S-100... really?

[drc]

That doesn’t look right!

Incubus Band Signed Guild Blue Metallic SG Styled Electric Guitar – Artist signed collectibles and gifts

 

[bluesypicky]

No it doesn't.

 

[SFIV1967]

Typical dirt cheap Chinese fake guitar with a SG body and a Guild logo...



Ralf

 

[Guildedagain]

Shame on them for signing such a piece of cr@p that violates copyright protections.

I'm fantasizing about a stack of guitars like this for Townshend to destroy, for charity, of course, if he's still up to it.

 

[walrus]

Cheaper than the guitar signed by "Hawthorne Heights"...

walrus

 

[Rambozo96]

Gross....Incubus.....gross....a lousy fake Guild that some idiot paid $120 for in hopes of selling it to another idiot for a grand.

 

[Rambozo96]

Also I’d heavily question the authenticity of the site. They have a early to mid 60’s Musima guitar that apparently had Buddy Holly’s name on it when Buddy had died in 59’. Also what’s questionable is the guitar is of East German manufacture when it was under communist rule. So very few if any of those Musima’s made it outside the iron curtain. Also I have no idea if Buddy had ever toured in Europe. I mean this site is already passing off a counterfeit Guild as legit so perhaps I cannot have very high standards for the site.

 

[AcornHouse]

I wouldn’t trust the sigs or the guitars. Looks like ripoff central.

 

[SFIV1967]

I wouldn’t trust the sigs or the guitars. Looks like ripoff central.

But: "...every item on our site goes through a 5 step authentication process, and has been authenticated by a 3rd party authentication process. Every item is tagged with a tamper-proof hologram label in a discreet location of the item. Your item comes with their LOA, with a picture of the item, and another matching hologram on the certificate itself. "
Ralf

 

[SFIV1967]

They have a early to mid 60’s Musima guitar that apparently had Buddy Holly’s name on it when Buddy had died in 59’.

Good point! That specific "Musima 1655 H" model with "Buddy Holly's signature" was made well after 1964! The used Simeto pickups were only produced between 1964 and 1974. That specific guitar might have been made in the late '70ies as it has a plain pickguard (the earlier models had pickguards with the Musima name and later for cost savings they used plain pickguards.)
So Buddy was dead quite some years before "he signed" that guitar! What a joke...



This is the exact same model:

Musima 1655 H 1980's Black/Red Guitar For Sale

Semi-hollow Electric Guitar MUSIMA 1655 H Used Made in Germany Price with Worldwide shipping! Top and bottom - laminated maple, deliberately arched. Neck - rosewood.

www.vintageandrare.com

Ralf

 

[fronobulax]

We have seen these or similar before. The key thing is that "autograph" means something different than "someone held a writing implement in their own hand and signed their name on an object". "real" autograph collectors would call these facsimiles because a machine or photographic process put the facsimile signature on the object. This is one of those cases where something that is perhaps wrong is not illegal. They succeed because there are people who will pay for a "Guild" but don't really care whether importing it into the US violates trademarks. Similarly if it looks like Holly Hawthorne's signature, that is enough. Think interior decorators

 

[Rambozo96]

Oh no not that Buddy Holly. We meant the Buddy Holly that does my taxes.

 

[SFIV1967]

Exactly same story here: (didn't know yet that a signature has a "lifetime"!)

https://letstalkguild.com/ltg/index.php?threads/really.207827/#post-1958144

Ralf

 

[Guildedagain]

Feeling sorry for people with this affliction.

 

[jp]

That doesn’t look right!

Incubus Band Signed Guild Blue Metallic SG Styled Electric Guitar – Artist signed collectibles and gifts

Yuck.

 

[SFIV1967]

Al had posted a good link explaining what they do and why:

A whole buttload of fake Guilds for sale on this site

If I were a bettin’ man I put money on those signatures being as real as the guitars. u can bet everything u own that the Jerry Garcia signature is a fake! no need to be a “bettin’ man!” (watch each card u play...and play it slow!)

letstalkguild.com

Ralf

 

[Rambozo96]

Let’s just be glad no convincing fake Guilds have popped up. Most I seen are doctored up Ibanez/Alvarez stuff. Of course nothing wrong with those makes.

 

[DrumBob]

Somebody needs to report these con artists to FTC.

 

[fronobulax]

Somebody needs to report these con artists to FTC.

Go for it. I am certain their lawyers are well aware of where the lines are and none are being crossed. If I wanted to have some chance of success I might verify that the instruments are faux Guilds, Fenders and Gibsons and see whether I could get any of those companies to file a suit related to trademark violations. But don't hold your breath waiting for me do anything other than not buy the products and warn my friends.