The inventor of the Klon Centaur is suing Behringer over its $69 clone – now owners are listing them for up to $2,000
In the wake of a lawsuit filed earlier this month – which saw Klon Centaur creator Bill Finnegan accusing Behringer of “blatant counterfeiting” over its $69 Centaur Overdrive – owners of the Behringer clone are listing it for as high as $2,000, as it faces risk of discontinuation.
Original Klon Centaur units regularly command four-figure prices online, so now Behringer’s clone may soon be off the market, those who have bought are attempting to capitalise.
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So far, we’ve seen some eBay listings going for as high as £1,500 (approx. $2,014). On another listing – priced lower at $500, but still nearly 10 times the price of a new Centaur Overdrive – the seller notes: “Listings are getting taken down everywhere, so grab it before it disappears.”
The wave of Centaur Drive listings has no doubt been triggered by Finnegan sharing news of the lawsuit on his Instagram. “I have filed a federal lawsuit against a well-known pedal manufacturer that is currently marketing and mass-producing a pedal that we believe blatantly infringes upon specific intellectual property owned by my company Klon LLC,” he wrote.
“For the record, I have never been consulted in any way about this pedal, it has never been authorized by me, and I have never had any involvement whatsoever in its design, production, or marketing. You may have questions about this pedal, so I encourage you to read the filed Complaint, which you can access via the hyperlink that has now been added to the bio of this Klon LLC Instagram.”
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In the lawsuit court documents, it reads: “consumers expressed extensive actual confusion (that went deliberately unabated by Defendants), with many rushing to purchase Defendants’ counterfeit pedal believing Defendants are delivering on a mass scale a discounted product licensed or endorsed by Plaintiffs”.
In the comments, one user points out one reason why people might have flocked to the Behringer clone; the original Klon Centaur was discontinued, with only a limited run available. “Why don’t you produce enough pedals so that the average consumer can afford it?” the commenter suggested.
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