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Grant Gross said:
I still don't get what Devi's transgender status has to do with her ability to make pedals or run a business. I think there are legitimate questions about her past business practices, but making fun of her gender identity makes you sound like a bigot.
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This. I'm all about roasting folks who don't do business honestly or efficiently but the gender stuff has no place on this forum. So lets all please drop it from this thread or I'll close it.
 
From Dwarfcraft's FB page:

"As many of you know, Devi Ever the person, is working on re-entering the gear industry in the only way she knows how, with much drama and some manipulative lying thrown in for good measure.
We have not been abusive or vindictive. We have simply stuck to the contract agreement that we made when we bought Devi Ever FX in 2013. We have always paid her on time and in full, though she has claimed otherwise. We have never called her names or been transphobic.
For all of you that watched the Kickstarter failure or the drama related to her time in the video game industry (under multiple names and accounts related to pro and anti gamergate), you’ll understand why we are distancing ourselves. For those of you who might be inclined to take her side, I’d encourage you to do some research. We could post screen caps of her abusing other people, but we just don’t want to play her game. That isn’t who we are.
She has demanded that we sell the business back, but we have invested so heavily in it, that we cannot do so without taking a serious financial loss. She has claimed that we are making big money on her brand, and that just isn’t accurate. At this point, the plan is to run down our inventory and then be done with the business and her. She will be able to take back the website domain and social media accounts when we are good and done with them, as per our contract agreement.
It isn’t in our nature to bring attention like this to our brand. We really try to focus on making interesting pedals and assorted noise makers, but we have gotten a lot of questions on this and she is making a lot of false accusations that we felt the need to address.
So thank you for your continued support and love. Our next major update will come filled with delays and glitchy pitch shifters and will be much less of a drag to read."



from Fuzzhugger FB page:

"I'll say it again...Restraint Level: Master.
Dwarfcraft Devices bought devi ever : fx in 2013, after Devi raised (and blew) $40,000 with a failed Kickstarter. They took what was essentially a run-into-the-ground business, kept what was worth saving, and made the pedals better than they'd ever been.
Devi the person, it seemed was no more. She'd sold Devi Ever : fx, signed a contract, including a non-compete clause, and even claimed to have changed her legal name. The last couple years, she (under various other names) claimed to be in the gaming industry, but mostly just harassed people across the internet on both sides of Gamergate...while begging for money for more, mostly non-materializing, projects.
Now she's back, claiming to be Devi Ever and using the name she sold (and legally changed, if you believe her) to promote her newly-planned pedal line...pending another crowd-funding campaign, of course. Her planned pedal line is made up mostly of the DE:fx designs she sold to Dwarfcraft. She's even posted her planned pedal line and the DE:fx pedals to which they correspond. Contracts aside, that's low and shady. Throughout this, Devi Again has posted countless attacks on Dwarfcraft, from lies to downright vile smears.
Before now, I barely waded into this mess...a few posts on ilovefuzz.com, only after Devi came to the forum where she 1) promoted her return, 2) smeared Dwarfcraft, and 3) spent a few days calling members the n-word, retarded, and more. Telling her to stop the crazy or GTFO put me in her cross-hairs. For days, across FB and Twitter, she repeatedly called me everything from a horrible person to a pedophile--literally tagging FuzzHugger and ilovefuzz.com in tweets that inexplicably accused both of being fronts for child pornography.
Yes, this is how Devi returns to the effects world--attempting to destroy the business she sold, unrepentant for crowd-scamming, and accusing her perceived "rivals" of being pedophiles.

I'm sharing that because Dwarfcraft won't.
Years ago, there were times when Devi was kind and supportive...still a bit dramatic and unpredictable, but I liked that Devi, and we rooted for her better qualities to win out. I haven't seen those qualities in years, since the failed Kickstarter, the constantly cycling fund-raising campaigns, compulsive bridge burning, and this bizarrely vitriolic attack on Dwarfcraft's livelihood.
There are some good DE:fx pedals out there...don't let Devi the person stop you from enjoying those effects. You can separate the person from the pedals. But there -are- companies where the pedals AND the people are upstanding and cool. Also, in the end, I think it'd be better to focus less on Dwarfcraft getting screwed, and instead on the cool story of how Dwarfcraft bought DE:fx and made them better than ever. The best Devi-branded pedals out there have more to do with Dwarfcraft than with someone who sometimes claims her legal name is Devi Ever."
 
sleewell said:
From Dwarfcraft's FB page:

"As many of you know, Devi Ever the person, is working on re-entering the gear industry in the only way she knows how, with much drama and some manipulative lying thrown in for good measure.
We have not been abusive or vindictive. We have simply stuck to the contract agreement that we made when we bought Devi Ever FX in 2013. We have always paid her on time and in full, though she has claimed otherwise. We have never called her names or been transphobic.
For all of you that watched the Kickstarter failure or the drama related to her time in the video game industry (under multiple names and accounts related to pro and anti gamergate), you’ll understand why we are distancing ourselves. For those of you who might be inclined to take her side, I’d encourage you to do some research. We could post screen caps of her abusing other people, but we just don’t want to play her game. That isn’t who we are.
She has demanded that we sell the business back, but we have invested so heavily in it, that we cannot do so without taking a serious financial loss. She has claimed that we are making big money on her brand, and that just isn’t accurate. At this point, the plan is to run down our inventory and then be done with the business and her. She will be able to take back the website domain and social media accounts when we are good and done with them, as per our contract agreement.
It isn’t in our nature to bring attention like this to our brand. We really try to focus on making interesting pedals and assorted noise makers, but we have gotten a lot of questions on this and she is making a lot of false accusations that we felt the need to address.
So thank you for your continued support and love. Our next major update will come filled with delays and glitchy pitch shifters and will be much less of a drag to read."



