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#61
Open Discussion / Re: Check this BYOC news
Last post by jessenator - October 23, 2025, 02:32:30 AM$1Beansion
#62
Open Discussion / Re: Check this BYOC news
Last post by jimilee - October 23, 2025, 01:55:30 AMQuote from: madbean on October 22, 2025, 11:47:19 PMDollars?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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#63
Open Discussion / Re: Check this BYOC news
Last post by madbean - October 22, 2025, 11:47:19 PMQuote 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.
#64
Open Discussion / Re: Check this BYOC news
Last post by jimilee - October 22, 2025, 05:22:10 PMQuote 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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#65
Open Discussion / Re: Check this BYOC news
Last post by matmosphere - 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.
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.
#66
General Questions / Re: New Development: Tri stere...
Last post by fair.child - October 21, 2025, 06:45:39 PMBeen a while folks
Going to do another run of 20 units pretty soon. Still testing the market
I decided to make it up to a website
That80schmoo.com
It's taking off and really cool to be able to cater and part of this schmoo journey
Going to do another run of 20 units pretty soon. Still testing the market
I decided to make it up to a website
That80schmoo.com
It's taking off and really cool to be able to cater and part of this schmoo journey
#67
Open Discussion / Re: Check this BYOC news
Last post by jessenator - October 20, 2025, 06:26:30 PMYeah, that's sus
#68
Open Discussion / Re: Just Saying -- the soapbox...
Last post by lars - October 20, 2025, 04:14:03 PMQuote from: jimileeI didn't even know that existed. Very nice.Unfortunately, the soundclips and a lot of the gut shot pictures were never archived from PedalArea. I remember that was one of the best sites for figuring out if a Flanger had a unique BBD in it, rather than the typical MN3x07. Surprisingly there were quite a few that used oddballs like MN3204's and MN3009's. I still keep on the lookout for some of those, but they seem to have disappeared from any sites like Reverb or Ebay (probably because they actually sound good).
#69
Open Discussion / Re: Check this BYOC news
Last post by lars - October 20, 2025, 01:42:35 PMSelling 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
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.
How to Monetize, Rent, or Sell 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.
#70
Open Discussion / Re: Check this BYOC news
Last post by jimilee - October 19, 2025, 11:21:45 PMQuote 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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