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Huh, I thought they'd retired and rode off into the sunset...

Quote from: NorthCoast on October 19, 2025, 10:22:29 PMHuh, I thought they'd retired and rode off into the sunset...

Dunno yet. Maybe they aren't ready to give up, yet?


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Selling email addresses can be quite profitable. What better way to get people to willingly send a bunch of them to you!
How to Monetize, Rent, or Sell Email Addresses (https://monetizepros.com/email-monetization/five-ways-to-make-money-off-email-addresses/)
Just within reading the first few sentences of that site you come across this gem:
"If you have good content, getting email addresses will be relatively easy; visitors will opt in to your e-newsletters, or hand over their contact information in exchange for access to some unique piece of content or tool."
Does it say anywhere on that BYOC placeholder page that they won't sell your email address?
Nope. It's probably not even the same people who own the name anymore.

Yeah, that's sus

I am guessing that somebody brought the business from them or something to that effect. I thought smallbear was going to be gone, but they got bought and have reopened (did they even close?)

Pedals have become a big business these days. Google says the market size was $3.6 billion in 2024, but in 2020 it was less than 1 billion, by some estimates only about 500 million. That is a huge amount of growth in the market. It may not have made sense for somebody to buy it a couple of years ago when they were closing up shop but with the pedal market probably doubling in that time maybe somebody decided the math was more in their favor. 

Quote from: matmosphere on October 22, 2025, 04:51:39 AMI am guessing that somebody brought the business from them or something to that effect. I thought smallbear was going to be gone, but they got bought and have reopened (did they even close?)

Pedals have become a big business these days. Google says the market size was $3.6 billion in 2024, but in 2020 it was less than 1 billion, by some estimates only about 500 million. That is a huge amount of growth in the market. It may not have made sense for somebody to buy it a couple of years ago when they were closing up shop but with the pedal market probably doubling in that time maybe somebody decided the math was more in their favor.

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Quote from: matmosphere on October 22, 2025, 04:51:39 AMI am guessing that somebody brought the business from them or something to that effect. I thought smallbear was going to be gone, but they got bought and have reopened (did they even close?)

Pedals have become a big business these days. Google says the market size was $3.6 billion in 2024, but in 2020 it was less than 1 billion, by some estimates only about 500 million. That is a huge amount of growth in the market. It may not have made sense for somebody to buy it a couple of years ago when they were closing up shop but with the pedal market probably doubling in that time maybe somebody decided the math was more in their favor. 

Can verify. I made $1B this year.

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Quote from: matmosphere on October 22, 2025, 04:51:39 AMI am guessing that somebody brought the business from them or something to that effect. I thought smallbear was going to be gone, but they got bought and have reopened (did they even close?)

Pedals have become a big business these days. Google says the market size was $3.6 billion in 2024, but in 2020 it was less than 1 billion, by some estimates only about 500 million. That is a huge amount of growth in the market. It may not have made sense for somebody to buy it a couple of years ago when they were closing up shop but with the pedal market probably doubling in that time maybe somebody decided the math was more in their favor. 

Can verify. I made $1B this year.

Dollars?


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$1Beansion

Gotta be someone else taking over. Keith really ran out of steam the last 4-5 years before they shut down. Tons of stock issues and only one new product during that period. This is a whole new website with Shopify, so I'm guessing it's a SBE situation where someone bought all the inventory and designs.

The whois mailing address is Kalkofnsvegur 2, Reykjavik, Capital Region, 101
If you Google this address, there are a ton of scams associated with it.

Is Iceland so bored they've resorted to a scam economy?  :P  Grow your bananas, you geothermic hooligans

Quote from: jessenator on October 25, 2025, 01:48:19 AMIs Iceland so bored they've resorted to a scam economy?  :P  Grow your bananas, you geothermic hooligans

Apparently that site is a "buy your doing business as address here" kind of thing. Probably for tax evasion and also secrecy.
P.O. box for shell companies.

Quote from: madbean on October 22, 2025, 11:47:19 PM

Quote from: matmosphere on October 22, 2025, 04:51:39 AMI am guessing that somebody brought the business from them or something to that effect. I thought smallbear was going to be gone, but they got bought and have reopened (did they even close?)

Pedals have become a big business these days. Google says the market size was $3.6 billion in 2024, but in 2020 it was less than 1 billion, by some estimates only about 500 million. That is a huge amount of growth in the market. It may not have made sense for somebody to buy it a couple of years ago when they were closing up shop but with the pedal market probably doubling in that time maybe somebody decided the math was more in their favor. 

Can verify. I made $1B this year.

Sweet, bet those lambo payments are nothing now.


I still don't get why in an industry full of custom guitar and amp builders that charge a premium over factory built stuff (rightfully so), there is no real market for custom pedals. I'll stop the rant now.

Either way, I would be happy to see BYOC back, if for no other reason than it would mean the original owners probably got a nice payday out of selling the business.

Quote from: jwin615 on October 25, 2025, 04:44:32 AM

Quote from: jessenator on October 25, 2025, 01:48:19 AMIs Iceland so bored they've resorted to a scam economy?  :P  Grow your bananas, you geothermic hooligans

Apparently that site is a "buy your doing business as address here" kind of thing. Probably for tax evasion and also secrecy.
P.O. box for shell companies.

Not exactly, they just use a privacy service for the domain registration. It's an option from most domain registrars and only costs a few dollars a year on top of the domain registration. It's been the industry standard since 2010 or so because otherwise your mailing address and email address are on the public directory and they get harvested and abused.

Quote from: aion on October 27, 2025, 02:26:01 PMotherwise your mailing address and email address are on the public directory and they get harvested and abused.

preach