Nudge Nudge Wink Wink...

[Wally]

I've never had an issue with any WEber speaker regarding failiure....whether with their product or their recones of vintage speakers that I have had them do.
FWIW, I hear that they are good about standing behind their product. IF I had a WEber speaker go down, they would be the first to know about it, for sure. TEd WEber---RIP---was a great guy, ime.
I do know that there is an existing problem between WEber VST and a former large quantity purchaser....the question is why $5,000 worth of speakers were not paid for. A credit card charge was 'reversed' 88 days after the purchase...a couple days short of the time period expired for such a manuveur...speakers were signed for by a known name with the ???company?? that ordered the speakers. Ongoing situation....so I personally will not put much stock in any internet slagging directed toward WEber VST.

DarK??? I have a BLue Pup Ceramic here in a 6G2 Princeton...very dark. I didn't order the speaker, so I have no idea what options were chosen. This is one aspect of WEber speakers that can be confusing. I don't take 'net reviews of WEbers seriously unless the particulars of the speaker/s are given....doping, break-up characteristics.... In other words, somewhere there is at least one Blue PUp ceramic that sounds much different from the one I have here. These options make wEber speakers very much a 'tailored' tyep of product. NO other compoany offers these options. Imho, these optionsare both a positive and a negative....the initail customer gets what they choose, but it is hard to say that uch and such WEber speaker sounds like this or that...becasue another WEber speaker of the same model can sound differently because of different options. Confusing is a good word for this, imo. I did some work on a FEncer Custom Vibrolux REverb taht had two 10F150's in it. The two sepakers sounded much different from ;each other...because one had the 'O' option and the other one was a 10F150T, IIRC. Those speakers would punch you right in the chest...hard....adn one of them broke up early while the other stayed clean.
When someone says a Weber speaker sounds like (description here), I ask "What options are in that speaker?"

 

[63sg]

I do know that there is an existing problem between WEber VST and a former large quantity purchaser....the question is why $5,000 worth of speakers were not paid for.

If said "large purchaser" got a $5000 credit card chargeback 88 days after the sale there would have to have been strong evidence to support getting the charge reversed since the limit is usually 60 days.

Sounds like the credit card company sided with the party that had the most compelling evidence to have it reversed that far after the sale. They don't just cough up their portion of the sale that easy, which was probably $150 on a $5000 sale unless there was good reason to.

Sounds like you have one side of the story here.

 

[Wally]

63sg, the time limit on this was 90 days. You are correct in saying that in essence that I don't have all of the facts, though....and it isn't my fight..
I will make this observation. When I buy something and it doesn't meet my expectations, I will return the merchandise....immediately....adn the seller will know that our deal has 'complications' before that merchandise is on the way back to them. I have never had any trouble when acting in this type of professional and ethical manner.
The few facts that I know about this situation are that 1)the order was placed, 2) the speakers were delivered and signed for, 3) the speakers were NOT returned---some of you may very well have bought some as branded other than WEber speakers, and 4) the charges were reversed 2 days before the deadline.
This issue won't be settled here. I merely mentioned it because the internet allows some 'anonimity'---or so some think, right?----and I know for a fact that less than truthful rumors spread like wildfire through the 0's and 1's that constitute the makings of this digital communication age. IN other words....whether over the 'net or through physical word of mouth, I rarely accept what I read or hear when it is in direct opposition to my real experiences....and then only when I know the source very well.

 

[63sg]

63sg, the time limit on this was 90 days. You are correct in saying that in essence that I don't have all of the facts, though....and it isn't my fight..

Ok, let's say you're right about the chargeback time frame (which I'm pretty sure you're not, since all of my credit card companies only allow 45-60 days to dispute a charge)...why post this if you don't know all the facts and you don't have a dog in the hunt?

 

[GlassSnuff]

some of you may very well have bought some as branded other than WEber speakers

With that statement, your holier-than-thou soapbox really looks like a pile of poop.

 

[63sg]

With that statement, your holier-than-thou soapbox really looks like a pile of poop.

Agreed. Sounds like someone's a little too tipsy from drinking too much Kokomo Kool-Aid from their Flip Flask. :2cool

 

[rockabilly69]

I've bought two Weber 12A150's in the last year and gigged the holey hell out of them. One is in my 1964 Deluxe Reverb, the other is in a modern Ampeg J12 Jet and I've had no problems whatever with them. And when I play electric, the amps are cranked!