Heavy Metal, but I enjoy watching just for the mental stimulation by the way he talks. Wow.
I always thought temu was fake
I think in legal terms, they believe they are fake as well.
Thank you for having an ethical approach to who you do business with.
New guitars basically never stay in tune, because the new strings are still settling, so we can basically dismiss that issue. If you have to, you can also just lock down the bridge. Back when I was a kid, I got my first Charvelle, and I signed up for lessons at a local guitar shop. My teacher taught me how to stretch out the strings and tune my guitar, and the techs at the shop worked on the action and got it up and running. Thus, being perfect from the factory also isn't an issue (just ask Gibson!). If a parent has a kid that doesn't always follow through with things, but the kid is begging for a guitar, this makes total sense. I see some comments on here calling this a "false economy" and I couldn't disagree more. As if feeling a new hobby out with minimal investment is somehow dimwitted. As if when someone decides to keep going with this hobby, and they do actually decide to upgrade parts over time to make their guitar better, the student won't have a deeper connection with a guitar they modded themselves. You'd think all these nay-sayers worked for big guitar companies. These geniuses must buy Ferraris for their children when they're learning how to drive too.
Temu seems like a rebranded AliExpress knock-off or something, catered to North America
Probably from the same factory as Ibanez GIO guitars.
At first sight I believed it was a GRG170!
@@Igorator42 yeah! Exactly :D
Yes. I would also prefer to spend the extra to stay in some semblance of tune. I find that rather important. That demo was crazy... Many thanks for the unbiased video, mate.
Woah! My headphones were on full volume when that death whistle audio played and it scared me
Lmao not the Xinjiang thing again... That thing is getting boring.
Never heard of it.
I don't think a lot of people have. I certainly hadn't.
Oldest fake new in the book...
@@TaylorDanley American media have been talking about Xinjiang for a while now. The situation is way more relaxed in reality.
Regarding privacy, anything from meta is way way worse, but you won't see people complaining about it because it was created in the West and west good, east bad 😕
@@_vezChinese shill
It's amazing to me that fully grown adults will see a Temu ad and NOT immediately realize it's a full-on scam disguised as an online retailer.
It's not a scam, it's a direct distributor of Chinese goods. Like Amazon but with the middle man cut out. As to the data privacy concerns, they don't do anything many other companies already do. Only reason it's a controversy is because the US government is worried about competition for cheap goods, I.e. cutting out Amazon, so there has been some government investigation. Much like there has been on many companies. I personally will never use Temu though
I've twice tried to post a thoughtful response to this issue, trying to view it from both sides and within seconds the post disappears. I'm not sure what is going on.. but it's not a good sign for the future.
I don't see ads online. Ever.
sounds so oddly good it feels like a crime to enjoy
Kudos for thinking about the sponsorship before blindly promoting shady site and app from a company with history of breaching privacy laws. Respect.
I dot. Know about you guys, but I do understand and value the quality of a well set up and well built instrument. One of my best friends bought a used Spector neck through for half of its worth, and it to this day is one of the best playing basses I’ve ever held. Same goes for another friend’s Ken Smith. And by best playing, what I mean is a comfortable and predictable action, string height, arc of the saddles, proper nut height, all in the name of good tonality, intonation. We all have some experience with how intervals SHOULD sound, even if you’ve never touched any instrument, you’ve no doubt been listening to music enough to know when it’s right, maybe not realize when it’s a hair off, and also maybe not know why it’s off, but generally you’ll be able to tell when that fifth doesn’t sing like it did in that one sing. An instrument with poor dynamic stability will never intimate properly, but those are very rare. It even the lowliest of manufacturers WANTS to sell you a piece of shit, in relative terms. Yes, the tuners might be shoddy, but it WILL tune, maybe just not consistently. Maybe the neck has an imperceptible twist and that’s why it doesn’t feel right, but this isn’t the 1980’s. The supply of decent stock is plentiful, and believe it or not, the high end throw away wood is often better than your mediocre axe in your hand right now, and the smart guys are harvesting that wood and doing exactly this. Turning one man’s trash into another man’s cool and decent musical instrument.
Thanks for pointing out the new idea that “ you get what you pay for”. Brilliant advice for all the 14 year olds with mommies credit card.
