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
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.
@@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.
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 .
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 ruclips.net/video/L63UURpbD9M/видео.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.
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!
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.
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.
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 just a Glarry Type 170 guitar with worse QC. Temu also has your payment info stored insecurely. If you get anything from there, use an anonymized payment obfuscation service. If you want a cheap, crappy guitar for a project, just get a Glarry. Or better yet, don't waste your money. lol
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 mean... the color was nice, that red was pleasant to look at, and I hate red guitars. Other than that, it was "we have an Ibanez at home" kinda vibe lol
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.
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!
It's a good guitar practice modding and experimenting. I'm going to test how to polish frets, replace frets, remove paint, adding binding and staining if the wood looks okay.🎉
That guitar looks A LOT like the Ibanez GRG170DX in Candy Apple Red I started playing guitar with year and years ago. Just file the headstock a bit, slap an ibanez logo on it and it's dead on. That guitar was better quality, though.
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!
They sell shit cheap because they steal your information and sell it. They’ve been shutdown before, by the Chinese government no less. Then they re-opened and rebranded. They are actually dealing in information like a media company as opposed to a traditional e-tailer.
@@chuckfinley5206You’re missing the point. They are a Chinese company that is effectively selling items dirt cheap because they collect and sell personal information. Specifically, like Tik Tok, they must share all data, at any time, with the Chinese Government. People may not think that this is a big deal but information warfare will be the next big front in warfare. The amount of information including location data, specifically at U.S. Military installations, is a great threat. If you enjoy your way of life, I’d suggest just going through Amazon. They may compile data but they don’t sell it to the Chinese.
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
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.
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.
Everytime I get a Temu ad I keep hitting those settings and telling Google I don't want to see those ads, but they keep coming. They probably offer YT / Google big money to keep spamming us.
I also bought this exact same guitar with the brand name Vault with is an Indian company who sells their guitar as a while label product Directly imported from China.....I paid almost 100$ for it and I must say the guitar wasn't bad...I even sold it for about 80$....So it was good for me
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.
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.
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
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.
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 RUclips 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.
@@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 😕
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!
Fascinating how effectively he communicated that he was not telling others what to think, and he's not judging you if you think differently. No doubt a culture war related disclaimer. And the end result is that he almost certainly guilt-tripped people into not buying from Temu more effectively than if he had just said : they're awful, because so-and-so, don't buy from them. Watch and learn.
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 RUclipsrs do content on their products and they always seem sketchy as hell. Looking forward to checking out your other vids!
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.
I’ve got to say, great job on the video. I’m not a guitarist I just bopped across the channel. I think what and how you did this was totally fine. Great actually. You did a little research and said “wow, wait a minute, stinks like a Chinese slave labor toilet in here, have to do more research.” And you did what most Don’t and refused the cash and did what was right and you told us about it. Great job.
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
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.
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)
@@TaylorDanley lol oh God no.Thats how I woke up in tha back of that f-150 having those roman candles stuck up......N/M I don't wanna talk about it!!!😜
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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)
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 🤔🤯😓💩💩💩🙊💣💣💥🤘🤘
...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.
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…
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.
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 RUclipsr 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)
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
ruclips.net/video/L63UURpbD9M/видео.html
@@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.
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...
Yooo, FINALLY a RUclipsr 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.
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.
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! 🤘
At this exact timestamp 8:06 I got a Temu notification for the same exact guitar he is using
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that's extremely creepy. I would uninstall the app and delete the account.
@@JessicaFEREM 💀
You're not alone 😂
You're not alone 😂😂😂
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
This is just a Glarry Type 170 guitar with worse QC. Temu also has your payment info stored insecurely. If you get anything from there, use an anonymized payment obfuscation service. If you want a cheap, crappy guitar for a project, just get a Glarry. Or better yet, don't waste your money. lol
your camera angles and prod. are cool, keep up the good work
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.
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 mean... the color was nice, that red was pleasant to look at, and I hate red guitars.
Other than that, it was "we have an Ibanez at home" kinda vibe lol
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?
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!
It's a good guitar practice modding and experimenting. I'm going to test how to polish frets, replace frets, remove paint, adding binding and staining if the wood looks okay.🎉
That guitar looks A LOT like the Ibanez GRG170DX in Candy Apple Red I started playing guitar with year and years ago. Just file the headstock a bit, slap an ibanez logo on it and it's dead on.
That guitar was better quality, though.
It lacks the Neck Binding, but yeah. I own a Gio 170DX too.😄
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!
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!
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.
I liked the part where he said "eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eg eheheh eh eh eh"
Temu is a scam.
Innocents until proven guilty?
Google got in trouble in the past for it. But you us youtube 😂
I get stuff from them all the time. You just have to know how to shop and what to buy. And so much is on Amazon also. Same exact stuff.
They sell shit cheap because they steal your information and sell it. They’ve been shutdown before, by the Chinese government no less. Then they re-opened and rebranded.
They are actually dealing in information like a media company as opposed to a traditional e-tailer.
@@chuckfinley5206You’re missing the point. They are a Chinese company that is effectively selling items dirt cheap because they collect and sell personal information.
