Rent Out Your Instruments? Get Fretish!

Ever want to rent an instrument or piece of gear for a day? What about rent out your guitar and make a little bit of money on the side? Fretish has you covered!

Thanks to Fretish for sponsoring this video!

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[charlescampbell]

Sounds like the best way to get a free relic on your guitar!

[RobbDizzl]

Great idea,

What musician doesn’t love when others play on their stuff?
*DON‘T TOUCH MY DRUMSET!*

[JAWTHERENEGADE]

Ok, I can understand why someone would rent out their equipment, but I want to know how am I guaranteed that I will get my gear back in the same condition I sent it out? That's my major concern for this site, and this business modle.

[BurntSquirrel]

New AD's Channel by Fluff. 100% all Ad's All The Time.

[sienieckymark]

Terrible idea. I cant imagine trusting anyone with my gear. You are a brave man.

[ad]

You do know it's against the advertisers standard agency and FTC to not disclose paid promotions in the video?

"Given that embedded YouTube videos do not display the description of a video below them, this means that burying disclosure in the description is not acceptable."

"What we say is that it should be easily seen or viewed... It should basically be unavoidable by the viewer."

Mary Engle, associate director for Advertising Practices at the FTC

Those quotes where form an article concerning promotion in youtube. You can actually be reported an investigated for this. Unfortunately it is rather common among your community to fail to disclose things like how you got X gear e.i from a store or company and where you paid to review it. I might be bad to say but I hope the penny drops and someone gets made an example of so that the youtube personalities we watch who brand themselves on being "genuine" and "honest" actually act like it and show transparency. Shill a product/service if you have to money is money I guess. But at least be honest about it and tell your fans who value your consumer advise rather then pull the wool over their eyes.

I for example can not trust your opinion now because by not clearly disclosing I don't know for sure if you did this intentionally to make your opinion seem more genuine thus getting more people to take interest in this product or if it was a honest mistake/ignorance of the current rules of advertising (and that's me being kind and not jumping to conclusions)

I hope you address this criticism seriously in future and make efforts for more transparent disclosure.

[provenelk]

Fluff do you only do paid promotion and q&a videos now?

[VinylIsForever]

I signed up, great idea. It might be great for smaller bands that want to do gigs abroad, but can't afford to ship all their gear to the location. If this becomes big you could just rent out stuff in every city you get to.

[green]

Just what every musician dreams of. Letting some stranger take their gear and doing good knows what.

[ealDealOfficial]

Needs a paid promotion watermark.Didn't notice at first until I watched a Pete Contrell video immediately after and saw that Fluff didn't disclose this in his.

[orphanuprising]

Not a terrible idea.. but I doubt I could bring myself to loan out my stuff.. what if it gets damaged? Is there some system to charge the people who rent your gear?

[Jon-uppc]

The idea seems cool
On the top of it, it seems like a WIN / WIN situation. The renter gets what they need, and the owner gets paid.
But what isn't being said completely ruins it's for the owner seeking to potentially offer their hard earned equipment for rent. Which makes it only sound like a WIN / RISK situation.
A VITAL PART OF INFORMATION WAS MISSING FROM THE VIDEO.

WHAT SAFE GUARDS ARE SET IN PLACE BY THE COMPANY, FOR THE OWNER, IN CASE OF DAMAGED OR STOLEN EQUIPMENT?

SEEING THAT THIS VIDEO IS SPONSORED BY FRETISH, THIS POST BECOMES NOTHING MORE THAN JUST AN ADD THAT IS SEVERELY LACKING VITAL INFORMATION.

[monstrok]

I need a guitar that I can play at an outside gig in the rain (this is Seattle after all). I know! I'll just rent one for the night! I honestly expect people to treat rented gear the way they treat rental cars - with contempt and apathy. I appreciate the effort to get their well meaning message out - Thanks Fluff.

[melissaraul]

I wanna see Fluff renting out his gear 1st

[Gonboo]

Interesting concept but I'm WAAYY too paranoid about some stranger touching and potentially damaging my stuff.

[MrJasonsan]

Not buying your enthusiasm fluff. But if you really believe in this....can I rent your RD?😀

[linko]

I can see it being useful in some situations, but I would NEVER rent out my babies. Maybe other music-equipment like pedals, mics, amps, cabs or something, but not guitars.

[pawanthapa]

Too small website to talk about on YouTube.. I believe there are like less than 50 instruments spreading both in Canada and USA.

[spotmfd]

I would never rent out my gear. I don’t even loan out my gear.

[nacktheslayer]

Can you do video on what guitars you own? It's a bit tricky to keep track of all your guitars