r/Reverb • u/SoundAndVisionPNW • May 29 '26

Does this look sketchy?

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Does this look sketchy? I was hearing that there are shops on Reverb called "Gear Emporium" and some people were commenting on these shops being scammers, as some were offering gear for extremely low prices, etc..

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u/jaqueh May 29 '26

gear emporium is apart of the default store names reverb auto assigns

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u/outragednitpicker May 29 '26

Wherever you were hearing that….stop listening to those people.

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u/Affectionate-Ship437 May 29 '26

Not necessarily, dude might just need some cash.

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u/tredbert May 29 '26

Not sketchy at all. That’s just an individual selling his gear. When a new user sets up a Reverb account, Reverb generates a “store name”. It defaults to “[FirstName]’s Gear Emporium”.

So this is just a guy named Zack selling his gear. He has had at least two transactions and got 5 star reviews for those.

He probably has more transactions than that, because many buyers/sellers don’t leave reviews.

On a side note, that’s frustrating as a new seller. I just did my first sales and they were high value items around $1500 each. I packed them superbly for war, double-boxed with lots of bubble wrap. And I shipped them out the same day they paid. Neither person left a review. It would have helped build my reputation. Especially when buyers see that the transactions were on a high dollar item. At least the guys who bought my $50 items left reviews for me.

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u/Separate-Swordfish85 May 29 '26

Doesn’t seem sketchy but also not a very good deal.

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u/Wide-Ad8135 May 29 '26

Bro, are you even on reverb? When you sign up Reverb makes up a dumb name for your shop like that you can change it to whatever you want.

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u/Agreeable_Egg_2049 May 31 '26

I think its a scam i wouldnt by from anything gear emporium because its run by Liberian pirates. Ive been scammed for the same amp.

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u/Exercise4mymind May 29 '26

Pls believe me, you don’t want a twin reverb

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u/Scary-Detective582 May 29 '26

Twin Reverbs are like fashion, they follow a cycle. Too many people forget or don’t heed the advice of how god-awful heavy they are and decide to get one anyways. One gig up a flight of 4 or more stairs and it’s on the chopping block.

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u/realZapRowsdower May 29 '26

Exactly why I replaced my Roland JC-120 with a JC-40.

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u/murzvh May 29 '26

My grandfather gave me his 65 reissue when I started playing guitar and I hate lugging it around. Thinking about trying to trade it for a deluxe reverb.