from Fuzzhugger FB page:

"I'll say it again...Restraint Level: Master.
Dwarfcraft Devices bought devi ever : fx in 2013, after Devi raised (and blew) $40,000 with a failed Kickstarter. They took what was essentially a run-into-the-ground business, kept what was worth saving, and made the pedals better than they'd ever been.
Devi the person, it seemed was no more. She'd sold Devi Ever : fx, signed a contract, including a non-compete clause, and even claimed to have changed her legal name. The last couple years, she (under various other names) claimed to be in the gaming industry, but mostly just harassed people across the internet on both sides of Gamergate...while begging for money for more, mostly non-materializing, projects.
Now she's back, claiming to be Devi Ever and using the name she sold (and legally changed, if you believe her) to promote her newly-planned pedal line...pending another crowd-funding campaign, of course. Her planned pedal line is made up mostly of the DE:fx designs she sold to Dwarfcraft. She's even posted her planned pedal line and the DE:fx pedals to which they correspond. Contracts aside, that's low and shady. Throughout this, Devi Again has posted countless attacks on Dwarfcraft, from lies to downright vile smears.
Before now, I barely waded into this mess...a few posts on ilovefuzz.com, only after Devi came to the forum where she 1) promoted her return, 2) smeared Dwarfcraft, and 3) spent a few days calling members the n-word, retarded, and more. Telling her to stop the crazy or GTFO put me in her cross-hairs. For days, across FB and Twitter, she repeatedly called me everything from a horrible person to a pedophile--literally tagging FuzzHugger and ilovefuzz.com in tweets that inexplicably accused both of being fronts for child pornography.
Yes, this is how Devi returns to the effects world--attempting to destroy the business she sold, unrepentant for crowd-scamming, and accusing her perceived "rivals" of being pedophiles.

I'm sharing that because Dwarfcraft won't.
Years ago, there were times when Devi was kind and supportive...still a bit dramatic and unpredictable, but I liked that Devi, and we rooted for her better qualities to win out. I haven't seen those qualities in years, since the failed Kickstarter, the constantly cycling fund-raising campaigns, compulsive bridge burning, and this bizarrely vitriolic attack on Dwarfcraft's livelihood.
There are some good DE:fx pedals out there...don't let Devi the person stop you from enjoying those effects. You can separate the person from the pedals. But there -are- companies where the pedals AND the people are upstanding and cool. Also, in the end, I think it'd be better to focus less on Dwarfcraft getting screwed, and instead on the cool story of how Dwarfcraft bought DE:fx and made them better than ever. The best Devi-branded pedals out there have more to do with Dwarfcraft than with someone who sometimes claims her legal name is Devi Ever."
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I never said you were making fun of her being transgender, i just said others were bringing it up. I never called you ignorant, but said your opinion which you are entitled to, was ignorant.
I never personally attacked you or called you a name.

But now it all makes sense, you get your news from Facebook.
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mikesr1963 said:
Transgender, she put it out there for public review. Don't want it out there then change your shit to private. As for relevant, it's absolutely relevant as it continues to pertain to her current update video on facebook and ability to operate a business. Do I want to take a chance on this person's product at this time? Based on what I saw on her facebook page, open to public review, my answer is no. I don't care whoever or whatever you want to be. Decide, and be it. Remove your before shit and stop being an attention digging whore.
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Do you have a problem with trans people? If so, we have a big problem here.
 
I missed all that drama with the Kickstarter thing. Shame because gearmandude makes that Fuzz Goddess sound pretty fucking rad.
 
I remember the failed kickstarter thing, and watching the video on her FB page makes it pretty clear that she's got some stability issues. If she did, in fact, sell the rights to her designs along with signing a no-compete clause, then trying to re-start that business seems to be in violation of that contract...especially if she's doing it under the Devi Ever brand name.

OTOH, if you buy one, maybe in the future it will be one of those collector item, Devi Ever lawsuit pedals that'll sell at acution for thousands of dollars.



Yeah....probably not. :wink:
 
I know people may not like her or the way she does things, but @Guitar Heel and I went to see All Them Witches the other night and the lead guitar player only had one pedal, one of her Fuzz Godess branded pedals and he sounded killer. It was going into some kind of Fender.
 
She built some killer pedals, but I remember the statement she put out regarding the kickstarter deal and i thought that was pretty bush league.
 
Chad said:
I know people may not like her or the way she does things, but @Guitar Heel and I went to see All Them Witches the other night and the lead guitar player only had one pedal, one of her Fuzz Godess branded pedals and he sounded killer. It was going into some kind of Fender.
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yeah, we were all excited to see the pedalboard, and it was the one pedal. I was impressed.
 
Oy!
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