Specifically, like Tik Tok, they must share all data, at any time, with the Chinese Government. People may not think that this is a big deal but information warfare will be the next big front in warfare.
The amount of information including location data, specifically at U.S. Military installations, is a great threat. If you enjoy your way of life, I’d suggest just going through Amazon. They may compile data but they don’t sell it to the Chinese.
I've gotten many things from them. Everything arrived in perfect condition. Either I got lucky or you're a liar about their products
I wanna see you upgrade that guitar! Turn a borderline chunk of junk into a monster player! 🤘
Yes that would be a sick video!
@@nothinwatever Time for the Hello Kitty paintjob
My mom got me a switch off of Temu. Its the best thing we got this christmas.
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
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.
the messages on your whiteboard tho 👌
Easter eggs for super fans 💪
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 ending requires balls of steel to make :) I like how you did it without eny drama
I love this guy, not only are his reviews top notch but he also sets his moral values higher than money, big W
Thanks for spreading awareness, I had no idea. (about Temu)
Temu ain't that bad tbh
Playing a drinking game... drink every time he says "like". I'm drunk 30 seconds in.
The way you handled that situation is excellent. I really appreciate this video and I'm glad you released it.
You handled this perfectly! Nicely done ❤
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.
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.
Everytime I get a Temu ad I keep hitting those settings and telling Google I don't want to see those ads, but they keep coming. They probably offer YT / Google big money to keep spamming us.
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
Amazing video, thanks for the quick heads up!
I also bought this exact same guitar with the brand name Vault with is an Indian company who sells their guitar as a while label product Directly imported from China.....I paid almost 100$ for it and I must say the guitar wasn't bad...I even sold it for about 80$....So it was good for me
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.
It looks like a copy of some Ibanez gio. So it is a Chibanez guitar for one-time use.
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.
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
Woah! My headphones were on full volume when that death whistle audio played and it scared me
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.
Probably from the same factory as Ibanez GIO guitars.
At first sight I believed it was a GRG170!
@@Igorator42 yeah! Exactly :D
sounds so oddly good it feels like a crime to enjoy
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 RUclips 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.
I always thought temu was fake
I think in legal terms, they believe they are fake as well.
Cool video man. Best wishes with your channel
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
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!
Bro never apologize for calling out scammers - this video is off the hook awesome
I don't want to give my money to temu.
No temu or tik tok for this guy.
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!
Fascinating how effectively he communicated that he was not telling others what to think, and he's not judging you if you think differently. No doubt a culture war related disclaimer. And the end result is that he almost certainly guilt-tripped people into not buying from Temu more effectively than if he had just said : they're awful, because so-and-so, don't buy from them. Watch and learn.
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 RUclipsrs do content on their products and they always seem sketchy as hell. Looking forward to checking out your other vids!
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.
Much respect for not endorsing temu. There are enough questions there, to make me want to steer clear of them. You’re a class act.
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.
That glazo looks like one of those low ends jacksons must have gone missing during 3rd shift.
Temu is like McDonalds: Sometimes, you crave it, but you know what's in it and that it's not good for you.
0:26 MEOW!
There's so many guitars on Temu, it's impossible to find this exact one.
I was shocked when video started with Temu ad. I thought yt Premium wasn't working XD
I’ve got to say, great job on the video. I’m not a guitarist I just bopped across the channel. I think what and how you did this was totally fine. Great actually. You did a little research and said “wow, wait a minute, stinks like a Chinese slave labor toilet in here, have to do more research.” And you did what most Don’t and refused the cash and did what was right and you told us about it. Great job.
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
shipped in a flimsy box and a flimsy gig bag and still didnt have a broken headstock
I don't see ads online. Ever.
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.
One of the best channels you deserve a lot more subs
My coworker got a welder off temu. He thought it would be really big. It’s the size of a lighter
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 turn away for a seccond and i get jumpscared bt the whistle
I got a ‘learn piano’ ad 😭💀
Same lol
Perhaps "star your enjoyment" translates to leaving positive feedback for it on their site ✴
Good on you for standing on principal.
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 love seeing that you have a Spider Valve behind you. They were totally underrated amps
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)
Thank you for having an ethical approach to who you do business with.
I bought some valve stem covers for my car… they froze onto the stem and it cost me 1500 in new tires.
“Definitely came from a factory where they just, make things.” LOL! 😂😂
R is next to T - STARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR T your enjoyment 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Good vid! Probably hold tune a bit better when the strings are stretched in!
THANK YOU!!! I will never shop Temu AGAIN! I appreciate your work and your integrity!
Appreciate the honesty, subbed.
Temu stuff aside. Honestly not a bad guitar for a kid to get and learn on before committing and getting them a solid, well built higher end guitar.
Ngl while watching your video I was interrupted by TEMU commercial
SO RUDE. You would think the algorithim would be hip to placement and knowing when it's not really the best ad to insert for the content.
Just get a harley benton 😭
See when I was learning I didn’t care if I had two strings just to strengthen my fangers
Take a shot everytime Taylor says "like" j/k 😜👍
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DO IT CHAMP
@@TaylorDanley lol oh God no.Thats how I woke up in tha back of that f-150 having those roman candles stuck up......N/M I don't wanna talk about it!!!😜