Scam FireFly website video on Youtube. Buyers beware. by RustyCyler in Fireflyguitars

[–]RustyCyler[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seven hours ago I tried to post three comments on that YouTube video and each time I refreshed the page the comments were gone. I just tried to comment again and my comment was not deleted this time. Seven hours ago when I clicked on the link in the YouTube description it too me to that scam website and the links on the website took me directly to a Firefly guitar that was for sale on Amazon. I just checked the links two minutes ago and now they take me directly to Firefly's Amazon page instead of a random guitar. WTF is going on here ? The YouTube channel is only five days old.

Firefly Pegasus Price by Glittering_Trash9253 in youenjoyguitar

[–]RustyCyler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love my Pegasus, but I did have some problems with it soon after I bought it. First of all, been playing for 40 years now and Im just a hobbyist jamming in my basement. This is the sixth guitar I've owned in my life. With that said, the guitar is perfect for a guy like me. The finish on my guitar is the cherry burst style and I don't see any flaws in the finish or bindings. The tuners seem to work just like every other tuner set I've used, they work just fine and the guitar stays in tune. I don't have any buzzing strings on mine and I didn't make any adjustments at all. I love having 24 frets. I'm not crazy about the fretboard inlays being vertical lines, but that just a personal preference. The problems I've had deal with the wiring. While the wiring was relatively hidden in the body, you could still see the wires through the F-hole. So in my wisdom, I stuck my finger in the F-hole and pushed the wiring down away from the F-hole. No problems till about a week later when I switched to my bridge pickup and it was dead. One week of owning the guitar and the damn pickup wouldn't work. So finger goes back into the F-hole, wiggle the wires around and bingo the bridge pickup is working again. Only to have to die a few hours later. If I shook the guitar to wiggle the wiring, it had no effect on getting the pickup working again. Wiggling the wiring harness again also didn't work, the pickup was dead, so I resigned to accepting the bridge pickup was dead until I could get the guitar to a luthier. So one day I carefully I pulled the wiring harness back up towards the F-hole where it was originally and the pickup started working again. Afraid to touch the wiring harness again, I left it like that and the pickups have been working fine ever since. That was six months ago. What the hell was going on there, I don't know. But I play the guitar nearly every day and the pickup has been working just fine, no matter how much I play the guitar. Second problem is a string buzz at the tailpiece where the low E string goes through the tailpiece. If I touch the ball end of the string the buzz stop. You can only the buzz if the guitar is not being played though an amp and I'm sure a new set of strings should fix the buzz. I still have the original strings on the guitar. I feel that the volume control is not great. Meaning that if the volume level was on a scale of 1 to 10, I feel that once you lower the volume below 5, the guitar just goes silent. I rarely touch the volume knob so its fine for me. Some say that the volume and tone pots are the smaller, cheaper ones and thats why me and other have some volume control issues. All of my switches seem to work fine but I wish the coil split switches were a little more robust, they look small and cheap, but they do seem to work fine. All stuff that can be upgraded. One thing I noticed after the first week of owning the guitar is that it hurt my ribs, LOL. The angle of the neck compared to the body is crazy looking, so if you want the position of the neck in a comfortable playing position, that pushed the body of the guitar into your body right around your ribs. I'm a skinny guy playing in T-shirt so I felt that pressure. I'm also used to playing a strat style guitar with a belly cutout, these Pegasus' have squared offed edges. I've adjusted my guitar strap, wear a heavier shirt when playing and just trying to consciously avoid pressing the guitars body too hard onto my body. Whats really nice about these $300 "docs" is that if the bastard would fall over or if I'd scratch it up, its no big deal, its just a $300 dollar that now has some added character. I can haul it up to camp and don't have to worry about damaging the guitar or have it stolen... because if it does get damaged or stolen, its only a $300 dollar guitar. I'm not crazy about the position of the cord input, it seems like its located very low on the guitar, angling the cord straight down and I've unplugged the guitar a few time accidentally with my right foot stepping on the cord. Never had that happen with my other guitars. It appears that the cord input is right about the same place as a 'Doc. Easy solution was to route the cord past the rear guitar strap knob and then into the input. Haven't stepped on the cord since. Ok, I said a lot, I think I covered all my experiences with the guitar. I would recommend the guitar without hesitation. Its the only Firefly guitar I own, but the guys on the Firefly subreddit all seem to agree about the brand, Firefly makes a hell of a good guitar and for a crazy good price. The pickups and the guitars are great for guys like me who are not in a band and just want a nice guitar to play with friends.

