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Location: Vernon, CT | In answer to another thread regarding a cheap ripoff of an Ovation Adamas I stumbled across a similar culprit that someone is selling in addition to the clown on Sleeze-Bay as per the other thread. Copy the attached website into your browser and check page four of the 'Monthly Sales' flyer for Daddy's Junky Music (New England based music chain). Not sure who else is selling these POS ripoffs or how many have been imported from some third world Asian rim country with child slave labor! Wonder if the Big O is aware.
John L.
http://www.daddys.com/ |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | John, It should be a local call for you, call Bloomfield and tell them. |
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Location: Midland, MI | If the Big O is aware, do they care? For the last six months (at least!), there have been any number of 'O' knockoffs on fleaBay. Nothing is done to end those auctions, although Fender and Gibson don't seem to have a problem getting fleaBay to enforce some dubious infringement claims (search for the earlier thread...or maybe that was on the HFC?). |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Is Daion still around. Used to make some killer guitars in the 80's, mostly solidbody, but some acoustic.
Odd story I heard about the solidbodies. Japan owned company in a plant in Texas. They built a great guitar, that was selling well and at about $1000, but there wasn't enough profit margin to build it right here in the USA, so they moved the factory (or at least that portion) back to Japan. Sales floped instantly. Same guitar, same people, same materials, same company... fickle us guitarists are. |
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Location: Zion, Illinois | I kinda like the art work on this one...
Dillion Ovation-like (rip off - steal from the best) guitar
Maybe the OFC's guitar can have something similar??? |
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Location: Keller, TX | Yeah, the naked lady... um, butterfly... um, thing would go over real well in my home. |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | I see an ad for new Daions from Australia every once in a while. Don't know if it's the same company. BTW anyone got a HH-555?? |
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Location: Vernon, CT | Check out the attached website for Dillion Guitars. They got a plethora of cheap Ovation imitations made in Korea. I also contacted the Ovation Factory by e-mail with the same link in case they were (or maybe not) interested. Get a load of the 2005 cheap copycat roundback bowls, epaulets and roundholes. These things are selling from $300 to $600 each.
John L.
http://www.dillionguitars.com/guitar/acoustic_electric/ |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | John, The MPs in Bloomfield, 509-8888, ask for marketing. |
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Location: South Portland, ME | This is one ugly guitar IMHO.
http://www.dillionguitars.com/guitar/acoustic_electric/DX/DX30/dx7012.htm |
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Dillion Acoustic Guitar (Cheap Ovation Ripoff for $129.99)