I remember before the internet, say (1983), i wanted an electric guitar so much. No temu, but we had newspaper for sale adds. The guitar i bought for $60 1983 was infinately worse. Mine had a 2cm body thickness, surface mount pickups, i mean microphones, machine heads without headstock hole liners and two switches, on or off, and a tone and volume pot. But i didn't know anything about solid body guitars. I had been taking classical nylon lessons since grade 3 so on i got to tune it (an hour) which you needed pliers for because the string posts had pulled into the wood because of the lack of hole liners. I was so green i didnt even cut and shove some pipe in the holes to fix that. My teacher just shook his head and said at least its got a truss rod, which seemed important to him- i had no idea. Ok so my amp was dads old hi-fi amp and with some repurposed oval car dashboard am radio speakers, it made it sound loud. The guys at the music shop were great. They found a lead with guitar jack one end and hi-fi or rca jacks other end. And so my electric guitar journey bagan. The point of this comment is that temu would have given me better eqiupment and and saved the pain of learning to play on a hard to play guitar. Temu would've been great for my level. So give a thought to those "poor" people who cant just spend their dads car value on good gear. And i learned so much from trying to fix that dog that i ended up building my own guitar in school woodwork class, and when i could afford a real guitar i knew what to look for. Even so, i still remeber smiling from ear to ear the first time i played Wild Thing
Finally, someone who actually declined on the sponsorship 🙏🏻
Taylor, this just gave me 1000x more respect for you. Love ya bro, thanks for being one of the REAL youtubers, as in ":real" being youre a real motherfucker, if u get my meaning. Thanks, being a good person goes a LONG way with me. Most people will know Temu does this shit and still buy from there or promote it. People have no code anymore, atleast most seem to not have one, unlike you and I and some others out there. thanks again bro, proud to of been a subscriber to ya for a few yrs now
“Definitely came from a factory where they just, make things.” LOL! 😂😂
I neither knew Taylor, nor his band, nor his channel. But this dude is fun to watch, he seems quite intelligent, eloquent and has a good sense. Sacrificer is quite nice. Thx.
Thanks! really appreciate the kind words and you checking out my band 💪
As far as the guitar staying in tune or not staying in tune in my opinion I can’t tell if it’s in tune or not playing death metal. It all literally sounds the same to me
First time watching one of your videos but you’ve got yourself a sub! Really appreciate the info on Temu - I don’t think they have quite the reach here in the UK but I’ve seen other TH-camrs do content on their products and they always seem sketchy as hell. Looking forward to checking out your other vids!
That glazo looks like one of those low ends jacksons must have gone missing during 3rd shift.
I was shocked when video started with Temu ad. I thought yt Premium wasn't working XD
I love seeing that you have a Spider Valve behind you. They were totally underrated amps
I rarely post any comments unless something just really blows me out of the water and just the first two minutes of listening to this video, this guy is very professional, and has a lot of wisdom in how he comes across
well thanks for posting that one! made my day.
Playing a drinking game... drink every time he says "like". I'm drunk 30 seconds in.
First video I've seen of your content, and absolutely loved it for multiple reasons - I rate this 10/10 chugs
Thanks a lot for the heads up about Temu. There seems to be a lot of problems with mysterious charges and no deliveries. I`m going to avoid them.
love the transparency
Hey T, I just wanted to say you handled that situation with more grace than most could. I've been bashin' out the Metal since my first Iron Maiden concert in 1981. That being said , I also served 23 years in the U.S. Army Infantry. I am a patriot that believes everyone gets to choose whatever they wish. You handled that superbly. Thanks and keep the cool content rolling. 🤘💀🤘 B.L.S. Berzerkers FTW S.D.M.F.
Cool video man. Best wishes with your channel
Bro never apologize for calling out scammers - this video is off the hook awesome
I appreciate any kind of Info you have that you feel might be helpful to avoid a potentially Shady situation🙂
Well done Taylor, the respectable thing to do.
Thanks man.
You shoulda been around for the 80's cheap guitars. They were BAAAAAAAD.
Major points for the transparency. I've seen multiple other guitar channels doing the Temu sponsorship and they haven't said anything about the issues with this company. I have a feeling doing this video the way you did is going to benefit you in the long run, because the key to these review channels is whether you can trust them.
I just want to say also, that I just happened to stumble across it AFTER the video was shot and I was looking for B Roll during the edit... I'm sure a lot of guitar channels don't edit as much, and were probably oblivious to it...
but also, I'm sure that there are some of them that just don't care 🤷♂️
Well played. A great way to deal with this situation. I was approached by Temu as well and had agreed to a sponsored video. I backed out BEFORE they sent me anything because I had made a reasonable request for something I thought would contribute to a good video. They said no giving me some lame song and dance and I just felt their response was a little "weird." So feeling their brand didn't align with mine I just told them politely I was out. You exit was far more entertaining! :)
They literally repainted an Ibanez headstock and called it a new guitar lol
Temu is selling the same stuff you'll find in a discount store, it's just straight from the factory. I order a lot and am rarely disappointed.
After watching the last little bit of this video I instantly subscribed strictly because you refused a sponsorship based on "forced labour". I know you mostly did this to protect your channel in the future, but as you said it is our job as consumers not to support these companies. Kudos to you.
I bought an SX superstrat guitar 10 years ago (maybe more). Which has the same body and pickup config. The only difference is the headstock. It was my first and only guitar until i got a Squire yesterday. It served my teenage self very well to be honest
If you ever wanted to know what the word "incredulous" looked like, it would be this