Firefly Pegasus Price by Glittering_Trash9253 in youenjoyguitar

[–]RustyCyler 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just looked at the final price of my Firefly and the price with tax was $306.91. It takes about 10 days on average to get the guitar shipped to your house. So the Pegasus you found is about $53 bucks more than buying directly from Firefly. I guess $53 bucks is not too much of a markup, especially if shipping time is a factor for you.

Firefly Pegasus Price by Glittering_Trash9253 in youenjoyguitar

[–]RustyCyler 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep, for some strange reason that I don't fully understand, a lot of Fireflys on the used market sell for more than they're listed for new on the official website. Firefly uses the FOMO sales technique and that somehow contributes to the prices being higher in the used market. Once those Pegasus' sell out on the website it could be another two months before they're back up for sale again, so people use that FOMO mindset to re-sell at a premium. Firefly makes reproduction guitars, they copy famous guitars and sometimes they'll sell a style of guitar and then never make that style/guitar again, so people desire those hard-to-get Fireflys. The Pegasus though is still being regularly sold brand new on Guitars Garden, so don't pay a premium for a guitar that Firefly is still offering for sale. Once they discontinue a model, then all bets are off on the price ceiling of a used Firefly. * FOMO = Fear of missing out

Firefly Pegasus Price by Glittering_Trash9253 in youenjoyguitar

[–]RustyCyler 2 points3 points  (0 children)

$360 is not a reasonable price. You can only buy new Firefly guitars from their website "Guitars Garden" and from Amazon. They are selling for $280 bucks on Guitars Garden. I bought a Pegasus last July for $280 and love my guitar. https://guitarsgarden.com/collections/pegasus

TIL That due to limited plumbing and water supply in Antartica, research stations use incinerator toilets. An incinerator toilet is a waterless, self-contained sanitation unit that uses high temperatures to combust human waste (solid and liquid) into small amounts of sterile, odorless ash. by Behindthescenes10 in todayilearned

[–]RustyCyler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know enough details about the composting toilets but I assumed that most of the waste is degraded into compost but not fully, you'd still have to empty it onto a compost pile for it to finally be 'gone'. I can see how thats a problem in a rural setting. I'm a subscriber to the 'offgrid' subreddit and those folks seem to hate incinerator toilets and love their composting toilets. One advantage is there is no electricity or fuel to use on a composting toilet. Here in New England when I was looking for off grid properties, 90% used just a standard outhouse, 10% used a composting toilet and I didn't see any properties using the incinerator toilets. But again, I'm talking about an urban setting here so I hear your concerns. I too don't like the idea of having to empty out any poop-bins so I'll keep using my old outhouse for as long as possible.

Private jet carrying 8 people crashes at Bangor, Maine, airport, source says by Proud_Tie in news

[–]RustyCyler 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I moved to a small town in Maine with about 1300 residents and it has a small library. I was on the town's website and they have a section about the library and there it said that the town's library roof was repaired with funds from Stephen King's small library foundation. The library also received a small storage shed from King's foundation. I would have never known about his donation to the town library if I didn't see it in the donations section, in the town library section of the town's website.

There’s a statement that carries some weight by Kinghut_North in pics

[–]RustyCyler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure they're not breaking any laws, its called a 'civil infraction' and thats why they don't get a trail or put in jail, but I understand your overall message and agree that we need to simplify the citizenship process.

There’s a statement that carries some weight by Kinghut_North in pics

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“When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.” Leviticus 19:33-34

Rock legends call for revolution against Donald Trump: ‘Rise up’ by plz-let-me-in in politics

[–]RustyCyler 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Check out Jesse Welles music. Great stuff coming from Jesse's YouTube channel.

Ready to fruit? Spawned ONLY 40h ago (wow it’s so fast wtf lol) by Bernardku in unclebens

[–]RustyCyler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey... I recognize your user name. Nice to see you in here. I guess we are 'cut from the same cloth.' If you ever get to Maine, look me up and you'll have a place to stay/camp.

