Rickenbacker Knock Offs

[Darkhollow]

I recently was linked to a website from someone on a forum that has fraudulent rickenbacker style merchandise for sale.

The website is an ebay style website called ioffer.com.

The first auction I noticed was for what I am guessing are fake TRC nameplates

http://www.ioffer.com/i/Rickenbacker-tr ... r-48301116



The second auction is for cheap Rickenbacker Guitar Knock offs from a company called Eximious.

http://www.ioffer.com/i/New-Eximious-El ... 1-37566831







Couldn't find any legal contact info for Rickenbacker on the website but I am aware that a lot of the people here have means to get whatever info to the right people.

[tennis_nick]

legal@rickenbacker.com

They'd love to hear from you!

[scotty]

Heres a couple of my favorites.Ahem Favorite replicas ofcoarse! You just cant get any better name than a Rockinbetter!Is so bad its good.

[jingle_jangle]

"Coarse" is right, Scotty...

The TRC guy has been banned from Ebay, so I guess he took his garbage elsewhere.

Rickenbacker's legal eagles are at:

legal@rickenbacker.com

Go get 'em, Tiger!!!

[Darkhollow]

Yeah I shot off an email to that addy. Not sure if they are interested in the guitar seller as those rick-offs are insanely ghetto.

The 2 liter soda bottle vase looks to be better quality than the guitar next to it.

[whojamfan]

+1 on the 2 liter vase. Does it get better than that? Glad it wasn't Rickensoda.

[cmatthes]

Those are freakin' HIDEOUS!!!

[harquahalas]

Rockinbetter that's funny!

[grazioso]

rockinbetter is awesome! i'd like to have that for real. it is da-da equal to some other cool japanese names..that is just lovely.

[jingle_jangle]

Well, why not register it as a trademark in your own name?

Then you will OWN it.

[grazioso]

brilliant idea paul! will you make them in rather large quantities?

[ken_j]

Here's another that I mentioned in another thread. viewtopic.php?f=3&t=382023

http://www.opatikguitars.com/models.html

[RutleDirk]

[antipodean]

I've seen some heavily modified 4001s that resemble that Opatik - badass bridge, J-bass pickups, hack 'guard. Would they be in contravention of Opatik's intellectual property rights?

[BeatleJohn]

Heres a couple of my favorites.Ahem Favorite replicas ofcoarse! You just cant get any better name than a Rockinbetter!Is so bad its good.

LMAO Rockenbetter that cracked me up