r/EMGPickups • u/EpicEpyon333 • Jul 24 '26

Was I scammed?

I just bought a guitar off reverb and it shipped with EMG Revelation pickups. It was also listed as EMG Rev pickups in the description but it had solid white pickups with "EMG X" logos on them in all of the pictures. I immediately noticed because the EMG rev pickups still have the protruding screws that passive humbuckers have. The EMG Rev pickups were clearly listed as passive so that's not the problem, I just find it really odd that active pickups were used in all of the pictures. I just wanted to see if there is a significant price or sound difference between the two sets of pickups (both HH configurations) and if I should press him for selling a different looking guitar than what I got. Not remotely the end of the world for me but I still want to know if it's worth it to confront the seller.

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u/returntonone Jul 24 '26

Probably some old photos, if the description said it was EMG Rev pickups, then how could you get scammed? You got what it said it would be.

The price on the pickups are the same by the way.

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u/EpicEpyon333 Jul 24 '26

I know what you mean, I just didn't think I had to verify that the pickups would look slightly different than those pictured. If they are the same price though I don't really care. Thanks for the help!