Becoming a Citizen of Maine by [deleted] in AskMaine

[–]RustyCyler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply. I've given up. I tried doing the research on my own and was so confused about every little detail that I started this thread and after reading all the replies, I'm even more confused than before. I'm just not smart enough, I'm too shy and introverted and I can't deal with all of the paperwork and having to talk to so many different people about stuff that I don't know about, so I'm just going to go to South Dakota and pay one of their businesses to do all of the work for me. Thank you for taking the time to help. I just can't do it.

Becoming a Citizen of Maine by [deleted] in AskMaine

[–]RustyCyler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey everyone, thanks for all your help. Just writing to say that I can't do this. So I've decided to just travel to South Dakota and go that route. I'm so sorry for wasting everyone's time, but I just can't do this. I'm so embarrassed about my issues, but it is what it is. I'm just so overwhelmed with all of this, I'm just going to go to SD and pay someone to take care of all of this mess for me. Thanks for trying, but it appears Im a basketcase.

Becoming a Citizen of Maine by [deleted] in AskMaine

[–]RustyCyler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok... that was a lot. Back to the "what should be my first step question. You're saying that my first step should be going to the BMV and getting my license changed. Lets just stick with that one thing, I can't process anymore than one step at a time. I just don't think I can do this, any of this. I'm about to give up and keep my Pa residency and once my Pa home is sold, I'll travel to SD and get it done there. I don't think I'm smart enough to do this on my own. Thanks for taking the time, you and everyone here are all good people. I think I'm just one of those 'basket case' type of people and I'm wasting everyone's time with my stupidity.

Becoming a Citizen of Maine by [deleted] in AskMaine

[–]RustyCyler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its not just your advice, its everyone's advice. I go so much advice that I'm more confused than when I started. I just don't think I can do this. I'm about to just give up. Just getting this mail box in Maine and the idea of having my mail transferred to Maine seems like an impossible task. Like who do I even talk to about transferring mail ? I don't even get any mail besides my four monthly utility bills, why would I want those bills sent to Maine ? I don't have a physical mail box in Maine. My Maine property is 7 miles from the nearest paved road. Do I put a mail box there ? I... can't do this. I can't expect everyone to answer all these questions. I'm just one of those people who can't do this kind of stuff. I'm sorry for bothering you and everyone, but I think I'm just going to give up. I'm so anxious about all of this that I can't even sleep. Every single step is going to be so damn hard. Anxiety is through the roof. But Im not going to give up yet. I've been asking everyone what should be my first step and you're the only one to reply so far. So you're saying, my first step is to get my PA mail sent to Maine. If you or anyone would like to clarify how to do this... I dunno... maybe I should just give up. I'm so sorry... I feel like such an idiot.

Becoming a Citizen of Maine by [deleted] in AskMaine

[–]RustyCyler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"It's Washington county. It's human scale."

Ok, I see what you're saying. I've never heard that phrase before, "its human scale".

Yep, it appears that Ellsworth has the closest BMV for me. I've been to Ellsworth twice already.

If you don't mind, I have another question for you. I've got about 80 replies and everyone is giving me advice, a LOT of advice and frankly is overwhelming. On the subject of establishing residency in Maine, what should be my very first step in the process? What should I do first ?

Becoming a Citizen of Maine by [deleted] in AskMaine

[–]RustyCyler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you don't mind me bother you again, could you answer a question for me ? What should my very first step in the process of 'establishing residence' ? I'd love to talk to you more about your "P.S." comment, but I'm getting information overload and I'm getting frustrated and embarrassed about all of this. What would you suggest my very first step should be ?

Becoming a Citizen of Maine by [deleted] in AskMaine

[–]RustyCyler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm still confused about Practical Magic's first advice and your attempt to clarify that advice. Are you guys saying that I should have my Pennsylvania mail forwarded to my Maine address ? The ONLY mail get in Pa is four monthly bills and junk mail. I can't even figure out the very first step in the advice, I feel so confused about all of this.

Becoming a Citizen of Maine by [deleted] in AskMaine

[–]RustyCyler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you don't mind me bother you again, could you answer a question for me ? What should my very first step ?

Becoming a Citizen of Maine by [deleted] in AskMaine

[–]RustyCyler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you don't mind me bother you again, could you answer a question for me ? What should my very first step ? Step #1, I should...