Guitar Frets: Environmental Enforcement Leaves Musicians in Fear

08-07-12, 01:22 PM

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Gibson gets a nice bill for $350k for shipping illegal wood with false documentation plus the $300k illegal part of the wood shipment is siezed.

It emerges that Gibsons own staff raised the issue of them breaking the law with their shipments two years before this case started, which I suppose explains why the management were doing it with false paperwork in place.

Herr-Berbunch · 08-07-12, 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Tribesman

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I'll say, but a relevant one.

So of this $350k fine how much goes to the traders that would've got the order legally? Or any environmental group? Or just into the treasury?

And what do you do with $300k worth of illegal wood? Sell it? Burn it? Build a shed for the White House?

August · 08-07-12, 08:37 PM

I wonder how many gazillion guitar frets can be made from a single tree?

Sailor Steve · 08-08-12, 12:05 AM

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Originally Posted by August

I wonder how many gazillion guitar frets can be made from a single tree?

None. Frets are made of metal.

08-08-12, 01:30 AM

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So of this $350k fine how much goes to the traders that would've got the order legally? Or any environmental group? Or just into the treasury?

300k is the fine for the illegal import and fraudulent paperwork and 50k is a donation to some project for promoting and sourcing sustainable legal timber for the music industry.

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And what do you do with $300k worth of illegal wood? Sell it? Burn it? Build a shed for the White House?

No details apart from Gibson withdrawing any claim of still owning it.

One other question remains though, what happens about the 3 other shipments they got between the siezed one and their staff and suppliers telling them the shipments were illegal?
Without a the contents of the actual shipments to prove that the cargo was really what was written on the documentation it looks like they get away with those three.

vienna · 08-08-12, 12:20 PM

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None. Frets are made of metal.

Ah, Steve... always fretting the details...

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Chad · 08-08-12, 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by vienna

Ah, Steve... always fretting the details...

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Not another riff of pun posts

Penguin · 08-08-12, 03:03 PM

I'm sorry, Chad, can't fret it happen

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Originally Posted by vienna

Ah, Steve... always fretting the details...

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those fret boys are all the same

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It emerges that Gibsons own staff raised the issue of them breaking the law [...]

I fret you mean the guy who fretted out his boss.

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08-07-12, 01:22 PM	#1
Tribesman Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Thread necro Gibson gets a nice bill for $350k for shipping illegal wood with false documentation plus the $300k illegal part of the wood shipment is siezed. It emerges that Gibsons own staff raised the issue of them breaking the law with their shipments two years before this case started, which I suppose explains why the management were doing it with false paperwork in place.