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Constructed Identity · Fri Nov 28, 2025 1:32 am

WatchTheGuitar wrote: Fri Nov 28, 2025 12:19 am Sorry for the curveball question but a guy just bought my Hydrasynth on Reverb and paid postage but can now pick it up in person. Happy doing it and trust him as I’ve actually dealt with him before and I didn’t relish posting a 15 kilo box but can’t see an obvious way to do this as the site now seems to expects tracking info before paying me the money.
Could pretend to ship it but not sure what happens then if it only expects a legit trackable shipping service.
Don’t want to have to refund then him buy again without postage as he wants to pick it up tomorrow so that’ll take days to sort. Their site FAQ doesn’t seem to cover this eventuality but must happen a lot.

Any ideas?

I would've cancelled the ad and accepted cash, thus not paying reverb fees

McLilith · Post by **McLilith** » Fri Nov 28, 2025 1:39 am

WatchTheGuitar wrote: Fri Nov 28, 2025 12:32 am Actually I bit the bullet and created fake tracking fir a made up courier so hopefully it’ll work out fine.

I also have an unusual Reverb story to tell. Just before Thanksgiving, I bought a limited-edition "deep black" Arturia MiniLab 3 through Reverb. ("Deep black" means the entire unit is solid black, including the sharp keys and all the knobs and fader caps.)

That's what I paid for, but what arrived was a "reverse color" MiniLab 2, an older model with white sharp keys and white knobs, and everything else is black. The folks at Reverb gave me "Reverb credit" in the full amount of my purchase to make up for this, and told me to keep the older reverse color variant.

So, I kind of got a cool looking little MIDI controller for free.

WatchTheGuitar · Post by **WatchTheGuitar** » Fri Nov 28, 2025 3:49 am

Constructed Identity wrote: Fri Nov 28, 2025 1:32 am
WatchTheGuitar wrote: Fri Nov 28, 2025 12:19 am Sorry for the curveball question but a guy just bought my Hydrasynth on Reverb and paid postage but can now pick it up in person. Happy doing it and trust him as I’ve actually dealt with him before and I didn’t relish posting a 15 kilo box but can’t see an obvious way to do this as the site now seems to expects tracking info before paying me the money.
Could pretend to ship it but not sure what happens then if it only expects a legit trackable shipping service.
Don’t want to have to refund then him buy again without postage as he wants to pick it up tomorrow so that’ll take days to sort. Their site FAQ doesn’t seem to cover this eventuality but must happen a lot.

Any ideas?
I would've cancelled the ad and accepted cash, thus not paying reverb fees

I’m saving for a mortgage deposit so have got to be squeaky clean unfortunately.

cryophonik · Post by **cryophonik** » Fri Nov 28, 2025 4:03 am

Yeah, besides, Reverb is notorious for spying on DMs and would probably ban you for that.

McLilith · Post by **McLilith** » Fri Nov 28, 2025 12:45 pm

cryophonik wrote: Fri Nov 28, 2025 4:03 am Yeah, besides, Reverb is notorious for spying on DMs and would probably ban you for that.

Notorious, you say? I shouldn't have been surprised, but I wasn't expecting to hear that.

WatchTheGuitar · Post by **WatchTheGuitar** » Fri Nov 28, 2025 1:07 pm

Phew, all sorted thankfully! £700 for the house fund.
Now I know how it all works got to get cracking on sticking a bunch more in the marketplace.
But first I’d better order some boxes.

foosnark · Post by **foosnark** » Fri Nov 28, 2025 8:33 pm

Nibbler just showed up. I had time for a quick spin with it, just patching Just Friends outputs into various inputs, and monitoring the two R2R outputs in stereo. All kinds of noise, crazy PWM / bytebeats-sounding stuff...

Constructed Identity · Sat Nov 29, 2025 5:59 pm

WatchTheGuitar wrote: Fri Nov 28, 2025 1:07 pm Phew, all sorted thankfully! £700 for the house fund.
Now I know how it all works got to get cracking on sticking a bunch more in the marketplace.
But first I’d better order some boxes.

Well, I just sold my Bafaco OUT and previously Xaoc Sarajewvo so I know Reverb is an important asset. The handmade desk rack is supposed to arrive today via UPS - so hopefully it won't be destroyed

Constructed Identity · Mon Dec 01, 2025 4:11 pm

So I watched Anthony Marinelli’s studio tour video yesterday and….he has a lot of pedals. So I had to get a Chroma Console on sale.

cryophonik · Post by **cryophonik** » Mon Dec 01, 2025 4:48 pm

Just pre-ordered my SSD VSX Immersion One headphones as my early Christmas present (that I won't receive until well after Christmas)

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Tue Dec 02, 2025 4:57 pm

(Via Thonk)

CCTV MS420 filter
DecadeBridge Triad
A second Nijel module

IMG_20251202_164958_147[1].jpg

justin3am · Post by **justin3am** » Tue Dec 02, 2025 6:17 pm

whyterabbyt wrote: Tue Dec 02, 2025 4:57 pm (Via Thonk)

CCTV MS420 filter
DecadeBridge Triad
A second Nijel module

IMG_20251202_164958_147[1].jpg

Let me know how you like that MS420 filter. I'm looking for something like that to use with my C-L synths. Looks like it would be easy to convert to banana jacks.

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Wed Dec 03, 2025 9:26 am

justin3am wrote: Tue Dec 02, 2025 6:17 pm Let me know how you like that MS420 filter. I'm looking for something like that to use with my C-L synths. Looks like it would be easy to convert to banana jacks.

will do!

rACatkvr · Post by **rACatkvr** » Fri Dec 05, 2025 11:22 am

SK5 heritage pack, FF802 + K2700

justin3am · Post by **justin3am** » Fri Dec 05, 2025 4:38 pm

Dude, some really cool banana jack synths having been popping up lately!
https://loess-labs.net/inst/creek/

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